The European Commission has approved the final version of the European Green Deal’s call for proposals. The opening date is 22 September 2020; the deadline for submissions is 26 January 2021.
The focus areas under this call are:
1. Increasing Climate Ambition: Cross sectoral challenges
- LC-GD-1-1-2020: Preventing and fighting extreme wildfires with the integration and demonstration of innovative means.
- LC-GD-1-2-2020: Towards Climate-Neutral and Socially Innovative Cities.
- LC-GD-1-3-2020: Climate-resilient Innovation Packages for EU regions.
2. Clean, affordable and secure energy
- LC-GD-2-1-2020: Innovative land-based and offshore renewable energy technologies and their integration into the energy system.
- LC-GD-2-2-2020: Develop and demonstrate a 100 MW electrolyser upscaling the link between renewables and commercial/industrial applications.
- LC-GD-2-3-2020: Accelerating the green transition and energy access Partnership with Africa.
3. Industry for a clean and circular economy
- LC-GD-3-1-2020: Closing the industrial carbon cycle to combat climate change - Industrial feasibility of catalytic routes for sustainable alternatives to fossil resources.
- LC-GD-3-2-2020: Demonstration of systemic solutions for the territorial deployment of the circular economy.
4. Energy and resource efficient buildings
- LC-GD-4-1-2020: Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way.
5. Sustainable and smart mobility
- LC-GD-5-1-2020: Green airports and ports as multimodal hubs for sustainable and smart mobility.
6. Farm to fork
- LC-GD-6-1-2020: Testing and demonstrating systemic innovations in support of the Farm-to-Fork Strategy.
7. Biodiversity and ecosystem services
- LC-GD-7-1-2020: Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services.
8. Zero-pollution, toxic free environment
- LC-GD-8-1-2020: Innovative, systemic zero-pollution solutions to protect health, environment and natural resources from persistent and mobile chemicals.
- LC-GD-8-2-2020: Fostering regulatory science to address combined exposures to industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals: from science to evidence-based policies.
9. Strengthening our knowledge in support of the EGD
- LC-GD-9-1-2020: European Research Infrastructures capacities and services to address European Green Deal challenges.
- LC-GD-9-2-2020: Developing end-user products and services for all stakeholders and citizens supporting climate adaptation and mitigation.
- LC-GD-9-3-2020: Transparent & Accessible Seas and Oceans: Towards a Digital Twin of the Ocean.
10. Empowering citizens for the transition towards a climate neutral, sustainable Europe
- LC-GD-10-1-2020: European capacities for citizen deliberation and participation for the Green Deal.
- LC-GD-10-2-2020: Behavioural, social and cultural change for the Green Deal.
- LC-GD-10-3-2020: Enabling citizens to act on climate change, for sustainable development and environmental protection through education, citizen science, observation initiatives, and civic engagement.
Public procurements (4th quarter 2020)
- Support for the coordination of and synergies between projects under the H2020 Green Deal Call.
- Delivery of knowledge for climate adaptation and mitigation through the GEOSS infrastructure (Global Earth Observation System of Systems).
- Study in support of scaling-up the financing of innovative Nature-Based Solutions.
- Piloting Tools for assessing the potential impact of innovation in achieving net-zero emission objectives by 2050 and improving project readiness for green financing.
- Support monitoring of industrial R&D&I investment data in the context of the Green Deal/Sustainable Development Goals and in the context of economic and technologic competitiveness of green-tech industries.
- Support for biodiversity related projects with a focus on the links between human health and biodiversity, including zoonotic and infectious diseases.
- Support circular economy solutions at local and regional scale.
- High Level Expert Group to assess the needs, potential, feasibility and approach for International Platform for Food Systems Science (IPFSS).
- Support to the engagement of European Citizens in the transition of the European Green Deal (EGD).
Events
- 23-24/09/2020: Matchmaking event. Click here for more information.
- 13-14/10/2020: Brokerage event. Click here for more information.
- 05/10/2020: Information event for SSHA researchers. Click here for more information.
- 27/10/2020: Matchmaking event for SSHA researchers. Click here for more information.
Matchmaking tool
The NCP network for SC5 has developed a partner search tool for the newly published Green Deal call under Horizon 2020. Click here for more information.
