Primera convocatoria del Fondo de Innovación para proyectos a gran escala: 70 proyectos invitados a presentar una solicitud completa.
El 15 de abril tiene lugar un webinar para ayudar a preparar propuestas en la segunda fase.
After the admissibility and eligibility checks of all 311 proposals received, independent external evaluators assessed the proposals against the award criteria of the first stage: greenhouse gas emission avoidance, innovation potential, financial, technical and operational maturity of the project.
The best ranked 70 projects are invited to submit a full application for the second stage of the call, where they will be assessed on all the criteria, including scalability and cost efficiency, by 23 June 2021. The second stage remains very competitive as the projects may request up to EUR 7 billion of grants, based on the information provided in their applications for the first stage.
Projects not invited to the second stage that have the potential to improve their maturity through Project Development Assistance (PDA) have been informed that the European Investment Bank (EIB) is currently assessing their proposal and might be invited to sign a PDA agreement with them.
Mauro Petriccione, Director-General for DG Climate Action, said: ‘I would like to warmly thank all applicants for submitting their projects to the first Innovation Fund call for large-scale projects. It was great to see so many and so interesting clean tech projects. I am very pleased that the projects invited to the second stage of the call represent a good and varied mix of technologies, locations and sectors. The call is very competitive, so I would like to encourage the projects that did not make it to the second stage to keep their interest in the Innovation Fund and apply again for the upcoming calls, including one later this year. Also, let’s not forget that other EU and national funding instruments are geared towards supporting the EU’s green transition. The Recovery and Resilience Facility and other EU funds are very well suited to finance clean tech innovation too, so applicants could engage with their respective Member States.”
To facilitate the preparation of full applications, we are planning a webinar on the application process and award criteria on 15 April.
We are also planning an online event on 28 April to share lessons learnt from the first stage of the application process of the first large-scale call, as well as to present a deeper analysis of the applications received for the first small scale call under the Innovation Fund. More information will follow soon.
Two more calls – one for large-scale and one for small-scale projects – will be launched before the end of 2021.
Para más información, acceda a: https://ec.europa.eu/clima/news/first-innovation-fund-call-large-scale-projects-70-projects-invited-submit-full-application_en