Funding Opportunity Announcement in Sustainable Biofuels Innovation Challenge by Mission Innovation India Unit
Type of post: NEWS.
Mission Innovation (MI) is
a global initiative of 23 countries and the European Union to accelerate the clean
energy innovation which was announced on November 30, 2015. As a part of this
initiative, the participating countries have committed to double their
government’s clean energy research and development (R&D) investments over
five years while encouraging greater level of private sector investments in
clean energy technologies.
The Sustainable Biofuels
Innovation Challenge (SBIC, IC#4) under MI is co-led by India, Brazil, Canada
and China. The other participating countries include Australia, the European
Commission, Finland, France, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, the
Netherlands, UK and USA. Government of India has given the responsibility to
Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology to coordinate
the Indian MI activities. This organism has just issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
for the SBIC.
All the information can be
found here: http://mission-innovation-india.net/FOA/.
Figure 1. Mission Innovation
(MI) is a global initiative of 23 countries and the European Union to
accelerate the clean energy innovation
Key data are summarized in the
following table:
Purpose
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To develop ways to produce advanced biofuels for
transportation and industrial applications.
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Scope
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Both
bilateral and multilateral collaborations between Indian scientists and
scientists from member countries of IC#4 are within the scope of this call.
The MI member countries are encouraged to take part in this
call by providing financial support to their researchers.
The proposals under the EU’s Research Framework Programme
Horizon 2020 (LC-SC3-RES-22-2018, Demonstration of cost effective advanced
biofuel pathways in retrofitted existing industrial installations) are also
eligible to apply.
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Funding
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Total Funding Size: 5 M$ (US) or equivalent in local
currency of participating MI country.
Floor limit: 0.2 M$ (US).
Ceiling limit: 1 M$ (US).
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Timeline
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Call for
Letter of Intent (LoI): 15th June 2018.
Last date
of submission of LoI Form: 31st Aug 2018.
Invitation
for submission of detailed proposals: Early Nov 2018.
Receipt
of detailed proposals: Mid Dec 2018.
Evaluation
of proposals: Early Feb 2019.
Announcement
of Awards: Last week of May 2019.
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