Monitoraggio 27/02/2023

PR FESR PIEMONTE 2021/2027

CALENDARIO DEGLI INVITI A PRESENTARE PROPOSTE

LINK: https://www.regione.piemonte.it/web/sites/default/files/media/documenti/2022-12/calendario_inviti_i_sem_2022.pdf

1) Avviso pubblico finalizzato alla selezione, sul territorio piemontese, di proposte progettuali volte alla realizzazione di impianti di produzione di idrogeno rinnovabile in aree industriali dismesse, da finanziare nell’ambito del Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)

Linea di finanziamento: Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)

Scadenza: 28/02/2023

Ente finanziatore: Regione Piemonte

LINK: https://bandi.regione.piemonte.it/contributi-finanziamenti/pnrr-m2c2-investimento-31-produzione-idrogeno-aree-industriali-dismesse-fin-eu-nextgenerationeu

Soggetti Ammissibili: profit

Possono beneficiare delle agevolazioni le imprese di tutte le dimensioni, in possesso dei seguenti requisiti:

sono regolarmente costituite ed iscritte come attive nel Registro delle imprese. Le imprese non residenti nel territorio italiano devono avere una personalità giuridica riconosciuta nello Stato di residenza come risultante dall’omologo registro delle imprese; per tali soggetti, inoltre, fermo restando il possesso, alla data di presentazione della domanda di agevolazione, degli ulteriori requisiti previsti dal presente articolo, deve essere dimostrata, pena la decadenza dal beneficio, alla data di richiesta della prima erogazione dell’agevolazione la disponibilità di almeno una sede sul territorio italiano
sono nel pieno e libero esercizio dei propri diritti, non sono sottoposte a procedura concorsuale e non si trovano in stato di fallimento, di liquidazione coattiva o volontaria, di amministrazione controllata, di concordato preventivo, ad eccezione del concordato preventivo con continuità aziendale, o in qualsiasi altra situazione equivalente secondo la normativa vigente.
sono in regime di contabilità ordinaria e dispongono di almeno due bilanci approvati e depositati presso il Registro delle imprese
sono in regola con le disposizioni vigenti in materia di obblighi contributivi.

Obiettivi:

L'Avviso è è finalizzato alla selezione e al successivo finanziamento di proposte progettuali volte alla realizzazione di siti di produzione di idrogeno rinnovabile in aree industriali dismesse.

Gli interventi ammissibili devono prevedere entrambe le seguenti componenti:

uno o più elettrolizzatori per la produzione di idrogeno rinnovabile e relativi sistemi ausiliari necessari al processo produttivo, comprensivi di eventuali sistemi di compressione e di stoccaggio dell’idrogeno
uno o più impianti addizionali asserviti agli elettrolizzatori di cui al punto precedente, comprensivi di eventuali sistemi di stoccaggio dell’energia elettrica.

I componenti di impianti di produzione di idrogeno rinnovabile devono essere realizzati presso siti localizzati nel territorio della Regione Piemonte in possesso dei seguenti requisiti:

essere collocati su area industriale dismessa
essere caratterizzati dalla disponibilità degli estremi catastali, mappe e foto aerea; c) essere nella disponibilità del soggetto proponente, ovvero del soggetto capofila o di uno dei soggetti partecipanti in caso di progetto congiunto, in forza di diritto di proprietà (piena, non nuda proprietà) o di altro diritto reale o personale di godimento, riferito anche a contratti preliminari trascritti e regolarmente registrati presso l'Agenzia delle Entrate, che abbia una durata minima residua di 10 anni dalla data di presentazione della domanda di agevolazione. In alternativa, la disponibilità può essere dimostrata anche attraverso la stipula di un contratto preliminare trascritto e regolarmente registrato presso l'Agenzia delle Entrate, volto alla stipula dei contratti costitutivi dei diritti di cui sopra o attraverso l’impegno di messa a disposizione di un sito da parte di Ente Pubblico o Società di Sistema in virtù di convenzioni, che ne vincolano la messa a disposizione in caso di ottenimento del finanziamento
essere siti su cui sia possibile realizzare uno o più impianti di generazione di energia elettrica rinnovabile di capacità adeguata al processo di produzione dell’idrogeno, da intendersi come capacità di detti impianti di soddisfare potenzialmente anche in quota parte
essere siti non contaminati o qualora contaminati, siti nei quali la realizzazione dei progetti, degli interventi e dei relativi impianti di cui ai punti precedenti, oggetto di finanziamento, siano realizzati senza pregiudicare né interferire con il completamento della bonifica e senza determinare rischi per la salute dei lavoratori e degli altri fruitori dell’area
essere già dotati, o potenzialmente dotabili mediante riattivazione o adeguamento, delle seguenti caratteristiche infrastrutturali:

connessione alla rete elettrica
risorse d’acqua adeguate alla produzione di idrogeno rinnovabile
connessione alla rete gas
accesso alla rete stradale

siti contigui o prossimi, ovvero distanti non più di 50 chilometri, ad un’area caratterizzata dalla presenza di industrie e/o altre utenze che possano esprimere una domanda potenziale di idrogeno, anche parziale rispetto alla quantità di idrogeno producibile dall’impianto. La distanza di cui al primo periodo è calcolata considerando il perimetro del sito presso cui è installato l’elettrolizzatore e il perimetro del sito della prima utenza potenziale individuata.

Budget complessivo: 19.500.000 €

Contributo:

Contributo: max 19.500.000 euro

Finanziamento: 100%

2) Symbiosis in the bio-based industrial ecosystems

Linea di finanziamento: Horizon Europe 2021-2027

Scadenza: 28/03/2023

Ente finanziatore: Commissione Europea

LINK: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl6-2023-circbio-01-7;callCode=null;freeTextSearchKeyword=HORIZON-CL6-2023-CircBio-01-7;matchWholeText=true;typeCodes=1,2,8;statusCodes=31094501,31094502;programmePeriod=2021%20-%202027;programCcm2Id=43108390;programDivisionCode=null;focusAreaCode=null;destinationGroup=null;missionGroup=null;geographicalZonesCode=null;programmeDivisionProspect=null;startDateLte=null;startDateGte=null;crossCuttingPriorityCode=null;cpvCode=null;performanceOfDelivery=null;sortQuery=sortStatus;orderBy=asc;onlyTenders=false;topicListKey=topicSearchTablePageState

Soggetti Ammissibili: ente pubblico, non-profit, profit

To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:

the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe:
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo14, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine
the following low- and middle-income countries:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan,Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Legal entities which are established in countries not listed above will be eligible for funding if provided for in the specific call conditions, or if their participation is considered essential for implementing the action by the granting authority.

Consortium composition

at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State; and

at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries

Location

Actions can take place in eligible Countries

Legal entities established in non-associated third countries may exceptionally participate in this Coordination and support action.

Obiettivi:

In the transition towards an effective circularity and zero pollution within the industrial ecosystems in the Union, the production of goods and services must optimize the use of any resource. Industrial symbiosis is instrumental to this goal, as it is based on the sharing of resources between facilities when wastes or by-products from an industry or industrial process becomes the raw material for another. A well-developed symbiosis across bio-based facilities aims at zero-waste value chains, ensuring more local supply chains, minimizing the use of input material resources, while reducing all the environmental impacts on soil, water, and air quality, biodiversity and climate, of all the processes involved. This should also bring an increase in the economic value of final products and a better distribution of economic and social benefits among the stakeholders. Industrial bio-based facilities within the scope of this topic include those producing bio-based materials and products (e.g., paints, coatings, inks and dyes, polymers, construction materials, fibres, personal care products, plasticisers, adhesive, lubricants, platform chemicals, solvents, surfactants, etc.).

Expected Outcome:

Successful proposals will enable the bio-based industries in the Union to contribute to the enhancement of European industrial sustainability, competitiveness and resource independence, developing industrial symbiosis and circularity by design and to the development of innovative and sustainable value-chains in the bio-based sectors as a prerequisite and driver of future solutions for a circular economy and the bioeconomy transitions. Projects results will contribute to deliver bio-based solutions with reduced environmental impacts on soil, water, and air quality, biodiversity and climate, in line with the EGD objectives, the EU circular economy action plan, the bioeconomy strategy and the implementation of the transition pathway for the EU chemicals industry.

Projects results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

Innovative processes and industrial symbiosis approaches in the bio-based industrial value chains, enabling local security of supply chains and the maximum valorisation of biological resources while minimizing the use of hazardous substances and waste streams
Monitoring systems of the industrial symbiosis in the bio-based industrial value chains.

Coordination and support actions (CSA) Activities that contribute to the objectives ofHorizon Europe. This excludes R&I activities, except those carried out under the ‘Widening participation and spreading excellence’ component of the programme (part of ‘Wideningparticipation and strengthening the European Research Area’). Also eligible are bottom-up coordination actions which promote cooperation between legal entities from Member States and Associated Countries to strengthen the European Research Area, and which receive no EU co-funding for research activities

Budget complessivo: 3.000.000 €

Contributo:

The Commission excpects to fund 2 projects

Grant size: around 1.5 million

Funding rate: 100%

3) Eco-friendly consumer products – low-toxicity/zero pollution construction bio-based materials

Linea di finanziamento: Horizon Europe 2021-2027

Scadenza: 28/03/2023

Ente finanziatore: European Commission

LINK: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl6-2023-circbio-01-8;callCode=null;freeTextSearchKeyword=HORIZON-CL6-2023-CircBio-01-8;matchWholeText=true;typeCodes=1,2,8;statusCodes=31094501,31094502;programmePeriod=2021%20-https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl6-2023-circbio-01-8;callCode=null;freeTextSearchKeyword=HORIZON-CL6-2023-CircBio-01-8;matchWholeText=true;typeCodes=1,2,8;statusCodes=31094501,31094502;programmePeriod=2021%20-%202027;programCcm2Id=43108390;programDivisionCode=null;focusAreaCode=null;destinationGroup=null;missionGroup=null;geographicalZonesCode=null;programmeDivisionProspect=null;startDateLte=null;startDateGte=null;crossCuttingPriorityCode=null;cpvCode=null;performanceOfDelivery=null;sortQuery=sortStatus;orderBy=asc;onlyTenders=false;topicListKey=topicSearchTablePageState

Soggetti Ammissibili: ente pubblico, non-profit, profit

Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call topic.

To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:

the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe:
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo14, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine
the following low- and middle-income countries:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan,Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Consortium composition

at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State; and
at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries

Location

Actions can take place in eligible Countries

Legal entities established in non-associated third countries may exceptionally participate in this Coordination and support action.

Obiettivi:

Bio-based construction materials offer major opportunities to contribute to the climate-neutral and zero-pollution objectives of the European Green Deal, replacing fossil-based alternatives, and so, reducing the environmental footprint, while offering economic benefits to the actors involved. However, care needs to be taken to ensure sustainability of sourcing and production process, while guaranteeing safety and positive user experience. This calls for high level of innovation and creativity, ensuring full inclusiveness of participation for all actors.

Expected Outcome:

A successful proposal will contribute to all Destination ‘Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors’ impacts related to consumers and industry, in particular to development of innovative and sustainable value-chains in the bio-based sectors and of European industrial sustainability, competitiveness and resource independence, including via research on biotechnology and other enabling technologies, as a prerequisite and driver of future solutions for a circular economy and the bioeconomy transitions.

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

Higher environmental sustainability, including on the climate targets (primarily reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and accessorily increase of carbon removals), and zero pollution demonstrated by LCA approaches of bio-based materials and products for construction applications, allowing their intensified sustainable use, under the New European Bauhaus Initiative and the Renovation Wave
Demonstrated non-toxic and zero-pollution properties of the construction materials, as well as their recyclability and/or reusability, to respond to the higher societal demand and the objectives of the European Green Deal
Increased competitiveness of European industry, including SME sector, and involving various actors of bio-based value chains; while ensuring affordable and sustainable end-products for the consumers and society, including via integration of digital solutions
Improved innovation potential in regard to biotechnology, and its potential contribution to the sustainable, circular bio-based materials and biochemicals, with safe, environmentally-friendly and functionally performing applications
Improved societal innovation and creativity, with inclusive engagement of all societal actors, especially professional bodies, policymakers, designers, architects, consumers and end-users, for the bio-based construction product segments. This is expected to contribute, e.g., by developing recommendations or guidelines, or public engagement/dialogue, to the policy-feedback on innovative construction materials, and to resolving related regulatory bottlenecks

Innovation actions (IA) Activities that aim directly to produce plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services. These activities may include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication.

Budget complessivo: 10.000.000 €

Contributo:

The Commission excpects to fund 2 projects

Grant size: around 5 million

Funding rate: 70% (100% non profit)

4) Accordo di cooperazione industriale, scientifica e tecnologica tra Italia e Israele

Scadenza: 30/03/2023

Ente finanziatore: Ministero degli affari esteri e della cooperazione

LINK: https://www.esteri.it/it/diplomazia-culturale-e-diplomazia-scientifica/cooperscientificatecnologica/accordi_coop_indscietec/

Soggetti Ammissibili: profit

Bando per la raccolta di progetti congiunti di ricerca per l’anno 2023, sulla base dell’Accordo di Cooperazione Industriale, Scientifica e Tecnologica tra Italia e Israele.

Nell’ambito delle attività previste dall’Accordo di Cooperazione Industriale, Scientifica e Tecnologica tra Italia e Israele, la Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (MAECI), per la Parte italiana, e il Ministero dell’Innovazione, Scienza e Tecnologia (MOST) per la parte israeliana, intendono avviare le procedure per la selezione di progetti ammissibili a sostegno finanziario, disciplinate dall’Art. 4 dell’Accordo.

Si richiede la presentazione di progetti congiunti di ricerca italo-israeliani, nelle seguenti aree di ricerca:

Innovative high-efficiency energy-producing systems (photovoltaic, hydrogen, hydroelectric).
Precision and personalized medicine.

I progetti selezionati dalle Autorità Italiane e Israeliane verranno finanziati mediante contributi che verranno erogati a ciascun partner dalle proprie Autorità nel rispetto dell’Accordo di cui sopra nonché delle leggi, norme, regolamenti e procedure nazionali in vigore.

Contributo:

Contributo: 100.000 a progetto (8 progetti)

5) Economia blu sostenibile: pubblicato il primo bando del partenariato europeo Sustainable Blue Economy

Scadenza: 14/04/2023 - 13/09/2023

Quadro di finanziamento: HEU-EU Partnerships (European Partnerships)

LINK: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs/2621;callCode=null;freeTextSearchKeyword=Sustainable%20Blue%20Economy;matchWholeText=true;typeCodes=8;statusCodes=31094501,31094502,31094503;programmePeriod=null;programCcm2Id=43108390;programDivisionCode=null;focusAreaCode=null;destinationGroup=null;missionGroup=null;geographicalZonesCode=null;programmeDivisionProspect=null;startDateLte=null;startDateGte=null;crossCuttingPriorityCode=null;cpvCode=null;performanceOfDelivery=null;sortQuery=sortStatus;orderBy=asc;onlyTenders=false;topicListKey=topicSearchTablePageState

Soggetti Ammissibili: profit

La nuova Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership ha pubblicato il suo primo bando dal titolo “The way forward: a thriving sustainable blue economy for a brighter future”, rivolto a soluzioni innovative per favorire la resilienza degli ecosistemi marittimi europei.

Il bando mira alla realizzazione di progetti transnazionali di ricerca e innovazione in una delle seguenti 5 aree prioritarie:

Pianificazione e gestione degli usi marittimi a livello regionale

Sviluppo di infrastrutture marine offshore multiuso a sostegno dell’economia blu

Cibo e alimentare climaticamente neutro, sostenibile sul piano ambientale ed efficiente dal punto di vista delle risorse

Transizione verde della produzione di cibo dall’ambiente acquatico

Test di casi d’uso dell’Ocean Digital Twin (ODT) nei bacini marittimi dell'UE e nell'Oceano Atlantico

I progetti dovranno presentare validi contributi in direzione della trasformazione a un'economia blu sostenibile e verso la neutralità climatica tramite l'adozione di un Impact Pathway Approach in più bacini marittimi UE e con attenzione alla cooperazione intersettoriale tra scienza, innovazione ed economia.

Possono candidarsi per i contributi di cofinanziamento i consorzi composti da almeno tre enti legali indipendenti provenienti da tre diversi Stati partecipanti (dei quali minimo due Paesi membri UE), sebbene sia permessa e incoraggiata la partecipazione di partner esterni autofinanziati e altri stakeholder. Ciascun ente che si candidi al bando dovrà, inoltre, rispettare i criteri stabiliti a livello nazionale per la partecipazione alla call.

Contributo:

Il budget complessivo è di circa 50 milioni di euro, i quali verranno erogati dalle 37 agenzie nazionali e regionali dei 23 Paesi partecipanti al Partenariato sotto forma di contributi di cofinanziamento.

6) Innovazioni per l'industria circolare: BioeconomyVentures lancia una nuova call

Scadenza: 18/04/2023

LINK: https://platform.bioeconomyventures.eu/opencalls-innovators/future-of-industrial-circularity/

Ente finanziatore: BioeconomyVentures

Soggetti Ammissibili: PMI, Startup o Spinoff

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

BioeconomyVentures is looking for EU bio-based SME/Startups/Spin-off that want to access BioeconomyVentures services (both support access to funding and business growth) by applying cutting-edge solutions within the Bioeconomy domains addressing specific challenges set up by Corporations under the following sectors:

Future of Food
Future of Chemicals
Future of Industrial Circularity

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The project aims to grow an interconnected EU network in bio-based industry by igniting a strategic collaboration between innovators and corporations, to ease and facilitate access to investors and finance in favor of sustainable development.

Three Open Calls for innovators will be launched in total with the purpose of promoting BioeconomyVentures services and staggering the entry of innovators into the pipeline to be able to offer them personalized and individualized attention, analyze their needs and offer them the most appropriate services in each case.

BioeconomyVentures will carefully select 65+ promising EU innovators to accelerate their development and to overcome the hurdles they face in terms of access to finance, business skills and networking.

The first open call for Innovators is focusing the Future of Industrial Circularity sector, and the challenges created are based on the following verticals:

Forestry, Pulp and Paper
Bioenergy & Biofuels
Wood & Furniture’s, Building materials & constructions
Bio-based Textiles and wearing apparel
Food and Feed from side and waste streams
Waste Processing & Up/Recycling

WHAT’S IN FOR YOU

The dynamic programme is focused on providing custom and unique learning and development pathways based on the needs assessment. The programme accepts innovators from lab, pilot, demonstration, and commercial stages (please see Guidelines for Applicants for the specifics). Programme benefits for innovators are:

Hybrid business and investment readiness support
Networking opportunities and pitching events
Matchmaking with investors and corporates
The opportunity to address innovation challenges set by leading corporations
Visibility and exposure through the BV Ambassador network
Possibility to kick off long-term partnerships

WHAT ARE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO APPLY?

Being based in one of the EU Member States or an H2020 Associated Country
Being an SME/Startup/Spinoffs
Address one of the key innovation’s challenges
Or apply with you own open key innovation challenge

7) Boosting generation and diffusion of advanced technologies in SMEs based on a supply chain model

Linea di finanziamento: Horizon Europe 2021-2027

Scadenza: 20/04/2023

Ente finanziatore: Commissione Europea

LINK: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl4-2023-resilience-01-42;callCode=null;freeTextSearchKeyword=RESILIENCE;matchWholeText=true;typeCodes=1,2,8;statusCodes=31094501,31094502;programmePeriod=2021%20-%202027;programCcm2Id=43108390;programDivisionCode=43120193;focusAreaCode=null;destinationGroup=null;missionGroup=null;geographicalZonesCode=null;programmeDivisionProspect=null;startDateLte=null;startDateGte=null;crossCuttingPriorityCode=null;cpvCode=null;performanceOfDelivery=null;sortQuery=sortStatus;orderBy=asc;onlyTenders=false;topicListKey=topicSearchTablePageState

Soggetti Ammissibili: ente pubblico, profit, non-profit

To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:

the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.

the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:

Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).

countries associated to Horizon Europe:

Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo14, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine

the following low- and middle-income countries:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan,Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Consortium composition

at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State; and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries Location

Actions can take place in eligible Countries.

Additional conditions

If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).

Obiettivi:

All the EU industrial ecosystems should adapt to the post-crisis economic environment, with new consumer and industrial demand, changed competition and new resilience and sustainability objectives. This adaptation will be particularly challenging for SMEs. The economic recovery in Europe, after the COVID-19 pandemic, will only materialise if SMEs are properly supported by adequate actions and policy measures to adapt to changed value-chains and demand.

It is essential for companies to map their supply chain in order to identify critical dependencies and weaknesses in specific industrial ecosystem. There is a need for developing methodology or model that can assist companies in detecting and anticipating disruptions in their supply chains. Such a model would contribute to reduce strategic dependencies on critical products, services or technologies.

Through the adoption of advanced technologies, the manufacturing industry will achieve operational independence. This operational improvement will be of paramount importance in ensuring performance during the next normal. In fact, COVID-19's impact on trade caught many firms unprepared, with negative consequences on supply chains. This event drastically changed the focus from a low-cost country sourcing mantra to a more resilient and simpler network. Implementing new technologies is turning supply chain processes and activities towards less uncertainty and complexity. Technologies like robotics, AI, IoT, blockchain, and edge computing are the key drivers to achieve these goals, together with efficiency benefits and zero-touch production (ZTP) processes, the latter being pushed significantly during the pandemic and becoming a strategic asset for the future of enterprises.

Efficiency is also fostered by AR/VR solutions, which enable experts to provide remote support to on-field operators and provide step-by-step instructions. B2B digital platforms are also a key trend in the manufacturing industry, pushing for a more collaborative relation between colleagues, peers, and employees.

Product innovation is also driving the adoption of advanced materials, micro- and nanoelectronics, nanotechnologies, and photonics with the aims of improving products and reducing costs.

Expected Outcome:

build a model for each industrial ecosystem to identify disruptions and technological opportunities for the uptake of advanced technologies in a supply chain

alert on current disruptions and identify potential future disruptions

identify potential alternate suppliers of critical advanced technologies

launch one pilot project per each industrial ecosystem focused on building alliances among traditional and tech-savvy SMEs through industrial cluster organisations

explore concrete collaboration opportunities between different type of EU businesses, particularly tech-savvy SMEs and traditional SMEs

increase the adoption of advanced technologies in traditional SMEs, looking at skills shortages among other barriers, and help EU tech-savvy SMEs that developed critical technology applications to expand their market potential in the EU

demonstrate how the adoption of advanced technologies in SMEs can enable them to reduce resource, material and energy consumption, thus contributing to EU climate neutrality objectives

Coordination and support actions (CSA) Activities that contribute to the objectives of Horizon Europe. This excludes R&I activities, except those carried out under the ‘Widening participation and spreading excellence’ component of the programme (part of ‘Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area’). Also eligible are bottom-up coordination actions which promote cooperation between legal entities from Member States and Associated Countries to strengthen the European Research Area, and which receive no EU co-funding for research activities.

Budget complessivo: 10.000.000 €

Contributo:

The Commission excpects to fund 4 projects

Grant size: between 2.00 to 3.00 million

Funding rate: 100%

8) Inteligenza artificiale e robotica: primo bando del progetto EARASHI

Scadenza: 12/05/2023

Ente finanziatore: EARASHI

LINK: https://earashi.eu/open-calls/

EARASHI, Embodied AI/Robotics Applications for a Safe, Human-oriented Industry, will launch 2 open calls (February and September 2023) to select 10 projects distributing 2 M€ among them. The selected projects should address one of EARASHI 10 challenges defined by EARASHI advisory board, and publicity announced within the open call.

Besides funding, the selected projects will benefit from EARASHI programme:

Integration of a Technical building block of your choice and associated expertise, among the Building Block portfolio offered by EARASHI.

Coaching services such as Business, human-centred design, eco-design, cybersecurity, engineering system integration, mentoring & access to validation facility.

The funding instrument will include a lump-sum grant of up to 200 k€ per project for developing solutions at demonstration scale and coaching session during and beyond their development. The total duration of a project is expected to be 15-18 months. Granted company cannot individually receive more than 200 k€. Only startups and SMEs are eligible to receive such funding.

R&D demonstration projects targeting EARASHI challenges will be developed to reach Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 7 starting form TRL 4-5, following a competitive based approach. The demonstration projects will respond to one of EARASHI 10 challenges, and address EARASHI overall scope:

Support the industry in the uptake of advanced digital eco-responsible technologies (in particular AI, Data and Robotics)
Support workers in their daily activities and improve their working conditions (safety, health and well-being) leading to a productivity increase
Adopt a worker-centric approach by considering worker well-being and health at work (e.g. MSD and stress), design thinking methodology of production machines, worker acceptance and Ethics

The granted projects are expected to have impact on the:

Decrease of the number of workers that perceive stress at work / the number of accidents at work / number of workers already suffering from MSD
Increase of the number of ROS-users (ROS=Robot Operating System )
Improvement of trust in AI, Data and Robotics (implementation of ADR in manufacturing)
Machine retrofit and refurbishment
Deployment of eco-design approach
Standardized, easy, non-hazardous dismantling processes shortened in time and costs
The granted projects products are expected to have market potential and reach commercialization as project’s outcome.

Pan-European demonstration projects (EU member states or Horizon Europe associated countries) are strongly encouraged, through cross-border collaboration either with the EARASHI partners providing the technical Building Blocks and expertise or through the companies building up the proposal.

The project must:

Be proposed by a micro-consortium of a minimum of 1 independent legal entity (maximum 2) including exclusively Start-up or SME, established in the Member States of the European Union and its overseas countries and territories (OCT) and Horizon Europe associated Countries

Involve an EARASHI building Block partner chosen among the Building Block portfolio.

Address one of EARASHI challenges

9) Accordo di cooperazione industriale, scientifica e tecnologica tra Italia e Israele

Scadenza: 21/06/2023

Ente finanziatore: Ministero degli affari esteri e della cooperazione

LINK: https://www.esteri.it/it/trasparenza_comunicazioni_legali/bandi-gara-contratti/atti-amministrazioni-aggiudicatrici/avvisi-bandi-ed-inviti/bando-industriale-2023-accordo-di-cooperazione-industriale-scientifica-e-tecnologica-tra-italia-e-israele/

Soggetti Ammissibili: profit

Bando per la raccolta di progetti congiunti di ricerca per l’anno 2023, sulla base dell’Accordo di Cooperazione Industriale, Scientifica e Tecnologica tra Italia e Israele.

Nell’ambito delle attività previste dall’Accordo di Cooperazione Industriale, Scientifica e Tecnologica tra Italia e Israele, la Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese del Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale (MAECI), per la Parte italiana, e la Israel Innovation Authority-International Collaboration Division per la Parte israeliana, intendono avviare le procedure per la selezione di progetti ammissibili a sostegno finanziario, disciplinate dall’Art. 4 dell’Accordo.

Possono essere presentati progetti congiunti di R&S industriale nei seguenti settori l'accordo:

medicina, biotecnologie, sanità pubblica e organizzazione ospedaliera;
scienze dell'agricoltura e dell'alimentazione;
applicazione delle tecnologie dell'informazione all'istruzione e alla ricerca scientifica;
ambiente, trattamento acque;
nuove fonti energetiche, alternative al petrolio e sfruttamento delle risorse naturali;
innovazione nei processi produttivi;
ICT, comunicazioni dati, software, sicurezza informatica;
osservazione dello spazio e della terra;
qualsiasi altra area di reciproco interesse.

Consorzio IBIS

Innovative BIo-based and Sustainable products and processes

Monitoraggio 27/02/2023