Call Module 2026-04: Industrial carbon management

Industrial carbon management will play a key role in achieving climate neutrality, particularly in energy-intensive industries where emissions are difficult to eliminate. Continued innovation is needed to reduce costs, improve performance and enable large-scale deployment of carbon management technologies.

This call module focuses on research and innovation supporting the development and scale-up of industrial carbon management technologies, including carbon capture, utilisation, and removal solutions.

Proposals should address the advancement and deployment of industrial carbon management technologies. Key challenges include:

• Cost reduction and technology maturation: Lowering capital and operational costs while increasing performance and reliability.
• Scale-up to industrial scale: Bridging the gap between pilot scale and industrial or early commercial deployment.
• Infrastructure development: Establishing transport and storage networks, including cross-border solutions.
• Life-cycle sustainability: Reducing the overall CO₂ footprint of CCS, CCU and CDR technologies and ensuring environmental integrity.
• Market and regulatory readiness: Creating enabling conditions for investment and deployment.

Proposals may address industrial carbon management pathways, including CO₂ capture for storage (CCS), utilisation (CCU), and carbon dioxide removal (CDR), covering capture, transport, storage, utilisation, and system-level improvements.

This call module complements Call Module 9, which focuses on integrated industrial-scale systems. Projects developing CCU technologies without industrial integration should apply under Call Module 4.

Proposals should demonstrate measurable progress towards affordable, safe, and environmentally sound industrial carbon management solutions that support climate neutrality, show clear potential for scaling up to industrial size in demonstration or early commercial deployment, while avoiding duplication of existing research.

Projects are expected to:

• End at TRL 5 or higher.
• Increase of at least +1 TRL.
• Include at least one industrial partner.

Contact point: TRI3@cetpartnership.eu

Attention: This is just an introduction to the call module. Make sure to read the full call text before applying, including the detailed scope, requirements, and eligibility conditions, which will be published this summer.