Clean Energy Transition (CET) & Partnership Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) & Swiss Science National Foundation (SNSF): Clean Energy Transition Partnership: European call for pre-proposals

The CETPartnership is a multilateral and strategic partnership of national and regional research, development and innovation (RDI) programmes in European Member States and Associated Countries aiming to boost and accelerate the energy transition and to support the implementation of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan).

The CETP aims to contribute to the EU’s goal of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, by pooling national and regional RDTI funding for a broad variety of technologies and system solutions required to make the transition. In that sense, the CETP establishes seven Transition Initiatives (TRIs) in order to work together on:

• organising target group oriented stakeholder management and communication in the field;
• developing thematic modules for the annual joint calls;
• implementing accompanying activities on knowledge management and maximising impact.

• TRI 1: Integrated net-zero-emissions energy system
• TRI 2: Enhanced zero emission power technologies
• TRI 3: Enabling climate neutrality with storage technologies, renewable fuels and CCS (carbon capture and storage) and CCU (carbon capture and utilization)
• TRI 4: Efficient zero emission heating and cooling solutions
• TRI 5: Integrated regional energy systems
• TRI 6: Integrated industrial energy systems
• TRI 7: Integration in the built environment.

• This call is addressed to organizations such as private companies, industry organizations, universities of applied sciences, universities, the ETH domain, public institutions (e.g. cantons) and NGOs. To be eligible at the CETP level, applicants are referred to the CETP call text and the call modules.
• National requirements have to be fulfilled (Art. 49 EnG and Art. 54 EnV), i.e. the proposed projects will be funded by the P+D program and thus have to fulfill the formal criteria and content criteria specified in the Appendix IV of the directive of the P+D program.
• The key eligibility criteria and funding conditions are summarized in the SFOE Call document (pages 3 and 4).
• Eligible costs: personnel costs, operational costs, investment costs and subcontracting.

• Pre-proposals to the SFOE are to be sent as pdf to [email protected] (Subject: "CETP Call pre-proposal") by 22 November 2022.
• Full proposals to the SFOE are to be sent as pdf (and xlsx) to [email protected]  (Subject: "CETP Call full proposal") by 20 March 2023.

• Applications must comply with the SNSF Regulations on Project Funding and practices.
• All Swiss applicants submitting to the SNSF and co-applicants must be eligible for the SNSF Project Funding Scheme (see EPFL Instructions for SNSF Project Funding).
• Basic research and applied research without commercial goals only.
• Eligible costs: personnel costs, operational costs and subcontracting. Overhead contributions are not supported.

• Deadline for pre-proposals: 23 November 2022 (14:00 CEST)
• Deadline for full proposals: 20 March 2023 (14:00 CEST)