ACT Third Call

Basic Information

ACT will address the technological, environmental, social and economic challenges required to accelerate CCUS. Projects that incorporate or address the Priority Research Directions (PRDs, link) identified at the Mission Innovation CCUS Challenge Workshop (Houston 2017) will be particularly welcome. Projects are also encouraged to address one or several of the research and innovations activities in the SET-Plan CCS and CCU Implementation Plan endorsed by the SET-Plan Steering Group in September 2017.

Network ACT
Website https://www.act-ccs.eu/calls/
Aim of the joint call Following the success of ACT’s first and second calls the Network decided to participate in this third call with more countries participating. All funds will be allocated from national and regional budgets that support research and development as well as pilot and demonstration projects.
Type of joint call Two Stages - Call with pre-proposals and full proposals submissions
Events
Launch date 02/06/2020
Deadline Pre-Proposal 10/11/2020 Submitted proposal: 91
Deadline Full-Proposal 15/03/2021 Submitted proposal: 38
Evaluation End Date 07/07/2021 Successful proposal: 13 Proposals funded: 13
Is call co-funded? No
Call follow up funding n/a
Call reasons n/a
Research fields
  • Energy
Type of research
  • Applied Research
Target groups
  • Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
  • Public Research Organisations (PROs)
  • Private and Semi-private Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs)
  • SME (Small and Medium Enterprises)
  • Large Corporations
Participating networks n/a

Organisations Participating

Country Organisation
Canada Emission Reduction Alberta (ERA)
Denmark Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP)
France Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME)
France National Research Agency (ANR)
Germany Project Management Juelich / Research Centre Juelich (PTJ/FZJ)
Greece General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
India Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology (DST)
Italy Ministry for Universities and Research (MUR)
Netherlands Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)
Norway Nordic Energy Research (NER)
Norway Research Council of Norway (RCN)
Romania Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
Switzerland Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC)
Türkiye The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
United Kingdom Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
United States Department of Energy (DoE)

Funded Projects

Acronym Title Start End No. partners
ABSALT Accelerating Basic Solid Adsorbent Looping Technology 01/03/2022 01/03/2024 8
ACTiON ADVANCED MULTITEMPORAL MODELLING AND OPTIMISATION OF CO2 TRA... 12
CEMENTEGRITY Development and testing of novel cement designs for enhanced... 7
CREATE Carbon Reforming to Economic Additives for Transitioning int... 4
CoCaCO2la Conversion of Captured CO2 to Industrial Chemicals 6
CooCE Harnessing potential of biological CO2 capture for Circular ... 9
ENSURE Effective monitoring of long-term site stability for transpa... 9
EverLoNG Demonstration of ship-based carbon capture on LNG fuelled sh... 16
LOUISE Low-Cost CO2 Capture by Chemical Looping Combustion of Waste... 18
NEXTCCUS NEXT GENERATION ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEM FOR SUSTAINABLE DIREC... 8
RETURN Reusing depleted oil and gas fields for CO2 sequestration 19
SCOPE Sustainable OPEration of post-combustion Capture plants 24
SHARP Stress history and reservoir pressure for improved quantific... 16