Innovation Call 2022

EIT Climate-KIC is inviting proposals for new activities due to commence in 2022. Under our strategy, Transformation, in Time, we have worked to engage challenge owners across Europe to map their systems and understand the innovation gaps where greater experimentation is needed to accelerate climate action.

This work has led us to define a range of innovation areas where there is an opportunity to take a new approach to breaking through on the toughest climate challenges. Through experimenting with these new approaches, we hope to learn together with you about how to trigger system change and how to achieve our mission of a net-zero, resilient and just society by 2030 – now just nine years away.

This call for proposals sets out ‘positions’ in our innovation portfolio that we are seeking to fill with new commercially viable projects. A ‘position’ refers to a space or area that sits within our wider innovation portfolio where a specific project or innovation activity may sit within. We invite our community, including any new organisations that may wish to join, to prepare proposals for up to 22 months between March 2022 and December 2023 that address one of the identified open positions. There may be multiple projects accepted in any one position, and we may not be able to fill all positions via this call.

Under this call, partial funding is available to support the development of new highly innovative commercial products or services that seek to launch on the market and achieve climate impact through entrepreneurship and commercial means. We aim to support innovators, researchers, scientists, coaches, and experts to join forces in projects that aim to bring innovative solutions to the European market. We will also support existing innovations that may seek to expand into new markets across Europe and require support to do so.

Eligibility (further detail in call guidelines)

• The project aims to develop a product or service that has commercial potential (assessed by yes/no declaration).
• The budget has an EIT reimbursement rate of no more than 40% in 2022 and 30% in 2023, meaning the budget is predominantly funded from other sources.
• The budget minimums and maximums for this call have been met and at least one EIT KPI has been indicated. 
• The consortium declares willingness to agree a financial return mechanism under the shared success principle (assessed by yes/no declaration).
• The consortium has a pan-European character and consists of at least two different entities from at least two different eligible countries.
  Proposals must not exceed more than 10 consortium member organisations.