ONDEP for … ONdas DE Peniche or Waves of Peniche in English!

This project has been officially launched! Efund initiated and supported this flagship project led by the Queen’s University of Belfast under the HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-01-08 – Demonstration of sustainable wave energy farms call. The ONDEP project aims to harness wave energy to provide clean, reliable power across Europe. It will establish a 2MW wave energy farm in…
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EPIC-SHIFT: Pioneering the future of food through alternative proteins has been funded

The project has officially been launched! In 2024, with the support of Efund, a multidisciplinary consortium led by Lund University successfully secured funding for EPIC-SHIFT (Securing Holistic and Impactful Food Systems Transformation with Novel Foods based on Alternative Proteins) under the HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-01-7 – Impact of the development of novel foods based on alternative sources of…
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SAFELOOP (Securely Advancing Future EVs with Li-IOn batteries through Optimized Pathways) has been funded.

In 2023, Efund initiated and supported the consortium coordinated by University of Oulu, in the preparation and submission of a successful proposal to the call HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-02-02 – New Approaches to Develop Enhanced Safety Materials for Gen 3 Li-Ion Batteries for Mobility Applications (Batt4EU Partnership). The EU-funded SAFELOOP project addresses a critical challenge for the electric…
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TERRASAFE (TErrestrial Resilience and RestorAtion Strategies for (semi) Arid and Fragile Ecosystems through a multi-actor approach) has been funded!

In 2023, Efund initiated and assisted the consortium, led by the University of Aveiro, in securing funding for the TERRASAFE project, which responded to the HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-04 – Innovations to prevent and combat desertification call. The goal of TERRASAFE is to empower local communities in Southern Europe and Northern Africa to effectively combat desertification, a challenge…
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WHEATWATCHER: Safe Wheat Agriculture Towards Sustainable Health: Innovative Sensing Techniques, and Holistic Spectroscopy Traceability for Improved Soil, plant Health and safe wheat grain. has been funded

The WHEATWATCHER project has officially been launched! In 2023, Efund initiated and supported the international consortium, coordinated by Ghent University, in securing funding, under the HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-03 – Onsite digital technologies to monitor nutrients and chemical or biological stressors in soil and plants with relevance for food safety and nutrition call.  In a world grappling with…
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FORESi (FOstering a Recycled European Silicon supply) has been funded

In 2023, Efund assisted the consortium led by SIPOW, to elaborated a project answering the call HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01-05: Recycling technologies for critical raw materials from EoL products. The project aims at FOstering a Recycled European Silicon supply. through the first worldwide industrial demonstration of a cradle-to-cradle Silicon value chain. To contribute to a sustainable energy sovereignty…
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STREAMS (Sustainable Technologies for Reducing Europe’s bAttery raw MaterialS dependence) has been funded

In 2023, Efund assisted the Austrian Institute of technology to build a project answering the call HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-01-01: Technologies for sustainable, cost-efficient and low carbon footprint downstream processing & production of battery-grade materials. STREAMS will develop, evaluate and successfully demonstrate a comprehensive portfolio of at least 12 scalable and flexible technologies and pilot scale solutions for…
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FEASTS (Fostering European cellular Agriculture for Sustainable Transition Solutions) has been funded

In 2023, Efund elaborated a project lead by IST-ID answering the call HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-13: Cultured meat and cultured seafood – state of play and future prospects in the EU. FEASTS will provide an unprecedented, unbiased and robust knowledge base for the assessment of the sustainability aspects of the CM/CSF sector by actively promoting multistakeholder engagement and…
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AI4DEBUNK (Participative Assistive AI-powered Tools for Supporting Trustworthy Online Activity of Citizens and Debunking Disinformation) has been funded

In 2023, Efund assisted the consortium led by the University of Latvia to prepare a project answering the call HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-05: Through AI from Disinformation to Trust (IA). The project has been funded and aims to develop 4 human-centered AI-powered interfaces: a web plug-in, a collaborative platform, a smartphone app, and an AR interface. All these…
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BLOW (Black sea fLoating Offshore Wind) has been funded

In 2022, Efund assisted the consortium led by FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA DE L’ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA to submit a proposal in response to the call HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-12 – Innovation on floating wind energy deployment optimized for deep waters and different sea basins (Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, North-east Atlantic Ocean). The project has been funded…
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