Cluster 5: Climate, Energy, and Mobility

The call “Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply” opened September 17, 2024; the deadline for submission of proposals to Horizon Europe is February 4, 2025. 

University of Manitoba teams planning to submit to this intake would best benefit from contacting Major Projects Office (MPO) at the first opportunity during planning.

Please note that Topics that are Coordination and Support Actions provide support mechanisms for the Horizon Europe program; they do not usually involve research.
 

Digital tools for CSP and solar thermal plants
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-01
Program Type: Innovation Action
Research Areas: Innovative application of digital tools for concentrated solar power and/or solar thermal heat and/or cold. Improved performance, reduced costs, reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Also AI.
Total Funding Available: $9M CAD for two grants.

Development of next generation synthetic renewable fuel technologies
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-02
Program Type: Research & Innovation Action
Research Areas: Next generation technologies for production of novel synthetic renewable liquid and gaseous fuels from CO2, and/or renewable carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen or their compounds and from renewable energy. High source to product conversion efficiency, process energy efficiency and carbon emission neutrality. Use of fuel cells for all transport modes for electricity generation. European technology export potential.
Total Funding Available: $18M CAD for three grants.

Development of smart concepts of integrated energy driven bio-refineries for co-production of advanced biofuels, bio-chemicals and biomaterials

Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-03
Program Type: Research & Innovation Action
Research Areas: Development of zero-waste and neutral or negative carbon emission energy-efficient biorefinery concepts for enabling the production of low-cost advanced biofuels through co-production of added value bio-based products and bioenergy. Conversion of waste, algae, aquatic biomass. Circular processes. Must reach TRL 5 and consider EU export potential.
Total Funding Available: $10.6M CAD for two grants.
 

Critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-04
Program Type: Research & Innovation Action
Research Areas: Increased performance of ocean energy technologies with the focus on sustainability, operation and maintenance of ocean energy devices. New sustainable materials, mooring technology, sensors for monitoring & predictive maintenance, AI.
Total Funding Available: $12M CAD for two grants.

PV-integrated electric mobility applications
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-05
Program Type: Innovation Action
Research Areas: Demonstrate Vehicle-Integrated-PV concepts, in partnership with at least one vehicle manufacturer. Demonstrate PV charging stations.
Total Funding Available: $21M CAD for two grants.

Innovative, Community-Integrated PV systems
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-06
Program Type: Innovation Action
Research Areas: Demonstrate a community-aggregated PV system; plant optimization; integration with storage, mobility, and grid for power flexibility. Sensors. SSH component required to enhance the societal impact of and citizen engagement with research.
Total Funding Available: $15M CAD for two grants.

Resource Efficiency of PV in Production, Use and Disposal
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-07
Program Type: Coordination & Support Actions
Actions: Reduce the environmental footprint of PV technology deployment across all phases and define guidelines for circularity of PV systems, components.
Total Funding Available: $4.5M CAD for one grant.

Minimization of environmental, and optimization of socio-economic impacts in the deployment, operation and decommissioning of offshore wind farms
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-08
Program Type: Research & Innovation Action
Research Areas: Enhance sustainability of offshore wind farms by addressing economic, social and environmental aspects (air pollution, waste management, health and safety, job opportunities, wildlife concerns, etc.); LCA and improved circularity; understanding of impacts to biodiversity, minimizing negative impacts.
Total Funding Available: $15M CAD for two grants.

Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-09
Program Type: Innovation Action
Research Areas: Cost-effective construction and deployment of floating wind farms, facilitating their rapid and sustainable deployment across Europe and lower their overall costs. Demonstrate in real sea conditions and be grid-connected.
Total Funding Available: $45M CAD for two grants.

Market Uptake Measures of renewable energy systems
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-010
Program Type: Coordination & Support Actions
Actions: Facilitate the wider uptake of renewable energy systems; contribute to open-source tools for policy makers; development of markets and financial frameworks; improve social acceptability.
Total Funding Available: $12M CAD for four grants.

CCU for the production of fuels
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-011
Program Type: Innovation Action
Research Areas: Industrial CO2 use/reuse through industrial symbiosis and the efficient integration of CO2 capture and conversion. Replacement of fossil fuels and energy storage. SSH component to enhance societal impact of research and address socio-economic and political barriers to use. Technologies that have reached at least TRL 4-5 should progress to TRL 6-7.
Total Funding Available: $22.7M CAD for two grants.

DACCS and BECCS for CO2 removal/negative emissions
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-012
Program Type: Innovation Action
Research Areas: Develop highly innovative, cost effective CCUS /carbon negative technologies (whether using DACCS or BECCS) - new materials, reduced cost, increased TRL, address socioeconomic and political barriers to use.
Total Funding Available: $22.7M CAD for three grants.

Support to the activities of the SET Plan Key Action area Renewable fuels and bioenergy
Program Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-013
Program Type: Coordination & Support Actions
Actions: Monitoring of the renewable fuels and bioenergy sector development, collecting and analyzing data of projects in the area, industrial scale plants, industry’s perspectives and Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan countries’ policies and strategic plans, and the information on financing sources; create databases and information tools for project developers. Dissemination, implementation, networking, cooperation across Europe. SSH involvement.
Total Funding Available: $0.9M CAD for one grant.