Design and Integration of a High-Performance Battery System on a Hybrid-Electric Regional aircraft
HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-JU-CLEAN-AVIATION-2025-03-FTA-01
- Programme
- Clean Aviation CfP 03F
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- March 27, 2025
- Deadline
- April 23, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €15,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- €5,000,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 1
- Keywords
- HORIZON-JU-CLEAN-AVIATION-2025-03-FTA-01HORIZON-JU-Clean-Aviation-2025-01F
Description
Design and demonstration of a high gravimetric energy density battery system (comprising cells, battery management system, housing), the thermal management concept, and interfaces to relevant aircraft systems for hybrid-electric regional application. The topic covers ground demonstrations to TRL4, paving the way for further research to reach TRL5 and TRL6 demonstrations. See the topic descriptions document published with this call for full details.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.
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5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
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5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
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Additional documents:
The Full Description of Topics in this Call
Clean Aviation Work Programme 2024-25
Q&A Document: Second Release (27.03.2025)
On 10/04/2025 a corrigendum was published to the Q&A document with an update to question 4 in the Fast Track category (indicated by an exclamation mark "!").
Q&A Document: First Release (20.02.2025)
Clean Aviation Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (CA JU SRIA)
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
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Latest Updates
On 10/04/2025 a corrigendum was published to the Q&A document with an update to question 4 in the Fast Track category (indicated by an exclanation mark "!"). See the additional documents section in the topic conditions.
On 27/03/2025 the second version of the Questions and Answers document was added to this call. See the additional documents section in the topic conditions.