EU Experts Wanted for the Innovation Fund


CINEA is looking for motivated experts to evaluate projects applying for funding from the Innovation Fund, one of the world's largest funding programmes for the deployment of innovative net-zero technologies and financed by EU ETS revenues.

Play a key part in the Innovation Fund, a major EU funding instrument to decarbonise Europe's energy and industrial systems. Support the EU to achieve the ambitious goal of a climate neutral Europe by 2050, to foster its competitiveness, and to achieve the climate and energy priorities put forward in the REPowerEU Plan the Hydrogen Bank the Green Deal Industrial Plan and the Net-Zero Industry Act


Classification of projects under the Innovation Fund

The Innovation Fund covers the following project classifications:

  • Innovative renewables (e.g., solar, heating and cooling, waterborne, ocean, wind, manufacturing of RES components, etc.)
  • Energy-intensive industries (all sectors covered by the EU Emissions Trading System, e.g., steel, non-ferrous, cements and lime, pulp, paper, glass, ceramic,  construction materials, hydrogen, refineries, chemicals, etc.)
  • Energy storage (including manufacturing of its components)
  • Carbon capture, use, and storage
  • Net zero mobility (aviation, maritime, road transport) and buildings

Who are we looking for?

If you are:

  • technical expert with in-depth knowledge in one or more of the categories covered by the Innovation Fund (see the above list), with extensive project implementation experience.;
  • GHG expert in greenhouse gas emissions avoidance assessment or product, process, or service Life Cycle Assessment;
  • financial expert in investment banking, project development and/or financial consultancy, with experience in corporate or project finance including due-diligence, bankability, and risk analysis of projects.
  • rapporteur with proficiency level of oral and written English. Preferably already possessing experience in the role of a rapporteur for any EU funding programmes or for other funds.

Read further on this call by clicking the below link.

Deadline: onging (check the below link)

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Organisation: 
European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)
Email: 
see link below
Application Deadline: 
It-Tnejn, June 17, 2024
Further Information: External Link