Activities:

Applicants must propose their own challenge related to production, distribution, storage and end-use of Industrial Battery Value Chain to decarbonise sectors such as heavy industries and heavy-duty transport applications. Projects contributing to develop a resilient hydrogen energy value chain in EU, and to foster a sustainable, decarbonised, and fully integrated energy system are welcomed.

Budget per project:

• Single applicant: up to 20.000€
• Consortia: up to 40.000€ per beneficiary / limited to 61.000€ per project

Low-risk Innovation Projects:

Projects that reach the development until TRL 6-7 of more digital or greener innovative products or services, in the electromobility sectors.

The project should be included in at least one of the following categories:

1. Design and building of new collaborations and/or business models, in particular among value and supply chain actors, in the form of contracts, agreements, platforms, forums, etc.
2. Feasibility studies.
3. Demonstration of an innovative product, solution, process, service, or technology in relevant or operational environment.
4. Innovation projects to provide new products/services/novel ideas that increase the resilience of the beneficiary and/or improve the green and digital transition of the electromobility sector, up to TRL 6-7.

High-risk Innovation Projects:

Projects that reach the development until TRL 4-5 of more digital or greener innovative products or services in the electromobility sectors.

The project should be included in at least one of the following categories:

1. Design and building of collaborations in innovation activities where there is a high-risk of short-term disruption or long-term vulnerability in the value chain with high potential for further diversification and substitution.
2. Feasibility analyses: technology feasibility analysis, markets analysis, adaptation and development of a technology, analysis of new project concept.
3. Validation of an innovative product, solution, process, service, or technology in laboratories or relevant environment.
4. Creation of networks of partners in quadruple helix (research, business, civil society, public bodies) with a view to generate innovation investments which address EU strategic autonomy in specific products, inputs, technologies, and infrastructures.
5. Innovation projects to provide new products/services/novel ideas that increase the resilience of the beneficiary and/or improve the green and digital transition of the electromobility sector, up to TRL 4-5.

More detailed information in the Guide for applicants (Section 3.2.1.)

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