Project description
Sustainable energy partnership between Africa and the EU
Following in the footsteps of the LEAP-RE pilot project (2020-2025), the EU-funded LEAP-SE project will continue its commitment to long-term EU-Africa collaboration in sustainable energy. Building on LEAP-RE, it seeks to attract more stakeholders from government and funding organisations as partners. The action involves coordinating two co-funded calls steered by European and African funding organisations. The agencies will select which proposals to fund based on the ranking lists made by an independent evaluation panel. Research and academia, the private sector and society are expected to answer to the call for proposals and jointly carry out research and innovation. LEAP-SE will further monitor the funded projects, ensure the valorisation of results and promote cluster events to boost dissemination of project outcomes.
Objective
Built on LEAP-RE programme implemented between 2020 and 2025, the LEAP-SE action will organize 2 co-funded calls steered by European and African funding organisations. The Calls Steering Committee (CSC), gathering all funding organisations involved in the action, will select the projects to be funded considering the specific national eligibility and funding rules of each funding agency (nationality of beneficiaries, TRL, nature of beneficiaries, thematic scope, etc.).
It should be noted that, even if the overall scope of LEAP-SE enlarges to all sustainable energy fields matching the CCSE scope on energy (including the multiannual roadmaps of LEAP-RE and the enlarged to green hydrogen issues) it will still be possible for funding agencies to focus their specific action on their own priority lines, in term of thematic focus or on TRL level.
LEAP-SE draws on the experience and partnership developed in LEAP-RE. This partnership is further strengthened by a much larger number of African organisations/countries participating to the co-funded calls and by previous collaboration between partners in other projects supporting the EU-Africa HLPD on STI, such as LEAP-Agri, ERAfrica, LEAP4FNSSA, RINEA, CAAST-Net Plus and FOSC. It will work with other European partnerships such as CETP and DUT.
LEAP-SE will also ensure the follow-up and monitoring of the funded projects, the valorisation of the results and clustering activities will ensure a broad dissemination of projects outputs reaching a global coherence among funded projects and avoiding fragmentation. The high-level dialogue foreseen with policymakers and institutional stakeholders will ensure that LEAP-SE has access to the relevant instances to raise any policy or regulatory issue hindering the deployment of some innovative solutions.
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HORIZON-COFUND - HORIZON Programme Cofund ActionsCoordinator
75013 Paris
France
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Participants (19)
- Alger
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0001 Pretoria
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11516 Cairo
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010362 Bucuresti
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75011 Paris
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
0001 Brummeria
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1090 Wien
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00153 Roma
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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52428 Julich
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1249 074 Lisboa
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06100 Ankara
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10020 Rabat
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N/A Yaounde
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36005 Dakar
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11516 CAIRO
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26525 Windhoek
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1002 Tunis
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10100 Rabat
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Partners (2)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
75598 Paris
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
49004 Angers Cedex 01
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