As we are still at the beginning of the new multiannual financial framework 2021-2027, you can find many Horizon Europe open calls to submit your proposal. Horizon Europe being the for research and innovation, could not be missing calls dedicated to the environment and climate action.
These Horizon Europe open calls are critical to combating climate change and its adverse effects on our societies. As pollution and environmental destruction continues, the environment calls for innovations to make our daily human activities more sustainable for a greener future.
Through the European Green Deal, the EU has made it a priority to become a climate-neutral continent by 2050 and has set its climate targets. These Horizon Europe open calls will support the EU’s green transition efforts to achieve sustainability.
Horizon Europe Open Calls for Environment and Climate Action
Title: Laser-based technologies for green manufacturing (Photonics - Made in Europe Partnerships)
Programme: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-03
Budget: € 7,000,000
Description: Machine tools include various laser-based technologies such as milling, turning, grinding, laser processing, surface treatment, sintering, forming and additive manufacturing. Projects funded under this topic should integrate state-of-the-art high-power lasers and tailored beams with quality sensors and real time monitoring systems into advanced manufacturing and re-manufacturing tools.
Deadline: 23/09/2021
Programme: HORIZON-CL4-2021-TWIN-TRANSITION-01-07
Budget: € 6,000,000
Description: This topic focuses on manufacturing and process industries, addressing the entire lifecycle of products and services from design to remanufacturing and including all the aspects primarily relevant for industrial production. The objective is to exploit the potential of AI as a transformation tool to support circular production in the entire manufacturing and process industry, with due consideration for standardisation activities when relevant. AI will be a strategic instrument to improve sustainability, agility and resilience to external and internal influences, taking account of the European Green Deal objectives. AI applications will be capable of optimising their actions based on limited human input, thanks to context awareness and information sensed from the physical environment, and will have the long useful lifetime typical of industrial environments.
Deadline: 23/09/2021
Title: Improved economic methods for decision-making on climate and environmental policies
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-07
Budget: € 3,000,000
Description: Actions should focus on the improvement of methodologies, practices and techniques for conducting economic appraisal of environmental policies, taking into account the progress in relevant sciences and in the understanding of the limitations of the methodologies and tools used so far, notably in impact studies. The key environmental policies of interest under this topic are those addressing climate change and biodiversity loss and actions should foster integrated approaches for addressing these interdependent challenges. Innovative and out-of-the-box approaches are strongly encouraged.
Deadline: 14/09/2021
Title: Greenhouse gas aviation emissions reduction technologies towards climate neutrality by 2050
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-05
Budget: € 6,000,000
Description: The impact of aviation to environment and climate is driven by long-term effects from CO2 emissions and shorter-term ones from non- CO2 emissions (water vapour, nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, aerosols, contrails and contrail cirrus). The CO2 effects are well understood and are proportional to the fuel used, while the non-CO2 effects are still insufficiently understood and carry large uncertainties. The total climate impact of aviation has been estimated to two to four times higher than the effect of CO2 emissions alone. R&I activities in Horizon Europe will pay adequate attention to CO2 and non-CO2 emissions, as well as their interdependencies.
Deadline: 14/09/2021
Programme: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-15
Budget: € 5,000,000
Description: The impact of transport on air and water quality has been repeatedly found to be due to tailpipe emissions from older vehicles, vehicles exceeding emissions limits in real driving conditions, or by vehicles, which, by not being subjected to specific limits, have high emissions of certain pollutants (e.g. ammonia-fuelled vehicles which emit a high number of particulates).Considering that the current automobile fleet in Europe is unlikely to be significantly renewed within the next 10 years, the proposed research actions should address emissions of nanoparticles from indirect injection (i.e. conventional) gasoline and natural gas engines or Pre-Euro 6 c direct injection gasoline cars that will continue to occur for the next couple of years. In all these cases, when the vehicles are sufficiently recent and therefore not candidates for scrapping, the proposed actions on retrofit technologies should aim at reducing real emissions at a relatively low cost, thus providing an early improvement of air quality without waiting for the vehicles to be replaced (or exported to other markets, thus just shifting the pollution to poorer countries).
Deadline: 14/09/2021
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