Horizon Europe – Critical technologies for ocean energy farms

Call focus

• Increasing performance of ocean energy technologies, with specific focus on sustainability, operation and maintenance.
• Improving knowledge on operating ocean energy devices, their availability, maintainability and survivability.
• Reducing the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) of future technologies.

Activities expected to achieve TRL 5 by the end of the project.

Total budget: €8,000,000
Funding per project: €4,000,000
Deadline for proposals: 4 February 2025

For full details, see: EU Funding & Tenders Portal – Critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-04)

Horizon Europe – Next generation synthetic fuel technologies

Call focus

• Increasing the availability of disruptive emerging synthetic renewable fuel technologies.
• Accelerating the readiness of cost-effective and highly performing future technologies of synthetic renewable fuels for all economy sectors
• Reinforcing the European scientific basis and technology export potential for synthetic renewable fuel technologies.

Activities expected to achieve TRL 3-4 by the end of the project.

Total budget: €12,000,000
Funding per project: €4,000,000
Deadline for proposals: 4 February 2025

For full details, see: EU Funding & Tenders Portal - Development of next generation synthetic renewable fuel technologies (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-02)

Horizon Europe – Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts

Call focus

• Increasing knowledge about design, construction, assembly and operation/maintenance of floating wind farms.
• Improving overall constructability, reliability, installability, operability and maintainability of floating wind farms.
• Demonstrating efficient, low-cost and sustainable emerging technologies for floating wind turbines, therefore reducing LCOE.
• Reinforcing European offshore wind turbine value chain and skills.
• Capturing data for future optimisation of industry scale commissioning of the floater, mooring and anchor system.

Activities expected to achieve TRL 7-8 by the end of the project.

Total budget: €30,000,000
Funding per project: €15,000,000
Deadline for proposals: 4 February 2025

For full details, see: EU Funding & Tenders Portal - Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-09)

Horizon Europe – CCU for the production of fuels

Call focus

• Developing energy-efficient, economically and environmentally viable CO2 conversion technologies.
• Energy storage techniques and displacement of fossil fuels that allow for upscaling abilities.
• Innovative and new energy storage techniques.

Activities expected to achieve TRL 6-7 by the end of the project.

Total budget: €15,000,000
Funding per project: €7,000,000
Deadline for proposals: 4 February 2025

For full details, see: EU Funding & Tenders Portal - CCU for the production of fuels (HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-11)

Innovate UK – Smart Grants

Call focus

• Game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovations that can significantly impact the UK economy.

Funding: UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million
Award: Costs between £100,000 – £500,000 for 6–18-month projects, £100,000 – £1 million for 19–24-month projects.
Deadline for proposals: 23 October 2024 (rolling call- get in contact for more information.)

For full details, see: Innovate UK – Smart Grants

NERC – Pushing the frontiers of environmental research

This funding opportunity supports researchers’ curiosity and imagination to enable discoveries that unlock new knowledge with a degree of adventure previously unrealised. Proposals must fit the NERC’s own research areas.
EMEC would be interested in co-leading or supporting opportunities that reflect our efforts in environmental monitoring, environmental research and ecosystem impacts from marine renewable energy.

Award: £950,000 maximum
Deadline for proposals: 21 January 2025

For full details, see: NERC – Pushing the frontiers of environmental research

HI-ACT – Secondment Call

Secondment funding for researchers or industry partners to co-create research and develop new skills, to help to accelerate research into systems integration of hydrogen for the future net-zero energy transition through co-creation. Award:

Award: up to £30,000 per year to fund a secondee
Deadline for proposals: N/A – open call.

RISEnergy – Transnational Access Call

RISEnergy aims to integrate services provided through a network of energy-related infrastructures in the fields of photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, solar thermal electricity, hydrogen, biofuels, wind energy, ocean energy, integrated grids, energy storage, material science and information and communication technology. RISEnergy has compiled a list of testing facilities, of which EMEC is one of the eligible research sites, for industry and academic partners to utilise for technology testing. The first of a number of calls focuses on innovative solutions to improve energy systems and/or reduce the cost of energy technologies enabling a wider use of renewable energy.

Funded by Horizon Europe R&I programme, this call enables academic and industry researchers’ free access to testing facilities through grant funding. We’re keen to make developers aware of this funding and discuss bids to support access to testing at EMEC.

Total award: £10 million
Deadline: First deadline 30 November 2024 (rolling call- get in contact for more information.)

For full details, see: RISEnergy – Transnational Access Call