The European Commission has updated the work programme for Horizon Europe Cluster 5: Climate, Energy and Mobility 2023-2024.
This update includes alterations to the budget of some destinations, the removal of one topic and the addition of others. In summary, the main changes are:
- Inclusion of topic HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-05.
- Removal of topic HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-02-04 (‘Accelerated multi-physical and virtual testing for battery aging, reliability and safety evaluation (Batt4EU Partnership)’).
- Budget reduction of topic HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-01 (from €21m to €16m; targeting funding of 2 grants for around €8m, instead of 3 grants for around €7m).
- Topics HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-02-02, HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-02, HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-02-02, HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-02-03: update of references to the Commission Recommendation on safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials.
- Budget increase for topic HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-01-18 (from €68m to €71m).
- Introduction of topic HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03-07 and HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-03-08.
- Topic HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-09: Specification of the funding rate of 50%.
- Postponement of opening date and call deadline for calls HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02 and HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02 (from 7 May 2024 to 17 September 2024 (opening) and 5 September 2024 to 21 January 2025 (deadline).
- Topic HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-08: budget increase from €16m to €21m; planned funding of 5 grants, instead of 4 grants).
- Topic HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-09: budget reduction from €8m to €3m.
In addition to these substantive alterations, the work programme has been updated to include the following changes to its ‘Other actions’:
- Grant to an identified beneficiary for the SET Plan conferences in 2023 and 2024: Allowance of subcontracting for the whole action and update of the beneficiary’s name for 2024.
- Budget increase of procurement action ‘3’ (Support to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of climate, energy and mobility research and innovation policy activities) by €0.5M in 2023 and 2024.
- Budget increase of procurement ‘9’ (Study on the macro-economic impacts of the climate transition) by €1m.
- Budget increase of procurement ‘10’ (Dissemination and information activities) by €0.9m.
- New procurement action on “Support to the revised SET Plan”.
- New procurement action on “Support action on heat pumps”.
- Subscription Action 1: Addition of a bullet on ‘Hydrogen’ to the list of Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCPs) of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Further information on updates in other Cluster areas can be found in a separate UKRO article.