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Opportunity for manufacturing and process sectors in our industry; call for proposals from DG Enterprise under the SILC initiative shortly to be published

Monday 23 January 2012
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Sustainable Industry Low Carbon (SILC) initiative

The objective of the call is to provide support to actions that will focus on manufacturing and process industries covered by the ETS so as to enable these to cope with the challenges of a low carbon economy and to maintain their competitiveness, with a particular view to tackling the stringent requirements resulting from the ETS-Directive by 2020.

The SILC initiative is implemented in two steps, SILC I (2011-2013) and SILC II (2014-2020). The call will concern only SILC I which aims at finding technological and non-technological innovation measures to reduce the carbon-intensity for a wider range of sectors which can be implemented in the short term (i.e. immediate to 3 year horizon) and which do not require a further demonstration programme before their industrial implementation. Successful projects in SILC I will be able to apply for SILC II funding which could mean up to 30 M€ per project.

The call seeks sector-specific or inter-sector industrial projects, each of them carried out by a consortium of industrial stakeholders (and/or possibly in partnership with public or private organisations) and jointly financed by the EU and the industrial stakeholders. It is envisaged that in these projects technological and/or non-technological innovation measures will be developed and deployed that are needed to achieve reductions in the specific GHG emission intensity, while maintaining the sector's competitive position and jobs.

• 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

For further information: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?aged=0&format=HTML&guiLanguage=en&language=EN&reference=IP/11/680

and http://www.forestplatform.org/en/funding/the-ftp-in-fp7