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Call for proposals 2025 – Open

The Clean Hydrogen Partnership launches its new call for proposals on 15/01/2025, with a budget of € 184.5 million for projects to support the creation of cutting-edge hydrogen technologies.

Details

Status
N/A
Publication date
15 January 2025
Deadline model
Single-stage
Deadline date
23 April 2025, 17:00 (CEST)

Description

The Call addresses key priorities identified by the Strategic Research Agenda within different areas of research and innovation.

19 topics available

7 topics – 40M€ funding - Renewable Hydrogen Production
3 topics – 16M€ funding - Hydrogen Storage and Distribution
3 topics – 17M€ funding - Transport
1 topic – 5M€ funding - Heat and Power
3 topics – 6.5M€ funding - Cross-cutting
2 topics – 80M€ funding - Hydrogen Valleys

The Call for Proposals has an indicative total budget of EUR 184.5 million. This includes a part of the RePowerEU as well as of the UK appropriations as follows:

  • The European Commission (EC) in its communication “REPowerEU Plan” announced an additional investment of EUR 200 million available for the Clean Hydrogen JU for doubling the number of Hydrogen Valleys in the EU by 2025.
    In that respect, the budget of this Call of EUR 184.5 million includes an amount of EUR 80 million from the RePowerEU Plan to support exclusively Hydrogen Valleys as follows:
    • at least one large-scale Hydrogen Valley and one small-scale Hydrogen Valley from the Call 2025 ranking list will be selected for funding provided they meet the required thresholds
    • additional Hydrogen Valleys proposals from the Call 2025 ranking list will be further selected for funding in order to optimise the use of this available budget
  • The budget of this Call of EUR 184.5 million includes additional EUR 20 million from United Kingdom (UK) appropriations which are available to support projects in the reserve lists and will be allocated according to the Governing Board strategic priorities.

The topics will be grouped into 6 Innovation Actions (IA), 12 Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) and 1 Coordination and Support Action (CSA). 

The Call for Proposals 2025 is implemented using lump sum grants.

Synergies with other European partnerships and programmes, as well as with Member States and regional programmes are at the core of a number of topics.

The notification of the call is available in 24 languages in the Official Journal.

How to submit your proposal

You can find the details of the call on the EU Funding and Tender portal.    

Call HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2025

Deadline date: 23 April 2025, 17:00 (CEST)

Submission System will be opened from 30 January 2025. The submission must be done entirely via the portal. 

Additional documents

More information about the scope and details of the partnership's activities for the year 2024 can be found in the Clean Hydrogen Partnership Annual Work Programme and the Clean Hydrogen Partnership Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA)

Details of the application process and the award criteria will be presented as well during the Info Day 2025 on 22 January 2025 in Brussels. 

Please read carefully all the documents below before starting to prepare of your application.

Lump Sums Guidance

Application form

FAQ 

  • Mailbox for submitting call-related questions: PROJECTSatclean-hydrogen [dot] europa [dot] eu (PROJECTS[at]clean-hydrogen[dot]europa[dot]eu)  
  • Specific FAQ document from call HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2025