Source of Funding: Horizon Europe

The ERA Talents action aims to boost interoperability of careers and employability of research and innovation talents across sectors, with a centre of gravity in widening countries. Projects are expected to contribute to several of the following outcomes:

• Strengthened human capital base in R&I of Widening countries, with more entrepreneurial and better-trained researchers, innovators and other R&I talents;
• A more balanced talent circulation, both geographical and cross-sectoral;
• Boosted R&I capacity and R&I support capacity, as well as contribution to increased excellence of the research-performing organisation in widening countries;
• A more structured and impactful collaboration between academia and businesses;
• Increased set of research, entrepreneurial and other transferable skills and competences;
• Improved employability and sustainable career prospects of diverse talents within academia, industry and beyond.

 Scope:

Cross-sectoral talent circulation and academia-business collaboration for knowledge transfer is requiring systematising and structuring efforts. Through ERA4You, as one of the ERA Policy Actions[1], the European Commission aims to support and incentivise such transformations, towards a more balanced circulation of talents, both trans-nationally and across sectors. Within this scope, ERA Talents aims to support training and mobility of researchers, innovators, and other research and innovation talents across sectors with a particular focus on widening countries. The grant covers expenses related to the ERA Talents participating organisations and individual talents hosted/seconded (administrative costs, training costs, travel and subsistence costs and salaries for seconded staff, and costs associated with dissemination & communication and transfer of knowledge).

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Source of Funding: The European City Facility (EUCF)

The European City Facility (EUCF) aims to support municipalities and local authorities in developing Investment Concepts related to the implementation of actions identified in their climate and energy action plans. The ultimate objective of the EUCF is to build a substantial pipeline of sustainable energy investment projects across municipalities in Europe.

The EUCF finances the development of an Investment Concept with a fixed grant of 60 000 EUR.

The EUCF is open to all municipalities/local authorities, their groupings, and local public entities aggregating municipalities/local authorities from the EU Member States, EEA-EFTA States (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and the United Kingdom. Applicants are required to have a politically approved climate and energy plan. This includes SEAPs (Sustainable Energy Action Plans)/SECAPs (Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans), developed within the Covenant of Mayors initiative, or plans of similar ambition with climate and energy targets at least for the year 2020.

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Source of Funding: LIFE

The LIFE programme – the EU’s funding instrument for the Environment and Climate Action has been launched on 21 May 2022. The LIFE programme 2021-2027 is currently divided into four sub-programmes as follows:

Nature and Biodiversity:

The Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme will aim at the protection and restoration of Europe’s nature and halting and reversing biodiversity loss. Thus, the LIFE Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme will continue to fund nature conservation projects, particularly in the areas of biodiversity, habitats and species. It will support projects that contribute to the implementation of the EU Birds and Habitats Directives, and in particular; the development and management of the Natura 2000 network and the IAS Regulation and will support achieving the objectives of the EU’s biodiversity strategy for 2030; part of the EU Green Deal.

Circular Economy and Quality of Life:

The Circular Economy and Quality of Life sub-programme aims at facilitating the transition toward a sustainable, circular, toxic-free, energy-efficient and climate-resilient economy and at protecting, restoring and improving the quality of the environment, either through direct interventions or by supporting the integration of those objectives in other policies.

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation:

The Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation sub-programme will contribute to the shift towards a sustainable, energy-efficient, renewable energy-based, climate-neutral and resilient economy, thereby contributing to sustainable development.

• Climate Change Mitigation:

        Co-finances projects in the areas of farming, land use, peatland management, renewable energies and energy efficiency.

•  Climate Change Adaptation:

       Co-finances projects in the areas of urban adaptation and land-use planning, resilience of infrastructure, sustainable management of water in drought-prone areas, flood and coastal management, resilience of the agricultural, forestry and tourism sectors, and/or support to the EU's outermost regions: preparedness for extreme weather events, notably in coastal areas.

Clean Energy Transition:

The LIFE Clean Energy Transition sub-programme continues to support the delivery of EU policies in the field of sustainable energy, in particular; the EU Green Deal, the Energy Union (2030 energy and climate targets) and the European Union’s 2050 long-term decarbonisation strategy.

Deadlines to submit your proposal:

LIFE Calls for proposals 2022 submission deadlines:

•  Standard Action Projects (SAPs) for Circular Economy and Quality of Life, Nature and Biodiversity, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation sub-programmes: 4th  October 2022
• LIFE Action Grants for Clean Energy Transition sub-programme: 16th  November 2022
• Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs) and Strategic Nature Projects (SNAPs):
• Concept Notes: 8th September 2022
• Full Proposals: 30th March 2023
• Technical Assistance preparation for SIPs and SNAPs: 8th September 2022

 The National Contact Point for Malta, within the Ministry for Environment, Energy and Enterprise is inviting all interested parties to discuss any potential actions.  In this regard, you are solicited to contact the LIFE team on life.meee@gov.mt to set a meeting and discuss further any project proposals.

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Source of Funding: Malta Council for Science and Technology

The Malta Council for Science and Technology is launching the PRIMA Training and Mobility Award to support opportunities for Malta-based eligible undertakings to form collaborative links with at least one foreign counterpart from any one of the 19 PRIMA Participating States. The aim of this Award is to build local capacities and establish networks that could lead to future collaborations to submit R&I project proposals under the PRIMA programme.

To receive this support, applicants shall be required to demonstrate that the scope of the proposed action is to develop effective cross-border collaborations, undertake research activities and/or training activities in the thematic areas of PRIMA, leading to the submission of a proposal to any PRIMA-related Call.

Entities established in Malta are eligible for funding with the option of requesting up to EUR 5 000 from a total Call Budget of EUR 25 000.

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Source of Funding: European Commission

There are 18 dedicated topics open to submit your project ideas to:     

• build the policy framework for the Clean Energy Transition at local, regional and national level
• accelerate the market for the Clean Energy Transition with the roll-out of technology, digitalisation, new services and business models and enhancing related professional skills
• attract private finance for sustainable energy investments and support the development of local and regional clean energy investment projects
• involve and empower citizens in the Clean Energy Transition.

Find out more about all 18 CET topics and see how you can help accelerating the clean energy transition!

Info session recordings are available to guide you through each topic.

Projects are supported with a 95% co-funding rate.

For most topics you need to create a consortium of at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries. However, a few topics  are open to apply with one applicant only. 

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Source of Funding: The Energy & Water Agency, Malta

The Energy and Water Agency will once again run it Research and Innovation in Energy and Water Grant Scheme. This will be the third call and the aim still remains, to address National Policies and address sectoral problems. This year, the scheme will be taking projects in specific focus areas.

The call will be open for applications as from the 6th of June and close on the 2nd of September and the scheme has undergone some structural changes.

The scheme is also looking to produce more tangible results by changing the TRL level requirement by requiring any project that will benefit of the scheme to reach TRL level 7 and also produce a prototype or model in a suitable environment. This change in structure was erected as it will help demonstrate better what R&I is capable of and why R&I is a necessary tool to achieve sustainability.

Another notable change is that the budget of the scheme has increased from €120,000 to €200,000.  Applicants this year must also apply as a consortium.

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Source of Funding: Malta Council for Science and Technology

The Malta Council for Science and Technology would like to announce that it is currently receiving project proposals under the FUSION Technology Development Programme.

• The call now closes 23:59 of Wednesday the 20th July 2022.
• This call provides financial support for research, development and innovation preferably within the SMART Specialisation Areas identified in Malta’s National Research and Innovation Strategy 2020. The focus is on innovative research, knowledge transfer and establishing collaborations between (1) Public Entities and (2) Industry with the intention of commercialising the technology developed.
• More information on this opportunity for funding, the eligibility criteria, the rules for participation and the application form, can be found in the attachments below.

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Source of Funding: NGI Research and Innovation Actions

The goal of NGI Assure is to support projects that design and engineer reusable building blocks for the Next Generation Internet as part of a complete, strong chain of assurances for all stakeholders regarding the source and integrity of identities, identifiers, data, cyber-physical systems, service components and processes. Furthermore, contributions can be made to address underlying real-world challenges in deploying and validating such building blocks, such as energy efficiency and sustainability, scalability and throughput, security, privacy/confidentiality, plausible deniability, robustness and crypto-agility, side-channel resistance, interoperability, governance and compliance to regulatory frameworks – where needed to turn the above into reproducible and trustworthy end-to-end solutions that can withstand the hostile battle grounds of the modern internet.

We are looking for projects that have research and development as primary objective and that commit to generate open knowledge and open source building blocks relevant to developers, operators and users across all kinds of public and private application domains that have standardization potential.

Anyone that can bring a relevant contribution to the topics of NGI Assure can apply, whether you are a natural person or an organisation of any type that wants to improve and further develop Distributed Ledger Technologies, advanced blockchain technologies and related enabling technologies.

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Source of Funding: NGI Research and Innovation Actions

ONTOCHAIN will deliver a new software ecosystem for trusted, traceable and transparent ontological knowledge management. The specific objective of the ONTOCHAIN Open Call 3 is to complete the missing blocks of the ONTOCHAIN infrastructure, as well as to exploit the ONTOCHAIN infrastructure, designed and implemented respectively through ONTOCHAIN OC1 and ONTOCHAIN OC2, for real-life use cases, that cover real need of individuals in terms of trustworthy data/services exchange and trustworthy content handling, from various vertical domains/vital sectors of the European economy.

All Internet researchers, innovators and developers from high tech companies, academia and even team of natural persons legally established in an EU Member State, H2020 associated countries or Overseas Countries and Territories linked to the Member States.

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Source of Funding: Horizon 2020