ACT Second Call

Basic Information

The intention of ACT is to facilitate the emergence of CCUS by accelerating and maturing CCUS technology through targeted financing of innovation and research activities. ACT will address the technological, environmental, social and economic challenges required to accelerate CCUS.

Network

ACT

Website

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

Aim of the joint call

For the first ACT call, published in 2016, a total of 10 partners from 9 European countries joined forces and together with top-up funding from the European Commission made 37 million Euros available for research and innovation actions related to CO2 Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS). The initiative is called ACT – Accelerating CCUS Technologies. The ambition of ACT is to facilitate the emergence of CCUS via transnational funding of projects aimed at accelerating and maturing CCUS technology application through targeted innovation and research activities. There were 8 projects funded under the first call.

Type of joint call

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

Events

-                                                Launch date
+/06/2018
-                                                Deadline Pre-Proposal
+/09/2018 Submitted proposal: 47
-                                                Deadline Full-Proposal
+/03/2019 Submitted proposal: 29
-                                                Evaluation End Date
+/05/2019
                                                Successful proposal: 12
                                                Proposals funded: 12

Is call co-funded?

Call follow up funding

n/a

Call reasons

n/a

Research fields

Energy

Type of 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
France	Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME)
Germany	Project Management Juelich / Research Centre Juelich (PTJ/FZJ)
Greece	General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
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	Spanish State Research Agency (AEI)
Switzerland	Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC)
Türkiye	The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
United Kingdom	DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY (BEIS)
United States	Department of Energy (DoE)

Funded Projects

Acronym	Title	Start	End	No. partners
AC2COM	Accelerating Carbon Capture using Oxyfuel technology in Ceme...	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	11
ACTOM	ACT on Offshore Monitoring	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	7
ANICA	Advanced Indirectly Heated Carbonate Looping Process	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	12
DIGIMON	DigiMon - Digital Monitoring of CO2 storage projects	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	13
FUNMIN	Fundamental Studies of Mineral Carbonation with Application ...	01/09/2019	28/02/2022	5
LAUNCH	LAUNCH - Lowering absorption uncertainty and costs by predic...	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	10
MemCCSea	Innovative membrane systems for CO2 capture and storage at sea	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	7
NEWEST-CCS	Negative Emissions in the Waste to Energy Sector: Technologi...	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	6
PRISMA	Process-Informed design of tailor-made Sorbent Materials for...	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	4
REX-CO2	Reusing existing wells for CO2 storage operations	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	16
SENSE	Assuring integrity of CO2 storage sites through ground surfa...	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	15
SUCCEED	Synergetic Utilisation of CO2 storage Coupled with geotherma...	01/09/2019	31/08/2022	8