Dates:
- Competition closes: 17 July 2024 11am
- Applicants notified: 09 September 2024
- Project start date & duration: Start from 01 November 2024 (6 months)
Scope
Joint Netherlands and UK projects must conduct a technical and economic feasibility study associated with the development and real-world demonstration of a Green Shipping Corridor route. To qualify as a Green Shipping Corridor, you must plan for at least one net zero emission (well-to-wake) vessel to be transiting a route between the UK and the Netherlands.
Specific Themes
- Produce a clear, detailed, costed plan for how Green Shipping Corridor will be demonstrated in an operational setting
- Estimate the annual additional costs of delivering the corridor, considering various market participants
- Estimate the scope for scaling up the number of zero-emission vessels and corresponding landside infrastructure.
- Investigate potential scalable zero emission energy source options for the corridor. Estimate the quantity of energy required each year, with a clear plan for how this would be produced, imported, distributed, stored and bunkered.
- Consider the design of the zero emission vessels that would be used on the corridor, for example, newbuild or retrofit vessels.
- Include a clear plan for how the corridor would comply with all relevant regulations, for example, safety regulations.
Note: this list is non-exhaustive.
Projects that will not be funded
The following fuels are in scope of this call bio-methanol, synthetic renewable LNG, synthetic renewable methanol, synthetic renewable ammonia, green hydrogen renewable electricity. Other fuels can be studied but these other fuels must not be the sole focus of the project. The other fuels must be compliant with the Directive (EU) 2018/2001, Regulation (EU) 2023/1805 and amending Directive 2009/16/EC.
Eligibility
- No one country or project partner can represent more than 65% of the total project cost
- You must undertake the majority of the project work in the UK and the Netherlands and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK and Netherlands
- All collaborations must include each of these organisations as a minimum: a UK port or harbour, a Netherlands port or harbour a UK or Netherlands vessel owner or operator with a vessel operating on, or intending to operate on, a route between the Netherlands and the UK.
Funding Rates
- Projects must have total costs across the UK and Netherlands of between £50,000 (€58,000) and £250,000 (€292,000)
| Organisation size | Feasability Studies (TRL2-3) |
| Micro/small business | <70% |
| Medium sized business | <60% |
| Large business | <50% |
Research organisations in your consortium can share up to 30% of the UK total eligible project costs.
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
