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Call: Low Carbon Industry
Specific support is being provided by DG Enterprise & Industry for actions that will focus on enabling traditional manufacturing and process industries covered by the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to maintain their competitiveness while coping with the challenges of a low carbon economy. The Sustainable Industry Low Carbon scheme (SILC) announced on 26 May is a ''short-term innovation measure'' within the Competitiveness & Innovation (CIP) Framework Programme.
The objective of the financing is the development and deployment of innovative measures of 12-24 months duration leading to a demonstrable and quantifiable reduction of specific Greenhouse Gas emission intensities in an eligible energy-intensive industry sector covered by the ETS Directive. The projects are to be carried out by consortia of industrial stakeholders, possibly in partnership with public or private organisations.
Measures may be technological (e.g. achieving the use of alternative fuels; joint energy or waste recovery systems development projects between industrial stakeholders and technology providers and/or research institutions) or non-technological (e.g. deployment of best practice approaches based on mapping of options for process improvements in companies; development and deployment of a model how companies could get access to alternative forms of finance) in nature.
Two further calls for proposals for short-term SILC projects are expected to be published in 2012 and 2013 respectively. The second phase of SILC (2014-2020) will concentrate on deploying mid- to longer- term innovation measures which spur further progress and possible breakthrough solutions, requiring further validation steps prior to their full-scale industrial implementation.
Budget: EUR2.85 million (up to EUR0.95 million per project) at 75% EU co-financing. Deadline: 30 August
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