The objective of this event is to provide an overview of the Innovation Funds’ progress and achievements, and to gather stakeholder feedback on future calls for proposals. Thus, this event presents an opportunity for sector-specific stakeholders to provide their input on the design of the 2025 Innovation Fund Call for Proposals.
Registration
Registration for both on-site and online participation is now open.
The deadline to register for on-site attendance is Friday, 20 June 2025. Registrations made after this deadline will be for online participation only.
On-site registration is available on a first-come-first-served basis and will be limited to a maximum of two participants per organisation.
Book your seat, 2 weeks left to register, registration will end on Friday 20 June 2025, 23:59 (CEST)
- EU financing
- Friday 27 June 2025, 09:30 - 17:45 (CEST)
- Live streaming available
Programme
- 27 Jun 2025, 09:30 - 10:00 (CEST)Registration
- 10:00 - 10:15 (CEST)Policy developments & new support mechanisms
- 10:15 - 10:30 (CEST)Progress achieved by the Innovation Fund
- 10:30 - 11:15 (CEST)Main outcomes from the 2024 call for proposals
- 11:15 - 12:00 (CEST)Coffee Break
- 12:00 - 12:30 (CEST)Knowledge sharing – key takeaways from IF projects
- 12:30 - 13:30 (CEST)IF25 call design options
- 13:30 - 14:30 (CEST)Lunch Break
- 14:30 - 15:30 (CEST)Sector working sessions (parallel sessions)
- Sector A: Net Zero Mobility: Aviation, Maritime & Road Transport
- Sector B: Clean tech manufacturing
- 15:30 - 15:45 (CEST)Coffee Break
- 15:45 - 16:45 (CEST)Sector working sessions (parallel sessions)
- Sector C: Renewable energy generation and Energy storage use
- Sector D: Energy Intensive Industries (including CCS and CCU)
- 16:45 - 17:30 (CEST)Key takeaways from discussions of sectoral sessions
- 17:30 - 17:45 (CEST)Concluding remarks and next steps
Practical information
- When
- Friday 27 June 2025, 09:30 - 17:45 (CEST)
- Where
- Albert Borschette Conference Center, rooms 0A and 0B
- Livestream
- Starts on Friday 27 June 2025, 08:30 (CEST)
- Languages
- English
Description
The Innovation Fund is one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the demonstration and commercialisation of innovative net-zero and low-carbon technologies. The Innovation Fund aims to bring industrial solutions to decarbonise Europe to the market and is funded with revenues from the auctioning of allowances from the EU Emissions Trading System.
With a total budget of around €12 billion already committed since 2021, the Innovation Fund supports over 200 innovative projects across the European Economic Area (EEA).
The Innovation Fund now:
- Includes a €1 billion battery call for electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing or projects demonstrating innovative technologies, processes or products, that are sufficiently mature and have a significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Includes a €1.2 billion available to produce renewable hydrogen categorised as ‘Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin’ (RFNBO).
- Anticipates the inclusion of a new auction for industrial process heat decarbonisation which proposes to allocate the budget of up to €1 billion through fixed-premium auctions in support of projects that decarbonise industrial process heat through innovative electrification technologies such as heat pumps, electric boilers, resistance heating, induction heating, plasma heating and other solutions as well as renewable heat solutions (solar thermal and geothermal).