“Accelerating the Heating and cooling transition“ Joint Call 2021: GEOTHERMICA and JPP SES ERA-Net ERA-NET

The joint call on Accelerating the Heating and cooling transition by GEOTHERMICA & JPP SES ERA-Net ERA-NET co-fund scheme is to accelerate the heating and cooling transition through research, development, demonstration, and innovation. 

The focus should be on thermal energy systems, and technologies should preferentially be suitable for retrofit, overall contributing to one or more of the following objectives: 

• Climate-neutral resources for heating and/or cooling, including subsurface (shallow and deep geothermal, solar thermal, and other sources of renewable heating and cooling) and utilization of local and regional excess resources. 
• A resource-efficient and sustainable distribution, storage and utilization of heating and/or cooling. This includes short time and seasonal thermal storage options, and innovations for heating and cooling networks, and conversion technologies such as heat pumps to distribute the heating and cooling and adjust the temperature level where needed. 
• Integration of Heating and/or cooling in the local and regional energy systems, including aspects of sector coupling, smart integration and control tools which shall leverage synergies and utilize flexibilities in locally and regionally available energy sources, urban planning on the local and regional infrastructures as well as the user and consumer structures from different sectors (including, e.g. communities, industrial facilities, or the transportation system) and related consumption patterns. 

Proposals should include a minimum of 3 partners from 2 countries. 

Funding: no fixed limit (total Min. of Energy funding for this call is €600K)

Duration: 3 years 

Research Authority due date: 12.9.21

Registration of interest due date: 4.10.21

Full proposal due date: 31.1.21