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Novel, sustainable and circular bio-based textiles

Deadline: 26 September 2023

The expected impacts to be addressed by successful proposals include:

Enhancing European industrial sustainability, competitiveness and resource independence;
Accelerating regional, rural, local, urban and consumer-based transitions towards a sustainable, regenerative, inclusive, just and clean circular economy and bioeconomy as well as;
The development of innovative and sustainable value-chains in the bio-based sectors, substituting the fossil- based ones.

Projects are expected to contribute to all the following outcomes:

Reduce negative environmental impact of textiles throughout their lifecycle;
Increase recyclability and circularity of textiles;
Increase the use of EU alternative, bio-based fibers;
Address social impacts, in addition to environmental effects; sustainable circular and socially just textile production and consumption at EU level;
Empower and increase SMEs participation and improve academia/industry/feedstock & fibers supplier’s interactions an collaborations.
Establish new and innovative circular bio-based value chains with a positive impact on EU competitiveness and job creations at regional, rural and local levels.

Scope:

The call addresses the design, demonstration and scale-up of production of sustainable and circular, bio-based textiles for one or more applications.

Supporting the creation of an accessible and inclusive built environment

Deadline: 05 September 2023

Expected outcome:

Improved accessibility of the built environment for persons with disabilities and older persons, following a ‘design for all’ approach.
Improved comfort for larger shares of the population.
Improved sense of inclusiveness[2] and social cohesion in larger shares of the population.
Availability of a common evaluation and certification framework for accessibility and inclusiveness of the built environment.
Reduced energy consumption and lifecycle GHG emissions of the facilities of the built environment.

Scope:

The focus will be on the different facilities of the built environment that are open to the public. Design concepts should make these facilities for persons with disabilities and fragile people, following and inclusive, ‘design for all’ approach.

Proposals are expected to address all the following:

Develop innovative methods to ensure and facilitate the implementation of accessibility at all stages of design and construction processes, as well as monitoring and testing of results.
Address the adaptability of the built environment over its lifecycle, to ensure flexibility for accessibility adaptations.
Ensure the involvement of persons with disabilities by means of a participatory approach.
Demonstrate the solutions in at least two demonstrators.
Where new digital tools are used in the built environment, ensure their accessibility for persons with disabilities and older persons.

Alliances for Education and Enterprises

Deadline: 03 May 2023

Objective:

Alliances for Innovation aim to strengthen Europe’s innovation capacity by boosting innovation through cooperation and flow of knowledge among higher education, vocational education and training, and the broader socio-economic environment, including research.

Objectives of the action:

These partnerships shall implement a coherent and comprehensive set of sectoral or cross-sectoral activities, which should be adaptable to future knowledge developments across the EU.

To boost innovation, the focus will be on talent and skills development.

They intend to achieve one or more of the following aims:

Fostering new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning;
Supporting skills development in the deep tech domains;
Fostering the setting up of incubators within education and training institutions across Europe;
Fostering corporate social responsibility;
Improving the quality and relevance of skills developed and certified through education and training systems;
Facilitating the flow and co-creation of knowledge between higher education and vocational education and training, research, the public sector and the business sector;
Building and supporting effective and efficient higher education and vocational education and training systems, which are connected and inclusive, and contribute to innovation.

Development of novel long-term electricity storage technologies

Deadline: 30 March 2023

The expected outcomes of the projects consist of:

Increased availability, robustness, and safety of sustainable and efficient energy storage solutions to reduce energy losses, increase cost effectiveness and improve the environmental footprint of the energy system.
Availability and functionality of innovative energy storage systems developed for specific system designs and applications.
Increase technology leadership, competitiveness, and technology export potential of European storage technology industry.
Enhanced sustainability of storage technologies, taking into account circular economy, social, economic, and environmental aspects in line with the European Green Deal priorities.

Scope:

Development of novel storage technologies, efficiency and sustainability and are adapted to specific needs of the energy system. The developed solutions should be highly performant in respect of expected future investment and operational costs and business cases in existing or emerging energy markets and go beyond the state-of-the art of existing storage solutions in respect of the following parameters:

Sustainability;
Technical performance, including round-trip efficiency;
Lifetime.

Projects should address to the extent appropriate intelligent energy management systems, economic viability studies validated by industry and assessment of large-scale replication potential.

Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions to build resilience towards health risks caused by the effects of climate change

Deadline: 20 September 2023

Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

Regions, local authorities and communities have been involved in development and testing of the whole range of transformative solutions that will help to mitigate the effect of climate change on health and human wellbeing, including making the public health sector more climate resilient and better prepared to mitigate the climate change related health challenges.
Climate resilience solutions that protect human health have been developed, tested and made largely available.

That proposals should test and demonstrate solutions that address both the two aspects below:

Improve prevention and policy-making by:
Improved insights into short- and long-term health effects of climate-related stressors;
Strengthening comprehensive and user-friendly epidemiological surveillance and modelling and forecasting tools;
Development of better forecast, early-warning and early response systems and decision making models for health impacts of climate change;
Development and health impact assessment of adaptation measures and monitoring of effectiveness of solutions to improve resilience.
Improve preparedness of health systems by:
Development of innovative solutions to reduce impact of climate change on human health and wellbeing;
Preparing training curricula on health and climate change.

Renewable Energy Financing Mechanism Technology specific – Solar PV

Deadline: 17 August 2023

The RENEWFM is an EU financing programme contributing to the clean energy transition and the European Green Deal objectives, including the goals and objectives of the Paris Agreement, 2030 climate and energy targets and long-term decarbonisation objective.

In this context, the RENEWFM allows EU countries to work more closely together in the take-up and promotion of renewables, improving the efficiency of investment, pooling resources and finding the right mix between public and private finance. It facilitates a more cost-effective roll-out of renewables across the EU, particularly in the areas that have a greater access to natural resources or are better suited for it in terms of geography.

Expected Impact:

The projects must contribute to the realisation of additional renewable energy capacity across the EU in a cost-effective way. The beneficiaries will be expected to report renewable energy production on an annual basis.

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