GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Innovative technologies for efficient, low cost, sustainable, compact and flexible energy harvesting, conversion and storage are crucial to reach the Green Deal targets of decarbonised energy systems while achieving the transition to secure and affordable energy.

Proposals are expected to address at least one of the following:

• Innovative technologies and systems combining energy harvesting and storage, which are efficient, clean, high energy density and low-cost, integrated for stationary or mobile applications.
• Innovative concepts and techniques for the combined harvesting and storage of solar energy, geothermal or waste heat, including topics such as long-term thermal storage, cooling and cryogenic storage, building integrated solutions, thermos-electricity, advanced heat transfer, power to heat to power, and thermos-mechanical energy storage and conversion.
• Advanced materials and devices for electro-chemical storage at utility scale, mobile or distributed/micro scale level, also integrated to PV/wind energy systems or for the other intermittent sources.

Concepts that offer the potential for high flexibility, high energy density, efficiency, low-cost, made of toxic-free and non-critical raw materials, should be harnessed to make them usable for specific applications.

For this call, the European Innovation Council considers proposals with a requested EU contribution of up to EUR 2.5 million as appropriate.