Pilot Project: Fostering energy transition in the fisheries sector (Demonstrator of a fishing vessel)
Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- PPPA-2024-FISHVESSELDEMO
- Programme
- Pilot Project on a demonstrator fishing vessel to promote energy transition in the fisheries sector
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- February 20, 2024
- Deadline
- June 11, 2024
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €2,200,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- PPPA-2024-FISHVESSELDEMOPPPA-2024-FISHVESSELDEMO
Description
The expected impacts include:
- To develop and demonstrate viable solutions for fishing vessels which improve the energy performance, including reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and costs.
- To increase knowledge on the challenges, benefits and impacts (including economic, environmental and in terms of health and safety of fishers) of different technologies aimed to improve the energy and emissions performance of fishing vessels.
- To strengthen understanding of the potential to adapt existing technologies to the fishing sector.
- To raise awareness of and broaden the possibilities offered to fishers to become more energy efficient and initiate the energy transition of fishing vessels.
Long term expected impacts include:
- Improving the resilience and economic viability of the EU fishing fleet.
- Improving understanding of technical, social, legal, regulatory and policy barriers to energy transition in fisheries.
- Reduced fuel consumption and GHG emissions from fishing vessels and improved energy efficiency in their range of activities.
- Accelerating the adoption of new technologies in the fisheries to foster energy transition.
- Improving the business environment and raising awareness among investors.
This call topic aims to support the retrofit of a marine fishing vessel to demonstrate the feasibility of using alternative propulsion technology(ies) and other solutions to improve the energy and emissions performance of the vessel, and to fill gaps in information and knowledge on the potential and compatibility of technologies for the fishing sector.
Scope:This call topic focuses on the retrofit of a demonstration fishing vessel to reduce emissions and improve its energy performance. Activities can include assessment of feasibility, testing, retrofitting, sea trials, assessment of results and communication and promotion of the demonstrated solutions.
Please see section 2 of the call document for further information on the activities that can be funded.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document
- Submission and evaluation processes: described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document
Documents
Call documents:
Standard application form ([ToA]) — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System
Detailed budget table ([ToA]) - available in the Submission System
Decision on unit costs for SME owners
Support & Resources
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Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
Latest Updates
The project selected under this call for proposals started on 1 December 2024. The project is called HY2FISH - Zero Emission Demonstrative Fishing Vessel Powered by a Hybridized system of Hydrogen Fuel Cell and batteries. The project coordinator is the Cooperativa de Armadores de Pesca del Puerto de Vigo (ARVI) and the consortium brings together a further 11 partner organisations from 8 European countries, including Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Lithuania, and Germany. The project will run for 36 months and was awarded a maximum EU grant of EUR 2 197 211.
Update: Evaluation results
In accordance with the call conditions, the evaluation of the proposals was made looking at the criteria ‘Relevance,’ ‘Quality’ and ‘Impact’. The threshold for each criterion was 6/10. The overall threshold (applying to the sum of the three individual scores) was set at 21/30.
The results of the evaluation are as follows:Number of proposals submitted: 4
-Number of inadmissible proposals: 0
-Number of ineligible proposals: 0
-Number of above-threshold proposals: 2
-Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 4 397 193.81
-Number of proposals retained for funding: 1
-Number of proposals in the reserve list: 1
Call PPPA-2024-FISHVESSELDEMO has closed on the 11th of June.
4 proposals have been submitted.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in July/August 2024.
An online Info Day on the call for proposals will take place on Monday 18 March, from 14:30 - 16:30.
Please find more information and the livestream link on the event page on the CINEA website.