# European investment atlas of potential CO2 storage sites
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**topic id:** HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-26
**call id:** HORIZON-CL5-2025-02
**title:** European investment atlas of potential CO2 storage sites
**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-D3-26
**description:** Expected Outcome:The emergence of a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) value chain in the European Union and Associated Countries is currently being hampered by a lack of a clear pathway to mature CO2 storage sites. In the Net Zero Industry Act regulation (NZIA), the EU has defined the objective that at least 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year can be stored geologically by 2030, in storage sites located in the territory of the European Union, its exclusive economic zones or on its continental shelf within the meaning of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and which are not combined with enhanced hydrocarbon recovery. There is a need to understand if current storage development is enough to meet EU storage requirements defined in the NZIA.
Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcome:
• Enhanced availability of CO2 storage sites and transparency about potential CO2 storage and injection capacity and infrastructure, including in relation to geomechanical characteristics and pressure interference from neighbouring storage projects, which can support market operators to plan their investments and enable the implementation of large-scale storage hubs connected to shared CO2 transport infrastructure. 
 Scope:The project is expected to produce a digital atlas of ‘investable’ underground storage space for CO2 in the EU and Associated Countries. The European CO2 Storage Atlas[1] currently under revision and being updated by the GSEU project[2], including estimated capacity and storage readiness level, presents a good basis, but also shows that data gaps need to be closed, and access to the necessary data during project implementation will be crucial. The Commission's Energy and Industry Geography Lab[3] can also be used. Proposals are expected to include the following:
• Identify and assess with a harmonised methodology, injection and storage capacities for current and planned projects and compare with storage requirements;
• Identify key regions for future pre-licence appraisal (high estimated capacity, proximity to emitters, transport corridors), and develop plans for pre-licence appraisal, per region;
• Each potential storage site must be labelled according to its ‘storage readiness level’ in line with the storage readiness levels included in the GSEU atlas, and matched with public data to speed up the work to identify and assess the storage capacities and what is needed to mature understanding of the site. Furthermore, the identified potential storage sites should be compared and ranked by applying a common ranking scheme developed based on currently used ranking schemes and including a techno-economic assessment;
• Environmental and security aspects must be taken into account.
 The proposal is expected to explicitly demonstrate the capacity to have access to the necessary data during the implementation of the grant. Cooperation with relevant national and/or regional actors in the management of the subsurface, such as geological surveys or competent authorities, will be key.
[1] European CO2 storage database - European Commission (europa.eu)
[2] GSEU (geologicalservice.eu)
[3] Energy and Industry Geography Lab - European Commission (europa.eu)
**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
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 RIA, IA) 
Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations 
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) 
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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