Knowledge transfer and training of civil servants, safety officials, and permitting staff to improve safety assessment and licensing procedures across Europe
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Knowledge transfer and training of civil servants, safety officials, and permitting staff to improve safety assessment and licensing procedures across Europe

This call aims to support the training of public officials, certification body staff and engineers responsible for preparing, evaluating, and issuing permits for hydrogen projects across the EU.

Details

Status
Open
Publication date
27 February 2025
Opening date
Deadline model
Single-stage
Deadline date
23 April 2025, 17:00 (CEST)
Industrial Ecosystem
  • Renewable energy
Level of funding
  • EU level

Description

Overview

Objectives

The objectives of this call are to train public officials involved in the permitting of hydrogen, collect information on different Member States' regulations, support the use of digital tools to improve efficiency and harmonisation, and to retain EU leadership in leveraging green hydrogen projects.

Activities/actions supported

Supported activities under this call include analysis of evaluation, permitting, and licensing procedures across the EU, development and implementation of comprehensive training programmes and materials, supply of train-the-trainer courses to training service providers and institutions with internal training programmes, assessment of educational progress, and introduction of the use of new digital tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in local evaluation and licensing processes.

Anticipated outcomes

Anticipated outcomes include the streamlining and harmonisation of permitting processes for hydrogen projects via information collection, training access, digital tools support and EU leadership.

Institution providing the funding

European Commission

Size of funding

Grants of different sizes available - please see funding opportunity for details.

Conditions

Overview of eligibility criteria

In order to be eligible, countries must meet the requirements described in Annex B of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. More details can be found on the funding opportunity page.

Overview of award criteria

The award criteria are described in Annex D of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes and include research and innovation actions, coordination and support actions, programme co-fund actions, innovation and market deployment actions, training and mobility actions, pre-commercial procurement actions, public procurement of innovation solutions actions, and framework partnership agreements. Specific conditions for this call can be found on the funding opportunity page.

Procedures

Application procedures

The application and evaluation forms, general guidance, model grant agreements, call-specific instructions and additional documents can be found on the funding opportunity page.

Application support available

Support is available through the following resources and/or services: Online Manual, Horizon Europe Programme Guide, Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ, Research Enquiry Service, National Contact Points (NCPs), Enterprise Europe Network, IT Helpdesk, European IPR Helpdesk, CEN-CENELEC Research Helpdesk and ETSI Research Helpdesk, the European Standards Organisations, the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for their recruitment, and Partner Search. Links are available on the funding opportunity page.

Useful links

Link to funding opportunity

Link to the programme for more info