213 bids for H2020 low carbon energy calls
The European Commission has announced the headline results of two ‘Competitive low carbon energy’ calls, part of the Societal Challenges pillar.
The calls, which ran from December 2014 to May 2015, have a budget of €189.4m and €93m respectively. Collectively, the topics receiving the most proposals were ‘Demonstration of renewable electricity and heating/cooling technologies’, which had 59 submissions; ‘Modelling and analysing the energy system, its transformation and impacts’, which received 41 bids; and ‘Market uptake of existing and emerging sustainable bioenergy’, which had 33 submissions. The Commission will now select the final applications that will receive funding from Horizon 2020; 213 applications were submitted in total.
Also announced are the headline results for the €65.2m ‘Call for Twinning’, which saw 553 proposals submitted. As part of the ‘Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation’ pillar, Twinning aims to help address research gaps between the institutions of low performing EU member states and regions and their internationally leading counterparts in the Union. The call ran from July 2014 to May 2015. Twinning is a new initiative introduced under Horizon 2020.
