NWO announces call ERA-Net Regional Energy Systems

The NWO domains Science and Social Sciences and Humanities, and the TKI Urban Energy fund Dutch participate in the upcoming call of ERA-Net RegSys, a follow-up of earlier calls of ERA-Net Smart Grids. The call will open May 23. Deadline of submitting pre-proposals is September 11, 2018. Researchers of Dutch research institutes may apply together with research institutes of at least one other participating country/region on the subject of regional energy systems.

The Dutch budget will be between € 1.5 million and € 2 million. Funding is up to € 800,000 for a maximum period of 36 months. 

Proposals need to be multidisciplinary: research into technical and social innovations must be combined. Without social innovations (e.g. related to participation of energy users, optimal institutional embedding, rules and regulations, business models) the technical innovations cannot succeed in practice.