Clean Energy Transition CET – Community-driven clean energy transition in coal, peat and oil-shale regions

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Code: 11513 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-COALREGIONS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

Proposals under the present topic should build capacity amongst communities in coal, peat and oil-shale regions to maximise spending of the Just Transition Mechanism in the area of the clean energy transition leading to increased uptake of energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions.

Assessing and consolidating recent scientific advances on freshwater ecosystem restoration.

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Code: 11514 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-09 | 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 objective of this topic is to determine how to implement the restoration of freshwater ecosystems and remove hydromorphological barriers to ensure sustainable environmental flows and to support achievement of good status in both surface and ground waters, long-term water resource management, biodiversity and climate resilience.

Clean Energy Transition CET – Establish innovative business models and contractual schemes for smart and sector-integrating energy services

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Code: 11510 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-SMARTSERV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

The topic aims to support actions that develop, conceptualise and deploy new business models and concepts which fully tap the economic value and the wider benefits of integrated services.

Clean Energy Transition CET – BUILD UP Skills – rebooting the National Platforms and Roadmaps

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Code: 11508 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-BUILDSKILLS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

Launched in 2011, the BUILD UP Skills initiative is supporting the upskilling of building professionals across Europe, to deliver building renovations offering high-energy performance as well as new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings.

This topic aims to facilitate the rebooting of the National Qualification Platforms, Status Quo Analyses and National Roadmaps developed under the first phase of BUILD UP Skills (2011- 2012, ‘Pillar I’), to ensure alignment with the EU 2030 energy targets.

Clean Energy Transition CET – Integrated Home Renovation Services

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Code: 11504 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-HOMERENO | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

This topic aims at creating or replicating innovative local or regional “integrated home renovation services”.

Clean Energy Transition CET – Facing the increase in cooling demand of buildings in the coming years

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Code: 11501 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-COOLING | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

The proposed actions are expected to provide an improved and comprehensive understanding of the cooling demand in buildings and to develop appropriate strategies on how this demand could be most effectively managed and met in a sustainable way, i.e. by reducing demand, improving energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy.

Clean Energy Transition CET – Disruptive PDA – Technical Assistance to advance market boundaries for sustainable energy investments

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Code: 11498 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-PDA | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

The topic aims to support innovators across Europe to develop innovative solutions that are mobilising private capital, blending public with private financing, setting up long-term and scalable financial instruments and at the same time overcoming legal and structural barriers whilst delivering a highly ambitious sustainable energy project pipeline.

Supporting the development of a coherent and resilient Trans-European Nature Network

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Code: 11503 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-08 | 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 successful proposal should set up a strategic plan to support national authorities in identifying and selecting the relevant priority areas for EU land protection and the set-up of ecological corridors. It should be built on the existing EU network of protected areas and based on the EU Guidance to Member States, referred in the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030.

Ecosystems and their services for an evidence-based policy and decision-making

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Code: 11494 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-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

Ensuring that ecosystems achieve or maintain a healthy state or a good condition aiming to secure the sustainability of human activities and human well-being.
The successful proposal should improve the assessment of the condition of ecosystems while providing uptake of the assessment’s outcomes in policy. It should develop the minimum criteria, reference levels and aggregation schemes to define good ecosystem condition. This definition should encompass forests, agroecosystems, urban areas, soil ecosystems, wetlands, fresh water and marine ecosystems. The proposal should addresses regional diversity and the corresponding decision level.

Clean Energy Transition CET – Creating the conditions for a global improvement of smart readiness of European buildings

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Code: 11483 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-SMARTREADY | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

The objectives of this topic are to contribute to the:

• successful implementation of the Smart Readiness Indicator;
• successful market up-take of the Smart Readiness Indicator;
• rollout of ICT and smart-ready technologies (e.g. BMS, smart meters, smart thermostats, sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart e-mobility charging infrastructure) in residential, public and commercial buildings;
• protection of privacy and cybersecurity of smart buildings;
• reduction of energy consumption linked to the use of digital technologies.

Adjustment of Steel process production to prepare for the transition towards climate neutrality (Clean Steel Partnership) (IA)

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Code: 11489 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-22 | 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 submitted under this topic are expected to provide concepts addressing the modifications of the existing installations of both primary and secondary steel production (BF/BOF, EAF, DRI) concerning the internal and external flows of energy and materials in order to re-use metallurgical gases (internal re-cycling) and to upgrade them with new sources (H2), e.g. by replacement of fossil carbon as reducing agent with hydrogen and biomass. This also includes the integrated preparation (reforming, separation, heating, compression) of external carbon-lean reducing gases or internally-recycled CO/CO2 streams for efficient injection in the BF or use in conventional plants.

Design and optimisation of energy flexible industrial processes (Processes4Planet Partnership) (IA)

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Code: 11485 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-21 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

Process flexibility and efficient energy storage are essential to account for the variable renewable energy production. To support the change of energy supply, current processes, designed to run continuously at maximum capacity, have to be adapted. Furthermore, digital tools need to be developed to attain the energy flexibility of the process, but also to exchange data with network operators and flexibility markets, which will enable industries to provide flexibility services. Powerful digital twins based on suitable combinations of analytical models, physics-based AI or pure AI solutions need to be designed and applied.

Clean Energy Transition CET – Uptake of energy audits recommendations for the energy transition of companies

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Code: 11478 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-AUDITS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

The key objective of this topic is to increase in companies, using a holistic approach, the uptake of availability of energy audits and to ensure that large enterprises carry out regular energy audits or have an Energy Management System (EMS) in place.

Reducing environmental footprint, improving circularity in extractive and processing value chains (IA)

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Code: 11477 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-20 | 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 aims to enable the increase of access to primary raw materials and secondary raw materials, in particular critical raw materials for EU industrial value chains and strategic sectors.

Clean Energy Transition CET – Fostering sustainable energy uptake along the whole value chain in industry and services

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Code: 11474 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-VALUECHAIN | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

The scope of this topic is to establish collaborations between SMEs and larger companies, operating in the same value chain, in order to ensure that energy efficiency measures and the use of renewable energy sources are maximised at each step of the process, in line with the EU strategy on energy system integration and more in general with the EU Green Deal and the EU industrial strategy.

Clean Energy Transition CET – Developing support mechanisms for energy communities and other citizen-led initiatives in the field of sustainable energy

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Code: 11471 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2021-CET-ENERCOM | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 13/07/2021 | End submission calls: 12/01/2022

This topic aims to support actions that foster the collaboration between local and regional authorities and energy communities and/or actions that develop integrated services to facilitate the emergence and growth of community energy projects.

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

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Code: 11468 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-19 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/06/2021 | End submission calls: 23/09/2021

One of the main goals of this Call is to reduce the environmental impact by minimizing CO2 emission up to 20% both, directly (and locally) 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. Also, is aiming to validate at industrial test scale technologies for impurity removal from scrap or the recovery of metal fractions contained in steel making process residues 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%. 

Scheme that provides incentives for the Labor of Unemployed-2nd call

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Code: 11443 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 31/05/2021 | End submission calls: 15/07/2021

The Plan aims to encouraging employers to hire unemployed people. The Scheme aims to tackle unemployment by providing incentives to employers to hire the unemployed by subsidizing  part of the salary cost of the person to be hired. The Scheme is included in the measures of active employment policy promoted by the Government for the integration of the unemployed in the labor market through their placement in subsidized jobs, including the provision of vocational training.

 Moreover, the person covered (candidate for employment) must have been registered as unemployed at the District or Local Employment Office (Public Employment Service -PES).

Eligible expenditure is the salary cost paid by the employer for the employment period, the amount of which will be specified in the Public Funding Agreement. The employment date and submission of the relevant application must be made within the period of the call from 31/5/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

 Who cannot participate in the Scheme:

1. People (candidates for employment) whose employment was previously funded by Co-funded Projects during the Programming Period 2021-2027.

 

2. (a) Persons who are Shareholders and / or directors of a Company (excluding Public Companies) members of the Board of Directors, Associations / Foundation/ Institutions
   (b) Persons who are spouses or are affiliated with a first or second degree ( either by blood or by marriage ) with the employer. That is, they cannot participate in the employer – employee relationship people associated as spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren. For the above exemptions, the employer is specified in (a).

 

3. Self-employed to subsidize themselves.

 The person hired through the Plan must fill a vacancy notified by the Employer to the Public Employment Service (PES) before submitting the application for participation in the Plan. It is clarified that the date of recruitment and the submission of the application cannot be the same.

The date of recruitment of the individual must be within the validity period of the invitation of the Plan and must precede the date of submission of the application for participation. The application form must be submitted within one month from the date of recruitment.

Applications can be send only with email (in pdf ) from 31/5/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

Scheme that provides incentives to recruit Young People (aged 15-29) not in employment nor Education or Training (NEETs) -2nd call

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Code: 11432 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 31/05/2021 | End submission calls: 15/07/2021

The Scheme aims to encourage employers to recruit young people (aged 15 to 29) years old neither in Employment nor in Education or Training (NEETs). The recruitment is for full time employment.

The Scheme aims to alleviate youth unemployment (aged 15 to 29) years neither in Employment nor in Education or Training ( NEETs)  and the sustainable integration of young people in the labor market, by placing them in subsidized jobs and further gaining work experience. The Scheme is included in the measures of active employment policy promoted by the Government for the implementation of the “Youth Guarantee”.

Moreover, the person covered (candidate for employment) must have been registered as unemployed at the District or Local Employment Office (Public Employment Service -PES).

Eligible expenditure is the salary cost paid by the employer for the employment period, the amount of which will be specified in the Public Funding Agreement. The employment date and submission of the relevant application must be made within the period of the call from 31/5/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

Who cannot participate in the Scheme:

1. People (candidates for employment) whose employment was previously funded by Co-funded Projects during the Programming Period 2021-2027.
2. (a) Persons who are Shareholders and / or directors of a Company (excluding Public Companies) members of the Board of Directors, Associations / Foundation/ Institutions
   (b) Persons who are spouses or are affiliated with a first or second degree (either by blood or by marriage) with the employer. That is, they cannot participate in the employer – employee relationship people associated as spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren. For the above exemptions, the employer is specified in (a).
3. Self-employed to subsidize themselves.

The person hired through the Plan must fill a vacancy notified by the Employer to the Public Employment Service (PES) before submitting the application for participation in the Plan. It is clarified that the date of recruitment and the submission of the application cannot be the same.

The date of recruitment of the individual must be within the validity period of the invitation of the Plan and must precede the date of submission of the application for participation. The application form must be submitted within one month from the date of recruitment.

Applications can be send only with email (in pdf) from 31/5/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

 

Sponsorships Programme 2021 (SPONSORSHIPS/0721)

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Code: 11414 | Identifier Code: SPONSORSHIPS/0721 | Programme name: 2941 | Sub-program: ii. OTHER RIF PROGRAMMES | Start submission calls: 30/07/2021 | End submission calls: 29/07/2022

The Research and Innovation Foundation announces the Call for Proposals for the Sponsorships Programme 2021 (SPONSORSHIPS/0721).

The RIF’s Sponsorships Programme promotes the Foundation’s strategic goal of nurturing a Culture of Research and Innovation (R&I) in the ecosystem and the wider public through actions that support R&I, including skills development.

Through the Sponsorships Programme, the RIF supports:

• the organisation of events promoting research, technological development and innovation to the public, and
• the representation of Cyprus in international science, research and innovation competitions.

The Call will be open until the 29^th of July 2022 or until exhaustion of the budget. The total budget for this Call is €60.000

Implementation Period: 04/10/2021 – 03/10/2022