Energy Performance of Buildings – Creating the conditions to make renovation faster, deeper, smarter, service- and data-driven

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Code: 29276 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-BETTERRENO | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

This topic addresses several areas that are key for the achievement of the ambitious EU targets for the decarbonisation of buildings.
It aims to develop and deploy approaches that bring actors, markets, frameworks and innovative solutions together to increase the attractiveness of building performance up-grades and to reduce the administrative, logistic and financial burden that still goes along with (deep) retrofitting of buildings.
The topic also aims to address the need for quality data to make verification and financing more robust and to help deploy services that valorise building energy efficiency and smartness.

BUILD UP Skills – Upskilling and reskilling interventions enabling a decarbonised building stock and energy system integration

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Code: 29274 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-BUILDSKILLS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

The main objective is to increase the number of skilled building professionals at all levels of the building design, operation and maintenance value chain.

The main focus of proposals should be on continuous vocational education and training (or professional training) of professionals, i.e. after their initial, compulsory education and training or after they have entered working life. This includes the retraining of professionals from other sectors with skills transferable to construction and building renovation. Proposals are also encouraged to address other parts of education and training (e.g. initial education and training, higher education), provided this is justified based on needs detected in the countries targeted.

Supporting the clean energy transition of European businesses

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Code: 29272 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-BUSINESS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

The overall objective of this topic is to support the clean energy transition and decarbonisation of businesses by strengthening national and regional ecosystems for energy management systems and energy audits and by fostering collaborative approaches between companies.

Synergies with relevant EU projects and initiatives such as the Covenant of Companies for Climate and Energy (CCCE) and/or the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) are encouraged.

District heating and cooling: Enabling modernisation and fuel switch through support for investment plans and skills development

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Code: 29268 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-DHC | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

District heating operators/owners need to prepare and implement plans so that existing systems fulfil the proposed criteria for ‘efficient district heating and cooling’, as proposed for the revision of the EED. This will require, among other aspects, the cost-effective and energy efficient retrofitting of existing, inefficient district heating networks and the integration of low-temperature renewable energy (e.g. from solar thermal, ambient energy and geothermal resources) and waste heat, including supported by heat pumps. Furthermore, district heating has been identified as a key option for the decarbonisation of the heating sector in countries and regions without long tradition and experience in the technology.

The option to further develop district heating and cooling systems should be integrated in energy planning and heat mapping by public administrations, taking a district approach when addressing the policy priority of deploying renewable and efficient heating and cooling, including for instance building or modernising district heating systems when planning renovation programmes.

European Energy Communities Facility

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Code: 29266 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-ENERCOMFACILITY | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

The European Energy Communities Facility should offer support services, including financial support to third parties, to develop business plans to grow and implement sustainable energy community projects (addressing e.g. energy efficiency, heating and cooling, renewable energy production and use, electro-mobility).

In order to support the growth of energy communities and make projects less dependent on the income level of community members or the availability of support at local level, this topic aims at creating a Facility able to provide support for the early phases of energy community projects. This support shall be designed to reduce the risk of the pre-development phase and thereby create a bridge between the project idea and the launch of the community investment.

Alleviating household energy poverty and vulnerability in Europe

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Code: 29264 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-ENERPOV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

Efforts should focus on offering support to build the concrete skills and capacity of vulnerable households to afford their energy bills and ensure adequate comfort levels, as well as supporting relevant actors, including public authorities, in designing longer-term strategies and frameworks to mitigate energy poverty at the sub-national levels, including dedicated financing schemes specifically addressing energy performance improvements for energy poor households.

Actions should contribute to actively alleviating energy poverty and energy vulnerability and build on the tools, indicators and resources of existing initiatives.

Maximising use of and valorising EPREL data through innovative applications

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Code: 29262 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-EPREL | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL) provides information on products placed on the market and their energy labels, as well as information on other aspects than a product’s energy use (e.g. water consumption, availability of spare parts), with over 1.5 million models estimated to have been registered. This significant and increasing amount of data represents a dual challenge: on the one hand, it necessitates a systematic quality check for it to serve its intended purpose, while on the other it is a significant resource that should be further valorised.

Boosting heat pump deployment through alternative models and skilled installers

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Code: 29260 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-HEATPUMPS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

Τhe aim of this topic is to complement existing legislative and financial incentives at the EU, national and local levels and to facilitate a large-scale rollout of high-quality heat pump installations. In particular, the topic aims to reduce upfront costs and perceived complexity of design and installation as well as to increase the number of skilled installers and the confidence of end-users.

Technical support to clean energy transition plans and strategies in municipalities and regions

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Code: 29257 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-LOCAL Grant | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

The topic aims to provide local and regional authorities with the necessary capacity, skills and organisational structures to deliver and implement plans and strategies for the clean energy transition (CET).
Local and regional authorities need to commit to and effectively plan and implement the clean energy transition in their territories at an unprecedented level of ambition and pace, tailored to the specific geographical, societal or political context. Local and regional planning should focus on measures in the short, medium and longer term that accelerate the clean energy transition in a just manner, ensuring full alignment with relevant EU and national energy and climate legislation, and contributing to the goals that are set in the specific National Energy and Climate Plans.

Integrated services for clean energy transition in buildings and businesses

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Code: 29253 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-OSS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

This topic aims at supporting the creation or replication of One-Stop-Shops, proposing integrated services for clean energy transition in buildings and businesses.
Projects are expected to tackle, but are not limited to the following aspects:

• Improve market conditions and develop integrated building renovation service offers
• Provide methods and support
• Aim at a self-sustained business model
• Communicate results

Accreditation of Public and Private Hospitals

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Code: 29234 | Identifier Code: C1.1I4 | Programme name: 13597 | Start submission calls: 12/06/2023 | End submission calls: 14/07/2023

The purpose of the scheme is to provide monetary incentives to Public and Private Hospitals and Health Day Care Units to implement quality assurance through their accreditation according to ISQua standards.

Project Development Assistance for sustainable energy investments

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Code: 29231 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-PDA | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

Project Development Assistance (PDA) offers technical assistance to public and private project developers to deliver energy efficiency and renewable energy investments of ambition and scale.
Project Development Assistance (PDA) will support project promoters in preparing and launching investment pipelines of sustainable energy projects. The call topic aims to build technical, economic and legal expertise of project promoters needed for the successful project development and implementation.

Towards an effective implementation of key legislation in the field of sustainable energy

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Code: 29229 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-POLICY | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

Actions under this topic are expected to:

• Promote and enable exchange of insights and sharing of best practices within and across Member States.
• Provide support, technical advice and tools for contextualisation and specification of requirements, in general and according to the national and regional context.
• Scope, assess and model the impact of implementation options to comply with EU legislative requirements, thereby contributing to the design of more effective policies.
• Support the monitoring and evaluation of policy implementation.
• Develop and apply methodologies to more accurately measure, calculate and account for contributions made under the specific policy measures and programmes.
• Develop and support integrated methodologies for areas and sectors that are addressed by different policies and pieces of legislation, notably approaches for integrated collection of data, calculation/accounting, verification, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
• Monitor and model energy and non-energy impacts of integrated solutions; gather data for the energy and buildings sector.

Crowding in private finance

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Code: 29225 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2023-CET-PRIVAFIN | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 16/11/2023

The topic aims to increase the amount of private finance allocated to energy efficiency and small-scale renewable energy sources by establishing innovative financing schemes for investments in sustainable energy and/or engaging with financial institutions to develop financial products and adapt their investment practices.

Highly secure collaborative platform for aeronautics and security industry

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Code: 29221 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04-AEROSEC Grant | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 26/09/2023

The objective is to develop a commercially viable highly secure cloud-based collaborative platform for the management of sensitive multi-country industrial initiatives in the aeronautics and security sector, including civil security.

Coordination of AI sectorial testing and experimentation facilities

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Code: 29219 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04-COORDINATEF | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 26/09/2023

The Coordination and support action grant will support the sectorial Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) created under the WP 2021-2022 (Health, Manufacturing, Agri-Food, Smart Cities and Communities) and the future new ones to be create under the Digital Europe Programme, to develop complementary cross-TEF activities in providing AI services from a cross-sector perspective, to maximise the overall impact of TEFs in their ambitions of achieving world-class excellence and help the sectorial TEFs to better link with relevant EU projects, initiatives and stakeholders in the AI ecosystem of excellence.

Developing citiverse

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Code: 29216 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04-DEVELOPCITI Grant | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 26/09/2023

This action will help define what the ‘CitiVerse’ means for Europe building on the smart communities’ data infrastructure that is developed under WP2021-22 and WP23-24. The objective is to bring EU CitiVerse industry, including SMEs, together in developing the different layers of VR/AR worlds useful for local authorities and citizens.

Genome of Europe

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Code: 29212 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04-GENOME | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 26/09/2023

This action will support the implementation of the Genome of Europe (GoE) multi-country project and contribute to achieving the objectives and long-term ambition of the 1+million Genomes (1+MG) initiative. The focus of the action is on whole genome sequencing at clinical grade depth necessary for clinical application.

Federated European Infrastructure for intensive care units’ (ICU) data

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Code: 29208 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04-ICU-DATA | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 26/09/2023

The action will establish and deploy a pan-European federated infrastructure for Intensive Care Units’ (ICU) data combined with governance mechanisms allowing secure cross-border access and use of ICU datasets, related tools and resources.

Cloud IPCEI Exploitation office

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Code: 29206 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2023-CLOUD-AI-04-IPCEI-EXPLOIT | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 11/05/2023 | End submission calls: 26/09/2023

This action will support the overall coordination, monitoring, dissemination and long-term exploitation of the activities within the pre-notified Important Project of Common European Interest on Next Generation Cloud and Edge Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) via the set-up of a Cloud IPCEI Exploitation Office.