Call 2022 of the European Partnership Clean Energy Transition (CET)

The CETP aims to empower the clean energy transition and contribute to the EU’s goal of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, by pooling national and regional RDTI funding for a broad variety of technologies and system solutions required to make the transition.

It thus presents a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda until 2030, with clear orientation on the main challenges of the energy transition, as well as the impacts in technological terms, of market and adoption that are intended to be measurable.

In 2022, the European PartnershipClean Energy Transition (CET) launched the 1st Call, covering the following topics:

• PowerPlanningTools (TRI1)
• RESDemoPowerFlex (TRI1)
• Advancing RE technologies for power production through cost reduction (TRI2)
• Breakthrough R&D to increase RE power technologies efficiency (TRI2)
• CCU/CCS technologies (TRI3)
• Hydrogen and renewable fuels (TRI3)
• Heating & Cooling (TRI4)
• Integrated Regional Energy Systems (TRI5)
• Industrial Energy Systems (TRI6)
• R&I in clean energy integration in the built environment (TRI7)
• Solutions to energy transition in the built environment (TRI7)

The following are individual or co-promotion beneficiaries:

a) Non-entrepreneurial entities of the R&I system, namely:

i. Higher education institutions, their institutes and R&D units;
ii. State or international laboratories with head office in Portugal;
iii. Non-profit private institutions whose main object is R&D activity;
iv. Other non-profit public and private institutions developing or participating in scientific research activities.

b) Companies of any type and under any legal form.

The information contained in this section does not exempt you from consulting Article 3 of the "Regulation of projects financed exclusively by national funds"

1- Consult the call documents.

2- Read the national/regional rules of all the participating countries involved in your consortium (including your own), available in the "National Annexes". Non-eligible partners may lead to the rejection of the whole consortium.

3- Access the call page and partner search website.

4- Within 10 working days after the deadline for submitting the pre-proposals, the Portuguese teams (Partners and/or Coordinators) must:

• send to the Call National Contact Point a Statement of Commitment duly signed by the Researcher in Charge and by the Head of the Portuguese applicant organization and stamped. FCT may later require the original of the statement of commitment.

Evaluation process:

A Two-Step evaluation process will be organised.

1. First Step:

•  Eligibility check of pre-proposals will be performed by the Call Secretariat, according to the “eligibility criteria” present in the call documents;
•  Eligibility check of pre-proposals will be performed by the Funding Organisation Contact Points, according to the national requirements;
• Evaluation of eligible pre-proposals, by call topic, carried out by independent Evaluation Panels (according to the “evaluation criteria” present in the tender documents) as well as by 3 external reviewers per proposal, in relation to the following criteria:

           1. Excellence

           2. Impact

           3. Quality and efficiency of implementation

The evaluation will result in a ranked list of projects by call topic.The Call Steering Committee will decide which pre-proposals will be invited to submit full proposals (second step).

2. Second Step:

• Eligibility check of full proposals will be performed by the Call Secretariat;
• Eligibility check of full proposals will be performed by the Funding Organisation Contact Points;
• Evaluation of eligible pre-proposals, by call topic, carried out by independent Evaluation Panels (according to the “evaluation criteria” present in the tender documents) as well as by 3 external reviewers per proposal, in relation to the following criteria:

           1. Excellence

           2. Impact

           3. Quality and efficiency of implementation

The evaluation will result in a ranked list of projects by call topic.The Call Steering Committee will decide which projects to recommend for funding, following the order of the ranking list established by the Evaluation Committee and taking into account the available budget.

FCT financial commitment for the call: 500.000 €

Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese participation: 125.000 €

Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese coordination: 175.000 €

Note: if more than one Portuguese institution participates in each consortium, the budget must be shared. Portuguese institutions must follow FCT's Legislation, Regulations and Norms. The dedication (FTE) in transnational projects is not considered for the 100% (FTE) dedication to national projects.

Call Page

Call Documents

Partner search website

Joana Pinheiro

joana.pinheiro@fct.pt

Tel: (+351) 213 911 567

Alexandre Maurício

alexandre.mauricio@fct.pt

Tel: (+351) 213 917 648