Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
This topic invites proposals aiming to tackle new or unforeseen challenges and develop innovative or disruptive solutions to enhance the capabilities of practitioners in border surveillance and maritime security. Priority may be given to areas at Europe’s external borders and pre-frontier zones that could be affected by geopolitical instability or hybrid threats, ensuring sustained monitoring and rapid response. Proposals should clearly build upon—rather than duplicate—existing Horizon Europe projects. They may cover improvements in information sharing, detection of illegal activities, seamless surveillance in travel and logistics terminals, and decision-support tools across air, sea, and land scenarios. Emphasis is placed on modular, scalable solutions suitable for different regions, and technologies may include sensing systems, autonomous platforms, data fusion, robotics, advanced computing, and human-machine interfaces.
Detailed Call Description
Projects should integrate:
- perspectives of safeguarding and promoting human rights, including gender equality, developing solutions that contribute to those safeguarding and promotion;
- inputs from human rights, law and ethical perspectives, as well as the consideration and views of individuals and society, as well as a gender sensitive approach, as appropriate; proposals can engage with civil society organisations for wider input and support;
- aspects of cybersecurity of the technology proposed, and the protection of communication systems and networks involved in the solutions, if and as relevant.
Proposals that include solutions and/or methods that would contribute to a lower environmental impact and footprint, better cost-efficiency, better energy-efficiency, and/or better operational autonomy of the capabilities and solutions in this topic, would be welcome.
Depending on the particular scope of the proposal, participation of Police and/or Customs Authorities is welcome.
To ensure the active involvement of and timely feedback from relevant security practitioners, proposals should plan a mid-term deliverable consisting in the assessment of the project’s mid-term outcomes, performed by the practitioners involved in the project.
In this topic, the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content should be addressed only if relevant in relation to the objectives of the research effort.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
70%
Expected EU contribution per project: €3.333333 million
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Justice - Security
- Migration and Citizenship
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Shipping - Marine Transports
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Fishermen, Aquaculturists, Owners of Vessels
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
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.
The following exceptions apply: subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.
The following additional eligibility criteria apply: This topic requires the active involvement, as beneficiaries, of at least 2 Border or Coast Guard Authorities from at least 2 different EU Member States or Associated Countries. For these participants, applicants must fill in the table “Information about security practitioners” in the application form with all the requested information, following the template provided in the submission IT tool.
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Christakis Theocharous
Scientific Officer A’
Telephone: +357 22 20 50 29
Email: ctheocharous@research.org.cy