EIC Pathfinder Open

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Code: 36046 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/02/2025 | End submission calls: 21/05/2025

The overall objective of the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research is to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. It provides support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development. Pathfinder projects aim to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities by realising innovative technological solutions.

The EIC Pathfinder Open supports early stage development of future technologies (e.g. various activities at low Technology Readiness Levels 1-4), based on high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology, breakthrough research (including ‘deep-tech’).

A Pan-European infrastructure for Chips Design Innovation

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Code: 36041 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2025-CSA-1 | Programme name: 32499 | Start submission calls: 04/03/2025 | End submission calls: 29/04/2025

This call relates to the second general objective of the Chips JU: “Build Up Large-Scale Design Capacities for Integrated Semiconductor Technologies”; and the seventh objective: “Foster a Dynamic Union-Wide Ecosystem Based on Digital Value Chains with Simplified Access to Newcomers”, including the active involvement of Academia, RTOs, and SMEs. This call aims at supporting the follow-up, extension and consolidation of EUROPRACTICE services to provide Europe with an open-access platform to design and fabricate chips.

EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative Call for Training Proposals 2025

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Code: 36038 | Identifier Code: Edu Cluster | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 25/02/2025 | End submission calls: 08/04/2025

The EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative has launched its Call for Training Proposals 2025 and is inviting organisations to collaborate on training deep tech talents by enhancing or expanding deep tech training programmes.

JARVIS Open Call #1

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Code: 36035 | Identifier Code: JARVIS | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 05/03/2025 | End submission calls: 05/05/2025

This open call is part of the JARVIS research project that is funded under the Horizon Europe Programme. JARVIS focuses on advancing human-robot collaboration through user-centric principles, and by implementing AI-driven multimodal interaction tools and cognitive mechatronics. Its scope includes creating interfaces for both physical and remote information exchange, robot control, and programming, as well as providing social skills to various robotic platforms to enable seamless human-robot interaction. The JARVIS consortium will deploy and validate the components of the JARVIS framework across four pilots coming from the following sectors: aeronautics, automotive, and energy-specifically nuclear plant decommissioning, and offshore energy production.

International Collaboration on AI Factories and HPC-AI

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Code: 36033 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2025-INCO-01 | Programme name: 24430 | Start submission calls: 04/03/2025 | End submission calls: 04/06/2025

The rapid advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), in particular in Large Language Models (LLMs), and the increasing challenges of effectively using exa and post-exascale HPC architectures to meet the demands of novel AI based applications are changing the whole HPC-AI ecosystem. The magnitude of such challenges is fostering an indispensable collaboration with the key stakeholders at world level that are currently gathering their efforts in major activities to tackle those challenges and prepare the future, in particular the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC).

Global RIA Call

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Code: 36031 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2025-RIA-two-stage | Programme name: 32499 | Start submission calls: 04/03/2025 | End submission calls: 17/09/2025

A Chips JU Research and Innovation Action (RIA) primarily consists of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service, method, tool or solution.

5th call of proposals for Measure 7: “Basic services and village renewal in rural areas” of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 and 1st call of proposals for Intervention 4.4: “Infrastructure projects in rural areas and village renewal” of the Strategic Plan for the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027

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Code: 36028 | Programme name: 2935 | Sub-program: Strategic Plan of the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027 | Start submission calls: 17/02/2025 | End submission calls: 04/04/2025

The aim of Measure 7 and Intervention 4.4 is to develop the rural areas, by preserving and highlighting the natural and cultural wealth of rural areas, promote environmental and socioeconomic sustainability, upgrade the man-made environment of villages, encourage agrotourism, promote infrastructure that will house basic services, and improve the quality of life of residents in rural areas through developing public infrastructure projects. The projects that will be approved for funding will be incorporated in the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020, which ends on 31^st December 2025, and will continue as phasing projects through the Strategic Plan for the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027.

Operating grants for 2026 under Framework Partnership Agreements in the area of facilitating and supporting judicial cooperation in civil and/or criminal matters and/or in the area of access to justice

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Code: 35995 | Identifier Code: JUST-2025-JCOO-JACC-OG-SGA | Programme name: 2915 | Start submission calls: 19/02/2025 | End submission calls: 03/07/2025

This call focuses on the operating grant for 2026 under Framework Partnership Agreements to support European networks active in the area of facilitating and promoting judicial cooperation in civil and/or criminal matters and/or in the area of access to justice.

Call for 3-year Framework Partnership Agreements to support European networks active in the area of facilitating and promoting judicial cooperation in civil and/or criminal matters and/or in the area of access to justice

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Code: 35993 | Identifier Code: JUST-2025-JCOO-JACC-OG-FPA | Programme name: 2915 | Start submission calls: 19/02/2025 | End submission calls: 26/06/2025

This call aims to establish 3-year Framework Partnership Agreements with European networks whose statutory aims are to facilitate and support judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters and/or access to justice for all. The annual operating grants to be signed on the basis of these Framework Partnership Agreements will enhance the capacities of these networks to contribute actively to the development and implementation of the EU policies in these areas.

Non-thematic research actions by SMEs and research organisations

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Code: 35991 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-LS-RA-SMERO-NT | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

This call topic encourages the driving role of innovative SMEs and Research Organisations (RO) in bringing forward innovation defence research, possibly by adapting technologies from civil applications or addressing hybrid warfare.

Naval hybrid propulsion and power systems

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Code: 35988 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-LS-RA-SI-ENERENV-NH2PS-STEP | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

This call topic aims to address the design of a prototype, the testbed and general architecture for a future modular and hybrid propulsion systems, hybrid DC power systems and their components for military application, while performing its system integration in a combined digital and physical development environment. These novel propulsion and power systems can achieve reduced Green House Gas (GHG) and hazardous emissions from well-to-wake in peacetime and can power wartime missions effectively with maximum autonomy at sea, survivability and minimal and controllable noise, infrared, electromagnetic and radar-cross-section signatures. To achieve these benefits, mostly civilian developed technology needs to be navalised and effectively integrated in the naval propulsion and power system. These naval propulsion and power systems aim to serve a wide spectrum of naval vessels ranging from small and lightweight high-speed combat vessels, slow speed manhunting vessels and motherships, medium- and high-speed frigates, through to high-speed air-defence destroyers. These vessels have in common that they serve a wide range of propulsion systems, diverse variable speed drives and many DC combat system loads and therefore could all benefit from modular and scalable hybrid propulsion systems and hybrid DC power systems.

Improved cyber defence operations capabilities

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Code: 35986 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-DA-CYBER-CDOC-STEP | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

This topic aims at consolidating existing National and EU initiatives and projects to address cyberspace challenges and assist cyberspace integration in military operations in a mosaic and/or distributed approach, where emerging technological enablers like artificial intelligence, distributed sensor networks, cloud computing, data fusion or simulation for serious wargaming are expected to play a major role.

Aircraft propulsion and energy management systems

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Code: 35984 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-DA-ENERENV-APEM | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

The objective of this call topic is to develop and mature a new suite of advanced technologies for propulsion, power and thermal management system for fighter aircraft that can be applied in a modular and flexible manner to different sizes and types of systems, operating within a System-of-Systems (SoS) configuration that should include various interconnected elements, including manned and unmanned systems, swarms of drones and auxiliary platforms.

Advanced underwater networks

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Code: 35982 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-DA-UWW-AUWN-STEP | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

The aim of this call topic is to develop a new generation of Unmanned Underwater Super Systems (UUSS) and networks, where systems and subsystems would reach a technology maturity level of up to TRL 7, potentially TRL 8 on sub-system-level. The goal is to address specific needs of future UTS missions and to demonstrate these systems in an operational seawater environment. Current state of the art UUVs and fixed infrastructure should natively support UTS by application of a common non-proprietary and interoperable standards without the limitations of retrofit solutions.

Technologies for optronic detectors

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Code: 35980 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-DA-SENS-IRD-STEP | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

The goal of this topic is for EU IR detector developers to integrate detection circuits of varying wavelengths onto ROICs platforms and incorporate these focal plane arrays into integrated demonstrators. This should be carried out to enhance the technological maturity of the advanced ROIC designs and fully qualify the supply chain for advanced ROICs components compatible with the various IR technologies and 2D/3D architectures, as requested by the call topic EDF-2021-SENS-R-IRD.

A first assessment of the performances should be done at demonstrator level. In parallel, 3D stacking technologies should be explored to increase the maturity of this technological key enabler for future smart IR sensors.

On-orbit operations and services

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Code: 35977 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-DA-SI-SPACE-3OS | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

The specific objective of this call topic is to develop a ‘dual-use by-design’ demonstrator of the space systems, sub-systems and related key technologies, ready for IOD/IOV, needed to address the abovementioned defence needs. The demonstrator has to be designed to be potentially operated by defence users through their military C2 ground segments in order to enable or perform on-orbit operations and services on their own satellites.

Digital Ship and Naval Combat Cloud

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Code: 35975 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-DA-NAVAL-DSNCC-STEP | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

The specific objective is:

• To design, prototype and test a digital platform as an EU-based infrastructure framework (i.e., digital platform) for the integration and common operation of the SOTS.
• To launch the initial design of a multidomain naval combat cloud which could cover the gap between the cloud at naval platform level and the global and joint inter-services combat cloud.

Space-based ISR constellation

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Code: 35973 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-DA-SPACE-SBISR | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

This SBISR call topic aims at contributing to develop an affordable constellation of small satellites, including its ground segments able to handle various types of innovative sensor payloads (optical, night vision, low light infrared, hyperspectral, RADAR, passive RF detection, video) for ISR applications. Such a constellation would complement high-end existing military capabilities while allowing responsive and smart tasking and data collection for near real-time operational and tactical use.

The objective of the topic is to develop European SBISR capabilities through three pillars:

1. An access system called the Federation Layer.
2. The development of a low-latency constellation made of multi-sensor small-satellites.
3. The access to existing national capabilities and capabilities under development.

Land collaborative combat including air-land

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Code: 35970 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-DA-GROUND-LCC-STEP | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

Battlefield transparency is still insufficient due to high complexity warfare in a multi-domain environment with increased battle rhythm, deception, and electronic warfare measures.

Deployments should happen mainly in NATO as well as in EU operations and missions and build upon a networking and service infrastructure compliant with Federated Mission Networking (FMN) spiral specifications. Some of them should need pooling and sharing capabilities. Native interoperability up to the enterprise level between all relevant platforms (e.g., command post, vehicular, dismounted) is thus an increasing operational need.

New technologies such as Artificial Intelligence AI, edge computing, cloud-native architectures, and evolving technology-based manufacturing processes such as Dev(Sec)Ops, allowing for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) of IT services and Software Defined Defence (SDD) need to be adopted in the defence sector as key enablers to provide for improved decision and effect making at the relevance of speed. The distribution of commercially available storage and compute power, however, cannot but adapt to the available communication means to interconnect resources scattered throughout the combat arena and the power made available by the platforms (i.e., vehicles, and dismounted soldiers).

Enhanced pilot environment

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Code: 35967 | Identifier Code: EDF-2025-DA-AIR-EPE | Programme name: 3564 | Start submission calls: 18/02/2025 | End submission calls: 16/10/2025

From the point of view of the human-machine relationship, the new generation of military aircraft involved in this collaborative air combat is likely to require a new generation of human-machine relationship that allows ergonomic cooperation between the crew and the machine, effective and safe flight, as well as cooperation with other assets, including unmanned ones. The new technologies would make it possible to gain a tactical advantage by assisting the crew as a real teammate, responding to requests, suggesting tactics and procedures, and adapting interfaces to the pilots’ and/or operators’ status and needs.

Taking into account the new paradigm of human-machine teaming in future collaborative and connected air warfare, this call topic aims to address the following areas:

• New or disruptive Human-Machine Interface (HMI) technologies, such as displays, wearables, vocal dialogue, augmented reality, stereoscopy.
• Pilot status monitoring in relation to the mission and systems status.
• Assisted decision-making support based on advanced techniques like Artificial Intelligence (AI) not excluding other approaches.