ACT Joint Call

Basic Information

The intention of ACT is to facilitate the emergence of CCS. ACT aims at accelerating and maturing CCS technology through financing targeted innovation and research activities. ACT will address the technological challenges as pinpointed in point 2 above and also finance social and economic research that is directly related to the ACT main aim and that is implemented together with, and related to technical research in a project supported by ACT.

Network

ACT

Website

https://www.act-ccs.eu/calls/

Aim of the joint call

Nine European countries are joining forces and making funds available for research and innovation actions related to CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS). The initiative is called ACT – Accelerating CCS Technologies. The ambition of ACT is to facilitate the emergence of CCS via transnational funding aimed at accelerating and maturing CCS technology application through targeted innovation and research activities.

Type of joint call

Two Stages - Call with pre-proposals and full proposals submissions

Events

-                                                Launch date
+/06/2016
-                                                Deadline Pre-Proposal
+/09/2016 Submitted proposal: 38
-                                                Deadline Full-Proposal
+/01/2017 Submitted proposal: 20
-                                                Evaluation End Date
+/03/2017
                                                Successful proposal: 8
                                                Proposals funded: 8

Is call co-funded?

Yes

Call follow up funding

n/a

Call reasons

n/a

Research fields

Energy

Type of research

Basic research
Applied Research

Target groups

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
Public Research Organisations (PROs)
Private and Semi-private Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs)
SME (Small and Medium Enterprises)
Large Corporations

Participating networks

n/a

Organisations Participating

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Country	Organisation
European Union	European Commission (EC)
Germany	Project Management Juelich / Research Centre Juelich (PTJ/FZJ)
Greece	Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)
Netherlands	Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)
Norway	Gassnova SF (GSF)
Norway	Research Council of Norway (RCN)
Romania	Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
Spain	Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO)
Switzerland	Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC)
Türkiye	The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
United Kingdom	Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

Funded Projects

Acronym	Title	Start	End	No. partners
3D-CAPS	Three dimensional Printed Capture Materials for Productivity...	01/09/2017	31/12/2019	6
ACORN	ACORN	01/09/2017	31/08/2020	7
ALIGN	Accelerating Low carboN Industrial Growth trough CCUS: ALIGN...	01/09/2017	31/08/2020	34
DETECT	Determining the risk of CO2 leakage along fractures in capro...	01/09/2019	01/09/2020	4
ECO-BASE	Establishing CO2 enhanced Oil recovery Business Advantages i...	31/08/2017	30/09/2020	7
ELEGANCY	Enabling a Low-Carbon Economy via Hydrogen and CCS	31/08/2017	31/08/2020	23
GasTech	Demonstration of Gas Switching Technology for Accelerated Sc...	31/08/2017	30/09/2020	7
Pre-ACT	Pressure control and conformance management for safe and eff...	31/08/2017	30/09/2020	10