Improvement of the yield of the iron and steel making (Clean Steel Partnership) (IA)

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Code: 12589 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-19 Grant | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

Projects under this Call aim to:

• validate at industrial test scale technologies for impurity removal from scrap or the recovery of metal fractions contained in steel making process residues (that are today mainly landfilled) reaching high recycling rate of residues originated at the demo site up to 40% achieving a metal recovery efficiency up to 90% and a mineral recovery efficiency up to 80%;
• increase the uptake of low-quality scrap grades into high quality steel grades;
• replace the use of pre-consumer scrap grades with high quality clean scrap grades, as well as replace the use of solid pig iron produced by traditional BF process with post-consumer grades;
• reduce the environmental impact by minimizing CO2 emission up to 20% both, directly by internal recycling of the metal fraction derived from residues, or indirectly by increasing the use of scrap as raw material in steelmaking production processes.

Hubs for Circularity European Community of Practice (ECoP) platform (Processes4Planet Partnership) (CSA)

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Code: 12587 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-16 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

Circularity is an essential part of the industry transformation towards climate-neutrality and long-term competitiveness. H4C are defined as first-of-a-kind, lighthouse demonstrator plants of commercial size implementing industrial symbiosis or urban industrial symbiosis with the aim of achieving a step change in circular utilization of resources and GHG emission reductions, within a given representative geographical area. The common target is to collectively achieve and demonstrate at scale a leap towards circularity and carbon neutrality in the use of resources (feedstock, energy and water) in a profitable way.

Automated tools for the valorisation of construction waste (RIA)

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Code: 12585 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

Reusing and recycling CDW in new constructions, the sector would come closer to the targets of becoming fully circular and climate neutral. Precise quantitative and qualitative waste estimation is crucial for waste management. This could be achieved by utilising digital technologies for instance Building Information Modelling (BIM), material and component tracing, dedicated apps for construction/de-construction and optimize site management. Such tools could provide data about material type and composition (e.g. whether there are hazardous materials that require special care) and quantities, and thus an estimation of the logistics needs, cost, etc. and make waste separation easier and faster, e.g. by combining with automated equipment and robots.

Sustainable Industry Commons (RIA)

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Code: 12567 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-26 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

This Call is working on the development of tools for industry to enhance efficiency and contributing to less waste and emissions while improving material/product/process quality all along the lifecycle of a product/service system. The developed tools have to be compliant with existing standards, and the proposals should contribute to development and/or creation of new ones.

Creation of an innovation community for solar fuels and chemicals (CSA)

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Code: 12565 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-16 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

Creation of an innovation eco-system gathering the various elements necessary to accelerate the development in the area of introduction of solar fuels and chemicals. This will require a strict synergy of actions between all stakeholder components, from R&D to industry and society, in order to foster their introduction. In addition, the development of solar fuels and chemicals requires a full redesign of the current technologies and processes based on fossil fuels, and the technological gap is a main factor limiting their introduction.

Development of more energy efficient electrically heated catalytic reactors (IA)

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Code: 12560 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-14 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• A breakthrough reduction in carbon footprint for a given reaction (CO₂ emission reduction > 40%, demonstrated by LCA or similar studies);
• Demonstrate a significant process intensification (a reactor size reduction of > 50% with respect to the state-of-the-art conventional approach) and industrial scalability;
• Environmental and techno-economic feasibility of novel catalytic reactor technologies and catalyst materials demonstrated and validated at suitable scale against current industrial processes to produce the same products;
• Integrated development methodology of catalysts and reactors for an optimized design up to pilot unit of novel catalytic reactors with significant carbon footprint reduction and allowing relevant process intensification, while maintaining cost competitiveness;
• Advanced catalytic reactor concepts to operate in synergy with alternative energy resources like e.g. non-thermal plasma.

Safe- and sustainable-by-design polymeric materials (RIA)

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Code: 12558 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

The proposals, activities and approaches under this Call, should cover both – specific considerations for the plastics under study, as well as developing overarching best practices that spans broader sectors of safe- and sustainable-by-design plastics.

Paving the way to an increased share of recycled plastics in added value products (RIA)

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Code: 12556 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

To allow recycled plastics to be more promptly taken up as raw material for new products there is a need for reliable and standardised procedures to characterise, trace back origin and guarantee the safety of the recyclates.

Microbiomes for bio-based innovation and environmental applications

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Code: 12544 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 06/10/2021

The scope includes developing the methods for molecular cartography, the quantitative determination of genes and metabolites and establishing the R&D resources (e.g. inventories, catalogues, “reference microbiomes”, databases etc.).
Marine microbiomes are excluded from the scope, in order to avoid overlaps with the parallel topic. 

Contained biomass solutions for sustainable and zero-Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) production systems for high value applications

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Code: 12535 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 06/10/2021

The innovative bioeconomy sectors need to diversify and deliver technological and industrial solutions based on available and sustainably sourced biomass. This calls for identifying, optimising, screening and monitoring of the growing conditions in suitable systems such as bioreactors, from where they need to be efficiently processed, extracted and converted into industrial outputs of interest. The scope covers innovative multi-scale bioreactor designs, and related innovations such as hydroponics systems and phenotyping platforms for increased sustainability of biomass production, and its efficient, pathogen-free processing and use.

Novel, non-plant biomass feedstocks for industrial applications

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Code: 12532 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 06/10/2021

The innovative bioeconomy sectors need to diversify and to deliver technological and industrial solutions based on available and sustainably accessible biomass. The scope therefore covers the production of key bio-based products such as food and feed ingredients, including proteins, lipids and fibres, antioxidants and other substances with biological activities, and key bio-based materials or chemicals, in a resource-efficient approac. This calls for identifying and optimising sources as microorganisms, insects, fungi or mixotrophic algae, which requires defining certain growing conditions in suitable systems such as biofermentors, where they need to be efficiently processed, extracted and converted into industrial outputs of interest.

Increasing the circularity in textiles, plastics and/or electronics value chains

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Code: 12521 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 06/10/2021

Projects under this Call aims to contribute to the increase of the deployment and market uptake of new technological solutions to waste management and recycling, and the measurement of recycled content. Also, it aims to the enhancement of diffusion and demonstrated benefits of advanced digital solutions in circular businesses, the emergence of new value chains using upcycled, recycled and/or biobased resources, the increase upcycling and recycling rates for the targeted material streams as well as the increase of resource efficiency along and across value chains, causing a measurable reduction in GHG emissions.

Innovative solutions to over-packaging and single-use plastics, and related microplastic pollution

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Code: 12519 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 06/10/2021

Projects under this Call aim to increase deployment and market uptake of innovative solutions, through better design, alternative materials, business models promoting reuse, deposit systems, smart labelling in support of and complying with the current relevant legal framework and, when scope would cover the food chain, the future EU framework for sustainability labelling, etc. Also, are aiming to increase reuse, recyclability and upcycling of packaging and single-use plastics, as well as to achieve the reduction in the over-packaging and single-use plastics in consumer goods, food packaging and humanitarian relief items, in packaging waste and single-use plastic waste etc.

Innovative solutions to over-packaging and single-use plastics, and related microplastic pollution

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Code: 12503 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2021-CIRCBIO-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 06/10/2021

Proposals aim to contribute to impacts related to consumers and industry, in particular to European industrial sustainability, competitiveness and resource independence by lowering the environmental footprint, enabling climate-neutrality and higher resource efficiency, through increased circularity and a resulting reduction in GHG and air pollution emissions.

Security research technologies driven by active civil society engagement: transdisciplinary methods for societal impact assessment and impact creation

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Code: 12482 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2021-SSRI-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 30/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/11/2021

Applied research derives its meaning, and therefore, its financial justification from its relevance to society, to society’s needs, to society’s values, to its aims, needs or ambitions. Applied research presupposes that a distinct societal need is identified and that a program of research is devised to provide the concrete knowledge required to meet that need as well as to better understand areas related to experience and requirements of technologies regarding vulnerable groups through universal design and common accessibility principles.

Innovative and customizable services for EOSC

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Code: 12466 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

The aim is to provide researchers with a set of highly innovative new services that would exploit, in a structural way, cloud-based EOSC technologies and European compute and data management capacities.

Deploying EOSC-Core components for FAIR

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Code: 12463 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

This Call enables the enforcement and implementation of the EOSC Persistent Identifier (PID) policy by developing tools, processes and additional infrastructure required to support use of PIDs to a maximal extent, for both the management and analysis of data, and also the publication, curation and tracking of research outputs. This should include a PID ‘meta resolver’ for EOSC or tools to support the alignment of PID infrastructure with the EOSC PID Policy. Proposals under this topic should also cover other research outputs, such as software, developing services based on open standards and common practices adopted by the different disciplines.

Supporting the development and coordination of activities of the EOSC Partnership

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Code: 12460 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

Proposals aim to support the development of an effective pan-European cooperation framework and a thriving EOSC ecosystem in which stakeholders from all parts of the European Research Area pull together in a strategic and coordinated manner to ensure the achievement of the EOSC Partnership objectives. Proposals should support the EOSC community at large by engaging and interacting with a large number of users and stakeholder communities, to monitor the uptake and (re)use of EOSC resources.

Supporting an EOSC-ready digitally skilled workforce

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Code: 12451 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

Development of new support material, curricula and learning pathways for researchers, data curators, and data stewards and new types of professionals. To ensure an efficient uptake and exploitation of data by Public Authorities (e.g. for evidence-based policy making), policy makers should also become skilled in data acquisition, management and analysis.

FAIR and open data sharing in support of cancer research

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Code: 12449 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

The overall objective of this topic is to accelerate research and innovation under this mission area through better access, management, interoperability and reuse of digital information, to be achieved by using and integrating EOSC resources ranging from EOSC federated infrastructures, services and data to guidelines, best practices, tools and metrics for the management of FAIR and open data. This should be achieved through cross-domain, strategic use cases of direct relevance to the mission areas and the European Partnerships supporting this mission area on cancer.