SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY LOW CARBON SCHEME(SILC) I - SHORT-TERM INNOVATION MEASURES ACTION 38/G/ENT/CIP/12/D/N02S00

Description:                                                                                               Total budget of the call: EUR 1.900.000

Sustainable Industry Low Carbon (SILC) is an EU grant scheme that aims at finding technological and non-technological innovation measures which would allow energy intensive manufacturing and process industries to reduce their GHG emissions while maintaining their competitiveness.

The SILC initiative is being implemented in two phases:

  - SILC I (2011-2013) aims at finding technological and non-technological innovation measures to reduce the carbon-intensity that can be
    implemented in the short term (i.e. immediate to 3 year horizon)
  - SILC II (2014-2020) will focus on spurring further progress on promising measures, including possible breakthrough solutions that
    typically require pilot or demonstration programmes and validation prior to their industrial implementation (time horizon for
    implementation: more than 3 years).

Objective of the call

The present call is a call for proposals under SILC I, for projects to be started in 2012.

The overall objective of the call is to support actions that will enable energy-intensive manufacturing and process industries covered by the EU ETS to cope with the challenges of a low carbon economy and to maintain their competitiveness.
More specifically, the call seeks to identify and select sector-specific or cross-sectoral industrial projects that will develop and deploy cost-efficient technological or non-technological innovation measures, or a combination of both, for improving the GHG emission performance of installations under the EU ETS.

Typical duration of SILC I projects (depending on project size) is: 12 - 24 months

EU Financing

The maximum budget, allocated by the Commission Decision C(2011) 9230 of 15/12/2011 establishing the 2012 annual work programme for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme under European Parliament and Council Decision No 1639/2006/EC establishing a Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007-2013), for this call for proposals is : 1.900.000 €

Number of projects: not specified; the number of projects eventually funded will depend on the effective budgets of the shortlisted projects.
 
Eligibility:

Applications from legal entities established in one of the following countries are eligible:

    (1)    EU Member States
    (2)    EEA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway
    (3)    Candidate countries: Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey
    (4)    Other countries from the Western Balkans, in accordance with the provisions to be determined with those countries following the
            establishment of Framework Agreements concerning their participation in Community programmes: Albania, Montenegro and Serbia
    (5)    Third countries, when agreements and procedures so allow: Israel
    (6)    The participation of partners from other countries than one of the countries referred to above is allowed, but it will not be
            considered as concurring to the eligible costs.

Legal status eligibility:

    1. Applicants must act in consortium with partner organisations. In the submission set, you will find the draft grant agreement for
        reference.
    2. Partners of the lead organisation must satisfy the same eligibility criteria as those for applicants; the applicant will be the coordinator.
    3. Applications must be submitted by a legal person.
    4. At least one consortium member (applicant or partner) must be an operator of an installation that carries out a refining, manufacturing
        or production activity other than the production of electricity, as specified in Annex I of Directive 2009/29/EC and falling under the
        provisions of this Directive as of 2013.
    5. Corporate bodies must be properly constituted and registered under the law.

Deadline: 25 June 2012

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