EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL TOPICS

1. Increasing climate ambition: cross-sectoral challenges

• Preventing and fighting extreme wildfires with the integration and demonstration of innovative means
• Towards climate-neutral and socially innovative cities
• Climate-resilient innovation packages for EU regions

2. Clean affordable and secure energy

• Demonstration of innovative critical technologies to enable future large-scale deployment of offshore renewable energy technologies (with the possibility to address also hydrogen applications)
• Develop and demonstrate a 100 MW electrolyzer upscaling the link between renewables and industrial applications

3. Industry for a clean and circular economy

• Closing the industrial carbon cycle to combat climate change
• Demonstration of systemic solutions for the territorial deployment of the circular economy

4. Energy and resource-efficient buildings

• Energy and resource-efficient buildings
• Building and renovating in an energy and resource efficient way

5. Sustainable and smart mobility

• Green airports and ports as hubs for sustainable and smart mobility

6. Farm to Fork

• Testing and demonstrating systemic innovations for sustainable food from farm to fork

7. Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services

• Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services

8. Zero-pollution, toxic-free environment

• Innovative, systemic zero-pollution solutions to protect health, environment and natural resources from persistent and mobile chemicals  
• Fostering regulatory science to address chemical and pharmaceutical mixtures: from science to evidence-based policies

9. Strengthening our knowledge in support of the European Green Deal

• European Research Infrastructures capacities and services to address European Green Deal challenges
• Developing end-user products and services for all stakeholders and citizens supporting climate adaptation and mitigation
• A transparent and accessible ocean Towards a Digital Twin of the Ocean

10. Empowering citizens for transition towards a climate neutral, sustainable Europe

• European capacities for citizen deliberation and participation for the Green Deal
• Behavioural, social and cultural change for the Green Deal
• Enabling citizens to act on climate change and environmental protection through education, citizen science, observation initiatives, and civic involvement

11. Accelerating the clean energy transition and access in partnership with Africa

• Accelerating demonstration of clean energy solutions in Africa and the Mediterranean