Programme Scheme Description
The EU-India Clean Energy and Climate Partnership foresees strengthened cooperation in energy research and innovation, in particular related to renewable energy and its integration in the energy system. As part of the implementation of this Partnership, a joint call for proposal is launched aiming at smartly integrating large amounts of renewable energy in local energy systems and in this way make energy supply cleaner, more efficient and affordable. This joint call is also fully in line with both the European Union’s and India’s involvement in Mission Innovation MI, a global initiative of 24 countries and the European Commission on behalf of the European Union, committed to reinvigorate and accelerate global clean energy innovation with the objective to make clean energy widely affordable. DST proposal format and submission – Indian ‘Project Coordinator’ should submit complete proposal, Part A Part B administrative and financial form same as submitted on the Horizon 2020 Funding Tenders Portal as one single consolidated PDF file at e-PMS www.onlinedst.gov.in along with other requisite documents. Online e-PMS submission of proposal can be made until 3rd September2020 at the latest. In addition, two 2 hardcopies of uploaded research proposal should also be sent to DST by Speed Post and reach before 15th September, 2020. The envelope should be superscripted with the title “India–EU Joint Call on Integrated Local Energy Systemsquot. Important DST should receive the same copy as the copy of project submitted to the Horizon 2020 Portal by the closing deadline of this call which is 1 September 2020 1700 Brussels Time.
