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Clean Industrial Deal
Accelerating EU Industrial Decarbonisation
The Clean Industrial Deal (CID) seeks to enhance the EU’s industrial competitiveness while driving the shift towards a climate-neutral and resource-efficient economy. Its objective is to modernise Europe’s industrial landscape by fostering clean technologies, low-carbon manufacturing, and sustainable energy systems.
Under this initiative, a flagship Horizon Europe call has been launched within the Horizontal Activities. The call supports near-market projects that advance from research to large-scale deployment. Taking an industry-driven and bottom-up approach, the CID focuses on next-generation clean technology demonstrators and the decarbonisation of energy-intensive sectors, combining technological innovation with strong market potential.
Eligible activities - Decarbonisation of Energy-Intensive Industries
- Carbon-cycle management (CCU and CCUS): Optimising and demonstrating advanced technologies for CO₂/CO capture, utilisation, and storage. Solutions should also show strong commercial potential of the decarbonized products with respect to life-cycle assessment (LCA) compared to State-Of-the-Art, market size and cost.
- Clean energy in production: Promoting the electrification of industrial processes, adoption of hydrogen and other clean energy carriers, deployment of on-site renewable energy and storage, and usage and upgrade of waste heat to achieve major improvements in clean energy use across energy-intensive sectors.
- Circularity and resource efficiency: improvement in the use of materials, energy, and water compared to current benchmarks through commercially viable technologies. These solutions should reduce raw material consumption, energy use, freshwater intake, and emissions by establishing circular value chains that turn industrial by-products and waste into new low-carbon feedstocks, while maintaining positive LCA results.
Clean Technologies for Climate Action
- Integrated net-zero energy systems: energy grids, networks and systems.
- Enhanced zero-emission power technologies: renewable electricity, heat, and energy technologies.
- Energy storage, renewable fuels and CCU: next-generation batteries and other storage solutions, renewable hydrogen, advanced biofuels and synthetic renewable fuels.
All topics are Innovation Actions (IA): Starting TRL of 6 to end in TRL 8 with a funding rate of 70% of the project costs (except for non-profit legal entities, with 100%), plus 25% overhead. The maximum funding ranges from 15 to 25 million €.
Eligible applicants
The application must involve a consortium integrated by at least 3 legal entities, at least 1 established in a Member State, and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated countries. Consortia are expected to demonstrate industrial leadership. Participation is open to all types of organisation or legal entities (e.g., universities, research institutes, industry, SMEs, NGOs)[LC1] [AI2] .
Expected deadline
The calls of the CID destination under the Horizontal Activities are expected to open mid-December 2025 and mid-January 2027, and the expected deadlines are mid-September 2026 and 2027.