# Building a Long-Term Africa Union (AU) and European Union (EU) Research and Innovation joint collaboration on Sustainable Renewable Energies
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**topic id:** HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-15
**call id:** HORIZON-CL5-2025-02
**title:** Building a Long-Term Africa Union (AU) and European Union (EU) Research and Innovation joint collaboration on Sustainable Renewable Energies
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** CL5
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-03T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-05-06T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-15
**description:** Expected Outcome:The EU intends to play an increasingly leading role in global and multilateral initiatives. The EU is developing further the AU-EU Research and Innovation Partnership on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy, emanating from the AU-EU High-level Policy Dialogue (‘Africa initiative’), to implement the AU-EU Innovation Agenda[1] adopted in July 2023. The Green Deal underlines that “Renewable energy and energy efficiency, for example for clean cooking, are key to closing the energy access gap in Africa while delivering the required reduction in CO2”.
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
• R&I communities of researchers, industries, funding organisations and policy makers will count on a lasting AU-EU sustainable R&I partnership framework to implement joint R&I programmes of activities;
• Researchers, industry, public authorities, and citizens have access to increased knowledge, assessment methods, tools and expertise network;
• The joint AU-EU Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Collaborative Partnership and EU Science Diplomacy in Africa will be strengthened. 
 Scope:The proposal will build on the achievements made under the project LEAP-RE to strengthen and establish a sustainable collaboration framework. The proposal will expand and provide support to the established community of researchers, industries, innovators and funding organisations involved in the partnership, and seek to create links to other relevant R&I communities. Activities will contribute to human and institutional capacity-building and turn the AU-EU Research and Innovation Partnership on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy into a long-term platform for collaboration.
The activities to be covered are:
• Support the implementation of the AU-EU Innovation Agenda priority on Green Transition and the Global Gateway in Sub-Saharan Africa to increase investments in energy access;
• Analyse the impact of relevant EU-Africa research and innovation projects funded by the EU in the sustainable energy domain;
• Accelerate the translation of innovation into real-life outputs;
• Engagement of local communities across the African continent, in view of facilitating co-design, hybridisation and accelerated adoption of innovation; social sciences and humanities – including gender studies – is expected to play a key role;
• Develop human and institutional capacities on innovative sustainable energy through the creation of a sustainable network of experts and of science-based policymaking knowledge in synergy with existing activities of other AU and EU initiatives;
• Implement and push further clustering activities with all relevant on-going EU, national and regional funded projects, to enable stronger cross-projects co-operation, consultations and joint activities on cross-cutting issues;
• Provide support to the AU-EU Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Partnership of the AU-EU High Level Policy Dialogue on Science, Technology and Innovation, and other AU-EU policy agendas;
• Update strategic and joint research and innovation action roadmaps, implemented and defined in the project LEAP-RE (www.leap-re.eu) to the new ambitions for 2030 and 2050.
 Proposals are to provide a long-term perspective and vision on how the AU-EU Research and Innovation joint collaboration on Sustainable Renewable Energies will be supported both financially and structurally, after the end of the project. Proposals should include activities to further develop this long-term perspective and vision, and how to implement it. Synergy and complementarity with projects selected under topics HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-09: Africa-EU CO-FUND action and HORIZON-CL5-2025-06-D1-07: Implementing the climate action pillar of the EU-African Union Partnership on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy will need to be ensured.
[1] One of the flagship initiatives of the Global Gateway, which will in particular support the implementation of short-, mid- and long-term actions in the area of green transition related to climate change.
**conditions:** General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
If eligible for funding, legal entities established in the African Union member states[["African Union member states" includes countries whose membership has been temporarily suspended]] may exceptionally participate in this Coordination and Support Action as beneficiary or affiliated entity.
In addition to the standard eligibility criteria, at least 40% of the beneficiaries must be established in African Union member states.

described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025). [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]].

described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.

Specific conditions
 described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme]

Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
 Application form templates — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (HE CSA) 
Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations 
Standard evaluation form (HE CSA) 
Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA 
Call-specific instructions 
Detailed budget table (HE LS) 
Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"

Additional documents:
 HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 14. General Annexes
HE Programme Guide
HE Framework Programme 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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