Institute for Environmental Studies

University

Amsterdam, Netherlands

About

IVM’s mission is to contribute to sustainable development and to care for the environment through excellent scientific research and teaching.Being the oldest environmental research institute in The Netherlands (est. 1971), IVM is currently one of the world's leading institutes in sustainability science. With 200+ employees (staff, PhDs and Postdocs), IVM has been rated with the highest scores on scientific excellence, and each year we receive over 140 MSc students and we host over 50 PhD students in our teaching programmes.VM’s mission is to contribute to sustainable development and to care for the environment through excellent scientific research and teaching.

Destination 1. Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality

HORIZON-CL5-2026-07-D1-01: Next generation climate monitoring and related capabilitiesHORIZON-CL5-2026-07-D1-02: Advancing European climate risk assessmentsHORIZON-CL5-2026-07-D1-03: Economics of climate change and cost of inactionHORIZON-CL5-2026-07-D1-04: Fighting disinformation and effectively communicating on climate changeHORIZON-CL5-2026-07-D1-05: Improving climate and weather models for AfricaHORIZON-CL5-2026-08-Two-Stage-D1-06: Closing knowledge gaps on Earth system science in support of global and regional assessments and climate policy

Destination 2. Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition

HORIZON-CL5-2026-09-D2-01: Producing battery-grade materials for electrodes through sustainable processing and refining of raw materials or developing bio-based materials (BATT4EU Partnership)HORIZON-CL5-2026-03-D2-02: Development of direct recycling processes (BATT4EU Partnership)HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D2-03: Integrated Production and Product Development for Next-Generation Lithium-based Batteries for Mobility (BATT4EU and Made in Europe Partnerships)HORIZON-CL5-2026-09-D2-04: Coordinated topic with India on recycling of EV batteries

Destination 3. Sustainable, secure and competitive energy supply

HORIZON-CL5-2026-03-D3-01: Targeting key value chain components for increasing the competitiveness of renewable energy technologies in EuropeHORIZON-CL5-2026-04-Two-Stage-D3-02: Next generation of renewable energy technologiesHORIZON-CL5-2026-03-D3-03: Innovative technologies and solutions to improve wind energy systems supporting the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan on windHORIZON-CL5-2026-11-D3-04: De-risking renewable fuel technologies through transnational pre-commercial procurement of renewable fuel industrial value chainsHORIZON-CL5-2026-11-D3-05: Demonstration of solid biofuel supply and conversion to high efficiency large scale CHP from fully sustainable regional value chainsHORIZON-CL5-2026-11-D3-06: Resource assessment for deep sedimentary and basement reservoirsHORIZON-CL5-2026-03-D3-12: Long-lifetime and optimised use of materials in recyclable Ag and In-free Si PV modules (EUPI-PV Partnership)HORIZON-CL5-2026-03-D3-13: Industrial scale up and circularity pathway for IPV technologies (EUPI-PV Partnership)HORIZON-CL5-2026-11-D3-14: Improved system design for innovative PV applications (EUPI-PV Partnership)HORIZON-CL5-2026-03-D3-18: Grid-forming capabilities for more resilient and RES-based electricity grids

Representatives

Assistant Professor

Institute for Environmental Studies