AU-EU Water Energy Food Nexus

1. AU-EU Water Energy Food Nexus
Programme: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
ID: HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-01
Types of action: HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Budget : Euro 5.000,000

2. Topic description
Expected Outcome:
 Reinforce the activities in the long term the AU-EU HLPD CCSE Partnership.
 Provide knowledge and scientific modelling as evidence base of the water-energy-
food-nexus including the environmental, social and economic trade-offs to
contribute to R&I strategy and policy making.
 Increase clean energy generation in the African energy systems.
 A sustained network of African experts and expertise in this area.
 Improve in the long-term governance to advance knowledge and scientific
modelling of the water energy food nexus including the environmental, social and
economic trade-offs (governance aspects should be included since they are under-
represented in the current research works).

3. Topic description
Scope:
 The topic is contributing to the activities of the AU-EU High Level Policy Dialog
(HLPD) Climate Change and Sustainable Energy (CCSE) partnership. Climate
changes and increase usage of water in all economic activities create more stresses on
water use for energy generation.
 Energy generation covers in this context energy from renewable sources and energy
vectors such as electricity, heat and fuels.
 Therefore, the needs for African countries of having their own dedicated models to
simulate and estimate the stresses on the water-energy nexus are crucial for their
policy decision and energy planning.

4. Topic description
Scope:
 International agreement and trade issues can be considered in the model. Most of
the current models are based on developed country standard and usage.
 The proposal should then develop and test models for decision makers and
planners to implement energy infrastructures and energy supply in Africa which
safeguard a systemic approach to the water-energy food nexus.
 These models can be based on existing reliable source codes and models. The test
should be made on the case of an existing African water basin. Participation of
societal stakeholders is considered important

5. Topic description
Scope:
 Actions should promote the highest standards of transparency in model adoption,
going beyond documentation and extending to aspects such as assumptions,
architecture, code and data.
 The outcome of the project should be widely disseminated and the source code of
the model should be open access to stimulate future development.
 To ensure future uses, African experts in water-energy nexus and in model
development should be full partners in the project. The project should identify
further local training needs.

6. Topic description
Scope:
 The project should also link with existing European activities to create synergies
and cross-fertilisation. The project should participate in the activities of the HLPD
CCSE partnership.

7. Topic description
Specific Topic Conditions:
 Activities are expected to achieve TRL 4 by the end of the project (detail-Annex B).
 TRL 4 -Technology validated in a lab
Cross-cutting Priorities:
 Africa
 International Cooperation

8. General conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: described in Annex A and Annex E of the
Horizon Europe Work Programme Genera
o Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form
available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme
General Annexes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically
eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding
available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the
information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

9. General conditions
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work
Programme General Annexes
Due to the scope of this topic, legal entities established in all member states
of the African Union are exceptionally eligible for Union funding.
In addition to the conditions described in General Annex B, at least three
partners from three different African countries must be part of the
consortium.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex
C of the Work Programme General Annexes

10. General conditions
5. Evaluation and award:
o Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of
the Work Programme General Annexes
o Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of
the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual
o Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described
in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes

11. The water-energy-food nexus: global, basin and
local case studies of resource use efficiency under
growing natural resource scarcity
 Start/End date: February 01, 2015-June 30, 2018
 Countries: Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan
Partners
 Humboldt University - Berlin, IFPRI - International Food Policy
Research Institute, IMF - International Monetary Fund, The Kiel
Institute for the World Economy, University of Bonn

12. General conditions
5. Evaluation and award:
o Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of
the Work Programme General Annexes
o Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of
the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual
o Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described
in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes