CETP; Norwegian partners dominate in the EU

The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) is an EU initiative that brings together public and private stakeholders in research and innovation ecosystems. CETP’s goal is to foster innovation across borders and contribute to the EU’s objective of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050.

The path to this goal involves a wide range of technologies and system solutions, which can receive financial support from the granting bodies in CETP participant countries.

Projects with international perspective

Today, CLIMIT R&D allocates a significant portion of its budget to international collaboration through CETP. As a result, CLIMIT’s advice to potential applicants is to have an international perspective on their projects, including forming partnerships with attractive foreign entities.

One of the CETP areas includes CCS/CCU, where 10 new projects are in the startup phase. In addition six of them with Norwegian partners, and five of these receive support from CLIMIT. Norwegian applicants must meet the requirements outlined in CLIMIT’s program plan to succeed, which also involves supporting the Longship’s benefits realization.

If the Norwegian part of an application can be supported by CLIMIT, but foreign partners are denied on their side. The application may be rejected. The project must meet the requirements for support from the respective country’s granting body. There are examples where the Norwegian part of an application has put in a lot of effort, only for the foreign entity to be denied on their end. Consequently, the feasibility of the project must be checked against the respective countries’ program plans and priorities, early in the planning process.

When granted, these funds collectively provide significant momentum to project implementation, along with knowledge and innovation shared across borders. An important part of CLIMIT’s mandate.

CETP`s first call in 2022

There was a sub-call titled “Enabling Climate Neutrality with Storage Technologies, Renewable Fuels, and CCU/CCS.” The projects that received grants were decided in June 2023. Afterward formal agreements were reached bilaterally, before the start of individual projects from November 2023, and beyond:

Details about the projects can be found on CETP’s website.

Call for proposals in 2023

The second CETP proposal received project outlines in November. The most promising ones are requested to submit a complete application in March. CETP’s approval decisions will be made in June 2024.