CETPartnership Joint Call 2024

Key Features

The new CETP funding call will open for applications from September 2024. It’s a EUR100m programme with EUR5m available from Scottish Enterprise for transnational research, technological development and innovation funding programme which is designed to boost and accelerate energy transition across 30 countries.

Programme:     CETPartnership

Award:     Share of up to EUR 5m

Opens: 19th Sep 2024

Closes: 21st Nov 2024

Overview

The new CETPartnership joint call will open for applications from September 2024. It’s a EUR100m programme with EUR5m available from Scottish Enterprise for transnational research, technological development and innovation funding programme which is designed to boost and accelerate energy transition across 30 countries.

The CETP programme is a transformative Research, Technological Development and Innovation (RTDI) program, designed to accelerate clean energy transition through annual funding calls.

It’s an international collaboration involving 30 countries and more than 50 funding agencies, supported through the Horizon Europe R&I programme.

Our organisation is leading and delivering the programme on behalf of Scottish Government, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and South of Scotland Enterprise.

Scope

The CETPartnership Joint Call 2024 is the co-funded call under the CETPartnership. To cover different topics and RDI types, the Call is structured into Call Modules, aimed at different energy technologies and/or systems as well as both research and innovation oriented approaches on different Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), complementing and completing each other.

The CETPartnership Joint Call 2024 has two parts:

International Part: The international call is performed in 2-stages: submission of a pre-proposal followed by an invite to submit a full proposal. 

  • Stage 1: Submission of a pre-proposal, a project consortium chooses one Call Module for the pre-proposal. If the pre-proposal is selected, the project consortium is invited to submit a full proposal. 
  • Stage 2: Submission of a full proposal, only if the pre-proposal is invited to participate in Stage 2. 

National/Regional Part: All project partners will be evaluated according to national/regional eligibility criteria and requirements. Several Funding Agencies require submission of a proposal on national/regional level.

Scotland’s role in the CETPartnership

CETPartnership is supporting research and innovation in all the CETP modules:

  • Data spaces and inoperability
  • Energy system flexibility: renewables production, storage and system integration
  • Advanced renewable energy technologies for power production
  • Carbon capture, utilisation and storage
  • Hydrogen and renewable fuels
  • Heating and cooling technologies
  • Geothermal energy technologies
  • Integrated regional energy systems
  • Integrated industrial energy systems
  • Clean energy integration in the built environment

They will consider applications under all modules. However, as part of our eligibility process, projects will be expected to demonstrate relevance to the Scottish Government’s energy strategies and should contribute to economic development in Scotland.

The Call includes the following eligibility criteria and requirements:

  • Transnational eligibility criteria, applicable for all project consortia applying to the Call
  • Call Module requirements, applicable for project consortia applying to Call Modules with specific requirements
  • National/regional requirements, applicable for Partners applying for funding from Funding Agencies in the Call.

All Project Consortium Partners are encouraged to carefully check all eligibility criteria and requirements.  Different Call Modules and different Funding Agencies may support different types if entites, TRLs, etc.

Join the launch event on 12th of September to find out what awaits you at CETPartnership, what topics they will address in 2024 and to clarify all your open questions about applying for the Joint Call 2024.

For further information on this funding opportunity, please see guidance notes here

Eligibility

They want to hear from you if your project is:

  • Based in a company, university, or research institute
  • Transnational – your work must be collaborative between at least three independent partners from three different countries, of which at least two must be EU member states or Horizon Europe Associated Countries

Funding Costs

There’s up to €5 million available for supporting projects, assigned on a competitive basis.

Interested in applying for this competition?

Book an appointment to speak to one of our advisors to discuss your eligibility to apply for this Grant Funding opportunity.