Clean Energy Newsletter

41 cross-border energy infrastructure projects will receive EU support under the call for proposals launched in April 2024. This was the largest CEF Energy call, both in terms of number of applications submitted and the amount of funding granted, which largely exceeded the call’s initial indicative budget of EUR 850 million.

Explore our LIFE in European countries page, where you will find your National Contact Point along with newly updated, detailed country factsheets.

Registration is open for the 2025 Cleantech Conference. This year’s focus will be on how decarbonisation through innovation initiatives like the Innovation Fund can give the EU the upper hand in the race to climate neutrality. Join us on 8 April 2025, in Brussels or online.

The RTR (Results from Road Transport Research) Conference held in Brussels on 11-13 February, attracted its largest audience to date. With 500 participants on-site, 400 participants online, and over 90 projects on stage, the event showed the importance of collaborative research in road transport at the European level.

Organised by the Waterborne Technology Platform, the Waterborne Days took place in Brussels on 4 and 5 February. The event brought together industry experts, researchers and policymakers to discuss trends and challenges facing the sector as well as listen to first-hand insights from many CINEA-managed projects.

By converting ships to run on renewable liquid fuels, the EU-funded FASTWATER project is showing how transport emissions can be cut, offering significant progress towards the EU’s climate goals.

As winter temperatures drop across northern Europe, homes and businesses are dialling up the heat. Across southern Denmark, the green energy transition is being driven by the LIFE COHEAT2 project.

As the world moves towards a more sustainable energy system, the GreenSwitch project is playing a key role in transforming the grid infrastructure in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia.

The STERCORE project turns waste into high-quality organic fertilisers and green energy. With expert guidance from Green Assist, STERCORE plans to bring to market a new solution to combat waste.

Two of Europe's leading glass manufacturing groups, AGC and Saint-Gobain, have joined forces in a strategic partnership funded by the Innovation Fund to develop an innovative hybrid furnace that could reshape the flat glass industry and significantly reduce carbon emissions.

Using advanced heat pump technology, a new innovative solution funded by the Innovation Fund aims to recover and upgrade waste heat from a refinery and producing steam that optimises energy consumption and reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

Not all LIFE projects feature eye-catching technologies or bring devastated habitats back to life. Some – such as LIFE NECPlatform – work quietly behind the scenes, but their impact is just as important. The LIFE NECPlatform multi-level governance and dialogue platform is essential for delivering the EU’s vision of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.

Last month, the European Commission and CINEA kicked off the HY2FISH project. The project, funded under the Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions scheme, will retrofit a demonstrator fishing vessel off the Spanish coast to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption.

As the world marked the International Day of Clean Energy on 26 January, LIFE is making it easier for home owners in the Netherlands to save energy and money.

On 9 February Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania connected to the European electricity grid via Poland, reducing their dependence on external energy systems and reinforcing their role within the EU energy market. CEF Energy funding has been fundamental in achieving this historic milestone in the Energy Union.