The Innovation Fund’s 2023 call closed on 9 April, receiving a total of 337 project proposals.
The 2023 call has a record budget of €4 billion funded by revenues from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) to support the deployment of innovative decarbonisation technologies.
Projects will now be assessed based on their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, their degree of innovation, maturity, replicability and cost efficiency. Applicants to the call will be informed about evaluation results in the fourth quarter of 2024. Successful applicants will sign grant agreements in the first quarter of 2025.
More details on the application statistics will be published in the coming days.