Eurogia2030 Call 28

Key Features

Eurogia2030 is on the front line in the Energy field to achieve carbon neutrality goals.

Programme:     Eureka

Award:     Share of up to £4,000,000

Opens: 6th Jan 2025

Closes: 24th Apr 2025

Overview

Eurogia2030 has a call for organisations collaborating internationally on the R&D of low-carbon technology projects. By applying and participating, your organisation can access national public funding for your R&D project.

The goal of this call for projects is to to stimulate activity in this important area, through the creation of international collaborative projects in applications that will support economic growth and benefit society as a whole.

Participation is open to companies of all sizes, universities and research organisations.

By participating in a Cluster project, you benefit from:

  • access to national R&D funding,
  • an international network of companies including key industry players,
  • guidance, coaching and monitoring of your project by Eurogia offices,
  • low administrative requirements and
  • receiving a quality label.

Eurogia2030 is on the front line in the energy field to achieve carbon neutrality goals. Through low carbon technology R&D solutions Eurogia aims to contribute to a sustainable environment for the reduction of climate change and sustainable growth.

Scope

Your project can address:

  • carbon-free energy supply,
  • green mobility and smart cities,
  • smarter housings and constructions or
  • bio resources and environment.

Your project should:

  • address at least one of the fields mentioned in the call description and
  • demonstrate the potential to research or develop a product, process or service for commercialisation.

Low carbon technologies to be researched and developed include (but are not limited to):

  • Offshore wind turbines, bioenergy, solar panels and fuel cells power to-X, energy storage
  • Hydrogen economy (fuell cells, production, storage, station)
  • CO2 capture, sequestration and utilisation
  • Green and zero-emission buildings, smart cities and heating
  • IT solutions in buildings, smart monitoring, 3D construction and digital twins in housing design
  • AI, IoT, bigdata and 5G/6G integrated solutions in cities
  • Smart grids, micro-grid and e-mobility
  • Monitoring of the environment and bio resources
  • Drone and satellite monitoring systems of land, rivers and sea, industrial robots, sensors, edge cloud computing, Raman Mass spectrometry, AI and big data
  • … and many more

Eligibility

Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Clusters consortium:

  • Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
  • The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialisation.
  • The project must have a civilian purpose.
  • Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of two Eureka countries.
  • No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.

Applying

  1. Contact your national funding body and Eurogia2030 offices to discuss your project idea and eligibility.
  2. Create an account on Eurogia’s platform.
  3. Submit your project outline (an overview of the project, its main objective, partnerships and expected impact) and receive feedback.
  4. Submit your final project proposal.

Please note that your national funding body may have additional steps for applying for R&D funding.

Funding Costs

Funding

Eureka have allocated up to £4,000,000 to fund innovation projects in this call.

For industrial research projects, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:

  • up to 70% if you are a small enterprise
  • up to 60% if you are a medium enterprise
  • up to 50% if you are a large enterprise
  • The UK registered research organisations in your consortium can share up to 30% of the UK total eligible business costs. Of that 30% you could get funding for your eligible project costs of up to:
    • 80% of full economic costs (FEC) if you are a Je-s registered institution such as an academic
    • 100% of your eligible project costs if you are an RTO, charity, not for profit organisation, public sector organisation or research organisation

    If your consortium contains more than one UK research organisation, this maximum will be shared between them.

Of that 30% you could get funding for your eligible project costs of up to:

80% of full economic costs (FEC) if you are a Je-s registered institution such as an academic

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.