HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-05

Building EU-Africa partnerships on sustainable raw materials value chains (CSA) -

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Expected Outcome

Projects outcomes will enable achieving the expected impacts of the destination by increasing access to primary and secondary raw materials, in particular critical raw materials for EU industrial value chains and strategic sectors.

Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

  • Steer the development of strategic partnerships for EU-Africa industrial value chains’ integration, covering exploration, extraction, mineral processing, refining and recycling (if refining capacity is in place);
  • Improve sustainability (especially environmental and social aspects) in the mining and metal recycling sectors in Africa, including its impacts on biodiversity;
  • Contribute to eradicating illegal and ethically doubtful supply chains and activities;
  • Develop knowledge on raw materials potential in Africa that will facilitate investment and business decisions;
  • Reduce EU vulnerabilities in raw materials sourcing;
  • Diversify EU supply chains from third countries for raw materials, especially for critical raw materials;
  • Contribute to connecting different stakeholders of raw materials value chains, including final users.

In order to achieve the expected outcomes, international cooperation with partners established in Africa is strongly encouraged.

Dissemination and exploitation of projects outputs is tailored for EU and African organisations and industry dealing with raw materials.

The project should consider the findings and explore synergies with previous and ongoing EU funded projects for Africa and existing trustworthy EU and international initiatives, covering raw materials value chains.

The action is expected to contribute to the implementation of the following actions of the EU action plan on Critical raw materials:[1]

  • Promote responsible mining practices through the EU’s international cooperation programmes, in particular those related to the sustainable development of the informal sector (Artisanal and Small Scale Mining), which has become of strategic relevance in this field;
  • Strengthen the local governance and business environment, together with other institutions and development partners (EITI, OECD, UNDP, WB, and Germany’s GIZ). The focus should be on supporting the informal sector, and to promote and disseminate responsible business practices.
  • Develop strategic international partnerships to secure a diversified supply of sustainable critical raw materials, starting with pilot partnerships with interested countries in Africa in 2021.

Scope

Actions should include:

  • An in-depth analysis of critical raw materials potential in Africa and existing processing and refining capacities;
  • Mapping and assessing investment opportunities in strategic raw materials value chains in Africa, considering factors as existing potential, availability of infrastructures, good governance and regulatory issues;
  • Developing new business models to integrate EU and Africa raw materials value chains, considering horizontal and vertical integration;
  • Developing a strategy for integration for EU and Africa value chains for the energy and digital transition;
  • Building an EU and Africa business networking with upstream and downstream companies;
  • Carrying out an in-depth analysis on financial instruments and investment funds and loans available at member state, EU and international levels for the Africa region.
  • Developing in-depth case studies, addressing the above listed actions but not limited to it, for at least six African countries, including DRC, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Gabon and Namibia.

All the data and information generated through these actions should be shared in open formats on a free of charge basis with the European Commission, for its own use and for publication.

Public authorities and civil society organisations should participate actively in project activities to ensure that the processes and outcomes of the R&I align with the needs, values, expectations of society and, when social change, new social practices, social ownership or market uptake are required, social innovation should be encouraged.

Proposals should take into account issues of accessibility and inclusivity, such as age, gender, disability, and socio-economic background.

Cross-cutting Priorities:

International CooperationSocietal EngagementSocio-economic science and humanitiesAfricaSocial Innovation

[1]COM (2020) 474

News flashes

2022-01-10

Call for proposals: HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01

Deadline: 23 September 2021

Available budget: EUR 355,200,000

Topic code

Type(s) of action

Budget

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-01

RIA

24.70

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-03

RIA

13.50

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-04

IA

36.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-05

CSA

8.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-06

RIA

30.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-07

IA

36.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-08

CSA

4.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-09

IA

28.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-10

RIA

23.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-11

RIA

19.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-12

RIA

19.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-14

IA

33.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-16

CSA

4.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-17

RIA

21.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-20

RIA

23.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-25

CSA

6.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-26

RIA

6.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-27

CSA

4.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-28

CSA

2.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-29

CSA

10.00

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-31

RIA

5.00

The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call.

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 225

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 160

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 976,461,868

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

It is expected that the first grant agreements will be signed by March 2022.

Information on the selected projects will be published on CORDIS[1] after that date.

Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Commission.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service[2].

[1] Available at http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html

[2] Available at http://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries

2021-10-04

Deadline HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01: 23.09.2021

A total of 225 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-01: 34

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-03: 1

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-04: 9

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-05: 4

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-06: 7

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-07: 4

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-08: 3

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-09: 1

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-10: 11

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-11: 10

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-12: 18

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-14: 8

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-16: 2

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-17: 19

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-20: 47

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-25: 2

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-26: 6

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-27: 7

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-28: 1

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-29: 25

HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-31: 6

2021-06-22
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-28(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-16(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-11(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-10(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-25(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-29(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-01(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-17(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-08(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-05(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-27(HORIZON-CSA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-09(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-04(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-07(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-14(HORIZON-IA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-26(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-03(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-12(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-20(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-31(HORIZON-RIA), HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-01-06(HORIZON-RIA)
call topic details
Call status: Closed
Publication date: 2021-06-16 (4 years ago)
Opening date: 2021-06-22 (4 years ago)
Closing date: 2021-09-23 (3 years ago)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 8000000
Expected grants: not specified
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    the submission session is now available...
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