SC5 - Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

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About this programme

The Societal Challenge 5 Work Programme focuses on moving to a greener, more resource efficient and climate-resilient economy, with a strong commitment to supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the targets of the Paris Agreement.

The work programme for 2018-2020 focuses on several priorities in two general calls with many topics and subtopics:

  • Building a low carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement
  • Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    • Circular economy
    • Raw materials
    • Water for our environment, economy and society
    • Innovating cities for sustainability and resilience
    • Protecting and leveraging the value of natural and cultural assets (including earth observation, nature-based solutions, disaster risk reduction, natural capital accounting and heritage alive).

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EIT RawMaterials: Call for Projects 2022 is open

Developing raw materials into a major strength for Europe The Call for Projects 2022 is now open! EIT RawMaterials connects stakeholders and actors from different parts of the raw materials value chain creating a unique collaborative environment for breakthrough innovations and radically new ways to address raw materials challenges. EIT...

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  • Climate/Environment

The 2021 call of ERA-MIN 3 is open with Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) as a partner of the consortium

ERA-MIN 3 supports ambitious, transnational research and development projects within the following topics: Topic 1: Supply of raw materials from exploration and mining Topic 2: Design Topic 3: Processing, Production and Remanufacturing Topic 4: Recycling and Re-use of End-of-Life Products Topic 5: Cross-cutting topics The 2021 call of...

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  • Food
  • Energy
  • Transport

Success rate for the EU Green Deal call

The success rates for the EU Green Deal call for proposals can be found on our website in this document The numbers are based on our own calculations and are merely for your information. For most calls we are not sure how many projects will be funded so we have used a minimum and a maximum amount to calculate the ratios.   For more information...

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  • Food
  • Energy
  • Transport

Number of proposals submitted in the H2020 European Green Deal Call

A total of 1550 proposals were submitted in response to the H2020 European Green Deal Call (H2020-LC-GD-2020). The number of proposals for each call topic is shown below: - LC-GD-1-1-2020: 6 - LC-GD-1-1-2020: 49 - LC-GD-1-2-2020: 13 - LC-GD-1-3-2020: 4 - LC-GD-1-3-2020: 29 - LC-GD-2-1-2020 (IA): 42 - LC-GD-2-1-2020 (RIA): 56 - LC-GD-2-2-2020: 16...

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The Programme Committee (PC) members represent their country in decision-making about the work programmes, evaluate implementation, and provide strategic input on priorities and calls.

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Testimonial

Autoship - a new and durable way of freight transport

Autoship is, as the name suggests, an acronym for autonomous ship. Just like with self-driving cars, the possibilities of an unmanned boat seem endless. It can create more efficient freight transport, around the clock deliveries and these are just a few of the examples. The project has two societal challenges.

At first, De Vlaamse Waterweg was a bit hesitant as their experience with FP7 or Horizon 2020 projects was limited and they had not been very successful up until then. The fact that they were already doing basic research on the topic of autonomous boats, and the administrative help of NCP Flanders helped De Vlaamse waterweg to cross the line and get involved.