Innovative foundations, floating substructures and connection systems for floating PV and ocean energy devices

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Code: 14051 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 02/09/2021 | End submission calls: 23/02/2022

The expected results of this Call are expected to contribute to the improvement of the overall life time, reliability, installability, operability and maintainability of marine substructures, mechanical joints and energy connection systems for ocean energy devices and/or offshore floating PV. Also, it will contribute to the further understanding of the device’s real life performance allowing a safe reduction in the over-engineering of devices’ specifications, as well as to the reduction of LCOE in line with the SET Plan targets.

Demonstration of superconducting systems and elpipes

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Code: 14048 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/06/2021 | End submission calls: 05/01/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• New SCTL technologies to upgrade and expand the electric grid to meet the requirements imposed by the increasing penetration of renewables.
• Use of different superconductor technologies (e.g. HTS, MgB₂) with different cooling medium, power rating and lengths.
• Increased power transfer capability within existing right of ways.
• Test and validate the transmission of bulk power not achievable with current cable technologies.

Reliability and resilience of the grid: Measures for vulnerabilities, failures, risks and privacy

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Code: 14046 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/06/2021 | End submission calls: 05/01/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcome:
Demonstration of increased energy system reliability and resilience, preventing or ensuring rapid recovery following disturbances such as faults, cyberattacks, terrorism or similar at all relevant levels (infrastructure, hardware, software, organisational, etc.).

Electricity system reliability and resilience by design: High-Voltage, Direct Current (HVDC)-based systems and solutions

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Code: 14041 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/06/2021 | End submission calls: 05/01/2022

Proposals under this Call, will explore concepts and propose solutions to foster the development of large HVDC based transmission grid infrastructures, able to bring benefits to the existing electrical system and capable of integrating the fore coming large amount of renewable energy.

Carbon-negative sustainable biofuel production

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Code: 14036 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 02/09/2021 | End submission calls: 23/02/2022

This Call focuses on the improvement of reusing or inhibiting biogenic effluent gases from biofuel production in the same process, increases the biomass conversion efficiency and sustainability potential and the overall resource and energy efficiency of the biomass utilization. This will ​contribute to increase the biofuel technology competitiveness and acceptance and advance the European leadership and global role in the area of sustainable biofuels.

Wind energy in the natural and social environment

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Code: 14027 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 02/09/2021 | End submission calls: 23/02/2022

Wind turbines are facing opposition despite being a high-potential clean energy source. In order to achieve the European goals on climate neutrality, dedicated actions in this context are needed to ensure that large turbines retain a low environmental impact and gain more popular support. A particular focal point should be how to best engage with different communities to identify actions toward the co-existence goal.

Developing a strategic research, innovation and implementation agenda and a roadmap for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030

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Code: 14023 | Identifier Code: PPPA-LANGEQ-2021 | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 14/10/2021 | End submission calls: 06/01/2022

The European Union has 24 official languages, in addition to many regional languages, as well as those of minorities, migrants and important international trade partners. Only a few languages (such as English, French and Spanish) are well supported in the digital domain, while more than 20 official languages as well as regional and minority languages are considered to be in danger of digital extinction. European human language technologies have the potential to overcome this linguistic divide in the digital sphere, but need a strategic research and implementation agenda (SRIA) and roadmap defining tools, processes, actions and actors that need to be involved.

Physics and aerodynamics of atmospheric flow of wind for power production

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Code: 14008 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 02/09/2021 | End submission calls: 23/02/2022

Τhere is a need for an improved understanding of atmospheric flow physics, particularly regarding wind power production forecasting and the design of wind energy technology components.

AU-EU Water Energy Food Nexus

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Code: 13997 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 02/09/2021 | End submission calls: 23/02/2023

The topic is contributing to the activities of the AU-EU High Level Policy Dialog (HLPD) Climate Change and Sustainable Energy (CCSE) partnership. Τhe needs for African countries of having their own dedicated models to simulate and estimate the stresses on the water-energy nexus are crucial for their policy decision and energy planning. International agreement and trade issues can be considered in the model. The proposal should then develop and test models for decision makers and planners to implement energy infrastructures and energy supply in Africa which safeguard a systemic approach to the water-energy food nexus.

Support the deployment of lighthouse demonstrators for the New European Bauhaus initiative in the context of Horizon Europe missions

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Code: 13991 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2021-NEB-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 28/09/2021 | End submission calls: 25/01/2022

This action will contribute to the Delivery Phase of the NEB, by deploying mission-oriented pilot projects that will act as ‘lighthouse demonstrators’ across the territory of the European Union and Associated Countries. They should embrace the key principles of the NEB initiative (sustainability, inclusion and aesthetics), using architecture, design and culture as core resources for a sustainable society, and the mission-oriented approach (impactful, measurable, targeted) in an innovative and exemplary manner.

Socio-economic risks of climate change in Europe

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Code: 13983 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-02-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/10/2021 | End submission calls: 10/02/2022

Actions under this Call should improve the understanding of the nature and extent of physical risks from a changing climate and their integrated socio-economic implications in Europe in 2030, 2050 and 2100 timeframes. The analysis should evaluate the costs of inaction / “business as usual” by extrapolating current policies with different social and climatological scenarios. It should seek to capture the range of possible socio-economic climate-related risks including both those most likely to occur as well as those associated with low-probability high-impact climate events with potentially catastrophic outcomes.

Social science for land-use strategies in the context of climate change and biodiversity challenges

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Code: 13981 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-03-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/10/2021 | End submission calls: 10/02/2022

Actions under this Call, should aim to gain a realistic understanding of the factors behind land-use decisions and how they can be best oriented towards the efficient and socially responsible pursuit of multiple policy objectives on various scales (from the individual field/farm to region to national to continental scale). They should develop a toolbox of instruments and approaches deployable at different levels consistent with long-term goals and strategies.

Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches

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Code: 13972 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-01-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/10/2021 | End submission calls: 10/02/2022

Projects under this topic should identify an extended range of nature-based and technical CDR methods, analyse and characterise them in a consistent and transparent assessment framework.

Supporting the formulation of adaptation strategies through improved climate predictions in Europe and beyond

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Code: 13966 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/10/2021 | End submission calls: 10/02/2022

Proposals under this Call, should aim at improving seasonal to decadal prediction to boost their quality at regional to local scale in particular for Europe and for variables of high societal relevance. Actions will enable progress in closing the gap between current skill and potential predictability estimates, as well as better aligning with immediate adaptation needs of end-users and making those predictions actionable. Ultimately, methodologies need to be developed to merge simulations from long-term weather forecast to climate predictions and projections, resulting in seamless climate information from sub-seasonal to seasonal and decadal predictions for the next 30 years.

Let nature help do the job: Rewilding landscapes for carbon sequestration, climate adaptation and biodiversity support

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Code: 13960 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/10/2021 | End submission calls: 10/02/2022

A better understanding of how the use of ecosystems natural capacity, with minimal help from humans, can contribute to carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation is urgently needed to make the use of NBS operational. Actions should foster interdisciplinary research with a focus on the climate-biodiversity nexus, advancing our knowledge to further promote integrated approaches to better address these interdependent challenges.

Improvement of Integrated Assessment Models in support of climate policies

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Code: 13958 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/10/2021 | End submission calls: 10/02/2022

Actions should improve the state-of-the-art of IAMs by tackling their existing weaknesses and lack of/limited capabilities of the current generation of models in order to provide robust, credible and transparent evidence-base in support of design and evaluation of multiscale (global, European, national, regional) mitigation policies at various time horizons. An important goal of this call is to address multiple challenges in a coherent and consistent manner using an integrated framework. To achieve this goal, it is not compulsory to incorporate all issues into a single IAM. Combinations of hard linking, soft linking and other ways of insuring a coherent approach between models and experts can be considered.

Verification and reconciliation of estimates of climate forcers

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Code: 13953 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/10/2021 | End submission calls: 10/02/2022

Proposals under this Call should aim to develop scientifically robust methodologies, building on achievements from previous research activities in order to decrease to acceptable levels uncertainties associated with emission estimates, identify and constrain irreducible differences and improve the attribution of emissions and removals to their sources (in particular the separation of natural versus anthropogenic fluxes).

Development of high-resolution Earth system models for global and regional climate change projections

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Code: 13950 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-02-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/10/2021 | End submission calls: 10/02/2022

Proposals under this Call should improve European high-resolution, fully coupled atmosphere-ocean-land Earth System Models, able to robustly simulate key climate processes, their variability and future trends for this and well into the next century in order to enhance the quality, robustness and versatility of climate projections on a range of temporal and spatial scales (global and regional) to support policies implementing the goals of the Paris Agreement and address the societal need to assess and respond to the adverse impacts of climate change.

Increasing energy system flexibility based on sector-integration services to consumers (that benefits system management by DSOs and TSOs)

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Code: 13944 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/06/2021 | End submission calls: 05/01/2022

The projects undert his Call will test and develop further already demonstrated solutions for data-driven energy services for consumers, in cooperation with various actors in the energy system. 

Market Uptake Measures of renewable energy systems

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Code: 13927 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-02-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/06/2021 | End submission calls: 05/01/2022

Proposals under this Call is expected to develop solutions addressing at least 2 of the expected outcomes either for the entire renewable energy market or focusing on a specific energy sector, such as electricity, heating, cooling or renewable fuels. Proposals can also address issues within a specific geographical region such as urban and peri-urban areas. Issues related to acceptance of RES technologies due to cultural heritage landscape particularities can be addressed.