Advanced materials for magnets in applications for the New Energies Market (RIA)

Call updates

Jan 11, 2024 4:12:39 PM

An overview of the HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE_stage2 evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available

Nov 20, 2023 11:08:17 AM

PROPOSAL NUMBERS

Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE_stage2 has closed on the 5th of October 2023.

38 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:
HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-37: 3 proposals
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in January 2024

Jun 16, 2023 1:49:23 PM

For the applicants invited to submit a proposal for stage 2 of the call HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE stage 2.

submission session is not open yet as we are working on the modification of the Part B page limits in the system.

We expect this to be resolved in the next days and soon the call will be open for submission.

The Participle portal submission team will also notify all eligible applicants when the call is open for submission to proceed.

Jun 11, 2023 2:30:44 PM

GENERALISED FEEDBACK for successful applicants

after STAGE 1

HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE STAGE ONE

In order to best ensure equal treatment, successful stage 1 applicants do not receive the evaluation summary reports (ESRs) for their proposals, but this generalised feedback with information and tips for preparing the full proposal.

Information & tips

Main shortcomings found in the stage 1 evaluation:

Topic: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-37

 Excellence:

•  Not sufficiently specified how far the proposed work would plausibly exceed the state-of-the-art.
•  Documented preliminary results are not sufficiently provided.
•  The proposal does not provide sufficiently precise literature citations.
•  Some specific aspects of the methodology are not enough detailed to substantiate plausibility and credibility of the work.
•  The innovative ideas are not sufficiently detailed to explain how to reach the target KPIs.
•  A clear plan for SSH involvement is missing.

 Impact:

•  The intellectual property management is not properly considered in the context of valorization and industrial leadership.
•  No sufficient details in the description of a business case and the exploitation strategy for industrialization.

 In your stage 2 proposal, you have a chance to address or clarify these issues.

Please bear in mind that your full proposal will now be evaluated more in-depth and possibly by a new group of outside experts.

Please make sure that your full proposal is consistent with your short outline proposal. It may NOT differ substantially. The project must stay the same.

Jun 9, 2023 6:06:52 PM

EVALUATION results

Published: 08/12/2022

Deadline: 07/03/2023

Available budget: EUR 124.00 million

In accordance with the call conditions General Annex F of the Work Programme, the evaluation of the first-stage proposals was made looking only at the criteria ‘Excellence’ and ‘Impact’. The threshold for both criteria was 4. The overall threshold (applying to the sum of the two individual scores) was set for each topic/type of action with separate call-budget-split at a level that allowed the total requested budget of proposals admitted to stage 2 be as close as possible to 3 times the available budget (and not below 2.5 times the budget):

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 97

Number of inadmissible proposals: 4

Number of ineligible proposals: 2

Number of above-threshold proposals: 49

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 354.496.714,29 million

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

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

Mar 30, 2023 7:04:59 PM

PROPOSAL NUMBERS

Call HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE_stage 1 has closed on the 7th March 2023.

97 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

• HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-37: 06 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in June 2023

Feb 10, 2023 4:51:50 PM

We would like to draw your attention to an update of the 1st stage Part B application form. A new form has been republished in the online submission system for your kind consideration and use. In this update, specific guidance on the blind evaluation process, including examples of statements resulting in inadmissible proposals, was incorporated in the form.

Dec 8, 2022 12:00:06 AM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-37(HORIZON-RIA)

Advanced materials for magnets in applications for the New Energies Market (RIA)

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-37

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: RESILIENT VALUE CHAINS 2023 TWO STAGE (HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-TWO-STAGE)
Type of action: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: two-stage
Opening date: 08 December 2022
Deadline dates: 07 March 2023 17:00:00 Brussels time
05 October 2023 17:00:00 Brussels time

ExpectedOutcome:
Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

This topic refers to the innovation markets for New Energy and for Sustainable Transportation. Several materials specifications and related innovation needs will support this topic such as renewable energy and efficiency, renewable and recyclable materials, sustainable additives and catalysts, advanced surfaces, design for circularity The topic should address several key policies of the European Union such as Circular Economy Action Plan, Zero Pollution Action Plan, A New Industrial Strategy for Europe also in view of critical and strategic raw materials for energy storage and conversion.

In order to deliver the EU's 2030 climate targets under the ‘Fit For 55’ delivering EU's 2030 climate targets, Europe will need an increasing number of advanced systems for energy transformation for wind turbines and electric drive trains. For this, European industry needs high performance magnets using advanced materials solutions for the new energy innovation market, which shall contain in future lesser amounts of rare-earth metals, in view of the geostrategic dependency on critical raw materials, including rare-earth metals.

Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

Europe’s industry will benefit from advanced materials for magnets that are either free from rare-earth metals, or use to a significant extent a substitute and reduce the share of rare-earth metals magnets (compared to the state of art). This will alleviate the dependency and possible supply risks and strengthen Europe’s open strategic autonomy and competitiveness.
Europe used 16 kt of rare earths in 2020, and most of them were used to manufacture permanent magnets (NdFeB). This market is still increasing due to the massive electrification of the energy industries. If new magnet composition is successfully developed by 2030 (Nd1Fe12 phases, NdFeMo, high entropy alloys) this permanent magnet could be widely applied, also in offshore wind energy and in industry.
The new advanced materials for high-performance magnets must be available at an industrial scale and shall have improved energy-efficiency and performance, whilst at the same time will be easier to recycle with longer and enhanced life cycle.
This is in particular necessary to keep up with the political ambitions of the European Green Deal matching the increasing demand for energy harvesting and storage with the ambition to reduce emissions.
Scope:
Proposals should address at least four of the following activities:

The deployment of permanent-magnets in the energy (e.g. wind-turbine engines for power generation) is of major importance for reaching the green deal ambitions. To achieve this whilst reducing Europe's dependency on Critical Raw Materials, the rare-earth metals for magnets shall be replaced or reduced with inexpensive and non-critical materials.
Designing new rare-earth-free permanent magnetic materials (PMM) to replace high performing but critically restrained rare-earth-based PMM could be based for example on new Mn-Bi alloys, other material compositions could also be proposed. As an alternative strategy, composite magnetic materials could be developed. Rare earth-free magnets for turbines with good efficiency levels were already developed and could be further adopted. Projects must demonstrate 50% enhanced magnetic performance (energy products above 55 kJ/m3) with respect to commercial ferrites.
Alternatively, the redesigning of rare-earth magnets such as NdFeB magnets should provide for advanced materials where rare-earth metals such as Nd are (partially) replaced. These doped perovskite manganite oxide nanostructures should have the potential to achieve similar or improved magnetic properties such compared to as NdFeB magnets.
Advanced material models and simulation tools to extend the usage range of the current critical materials and shorten the development and certification cycle of new materials and processes.
Life-cycle assessment and techno-economic assessment (LCA/TEA) will analyse the economic relevance of the new advanced materials for magnets. This will also address aspects of circularity, and end-of-life aspects. Strategies for the recycling of the new advanced materials will support the whole design process.
Delivering a scaling will increase the production to an industrial level for advanced materials for magnets that are rare-earth metal free or where rare-earth metals are substituted.
To enable a fast development of new advanced materials, digital tools such as modelling, simulation and characterisation techniques (including those provided by analytical infrastructures) are under the scope, assisted by advanced methods e.g. physics-based methods, machine learning or artificial intelligence.

Proposals submitted under this topic should include a business case and exploitation strategy, as outlined in the introduction to this Destination.

Projects should build on or seek collaboration with existing projects and develop synergies with other relevant European, national or regional initiatives, funding programmes and platforms.

An early involvement of SSH research and of end users appears essential.

Additionally, a strategy for skills development should be presented.

Where relevant, proposals should seek links with and capitalise on the results of past and ongoing EU funded research projects, including the ones under Cluster 5 “Climate, Energy, Mobility”.

Specific Topic Conditions:
Activities are expected to start at TRL 3-4 and achieve TRL 5-6 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.