This call aims to support energy-intensive industries in reducing the use of hazardous substances and developing novel processing technologies with lower health, safety, and environmental impacts. Projects should address emerging and lesser-known pollutants not currently regulated at the EU level, improve occupational health by empowering workers, and contribute to clean air and biodiversity goals. Proposals must include life-cycle and techno-economic assessments, a business case, and collaboration with relevant stakeholders, while also contributing to standardisation and data-sharing practices.

Expected Outcome:

Energy Intensive industries will benefit from the following outcomes:

• Reduce the use of hazardous substances in production processes and materials that pose a risk for human- and environmental health and safety, and ensure the avoidance of their proliferation into products;
• Enable novel processing technologies and materials with reduced health, safety, and environmental impacts;
• Increased knowledge on the industrial emission releases when it comes to emerging and less known groups of hazardous pollutants not regulated at EU level;
• Reduce the occupational exposure risk and negative health impacts at work by empowering employees;
• Contribute to the clean air and potentially biodiversity objectives, through the outcomes above.