The European Commission has gone on to launch a couple of new calls for projects under the aegis of Horizon Europe’s Work Programme for the period of 2023-2024 Cluster 5, which happens to group together topics pertaining to climate action, energy, as well as mobility.
An overall 163.5 million euros of funding happens to be available under such calls, with a deadline of September 5, 2024, for applications. The following subject areas or destinations, as they are called, happen to be covered by the calls:
Horizon Europe happens to be the EU’s major funding program when it comes to research and innovation, with an overall budget amounting to almost 95 million euros. Under the aegis of Horizon Europe, be it climate action, energy, as well as mobility research action, it comes under Cluster 5.
The overarching driver in this cluster happens to speed up the twin green as well as digital transitions along with the associated transformation of the economy, sector, and society, with the objective of contributing towards the EU meeting its climate targets while at the same time increasing energy resilience.
Investment opportunities in Horizon Europe happen to be set out in the multi-annual climate as well as in the in the energy and mobility work program. Apparently, the work program for Horizon Europe for the 2023–24 session was embraced by the European Commission in December 2022.
It is well to be noted that the requirements pertaining to the submission of a project proposal happen to be detailed in the relevant documents that are published on each call page.
The proposals that are submitted happen to be evaluated by independent experts which are drawn from the commission’s data pertaining to external evaluators. The applicants will go on to get the assessment results latest five months post the submission deadline. The grant agreements would get inked with the applicants that are successful within eight months post the submission deadline.
