The FTP in FP7
On this page information is provided about FTP-related projects and activities within the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme (FP7). This includes news about work programmes and actual calls, brokerage and information events, as well as ongoing forest-based sector projects financed under FP7.
Sustainable Industry Low Carbon (SILC) initiative – call for proposal to be published in January 2012
Energy-intensive manufacturing industries are facing significant additional costs for their green house gas (GHG) emissions with the entry into force of the revised EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) as of 1 January 2013. To help GHG intensive installations to cut ETS costs by reducing emissions the European Commission has launched a call for proposals in the context of the new Sustainable Industry Low Carbon initiative. It consists of a set of sector-specific industrial projects aimed at finding innovation measures to reduce the carbon-intensity in industries. Each project will be carried out by a consortium of industrial stakeholders. The EU will provide co-financing up to 75% in form of grant agreements.
Typical innovation measures include the switch to alternative fuels, the development of abatement techniques or the wider deployment of best practices through smart educational tools.
The implementation of Sustainable Industry Low Carbon (SILC) is foreseen in two steps:
SILC I (2011-2013) – deploying short-term technological and non-technological innovation measures for reducing carbon-intensity which can be directly implemented;
SILC II (2014-2020) - deploying mid to longer term innovation measures which spur further progress and possible breakthrough solutions, requiring further validation steps prior to their full-scale industrial implementation.
- Co-financing rate up to 75%
- Max. co-financing: 950 k€ per project (SILC I)
- Max. co-financing: 30 M€ per project (SILC II)
- Up to 9 projects, rolling start in batches over 2011 – 2013
- 3 batches with up to 3 projects each – 2011 / 2012 / 2013
- Grant Agreements
- Project duration: 18 - 36 months
Tentative schedule (2012 batch)
- Publication Call for proposal – January 2012
- Submission of call for proposals – June 2012
- Selection of projects – September/October 2012
- Start of projects – by November/December 2012
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Call topics for WP 2012
- The list of relevant topics for the European forest-based sector / the current compilation of the Framework Programme 7 call that was published on 19 JULY 2011. Please click here.
Final Call Topic Proposals from the Forest-based sector ETP for the R&D Work Programmes 2013, by thematic priority
F = topic related to the forestry value chain
W = topic related to the wood-working industries value chain
P&P = topic related to the pulp, paper and biorefinery value chain
You can download the final call topics, by thematic priority, as follows:
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FTP stakeholder consultation on Call Topics proposed by FTP on the R&D Work Programmes 2013 (The final Call of FP7)
You can now download the draft topics organised according to the following value chains:
Comments and suggestions can be submitted to "gert-jan.nabuurs@efi.int"
Comments and suggestions can be submitted to "gus.verhaeghe@innovawood.com"
Comments and suggestions can be submitted to "werner.foerster@ptspaper.de"
The consultation was open from 15 June - 15 July 2011.
Past call topic lists:
- The list of relevant topics for the European forest-based sector // the current compilation of the FP 7 call that was published on 20 JULY 2010. Please click here
- List of relevant topics for the European forest-based sector - compilation of the FP7 call, that was published on 30 July 2009, please click here