CETP - Clean Energy Transition Partnership

Building on 15 years of transnational cooperation established by eight energy ERA-NETs and JPI Urban Europe, CETP aims to drive the transition to clean energy and contribute to the EU's goal of becoming the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050 by mobilizing national and regional funding for Research, Development, Technology and Innovation (RTDI) activities covering a wide range of technologies and systemic solutions needed to make this transition a reality.

This co-funded partnership brings together 70 organizations from 34 countries, namely those responsible for and managing national and regional RTDI programmes, with a view to aligning priorities and combining national budgets by launching annual joint Calls .

CETP has seven Transition Initiatives (TRI), the main operational bodies and key players in the partnership, responsible for managing stakeholders, developing thematic modules for the annual Calls and implementing complementary knowledge management and impact maximization activities. The TRIs are focused on the research and innovation challenges described in the partnership's Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.

FCT and DGEG are the Portuguese organizations that are part of CETP.