EUROGIA2030 Issues First 2022 Call for Proposals

EUROGIA2030 is the EUREKA Cluster for low carbon technologies. It supports and promotes international project consortia developing innovative technologies to enable Europe to achieve carbon neutrality goals, a sustainable environment and reduction of climate change.

Its Technology Roadmap is structured around the ‘5Ds’ strategy: Decarbonisation, Decentralisation, Digitalisation, Democratisation and Deregulation to address challenges including:

• Carbon-free energy supply
• Green mobility and Smart Cities
• Smarter housings and construction
• Bio resources and environment

EUROGIA does not provide funding itself, rather it facilitates the establishment of research consortia and undertakes technical assessment of projects as a form of pre-qualification for funding mechanisms operated by the respective national funding agencies of the project partners.

Successful EUROGIA projects are awarded the EUROGIA label, which signifies that the project has undergone rigorous expert evaluation and guarantees that the project is technically sound, innovative, well planned and organised and is likely to lead to a commercial product or service that will positively impact the world energy system.

Proposals are now invited under EUROGIA Call 19, which is seeking projects in areas including:

• Offshore wind turbines, bioenergy, solar panels, fuel cells power to-X, energy storage
• Hydrogen economy (fuel cells, production, storage, station)
• Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS)
• Green and zero-emission buildings, smart cities, heating
• IT solutions in buildings, smart monitoring, 3D construction, digital twins in housing design
• AI, IoT, big data
• 5G/6G integrated solutions in cities
• Smart grids, micro-grids, E-mobility
• Monitoring of the environment and bio resources
• Drone and satellite monitoring systems of land, rivers, sea
• Industrial robots, sensors, edge cloud computing
• Raman mass spectrometry

Submissions are invited from consortia of universities, research institutes and small and large industries based in over 40 EUREKA member countries and EUROGIA supporting countries.

Proposals must meet the following criteria:

• The project consortium must include at least two industrial companies – Large, Small or Medium sized enterprises – from two different EUREKA member countries. The participation of research institutes or universities is encouraged, subject to the regulations of the relevant national funding programme.
• The product, process or service must be innovative and include an element of technological risk.
• The project should generate an obvious advantage and added value resulting from the technological cooperation between the participants – eg new technologies, standardisation, prototyping, field trials, new or improved products, increased knowledge, access to R&D infrastructure.
• Be able to identify potential economic and societal benefits.

Calls follow a two-stage application procedure: submission of a Project Outline (PO) for the current Call for Proposals, followed by a Full Project Proposal (FPP) for selected applicants in the following Call for Proposals.

Proposals for EUROGIA Call 19 must be submitted by the deadline on 18 February 2022 (5pm CET).