Clean Energy Transition Partnership 2023 Call

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.

FCT funds 6 of the 2023 call’s 12 topics, namely:

• CM2023-03A (ROA) – Advanced renewable energy technologies for power production (TRI2)
• CM2023-04 – Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) (TRI3)
• CM2023-05 Hydrogen and renewable fuels (TRI4)
• CM2023-06 Heating and cooling technologies (TRI4)
• CM2023-07 Geothermal energy technologies (TRI5)
• CM2023-08 Integrated regional energy systems (TRI5)

The following are individual or co-promotion beneficiaries:

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

1. Higher education institutions, their institutes and R&D units;
2. State or international laboratories with head office in Portugal;
3. Non-profit private institutions whose main object is R&D activity;
4. 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". See call documents.

1 – Consult the documents in the area “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 – In the “Important links”, access to the call page and to the partner search website.

4 – Complete and submit, within 10 working days after the deadline for submitting the pre-proposal, a Statement of Commitment duly signed by the Researcher in Charge (partner and/or coordinators) and by the legal representant of the Portuguese Proposing Institution. The Statement of Commitment must be sent to the FCT National Contact Point.

Notes:

• Only Portuguese Proposing Institutions that are part of a transnational consortium and applying for FCT funding should complete and submit a Statement of Commitment (in pre-proposal stage only).
• The stamp or seal of the Portuguese Proposing Institution and, if applicable, of the R&D unit, will not be required in a digitally signed Statement of Commitment, if it is signed, in the Autenticação.gov application, with professional attributes that identify the functions performed by the signatory.
• Portuguese Proposing Institutions that do not have a R&D unit should leave page 5 of the Statement of Commitment blank.

The information contained on this page constitutes only a summary of the joint call information and does not exempt the candidates from carefully reading all the joint call documents available on this page and on the call website (see “Important links”). Likewise, the information contained in this page refers only to the participation of FCT in this call.

Eligibility

The eligibility check of proposals is carried out at both stages of the call (pre-proposal submission stage and full proposal submission stage):

• National/Regional Funding Agencies check national eligibility of pre-proposals and full proposals, ensuring compliance with the formal requirements in the applicable national/regional regulations (see “FCT's Regulation” in the “Call Documents” area);
• Transnational eligibility check of pre-proposals and full proposals will be performed by the Call Secretariat, according to the transnational eligibility criteria presented in the “Call Text” in the “Call Documents” area;
• For a proposal to be declared eligible it must fulfil both the national and transnational eligibility criteria.

Evaluation

The call includes two evaluation phases: a pre-proposal evaluation stage and a full proposal evaluation stage.

Proposals will be evaluated according to the evaluation criteria described in the "Call Text" in the "Call Documents" area.

The Call Steering Committee (CSC) will decide which:

1) pre-proposals to invite to submit a full proposal;

2) full proposals to recommend for funding.

For this purpose, the CSC will strictly follow the order of the ranking list established by the Expert Panel according to the available budget. The final formal funding decision will be taken by each Funding Agency afterward, following its national/regional procedure.

• FCT financial commitment for the call: 500.000,00 €
• Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese coordination: 175.000,00 €
• Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese participation: 125.000,00 €

Please mind:

• Portuguese institutions funding must follow FCT's “Regulation on projects funded solely by national funds” (see “FCT's Regulations” in the "Call Documents" area), as well as the Financial Execution Rules (also available in the Call Documents" area).
• If more than one Portuguese institution participates in a single consortium, the budget must be shared between Portuguese institutions.
• The dedication (FTE) in transnational projects is not considered for the 100% (FTE) dedication to national projects.
• Under the terms of nº 2 of Article 7º of the “Regulation on projects funded solely by national funds”, payments made directly or indirectly to companies through the Proposing Institution cannot exceed 50% of the total cost of the company’s participation.

Call page

Partner search website

Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda until 2030

Joana Pinheiro

joana.pinheiro@fct.pt

Tel: (+351) 213 911 567

Alexandre Maurício

alexandre.mauricio@fct.pt

Tel: (+351) 213 917 648