Call for Proposals: Geothermica’s Second Transnational Call

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Press Release: EIC Accelerator Fund Investment Guidelines available!

The EIC Accelerator offers optional equity investment in addition to a grant to small companies that want to put their breakthrough innovations on the market. Innovative companies can apply for a grant or up to 17.5 million in combined grant and equity financing to scale-up quickly and effectively. Read the Investment Guidelines for Applicants to know how!

Official Journal (C Series): Announcement from Norway concerning Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions for granting and using licences for the prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons — Announcement of invitation to apply for petroleum production licences on the Norwegian Continental Shelf — Awards in Predefined Areas 2019

Press Release: The Energy Efficiency Work Programme for 2020 has just been published

Almost €120m will be available for energy efficiency projects in the new Work Programme 2020 under the areas of ‘Buildings in Energy Transition’ and ‘Smart and Clean Energy for Consumers’.

Press Release: Info day – presentations ready to download!

The 2020 energy efficiency call of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme was presented on Thursday 27 June – the third day of the Energy Info Day organised in Brussels by the European Commission’s Executive Agencies, EASME and INEA. The presentations are now published. Before leaving on holidays, make sure you download them all!

Call for Tenders: Intelligent Cities Challenge

Press Release: Do you want your project proposal to be successful?

If you are working on your proposal for funding for energy efficiency under the Horizon 2020 call, this article is for you! We collected and put together a number of steps and tips from EASME experts to help you focus on the most important elements.

UPDATED – Comitology Written Consultation: Programme Committee for the specific programme implementing Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) – Configuration ‘Research infrastructures’

List of working papers (WK) distributed in the Working Party on Research in the second quarter of 2019

Provisional Agenda: Competitiveness Council (28-29 November 2019)

The agenda includes items related to energy & climate, digital, transport and internal market policy.

Press Release: €18m EBRD loan to Kosovo’s first wind farm

Kosovo, which relies for its energy on coal, will benefit from cleaner, more reliable energy from the first large-scale wind farm in the country. The EBRD is supporting the wind farm at Kitka in the east of Kosovo with an €18 million loan.

Event: Register today – Horizon 2020 Environment and Resources Information Days (Brussels, 16 & 17 September 2019)

Information days on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020, Challenge “Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency & Raw Materials” – 2020 calls – will take place on 16 and 17 September 2019 in Brussels.

Call for Applications: Selection of Members of the Commission Expert group on Clusters (“European Clusters expert group”)

Press Release: Energy security – The synchronisation of the Baltic States’ electricity networks – European solidarity in action

On Thursday, President Jean-Claude Juncker signed, accompanied by Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, the political Roadmap implementing the synchronisation of the Baltic States’ electricity networks with the Continental European Network via Poland together with Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of Lithuania, Jüri Ratas, Prime Minister of Estonia, Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland and Krišjānis Kariņš, Prime Minister of Latvia.

Press Release: Over €2.2 billion requested for energy infrastructure projects

The 2019 CEF Energy call closed yesterday 13 June 2019 with INEA receiving a total of 17 proposals in the areas of electricity, gas and cross-border carbon dioxide networks (breakdown below).

Press Release: Funding for energy efficiency in 2020

The last Work Programme for Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy under Horizon 2020 will be published on 2 July 2019. It is designed to facilitate a smooth transition to the future Horizon Europe and LIFE programmes. Two intervention areas “Buildings in energy transition” (B4E) and “Smart and clean energy for consumers” (EC) bring together 18 topics focusing on energy efficiency as a cornerstone of the energy transition.

Agenda: Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party meeting (13 June 2019)

Press Release: EIT Climate-KIC ClimateLaunchpad competition

Your idea can be an innovation in renewable energy, a sustainable transition in the food supply chain, a mind shift in urban mobility or any other way to tackle climate change. As long as it’s in the cleantech domain.

UPDATED – Comitology Written Consultation: Programme Committee for the specific programme implementing Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) – Configuration ‘Secure, clean and efficient energy’

Event: Horizon Europe – New Parliament, new Commission, new agenda (Brussels, 10 September 2019)

This Science|Business conference – ahead of DG Research’s major stakeholder event in late September – offers an opportunity for the wider European R&I community to debate the right strategy and ambitions for Horizon Europe. On one level, it will invite reflection on the legacy of and lessons learned from Horizon 2020. More importantly, however, it will look to the future and gather high level recommendations for the incoming Parliament and Commission on what Horizon Europe might realistically be expected to deliver through to 2030.

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, laying down its rules for participation and dissemination

Press Release: The European Commission, European Investment Bank and Breakthrough Energy Ventures establish a new €100 million fund to support clean energy investments

Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe (BEV-E), a new €100 million investment fund was established by the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and Breakthrough Energy Ventures during the Fourth Mission Innovation Ministerial meeting in Vancouver, Canada.

Blog: Future and emerging technologies in the EIC Pathfinder: how to turn crazy scientific research into innovative technologies and products

By Thomas Skordas, Director “Digital Excellence and Science Infrastructure” and Jean-David Malo, Director for Open Innovation and Open Science, DG Research and Innovation

For 30 years, the EU’s Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme encouraged researchers from different disciplines to work together to convert crazy scientific ideas into proofs of concept, laying the foundations for radically new technologies. Now, the FET programme will be integrated into the new European Innovation Council and will help research to become industrial applications and systems more quickly.

Press Release: EIC – 261 proposals seek funding under Fast Track to Innovation

The European Commission received 261 proposals for Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) before the latest cut-off date on 25 May 2019.

Press Release: Energy efficiency first

More than 20 Horizon 2020 energy efficiency projects will showcase their innovative results, share best practices and discuss challenges at this year EU Sustainable Energy Week, 17-21 June, in Brussels. Energy efficiency is key in shaping Europe’s energy future as energy savings are an excellent way of saving money for consumers as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions.