Innovative technologies and solutions to improve wave and tidal energy systems
BATTERIES and ENERGY · HORIZON-IA · TRL 6 to 7 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds large scale projects that develop and demonstrate wave and tidal energy technologies, moving from lab validated concepts to real sea demonstration. It covers innovation in devices, materials, mooring and connection systems, condition monitoring and manufacturing, with the goal of making ocean energy cheaper, more reliable and less harmful to the environment. A large part of the budget must be passed on to third parties such as startups, SMEs and research organisations through open calls, in addition to direct demonstration activities run by the main consortium.
renewable energy · ocean marine · energy storage · advanced materials · environmental monitoring · advanced manufacturing
Who wins this
A well resourced consortium with proven experience managing large projects and third party funding schemes, capable of running both direct R&I activities and multiple demonstration campaigns for wave and tidal energy technology at sea.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €43M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- research organisation, startup, scale-up, SME, industry, public body, private entity
- Support to third parties
- Financial support to third parties is mandatory, provided only as grants, with a maximum of EUR 800,000 per third party, used for breakthrough and validation challenge activities via cascading FSTP calls.
- Also required
- Project management budget must not exceed 7% of EU funding, at least three distinct demonstration activities are required, up to 24 million EUR of EU funding is expected for the demonstration challenge, and proposals may not exceed 60 pages.
- Sectors
- CleanTech · Energy · Mobility
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout Due to the complexity of the topic, the page limit for proposals is increased to 60 pages. described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligible Conditions If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used). described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants Beneficiaries must provide financial support to third parties (FSTP). The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 800.000. This is necessary to appropriately conduct the activities in scope of this topic, namely, to contribute to the development and validation of costly and complex components and expected to include high capital intensive and labour-intensive activities. These activities are as well labour intensive and need specialised skills. As the topic envisages subsequent FSTP calls to progressively develop a given solution, the maximum amount to be granted to each party needs to be sufficiently high to cater cases where a given legal entity may receive more than one FSTP grant. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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