R&I in Support of the Clean Industrial Deal: Decarbonisation of energy intensive industries (IA) (Processes4Planet and Clean Steel partnerships)
Proposals are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes: Accelerate the use of innovative technologies to decarbonise industrial processes and bring to the market more cost-effective clean products to strengthen the competitiveness, sustainability (including biodiversity), and resilience of EU industries; Create new innovative first-of-a-kind operational demonstrators and/or optimise newly…
Funding and competition
- 8grants expected (official)
- €15M–€25MEU contribution per project
- €6.1Mmedian EU grant of the most similar funded projects
Success rates vary widely between topics (often from below 5% to above 30%). Ask us for the success-rate history of this topic before you commit to a proposal.
Organisations with a track record in this topic
Organisations that took part in the EU-funded projects most similar to this call (Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020), ranked by how close those projects are to the call, how recent they are and whether the organisation coordinated them. Being listed does not mean an organisation is looking for partners: use the list to target your outreach.
Spanish organisations with experience in this field
The Spanish organisations that appear most often in the closest funded projects.
| Organisation | Country | Type | Similar EU projects | As coordinator | Examples (CORDIS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundacion Circe Centro De Investigacion De Recursos Y Consumos Energeticos Zaragoza | Spain | Research organisation | 9 | 6 | RE4Industry, CAPTUS, RETROFEED |
| Sidenor Aceros Especiales Sl Basauri Bizkaia | Spain | Company | 9 | 0 | RE4Industry, DiversEAFy, CircSmeltSteel |
| Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas Madrid | Spain | Research organisation | 7 | 0 | STEROPE, CAPTUS, ELITHE |
| Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation Donostia/San Sebastian | Spain | Research organisation | 7 | 4 | CircSmeltSteel, Indus3Es, FLARE |
| Sidenor Investigacion Y Desarrollosa Basauri | Spain | Research organisation | 7 | 0 | DiversEAFy, CircSmeltSteel, FLARE |
| Innceinnmat Sl Castellon De La Plana | Spain | Company · SME | 4 | 0 | 2DPLOY, ELITHE, TransZeroWaste |
| Torrecid Sa Alcora Castellon | Spain | Company | 3 | 0 | RETROFEED, ELITHE, INDTEGRATE |
| Fundacion Cartif Boecillo | Spain | Research organisation | 3 | 0 | ICARUS, SINNOGENES, FLEX-IN-BIO |
What a typical winning consortium looks like
- 15partners (median)
- 8countries (median)
- 29%of partners are SMEs
Based on the 25 funded projects closest to this call. Use it as a benchmark, not a rule: always check the call conditions for the minimum consortium.
Most similar funded projects
Read their CORDIS pages to see the full consortium, results and deliverables.
- SPINDEC – Synergies for Policy alignment, INitiative Design and Implementation for Industrial DECarbonisation (HORIZON · 2026 · HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-38)
- 2DPLOY – Development of an innovation pipeline to facilitate and promote funding proposals for deployment of low carbon technologies (HORIZON · 2024 · HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-01-07)
- STEROPE – Synergistic Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies for ConvERsion of Industrially Emitted CO2 to sustainable Production of biofuels and chEmicals (HORIZON · 2025 · HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-11)
- RE4Industry – 100% Renewable Energies for Energy Intensive Industries (H2020 · 2020 · LC-SC3-RES-28-2018-2019-2020)
- CAPTUS – Demonstrating energy intensive industry-integrated solutions to produce liquid renewable energy carriers from CAPTUred carbon emissionS (HORIZON · 2023 · HORIZON-CL5-2022-D3-02-05)
- LEADS – Creating and managing a pipeline of h2020 projects for the innovation fund on ccus (HORIZON · 2024 · HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-01-07)
Live partner requests
Organisations actively looking for partners publish their requests on these official platforms.
Partner search on this topic
On the official topic page, open “Partner search announcements” to see organisations that have declared interest in this exact topic, or publish your own (EU Login required).
Open the topic ↗EU Funding & Tenders Partner Search
Search all organisations registered in the portal by keyword, programme, country and organisation type.
Search organisations ↗Enterprise Europe Network
Europe's largest database of business, technology and R&D cooperation requests. Filter by “Research and development request”.
Browse requests ↗Upcoming info days and brokerage events
Brokerage events are where most consortia are built.
- 10 Nov 2026 · European Research and Innovation Days 2026 (Brussels and online)
- 1 Dec 2026 · Interdisciplinary Pathways towards Green and Resilient Societies (Online)
Publish what you are looking for or what you can offer on the Ullswater partner board. We review each request, publish it on this page and introduce you to suitable partners.
Track-record data: CORDIS open data (European Commission), organisation level only, refreshed weekly. Rankings are calculated automatically by Ullswater Investments from text similarity between the call and funded projects; they are indicative.