# New technologies and solutions for reducing the environmental and climate footprint of research infrastructures
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**topic id:** HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-TECH-01
**call id:** HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01
**title:** New technologies and solutions for reducing the environmental and climate footprint of research infrastructures
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** INFRA
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-18T00:00:00+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-INFRA-2025-01-TECH-01
**description:** Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
• reduction of environmental (including climate-related) impacts;
• optimisation of resource and energy consumption integrated through the full life cycle of research infrastructures;
• increased long-term sustainability of the European research infrastructures ecosystem.
 Scope:
The aim of this topic is to deliver innovative technologies and solutions which generate a step change in reducing the environmental and climate footprint of research infrastructures through the full life cycle of research infrastructures. Proposals should identify common methodologies, among the concerned research infrastructures, to assess environmental impact and strategies to reduce it, as well as efficiency gains in the broader ecosystem.
The proposed action is expected to deliver on several of the following points, as relevant:
• new technologies and solutions for research infrastructures enabling transformative resource efficiency (e.g. reduced energy consumption) and reduction of environmental (including climate-related) impacts, including, when relevant, more sustainable and efficient ways of collecting, processing and providing access to data;
• validation and prototyping;
• training of research infrastructures staff for the operation and use of the new solutions;
• action plans to deploy new developments at wider scale and ensure their sustainability;
• measures to ensure an environmentally effective integration of the solutions in the local contexts;
• societal engagement to harvest and incorporate solutions from other relevant ecosystems and or to foster acceptance of the solutions in the local and regional communities.
 Consortia should be built on a leading core of at least two different world-class research infrastructures, each of them being an ESFRI infrastructure, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) or another research infrastructure that is an intergovernmental organisation of European interest, and can include a wider set of research infrastructures, and other technological partners.
Proposals should explain any synergies and complementarities with any related previous or current EU grants, including grants funded under other parts of Horizon Europe or Horizon 2020. Where relevant, proposals should ensure complementarity with actions funded under the 2023 call topic HORIZON-INFRA-2023-TECH-01-01 and clearly justify that different technologies and solutions are targeted.
Proposals could consider the inclusion of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) Support Services Directorate in their research infrastructure portfolio. The JRC offers its experience in assessing, setting the strategy, maintaining, operating and providing access to external researchers to its research infrastructures in various fields of science. One of the main pillars of JRC’s strategy is ensuring the sustainability of its research infrastructures, with measures to reduce energy consumption, improve energy efficiency, and promote the use of renewable energy sources. In this regard, the JRC will consider collaborating with any successful proposal.
**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
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding.

The following additional eligibility criteria apply: due to the specific nature of this topic, proposals must include at least two different research infrastructures as beneficiaries[[The participation of two nodes of the same ESFRI infrastructure or ERIC does not count as two different research infrastructures.]], each of them being an ESFRI Landmark[[See the list of ESFRI 'Landmarks' in the 2021 ESFRI Roadmap: https://roadmap2021.esfri.eu/]], a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC)[[European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) | European Commission (europa.eu)]] or another research infrastructure that is an international European research organisation[[An ‘international European research organisation' means an international organisation, the majority of whose members are Member States or associated countries, whose principal objective is to promote scientific and technological cooperation in Europe.]]. Such research infrastructures, and where applicable the beneficiaries that own/operate them, must be explicitly identified in the proposals.

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)
Standard application form (HE CSA) 
Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations 
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) 
Standard evaluation form (HE CSA) 
Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
HE MGA 
HE Unit MGA 
Lump Sum MGA 
Operating Grants MGA 
Framework Partnership Agreement FPA 
Call-specific instructions 
Detailed budget table (HE LS) 
Information on financial support to third parties (HE) 
Information on clinical studies (HE) 
Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"

Additional documents:
 HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 3. Research Infrastructures
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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