CALL FOR INTEREST

Call for Expression of Interest for European Smart Building and Energy Innovators

Call Overview

Do you want to scale your innovation across Europe, or turn your building into a smarter, more efficient, and more flexible energy asset? With EVELIXIA, you are in the right place.

This Call for Expression of Interest addresses European companies and organizations in the smart building sector seeking to test, validate, or further develop their solutions within the EVELIXIA project. With a dedicated budget of up to €50,000, selected participants are invited to conduct a feasibility study linked to EVELIXIA services, supporting new market opportunities, improved building performance, and potential energy cost reductions.

Be part of the transition towards buildings that act as smart, energy-efficient, and flexible players in the European energy system!

Benefits for Participants

Participation offers a dedicated budget of up to €50,000 for feasibility-study-related activities. The budget may support technical preparation, equipment, integration work, personnel and administrative costs, compliance-related activities, and commercialization efforts.

For energy service providers, technology providers, and digital innovators

EVELIXIA offers the opportunity to test, validate, and position your solution in a European smart energy and building innovation ecosystem. Benefits may include:

SGAM-aligned integration: Map and test your technology within the Smart Grid Architecture Model framework, ensuring compliance with European standards for interoperability and grid readiness.
Strategic funding support: Use the participation budget to adapt APIs, middleware, technical documentation, or integration processes for wider deployment.
European ecosystem access: Connect with a consortium of 30+ leading European organizations and strengthen your position in the context of future energy markets and Electricity Market Design 2030/2050.
Market visibility and scalability: Demonstrate your solution in connection with real-life building and energy use cases across Europe.

For building owners, facility managers, and real-estate operators

EVELIXIA offers the opportunity to explore how smart technologies can improve building performance, reduce energy costs, and prepare buildings for future energy and flexibility services. Benefits may include:

Energy cost reductions through optimization, monitoring, and control solutions (project targets >80 GWh of annual savings across participating sites).
Smart infrastructure upgrade: Use the participation budget for eligible hardware and software, such as sensors, controllers, gateways, or management platforms.
New flexibility opportunities through participation in demand response and grid-interaction services.
Expert technical support: from the EVELIXIA partners throughout the feasibility study.
Real-time monitoring of building performance and automated control, and ways to enhance your Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI).

Profile of Innovators and Selection Criteria

EVELIXIA is looking for ambitious European innovators and organizations that can support smarter, more efficient, and more flexible buildings — either by providing innovative technologies and services or by enabling their testing and demonstration in real building environments.

This Call is open to, among others:

Smart building technology providers, including HVAC control, IoT, BEMS, sensors, and automation systems.
Energy service companies, aggregators, and flexibility service providers.
Digital solution providers working with AI, data analytics, digital twins, interoperability, or optimization tools.
Start-ups, SMEs, and established companies developing innovative solutions for energy efficiency, flexibility, and building digitalization.
Building owners, facility managers, real-estate operators, housing providers, campuses, public buildings, industrial facilities, or other organizations interested in testing smart energy solutions in their buildings.

Applications will be assessed based on:

Technical relevance and integration potential with the EVELIXIA platform, services and project objectives.
Innovation value for smart building operation, energy efficiency, flexibility, or energy-system integration.
Scalability across EU markets, building types and use cases.
Market or implementation readiness, including TRL level, existing pilots, commercial deployments, or readiness of the building/use case for testing.
Implementation capacity to carry out the feasibility study within the project timeline.
Cost-effectiveness and best value for money, considering the requested budget, expected impact, technical quality, feasibility, and contribution to EVELIXIA objectives

Priority may be given to applicants with strong replication or commercialization potential and limited prior participation in Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe projects.

Platform Integration

Selected participants will have the opportunity to connect their solutions, building systems, or use cases to the EVELIXIA Stakeholder Interaction Platform, a modular digital ecosystem designed to support interaction between buildings, users, service providers and the grid.

Depending on the proposed solution, building environment, or use case, integration may involve:

Energy monitoring and visualization
Forecasting and flexibility services
Demand response and building-to-grid / grid-to-building interaction
Decision-support tools for operational and investment planning
Energy services marketplace functionalities
Data exchange through APIs, middleware, or compatible interfaces

Participants will be supported in mapping their solution, building assets, or use case to relevant EVELIXIA services and exploring how these can operate within a multi-vector energy ecosystem.

Requirements for Participation

Selected participants are expected to:

Actively contribute to the feasibility study, supporting testing, validation, and reporting activities.
Collaborate with the EVELIXIA consortium, and, possibly, technology providers, building owners, facility managers, tenants, or other relevant stakeholders.
Contribute to data collection, monitoring, and KPI evaluation.
Provide relevant technical documentation, building information, interface details, or operational data.
Facilitate access to building systems, energy assets, metering infrastructure, or facility stakeholders (where relevant).

Participation in interviews, surveys, workshops, or knowledge exchange activities may also be required.

Legal Aspects, Permissions & Compliance

Participants are responsible for ensuring that their proposed solutions, equipment, data access, and testing arrangements comply with applicable European, national, and local requirements. Relevant areas may include GDPR, data protection, cybersecurity, product safety, technical and environmental standards. Depending on the solution and testing context, permits or authorizations may be needed for equipment installation, access to building systems, collection of building or smart-meter data, or connection to energy assets. Close coordination with relevant stakeholders, such as facility owners, tenants, local authorities, or grid-related actors, may therefore be required.

Deadline and timeline

The EVELIXIA Call for Expression of Interest is now open. Applications can be submitted until 31 July 2026. Selected participants are expected to start onboarding in September 2026, with testing activities foreseen to conclude by July 2027 at the latest.

Submit your Expression of Interest here: [link will be added]
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