BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) | SWEET (SWiss Energy research for the Energy Transition) Call 2-2022 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221027 DTSTAMP:20260916T212131Z UID:d35e336d9917e2b3e68c9a3e4644d7fbbb8b403094693406ce766939 CATEGORIES:Call for proposal DESCRIPTION:SWEET (SWiss Energy research for the Energy Transition) is a f unding programme of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE). The purpose is to fund interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and innovatio n activities with a focus on Switzerland’s energy strategy 2050 and the country’s climate policy goals. The programme targets solution-oriented research and innovation in the natural sciences and engineering as well as in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the domains of energy effi ciency\, renewable energy production and consumption\, storage\, networks\ , society and energy\, and security and safety of critical energy infrastr uctures.\n\nThe guiding theme for the 2nd call 2022 is “Sustainable Fuel s and Platform Chemicals”. The objectives of this call are to investigat e how Switzerland can meet its future needs for sustainable fuels and plat form chemicals. Technologies for production\, transport\, distribution\, s torage and use are to be further developed. Furthermore\, researchers are to show how the additional potential of Swiss farmyard manure can be profi tably used for the production of sustainable fuels and platform chemicals. \n\nThe consortium’s work is expected to propose portfolios of interrela ted research projects\, including pilot and demonstration projects (P+D). A portfolio should be composed of projects focusing on research\, developm ent\, demonstration\, and deployment/implementation\, structured such that the projects build on and feed into each other. The portfolio may include projects that involve real world laboratories and other formats in which the effects on and the agency of people can be explored. As a result\, the consortia and project portfolios should cover significant parts of the in novation system.\n\nA consortium must meet the following requirements:\n1. It is led by 1 Swiss host institution.\n2. It consists of at least 5 appl icants from different legal entities.\n3. It consists of at least 1 applic ant from each of the following entities:\na. Swiss university or institute of the ETH domain (ETH Zurich\, EPF Lausanne\, Empa\, Eawag\, PSI and WSL )\,\nb. Swiss university of applied sciences\,\nc. Swiss industry/private sector.\n\nIn addition\, a consortium should:\n1. Consist of applicants an d cooperation partners that span the innovation system and thereby enable an interdisciplinary or a transdisciplinary approach commensurate with the research challenge.\n2. Consist of applicants and cooperation partners th at deliver complementary and significant contributions to the consortium ’s work programme.\n3. Be gender-balanced and reflect Switzerland’s di versity in terms of languages and regions.\n\nWho can apply\nResearch inst itutes\, tertiary education sector\, private sector\, as well as public se ctor such as cantons and communes. Foreign institutions of higher educatio n\, non-commercial research organizations\, and private nor-profit entitie s may apply for SWEET funding if their contributions are essential to achi eving the consortium’s objectives\, cannot be provided by Swiss applican ts\, and generate added value in Switzerland.\n\nMembers from the SSH are expected to be equitably represented in the consortia and their management .\n\nFederal departments and their administrative units are prohibited fro m receiving SWEET funding. As a result\, employees of federal departments and their administrative units may not participate in SWEET consortia.\n\n Funding\nOne consortium will be supported with a budget of at most CHF 15 Mio. to tackle the challenge over a period of 6 to 8 years. Supplementary funding of at most CHF 1.5 Mio. is available.\n\nEligible costs\nIn prepar ing their budgets\, consortia must take into account the following:\n\n Fo r research projects\, the maximum remuneration must follow specified hourl y rates. For P+D projects\, the maximum remuneration for applicants from i nstitutions of higher education must follow these rates\, while the maximu m remuneration for other applicants should follow these rates.\n At least 10% of the core budget must be allocated to two work packages on managemen t and coordination as well as KTT. While these work packages need not yet be detailed in the pre-proposal\, the fraction of the core budget allocate d to them must be reflected in the budget that must be submitted with the pre-proposal. The work packages on management and coordination as well as KTT may be fully funded by SWEET.\n Overhead costs are not eligible.\n The cumulation of federal financial assistance to fund a project is inadmissi ble if the legal provisions or rules of any of the concerned funding instr uments are breached. For instance\, if funding from one instrument has bee n secured and that assistance is sufficient for the project to goahead\, a pplying for assistance from other instruments for the same project would r esult in an inadmissible cumulation. Similarly\, an inadmissible cumulatio n would occur if the maximum funding rate of one instrument is violated by the assistance from other instruments. To prevent inadmissible cumulation s\, applicants that seek financial assistance from several federal instrum ents must clearly disclose all sources of financing and inform all concern ed authorities.\n\n\nSubmission and deadline\nSWEET Call 2-2022 is being o rganized as a two-step process:\n\n All interested consortia should submit a pre-proposal no later than 9 December 2022 (no later than at 12:00 noon CEST).\n A short-list of the highest-ranking consortia will be invited to submit full proposals. The deadline for submission of full proposals will be in May 2023.\n\n\n\nImportant:\nConsortia that intend to submit a pre- proposal must inform the SFOE by sending a notification of intent\nto subm it to sweet@bfe.admin.ch no later than 27 October 2022. The notification m ust be prepared in English using the template that is available on the SWE ET website. The SFOE will acknowledge having received the notification by contacting the coordinator named in the notification. Please inform the Re search Office at research@epfl.ch in parallel.\n\nThe template includes se ctions that must be completed if the consortium includes foreign applicant s\n(see application guidelines Section 3.4.4). The SFOE will strive to inf orm the coordinator within 10 working days whether the applicants are appr oved.\n\nThe notification is mandatory\, i.e.\, if a consortium did not su bmit a notification by the deadline given above\, it’s pre-proposal will fail the admissibility check and hence not be evaluated (see application guidelines Section 6.1). However\, the notification is not binding\, i.e.\ , a consortium may choose not to submit a pre-proposal although it had pre viously notified the SFOE of its intention to do so.\n\nUse the official n otification form and pre-proposal template available on the SWEET webpage. Application documents must be submitted electronically to sweet@bfe.admin .ch.\n\nLetters of Interest of Applicants or Cooperation Partners\, as wel l as a Letter of Commitment of the Host Institution are requested by SFOE: please contact the EPFL Research Office at research@epfl.ch by 25 Novembe r 2022.\n\nSchedule of the call\n27 October 2022: Deadline for notifying S FOE of intention to submit pre-proposal\n25 November 2022: Deadline for su bmission of letter of interests and commitments \n9 December 2022: Deadlin e for submission of pre-proposals\nLate February 2023: Announcement of eva luation results\nLate February 2023: Invitation to submit full proposal se nt to shortlisted consortium\nMid-May 2023: Deadline for submission of ful l proposal\nMid-July 2023: Announcement of funding decision\nOctober 2023: Consortium starts operations\n\nAn Open access and data management plan i s requested: for help\, please contact the EPFL library at researchdata@ep fl.ch.\n\nFor further information: please visit the SWEET webpage\, and re ad carefully the SWEET Guidelines. If you have any questions\, please cont act research@epfl.ch.\n\n  LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR