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Projects include the participation of 17 Portuguese entities

The European Commission has allocated around EUR 5.7 million to Portuguese entities, within the scope of a transversal call for Cluster 5 – Climate, Energy and Mobility, of Horizon Europe. In total, 38 R&D projects with national participation were submitted, of which nine were selected for funding, representing a success rate of 24% compared to the European average.

These results regard part of the 2021 Cluster 5 call, and correspond to 17% of the total funding of the call. 16 topics were presented in the call with a total budget of EUR 251 million, 2.3% of which were allocated to 17 Portuguese entities participating in the nine innovative projects funded.

Of the 9 selected projects, 5 involve the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI). Other entities involved in the projects funded by this call are ANI, CCDR-N, CCDR-C, DGEG, DGT, INOVA+, Pegmatítica, SPI, the University of Porto and the University of Lisbon.

‘Within just over a month, these are the second results obtained by Horizon Europe we have announced. Altogether, these results of the calls for Clusters 4 and 5 fund 39 projects with the participation of 34 Portuguese entities. They raised funding for their R&D projects for a total value of EUR 26.7 million. I believe, therefore, that we are on the right track towards the goal that ANI wants to achieve, i.e. For Portugal to raise about two billion euros by 2027, meaning twice of what it raised in Horizon 2020’, says Joana Mendonça, Chariman of ANI.

In Portugal, Cluster 5 – Climate, Energy and Mobility is monitored by ANI, within the scope of the PERIN network.

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