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 1-2023 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230701 DTEND:20231018T120000 DTSTAMP:20260313T063126Z UID:0b58c5972b24165f556bedfbc05acb8299c5f30c50d9df853df10804 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 1st call 2023 is “Critical Infrast ructures\, Climate Change\, and Resilience of the Swiss Energy System”. The focus of this call for proposals is on critical infrastructures\, such as power plants\, dams\, and the power grid. The research questions centr e on:\n\n How does the changing energy system affect critical infrastructu res?\n How vulnerable is the energy system to technical\, natural\, and so cietal hazards?\n What can be done to mitigate the risks for the energy sy stem and society and make the energy system more resilient?\n\nThe consort ium’s work is expected to propose portfolios of interrelated research pr ojects\, including pilot and demonstration projects (P+D). A portfolio sho uld be composed of projects focusing on research\, development\, demonstra tion\, and deployment/implementation\, structured such that the projects b uild 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 innovation 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 applicants from dif ferent legal entities.\n3. It consists of at least 1 applicant from each o f the following entities:\na. Swiss university or institute of the ETH dom ain (ETH Zurich\, EPF Lausanne\, Empa\, Eawag\, PSI and WSL)\,\nb. Swiss u niversity of applied sciences\,\nc. Swiss industry/private sector.\n\nIn a ddition\, a consortium should:\n1. Consist of applicants and cooperation p artners that span the innovation system and thereby enable an interdiscipl inary or a transdisciplinary approach commensurate with the research chall enge.\n2. Consist of applicants and cooperation partners that deliver comp lementary and significant contributions to the consortium’s work program me.\n3. Be gender-balanced and reflect Switzerland’s diversity in terms of languages and regions.\n\nWho can apply:\nResearch institutes\, tertiar y education sector\, private sector\, as well as public sector such as can tons and communes. Foreign institutions of higher education\, non-commerci al research organizations\, and private nor-profit entities may apply for SWEET funding if their contributions are essential to achieving the consor tium’s objectives\, cannot be provided by Swiss applicants\, and generat e added value in Switzerland.\n\nMembers from the SSH are expected to be e quitably represented in the consortia and their management.\n\nFederal dep artments and their administrative units are prohibited from receiving SWEE T funding. As a result\, employees of federal departments and their admini strative units may not participate in SWEET consortia.\n\nProject selectio n\, funding & duration:\nThe two consortia with the highest-ranking pre-pr oposals will be invited to submit full proposals. One consortium will be s elected for funding. The call budget of at most CHF 8 million will be awar ded for a term of 6 years.\n\nEligible costs:\nIn preparing their budgets\ , consortia must take into account the following:\n\n For research project s\, the maximum remuneration must follow specified hourly rates. For P+D p rojects\, the maximum remuneration for applicants from institutions of hig her education must follow these rates\, while the maximum remuneration for other applicants should follow these rates.\n At least 10% of the core bu dget must be allocated to two work packages on management 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 allocated 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 f unded by SWEET.\n Overhead costs are not eligible.\n The cumulation of fed eral financial assistance to fund a project is inadmissible if the legal p rovisions or rules of any of the concerned funding instruments are breache d. For instance\, if funding from one instrument has been secured and that assistance is sufficient for the project to goahead\, applying for assist ance from other instruments for the same project would result in an inadmi ssible cumulation. Similarly\, an inadmissible cumulation would occur if t he maximum funding rate of one instrument is violated by the assistance fr om other instruments. To prevent inadmissible cumulations\, applicants tha t seek financial assistance from several federal instruments must clearly disclose all sources of financing and inform all concerned authorities.\n\ nSubmission and deadline:\nSWEET Call 1-2023 is being organized as a two-s tep process:\n\n All interested consortia should submit a pre-proposal no later than 18 October 2023 (no later than at 12:00 noon CEST).\n A short-l ist of the highest-ranking consortia will be invited to submit full propos als. The deadline for submission of full proposals will be in Spring 2023. \n\nImportant:\nIf you have pre-registered your project to SFOE (deadline 29 August 2023)\, please contact the EPFL Research Office in parallel.\n\n Letters of Interest of Applicants or Cooperation Partners\, as well as a L etter of Commitment of the Host Institution are requested by SFOE: please contact the EPFL Research Office at research@epfl.ch by 4 October 2023.\n\ nSchedule of the call:\nDeadline for submission of pre-proposals: 18 Octob er 2023 at 12:00 noon CEST\nAnnouncement of evaluation results: January 20 24\nInvitation to submit full proposals: January 2024\nDeadline for submis sion of full proposals: April 2024\nAnnouncement of funding decision: July 2024\nConsortium starts operations: October 2024\n\nAn Open access and da ta management plan is requested: for help\, please contact the EPFL librar y at researchdata@epfl.ch.\n\nFor further information: please visit the SW EET webpage\, and read carefully the SWEET Guidelines. The proposal and bu dget templates and the list of FAQ are available in the EPFL Sweet Call 1- 2023 document folder. If you have any questions\, please contact research@ epfl.ch.\n\n  LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR