EIC Transition Challenge: Process and system integration of clean energy technologies

This EIC Transition Challenge aims at maturing the proposed energy technology through its integration in a fully functioning energy system and the emerging of the ecosystem actors and value chain needed for the market uptake of the technology.

The expected outcomes of your proposal are:

• an energy generation/recovery/storage technology that can positively demonstrate a clearly defined use case, with clear indication and quantitative measurement of the investment costs, efficiency, dynamic performance, durability and sustainability versus established alternative technologies, and integration of the proposed technology at system/process level (both as component of a device or as part of existing system infrastructure);
• a credible business model for the deployment and use of the energy system in the relevant environment;
• an exploitation strategy including the formal IP protection of the novel results integrated in the energy system.

EIC Transition aims at maturing both your technology and business idea thus increasing its technology and market readiness. The expected outcomes of an EIC Transition project are a) a technology that is demonstrated to be effective for its intended application and b) a business model, its initial validation and a business plan for its development to market. It is also expected that the intellectual property generated by the EIC Transition project is formally protected in an adequate way.

For more details, see the WP 2022.

Proposals submitted to this Challenge call should focus on the following specific objectives:

• further develop energy technologies, including renewable fuels enabling the decarbonisation of energy sector and;
• facilitate the selection of different and appropriate applications and use cases, and integration of these sustainable technologies into existing and new energy systems and devices, both at component, process or at infrastructure level.

EIC Transition funds innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and validation of a novel technology from the lab to the relevant application environments (by making use of prototyping, formulation, models, user testing or other validation tests) as well as explorations and development of a sustainable business case and business model towards commercialisation.