Clean Energy Transition Partnership Joint Call 2025
Clean Energy Transition Partnership Joint Call 2025
Up to €400K
12/03/2026
Research Institution, Public Institution, Private Business, Non-profit, Other
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What is the Clean Energy Transition Partnership Joint Call 2025 Call?
Expected Outcomes
• Generate system-level insights to support a cost-effective, reliable, and flexible clean energy transition.
• Strengthen European and associated countries’ research networks through high-quality international consortia.
• Contribute to the EU’s 2050 climate-neutrality goal by developing scalable, sustainable energy technologies and frameworks.
• Promote knowledge transfer, stakeholder engagement, and exploitation pathways to maximise impact on policy, industry adoption, and future research directions.
Scope Requirements
• Consortia must include teams from at least three participating countries, with at least two from EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries.
• Principal investigators must hold a full, associate or assistant professorship, lecturer position, or equivalent research appointment.
• Each applicant may request NWO funding for only one project within this call.
• Budget requests: maximum €400,000 (NWO share) per project; no cap on total consortium budget.
• Maximum project duration: 3 years.
• Use of budget modules as specified (Research Leave, Postdoc, Non-Scientific Staff, Personnel TO2/universities of applied sciences, Benchfee, Material Costs, Knowledge Utilisation, Internationalisation).
• Transnational eligibility criteria as per CETPartnership documents; NWO eligibility criteria apply for researchers based in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• Mandatory submission of pre-proposals (deadline 9 October 2025) and, if invited, full proposals (deadline 12 March 2026) via the CETPartnership portal.
• NWO applicants must separately upload a completed NWO budget template by email.
Special Conditions
• Only one NWO-funded application per applicant permitted.
• Kingdom of the Netherlands applicants must meet NWO’s national eligibility rules.
• Submission via the CETPartnership Application portal; NWO budget form emailed to NWO.
• Two-stage evaluation: pre-proposal screening and full proposal review.
• Each full proposal assessed by three independent experts and ranked per call module.
• Final funding decisions taken by participating national/regional agencies; NWO Executive Board decides on its budget.
• Responsible research data management is required, in line with NWO’s guidelines.
Deadline:12/03/2026
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