Valorisation of the organic content of Municipal Solid Waste and contributing to the renewable circular economy

This program supports the development and demonstration of new ways of utilising municipal solid waste for production of intermediate products. 

Activities supported 

This program supports the demonstration of new ways of utilising municipal solid waste for production of intermediates such as fuels, chemical building blocks, polymers, additives, etc. 

Requirements 

The applicant must be a consortium of at least 3 different unrelated legal entities in 3 different Horizon 2020 affiliated countries.  

Financing  

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to 15 million would allow this area to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Funding rate is 70% for profit seeking organizations and 100% for non-profits. 

Upcoming calls 

This program will have 1 more call on 2016 September 08 which has a budget of 188.65 million euros that it shares with several other research programs.