Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage

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Code: 37417 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Europe’s rich heritage includes numerous objects, documents in libraries, museums, and archives, but also sites and cultural landscapes that recall complex and often troubled pasts. These heritage assets, often contested and frequently neglected or at risk of deterioration or abandonment, pose significant challenges for preservation, conservation, interpretation, and engagement.

Gaining a better understanding of the dissonance and contestation surrounding cultural heritage assets is crucial not only for safeguarding memory and heritage but also for fostering historical understanding, cultural dialogue, and reconciliation on persisting dissonances.

Cultural Strategies for Peace: culture and creativity as catalysts for conflict prevention and post-conflict reconciliation

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Code: 37414 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Rapidly evolving geopolitical dynamics place the EU amid escalating conflicts and emergent crises, requiring an innovative approach to security frameworks, foreign policy, and peacebuilding strategies.

R&I actions can develop groundbreaking solutions for the future, fostering innovative approaches to security and foreign policy. Integrating culture, including cultural heritage and the arts, into these frameworks could contribute to long term peace and stability by preserving community identity and history, enhancing communities’ preparedness to crises, facilitating dialogue, reconstructive learning, reconciliation, and social cohesion.

Europe as a global powerhouse of design for sustainable competitiveness

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Code: 37412 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Innovation and competitiveness are driven to an ever-greater degree by cultural dimensions and creativity. Successful new digital and physical products and services need to be not only functional but also appealing and attractive, adapted to cultural traits and market needs.

The process of creating or adapting products, services, processes or business models to human needs and desires, commonly called design, is key not only for competitiveness but also for environmental sustainability and cultural affirmation. It is widely acknowledged that the environmental impact of a product is largely determined at the design stage. The same also holds for digital products or services.

Digitally enabled local-for-local textile and apparel production (Textiles for the Future Partnership) (IA)

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Code: 37410 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-31 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Up to 80% of textile and apparel products consumed in Europe are partially or fully made outside Europe, exploiting lower labour cost as well as laxer local standards and regulations with regards to environmental, human health and labour rights protection. This offshoring of production has slowed textile manufacturing technology innovation in Europe and led to a complex long-lead time supply chain, generating unnecessary production and pre-consumer waste from unused mass-produced materials and unsold products not meeting actual demand.

Digitalisation in product development, production and on-demand supply chains has the potential to significantly reduce such overproduction, and enable business models that can competitively offer rapid short run or single piece production as well as related repair or end-of-life dismantling services for effective local recycling.

Assessment of Technology Infrastructure needs in Ukraine (CSA)

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Code: 37408 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-66 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Proposals should put forward a robust methodology to comprehensively analyse the current landscape of Technology Infrastructures facilities and services available in Ukraine and assess the damages to such capacities in result of the war. To this end, the proposed activities should engage with Ukrainian authorities at national and regional level as well as relevant organisations within the R&I ecosystems, such as RTOs, technical universities, research institutes and technology centres, hosting such infrastructures.

Activities proposed under this action should include a comprehensive analysis of user needs for Technology Infrastructures, both in the public and the private sector. This analysis should take into account in particular strategic technologies and long-term development needs of the Ukrainian economy.

EIT Culture & Creativity Regular Open Call for Master’s & PhD Modules 2025

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Code: 37405 | Identifier Code: EIT CC - BP2024-2025 | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 07/07/2025 | End submission calls: 30/09/2025

This call for proposals aligns with the strategic objectives outlined in the EIT Culture & Creativity Strategic Agenda 2024-2027. This call specifically invites applications for the development and implementation of up to six innovative Master’s and/or PhD modules to be integrated into existing academic programmes. All proposals must address one or more of the EIT Culture & Creativity priority areas: Architecture, Audio-Visual Media, Cultural Heritage, Fashion, and Gaming. Emphasis is placed on embedding entrepreneurship education and emerging technologies into the curricula.

Boosting R&I cooperation between EU and Japan on semiconductors (CSA)

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Code: 37403 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2025-CSA-JPN | Programme name: 32499 | Start submission calls: 08/07/2025 | End submission calls: 17/09/2025

The proposal should promote coordination between EU and Japan on life cycle assessment (LCA) in semiconductor manufacturing, support joint research and innovation (R&I) efforts, and explore future collaboration topics. It should also look into funding talent exchanges, enhance cooperation with Japanese research institutions on digital technologies, and support joint actions to strengthen the semiconductor supply chain.

Digital Europe Programme – Low-power Edge AI Chips

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Code: 37400 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-JU-CHIPS-2025-IA-LEAI | Programme name: 32499 | Start submission calls: 08/07/2025 | End submission calls: 17/09/2025

System innovation experimentation for Industry 5.0 (IA)

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Code: 37397 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-65 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Industry 5.0 is a framework grounded in system thinking approach which aims to bolster the economic and environmental resilience of industrial ecosystems and companies and contribute to enhancing the sustainable competitiveness of EU industries. Industry 5.0 innovations such as human-centric technologies or learning organisation models contribute to tackling the new emerging challenges linked to ongoing green and digital transition such as addressing the skills gap, attracting the best talent or accelerating uptake of clean technologies.

Evolution of culture in a virtualising world

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Code: 37395 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

As technology improves, attractive content is developed and virtual worlds become more accessible, European citizens will spend ever more time and experience an ever larger share of important life events in virtual and blended environments.

Leading multinational companies as well as the European Union are making great efforts to accelerate this development, whereby it is the ambition of the European Union to create a thriving and world-leading European industrial ecosystem for virtual worlds

Pilot initiatives on Technology Infrastructures (CSA)

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Code: 37394 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-64 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Proposals should identify a specific technology area or industrial ecosystem in which they will implement the activities proposed for a pilot initiative. This should take into account the selection criteria for pilot actions developed in the final report of the Commission Expert Group on Technology Infrastructures and could cover the priority areas proposed in this report.

The proposals should cover different strategic steps needed to lead to and achieve the expected outcomes, depending on the starting point for the proposed area, building on earlier analysis and consultations.

The proposed actions should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the landscape of Technology Infrastructures, provide evidence of their benefits and added value in the area covered by the proposal, and of any specific needs to improve their availability, accessibility and impact. The actions should also identify possible barriers to addressing the identified needs.

Leveraging artificial intelligence for creativity-driven innovation

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Code: 37391 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

The rapid development and deployment of artificial intelligence are increasingly permeating and transforming economy and society, notably impacting the diverse and dynamic domains of the CCI which, notably, are predominantly composed of SMEs.

This transformation offers significant opportunities for innovation, within the CCI and in the economy and society at large, and poses challenges including bias, ethical dilemmas, employment shifts, skills need, and issues related to data access, transparency, preservation of cultural diversity and respect for creators’ rights.

Value creation pilots for scaling up innovative solutions (CSA)

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Code: 37388 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-63 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Knowledge valorisation is crucial for boosting the Union’s industrial competitiveness internationally, strengthening its resilience and fostering its open strategic autonomy. Effective knowledge valorisation enables the Union to create and retain economic and societal value by turning research results to new innovative solutions, benefiting society and creating prosperity for all.

A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases

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Code: 37384 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

This topic aims at implementing real use cases and carrying out demanding end-to-end testing of the platform and its tools, in order to verify its capabilities and improve the ECCCH.

The activities carried out should focus on concrete use cases, undertaken by the participating institutions, professionals and researchers with a view to improve their results or work processes.

The activities carried out should make use of several of the key features of the ECCCH, including the user tools implemented on it. Such key features may include use of the advanced digital twins, of the large-scale cooperation and co-creation features, of the digital continuum or of the advanced features for commercial cooperation with, for example, cultural and creative industries.

Activities carried out may also focus on the seamless interconnection of the ECCCH with other related platforms such as the Common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage and the European Open Science Cloud. Proposals should outline a focus of the planned activities that best achieve the expected outcomes, which may include some of the aspects mentioned.

Community of democracy practitioners and researchers

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Code: 37378 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-DEMOCRACY-12 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Creating a network for researchers (including from SSH disciplines), policymakers and civil society organisations to collaborate to formulate policy recommendations and to create knowledge-sharing opportunities was the goal of the HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-02-01 call topic: to support a necessary tool to strengthen and renew European democracy.

The goal of this current call topic is to strengthen, augment, and pursue the work of the network of researchers in democracy together with practitioners of civic participation and deliberation and of citizenship education across Europe, previously set up.

This network should contribute to the EU’s future policy to strengthen and renew democracy.

Independence of the judiciary as an aspect of rule of law compliance

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Code: 37375 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-DEMOCRACY-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Judicial independence is a principle of EU law, closely linked to the rule of law, the right to a fair trial and effective judicial protection, as guaranteed by the Treaty on European Union and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.

The EU already benefits from several tools to ensure the respect of the rule of law. These instruments serve to promote the rule of law, prevent rule of law problems from emerging, and respond to them when they materialize.

The role of civic and citizenship education for strengthening civic and democratic participation and support for common European values

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Code: 37372 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-DEMOCRACY-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Education should equip young people with competences for their personal, social, professional as well as civic engagement and development, enabling them to contribute to our democracies, now and in the future, by shaping active, engaged and creative citizens who are aware of their shared values and able to improve their living environment, as recalled in the 2023 Council conclusions on the contribution of education and training to strengthening common European values and democratic citizenship.

Fighting against disinformation while ensuring the right to freedom of expression

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Code: 37369 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-DEMOCRACY-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Misinformation, disinformation and manipulation of information can hamper political and social responses to external challenges such as climate change, public health or migration.

To be successful, solutions to such challenges must be evidence-based.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that includes the right to hold and express opinions, and the right to receive and impart information and ideas without prior approval (censorship) or other forms of interference from government or any other form of public authority.

Freedom of expression is therefore vital to democracy and a core value of the European project, and is closely linked to the role of independent (news) media, which are a key pillar of the balance of power in a democratic system.

Economic inequalities and their impact on democracy

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Code: 37366 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-DEMOCRACY-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

 Economic inequalities, including inequalities in wealth and income (e.g. in the form of money, financial assets or property), are a major challenge for democratic societies.

In recent decades, while inequality between countries has generally declined, inequality within countries has increased in many countries, as global economic growth has not been evenly distributed.

This growing disparity in wealth has exacerbated political polarisation and fuelled distrust of democratic institutions around the world. These trends not only suggest correlations between these phenomena, but also threaten basic democratic principles such as social justice, inclusion and equal participation and representation.

Artificial Intelligence for knowledge valorisation (CSA)

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Code: 37363 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-62 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Artificial intelligence and machine learning present enormous opportunities to use scientific knowledge and research results faster and more effectively to create value, develop new products and services and address the needs of our societies. Despite leading in many fields of scientific research, Europe falls short in innovation and valorisation performance (what is known as “the innovation paradox”). Harnessing the power of AI to guide the efforts of researchers and innovators to bring results to the market, make their research more responsive to the needs of society and provide knowledge to inform public policies, can significantly contribute to addressing the innovation paradox. From results scouting to patent drafting, the role of AI to support knowledge valorisation presents ever-growing possibilities.