The Commission is currently discussing changes to the 2019 Enhanced European Innovation Council (EIC) Workprogramme to allocate an extra € 45.4 million in total to energy and climate change research in the EIC Pathfinder Future and Emerging Techologies (FET) proactive topics FETPROACT-EIC-05-2019 and FETPROACT-EIC-06-2019.
Following discussions with Member State representatives, the Commission is now amending the H2020 EIC Workprogramme for 2019 to update the 2 FET Proactive topics in the EIC Pathfinder. The changes are expected to be formally adopted and published in the Funding and Tenders online portal by the end of June 2019. The main changes are:
- The call deadline will be postponed until 8 October 2019.
- The scope of sub-topic (c) of FETPROACT-EIC-05-2019 “Breakthrough zero-emissions energy generation for full decarbonisation” has been expanded to now include research on novel, advanced technologies for batteries, solar and fuel cells in addition to its previous subject areas. A budget of between € 35.4 million and € 52.4 million will now be reserved for this sub-topic.
- FET Open and Proactive projects that address the area of low-carbon energy and climate change technologies can now apply to the FETPROACT-EIC-06-2019 transition to innovation activities topic. Between € 10 million and € 13 million will be allocated to projects from this area.