Il- Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership) is a multilateral and strategic Horizon Europe partnership with the aim of driving the energy transition and contributing to the EU’s goal of becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. It brings together funding from 50 programme owners across 30 countries, supporting a broad range of technologies and systems necessary for this energy transition.

The 2026 CETPartnership Joint Call is a 2-stage call structured around the following Call Modules:

  • Integrated energy system resilience in a changing environment
  • Energy system flexibility in a high renewable energy sources (RES) scenario: energy generation, storage and system integration
  • Advanced renewable energy technologies for power production (Research-Oriented Approach)
  • Advanced renewable energy technologies for power production (Innovation-Oriented Approach)
  • Industrial Carbon Management
  • Hydrogen and renewable fuels
  • Stationary battery technologies and systems for climate-neutral industry and built environment
  • Heating and cooling technologies
  • Integrated regional energy systems
  • Integrated industrial energy systems
  • Clean energy integration in the built environment

The call modules describe specific topics and/or challenges that applicants shall address in their project proposal. Applicants must choose and apply under a specific call module when submitting their project proposal. Evaluation and ranking of the project proposals will be performed separately per call module.

Entities in Malta are eligible for funding in all call modules, with the option of requesting up to €500,000 to participate in CETPartnership proposal consortia. It is to be noted that if more than one national partner is present in one consortium, the total amount of funding for the participating national partners cannot exceed the €500,000 cap.

 

For further information on this year’s call, kindly refer to the Call Text, National Application Form – Final as well as the National Rules for participation for State Aid, and Non-State Aid. Annexes can be downloaded from this link.

To apply, the below need to be submitted by the pre-proposal deadline:

  • The project coordinator needs to submit the project pre-proposal on the Electronic Submission Tool by 8 October 2026, 14:00 CET.

Each National applicant shall be required to submit a National Application Form to eusubmissions.xjenzamalta@gov.mt by the 8 October 2026, 23:59 CET

 

A national information session will be held online on the 19 June 2026 (10:00-11:00), please register HERE. A video recording of the session, as well as the presentation slides, will be available following the event.

For further information please contact the programme officers Ms Margherita Muscat at margherita.muscat.1@gov.mt, (+356) 2360 2339 and/or Ms. Christy Baldacchino at christy.baldacchino.2@gov.mt, (+356) 2360 2158.

Karigi Relatati