Eurogia call for projects JAN 24

Participation is open to companies of all sizes, universities and research organisations.

By participating in a Cluster project, you benefit from:

• access to national R&D funding,
• an international network of companies including key industry players,
• guidance, coaching and monitoring of your project by Eurogia offices,
• low administrative requirements and
• receiving a quality label.

Eurogia

Eurogia2030 is on the front line in the energy field to achieve carbon neutrality goals. Through low carbon technology R&D solutions Eurogia aims to contribute to a sustainable environment for the reduction of climate change and sustainable growth.

For more details, visit Eurogia’s website or contact the Cluster offices and your national funding body.

Some of the targeted challenges to achieve these goals are necessary, but not limited to:

• Carbon-free energy supply
• Green mobility and smart cities
• Smarter housing and construction
• Bio resources and environment

Your project should:

• address at least one of the fields mentioned in the call description and
• demonstrate the potential to research or develop a product, process or service for commercialisation.

Relevant industry sectors include (but are not limited to):

Low Carbon technologies to be researched and developed include (but are not limited to):

• Offshore wind turbines, bioenergy, solar panels, fuel cells power to-X, energy storage
• Hydrogen economy (fuel cells, production, storage, station)
• CO₂ capture, sequestration and utilisation
• Green and zero-emission buildings, smart cities, heating
• IT solutions in buildings, smart monitoring, 3D construction, digital twins in housing design
• AI, IoT, bigdata, 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, AI, big data
• … and many more

8 January 2024: call opens

26 February 2024: Project outline day in London

22 March 2024: Deadline for project outlines and full project proposal (date of receipt CET)

Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Clusters consortium:

• Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
• The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialisation.
• The project must have a civilian purpose.
• Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of two Eureka countries.
• No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.

If there is no allocated budget for your organisation type in your country and you want to participate in a project consortium, contact your national funding body using the form below to see whether there are other funding opportunities available or talk to them about self-funding.

1. Contact your national funding body and Eurogia2030 offices to discuss your project idea and eligibility.
2. Create an account on Eurogia’s portal.
3. Submit your project outline (an overview of the project, its main objective, partnerships and expected impact) and receive feedback.
4. Submit your final project proposal.

Please note that your national funding body may have additional steps for applying for R&D funding.

The brokerage tool can also help you to find partners to build a project consortium.

Eurogia will organise events, which offer opportunities for meeting potential project partners:

26 February 2024 project outline day in London

More information here