Deadline: 09-Oct-2025
The Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, has opened participation in the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership) Joint Call 2025 to accelerate research, development and innovation for a green and climate-neutral future across industrial and energy sectors.
Focus areas include TRI 3: Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) and TRI 6: Challenge 1 focused on GHG mitigation technologies in industrial sectors such as Oil and Natural Gas, Coal Mining, Cement, and Steel. Objectives and priorities highlight technical feasibility, robust approaches for CCUS and GHG mitigation, well-defined and synergistic partnerships of academia, R&D institutions, industry associations, and enterprises, and the development and pilot deployment of safe and cost-effective mitigation technologies. Other prioritized themes are collaboration between technology designers and providers; installation, testing, and validation with industry involvement; and constructing consortia that ensure solution-oriented, industrially relevant impact.
The Joint Call targets India’s academic organizations, publicly funded R&D institutions, government autonomous organizations, DSIR-recognized SIRO organizations, industry associations, and eligible Indian companies meeting defined requirements. For TRI 6 Challenge 1, consortia must include both academia and industrial partners, with mandatory participation of relevant industries, PSUs, or start-ups, ensuring technology design, provision, and demonstration in real industrial environments. The funding aims at research through to pilot-scale demonstrations within single projects, supporting capital expenses (with equipment capped at 30% of the total), personnel, travel, workshops, project consumables, and other eligible costs as per DST and CETP guidelines. Industry partners are reimbursed up to 70–75% of eligible costs, while universities, public research organizations, and R&D labs can receive 100% of approved costs as grant-in-aid.
Proposals must be submitted online on the CETPartnership Submission Tool for the pre-proposal phase, and, if selected, a full proposal must be submitted through DST’s e-PMS portal in accordance with prescribed formats and documentation. Indian entities must ensure all participating organizations are separate legal entities and comply with all requirements, including collaboration documentation, technical capacity, audited accounts, and GST registration where applicable. Subcontracting is capped at 20% of the Indian budget, and all eligible costs including subcontracts must be incurred within India. Grant recipients are bound to DST’s project management, reporting, and audit requirements.
Funding available for Indian partners is up to 0.37 million euros per awarded project, with a maximum of two projects each for TRI 3 (CCUS) and TRI 6 Challenge 1, ensuring equal weightage to carbon capture, utilization/conversion, and storage/sequestration or industrial GHG mitigation. All relevant DST-approved norms for overheads, emoluments, and cost heads must be strictly followed, and projects must align with the clean energy transition and climate neutrality aims of the partnership.
For more information, visit DST.
