Products & Services – bottom-up

  • Electromobility
  • Call for project
Products & Services – bottom-up Projects funded
  • Coordinators: E-BOOST
  • Opening of application: 8 September 2023
  • Allocated budget: 122 000€
  • End of applications: 8 November 2023
  • Project duration: 8 months
  • Thematic: Electromobilité

Task description

Activities:

Applicants must propose their own challenge or choose one of the ‘ready-made’ challenges pre-defined by the consortium on: 1) Batteries design and integration into vehicles, 2) Hydrogen, 3) Energy storage infrastructure and transport, 4) Life cycle assessment.

Low-risk Innovation Projects:

Projects that reach the development until TRL 6-7 of more digital or greener innovative products or services, in the electromobility sectors.

The project should be included in at least one of the following categories of activities:

  • Design and building of new collaborations and/or business models, in particular among value and supply chain actors, in the form of contracts, agreements, platforms, forums, etc.
  • Feasibility studies.
  • Demonstration of an innovative product, solution, process, service, or technology in relevant or operational environment.
  • Innovation projects to provide new products/services/novel ideas that increase the resilience of the beneficiary and/or improve the green and digital transition of the electromobility sector, up to TRL 6-7.

High-risk Innovation Projects:

Projects that reach the development until TRL 4-5 of more digital or greener innovative products or services in the electromobility sectors.

The project should be included in at least one of the following categories of activities:

  • Design and building of collaborations in innovation activities where there is a high-risk of short-term disruption or long-term vulnerability in the value chain with high potential for further diversification and substitution.
  • Feasibility analyses: technology feasibility analysis, markets analysis, adaptation and development of a technology, analysis of new project concept.
  • Validation of an innovative product, solution, process, service, or technology in laboratories or relevant environment.
  • Creation of networks of partners in quadruple helix (research, business, civil society, public bodies) with a view to generate innovation investments which address EU strategic autonomy in specific products, inputs, technologies, and infrastructures.
  • Innovation projects to provide new products/services/novel ideas that increase the resilience of the beneficiary and/or improve the green and digital transition of the electromobility sector, up to TRL 4-5.

More detailed information in the Guide for applicants (Section 3.2.1.)

The lump sum is aimed at covering the following costs incurred by beneficiaries:

  • Personnel costs
  • Subcontracting costs (up to 50% of the allocated grant)
  • Other direct costs: travel and subsistence, equipment (only depreciation costs), consumables, etc.

Eligibility :

– Be a SME according to the European Definition regulated in the Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC :

  1. A micro enterprise: which is a company who employs fewer than 10 persons and whose turnover or annual balance sheet total does not exceed 2 million euros.
  • A small enterprise: who employs fewer than 50 persons and whose turnover or annual balance sheet total does not exceed 10 million euros.
  • A medium-sized enterprise: an enterprise who employs fewer than 250 persons, whose turnover does not exceed 50 million euros and/or whose annual balance sheet total does not exceed 43 million euros.

– Be established in the E-BOOST territorial scope described as follows:

  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
  • Non-EU countries: Listed EEA countries and countries associated to the COSME part of the Single Market Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries).

– Be actively involved and contribute to the electromobility sector (the following transport sectors will be prioritized: Automotive, Heavy-duty vehicles -trucks, buses, coaches, etc.-, waterway transport, aerial guided transport, railway, active mobility, logistic).

– Not be “in difficulty” as defined at 2.1 of the Community Guidelines and State Aid for Rescuing and Restructuring Firms in Difficulty (2044/C22/02).

APPLICATIONS

To submit a proposal

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Further information

For any enquiries regarding the Innovation Support Services – electromobility sectors, please contact info.eboost@cara.eu.

For more information about the E-BOOST Open Calls, see E-BOOST website or ECCP profile.

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