EU-HORIZON 2020 Societal challenges - Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy - 2014-2020

Instrument/Program level: 
European
Name of the instrument/Program: 
HORIZON 2020
Instrument/Program application areas: 
Societal challenges - Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
BELGIUM
CZECH REPUBLIC
DANMARK
GERMANY
EESTI
IRELAND
SPAIN
FRANCE
CROATIA
ITALY
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
HUNGARY
MALTA
NETHERLANDS
AUSTRIA
POLAND
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
SWITZERLAND
SLOVENIA
SLOVAKIA
FINLAND
SWEDEN
UNITED KINGDOM
GREECE
CYPRUS
BULGARIA
Managing authority: 

Directorate-General for Research and Innovation European Commission

Objectives: 

Making the transition to a reliable, affordable, publicly accepted, sustainable and competitive energy system, aiming at reducing fossil fuel dependancy in the face of increasingly scarce resources, increasing energy needs and climate change.

Eligible thematics in line with ERC sectors: 
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Automotive
Blue growth
City development
Climate Change Mitigation
Environmental technologies, renewable energies & resource efficiency
Green & Clean energy & technologies
ICTs (Digital technologies & user-friendly systems)
Logistic
Maritime technologies
Sustainable energy & renewables
Sustainable Living & mobility
Action typologies: 
Support of the creation, linkage or further development of the cross-border clusters, innovation centres, and/or SME networks
Cross-cutting actions to develop jointly new knowledge, future and emerging technologies, research infrastructures and key competences
Sharing of good practices
Improve access to finance for SMEs in their start-up, growth and transfer phases
Promote joint research and innovation activities related to thematic areas
Operate close to the end-users and the market, piloting or proof-of-concept
Strengthen the networking and cooperation between the industrial smart systems integration stakeholder community in Europe and support to international collaboration
Beneficiaries: 
Local public authority
Regional public authority
National public authority
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Interest groups including NGOs
Higher education and research
Education/training centre and school
Start up
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
SME
Business support organisation
EGTC
General public
International organization, EEIG under national law
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
International organisation
Program contribution maximum: 
70%
Program Budget: 
5 931 000 000,00 €