Towards commercialisation of Perovskite PV and development of dedicated manufacturing equipment (EUPI-PV Partnership)

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Code: 38214 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D3-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/09/2025 | End submission calls: 17/02/2026

Metal halide perovskite solar cells have attracted much attention because of their low-cost fabrication and high efficiency. In addition, tandem devices, especially perovskite-Si tandems, are expected to play an important role in perovskite commercialisation.

Poor stability of these devices remains however the key challenge in their path toward commercialisation.

To overcome this issue, a robust encapsulation technique by employing suitable materials and structures with high barrier performance against the external environment must be developed to protect perovskite devices.

Understand and minimise the environmental impacts of offshore wind energy

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Code: 38211 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D3-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/09/2025 | End submission calls: 17/02/2026

Proposals are expected to address at least five of the following aspects:

• Provide better knowledge and understanding of the cumulative environmental impacts of the offshore wind energy deployment according to the EU targets, when added to the current and planned human activities carried out in the same areas;
• Expand existing studies, field monitoring, and analysis from local to larger areas, and from site- or species-specific impacts to more general ones. Further develop and deploy field monitoring activities, measuring multiple pressures and impacts on marine and coastal ecosystems and their services, as well as pollution, from installation to decommissioning and possible repowering, including operational phase and maintenance activities;
• Test and demonstrate field monitoring and modelling technologies that allow to go beyond state-of-knowledge, regarding life-cycle environmental impacts of offshore wind energy deployments;
• Improve instruments and models for Maritime Spatial Planning, and environmental assessments at plan and project level that are in alignment with public authorities’ needs;
• Improve modelling capacity and environmental impact assessments of future offshore wind deployment;
• Support the identification of areas where wind energy deployment is particularly suitable without significant environmental impact and areas where on the contrary, it should be avoided;
• Identify strategies, test, and demonstrate technologies that avoid, minimise, mitigate and compensate the environmental impact of bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind energy systems, propose mitigation and restoration measures and if feasible, provide net-positive environmental impacts. The activities carried out under this point are expected to achieve TRL 5 by the end of the project.

Particular attention must be dedicated to ensuring that the data produced in the context of this topic is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) and to leveraging existing community practices for data sharing especially those in the relevant European common data spaces and in the European Research infrastructures.

iNNO SED Open Call for Associated Regions: Innovative Sediment Management in the Danube River Basin

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Code: 38207 | Identifier Code: iNNO SED | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 15/09/2025 | End submission calls: 17/11/2025

iNNO SED aims to advance and showcase sediment assessment methodologies while demonstrating management solutions for specific sediment-related challenges. Examples of these challenges include river sections exposed to severe erosion, impoundments undergoing continuous sedimentation, or areas with polluted sediments. Such sediment issues are not confined to the Danube River Basin. Many large river systems worldwide encounter similar concerns due to human activities like river regulation, hydropower generation, and flood protection measures.

ERC Consolidator Grants

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Code: 38205 | Identifier Code: ERC-2026-COG | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 25/09/2025 | End submission calls: 13/01/2026

The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Improved reliability and optimised operations and maintenance for wind energy systems

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Code: 38202 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D3-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/09/2025 | End submission calls: 17/02/2026

Proposals are expected to address at least four of the following aspects:

• Develop and validate solutions to increase the reliability of wind energy systems and their components, thus ensuring security of supply and further reducing the environmental impacts;
• Develop new methods, computational techniques and tools to analyse and predict the reliability of wind energy systems, considering the analysis of the failure modes of existing systems and including a focus on new analytical approaches, technologies and materials;
• Develop new methods and tools for condition and health monitoring of wind energy systems and their components;
• Develop and validate solutions to optimise the operation and maintenance of wind energy systems and their components, for example through improved scheduling and predictive maintenance, autonomous tools, robots and vehicles, semi-automated inspection methods or advanced repair methods;
• Develop and validate new components to be incorporated in structures’ designs to improve the safety and efficiency on-site during maintenance activities in wind farms;
• Develop and validate innovative digital tools to facilitate wind farm operation and maintenance, for instance through improved interoperability, decision-making support tools, condition and health monitoring techniques and innovative sensors, while ensuring increased cybersecurity and data sharing.

• Develop and validate solutions to increase the reliability of wind energy systems and their components, thus ensuring security of supply and further reducing the environmental impacts;
• Develop new methods, computational techniques and tools to analyse and predict the reliability of wind energy systems, considering the analysis of the failure modes of existing systems and including a focus on new analytical approaches, technologies and materials;
• Develop new methods and tools for condition and health monitoring of wind energy systems and their components;
• Develop and validate solutions to optimise the operation and maintenance of wind energy systems and their components, for example through improved scheduling and predictive maintenance, autonomous tools, robots and vehicles, semi-automated inspection methods or advanced repair methods;
• Develop and validate new components to be incorporated in structures’ designs to improve the safety and efficiency on-site during maintenance activities in wind farms;
• Develop and validate innovative digital tools to facilitate wind farm operation and maintenance, for instance through improved interoperability, decision-making support tools, condition and health monitoring techniques and innovative sensors, while ensuring increased cybersecurity and data sharing.

Demonstration of thermal energy storage solutions for solar thermal plants and systems

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Code: 38199 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D3-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/09/2025 | End submission calls: 17/02/2026

Support will be given to the demonstration of innovative thermal energy storage solutions in the following areas: (i) concentrated solar power (CSP) and/or (ii) solar thermal heat and/or cold.

Excellence Hubs

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Code: 38203 | Identifier Code: EXCELLENCE/0925 | Programme name: 2941 | Sub-program: i. “RESTART 2016-2020” Programmes | Start submission calls: 18/09/2025 | End submission calls: 26/11/2025

The “Excellence Hubs” Programme aims to promote scientific excellence, which is a fundamental part for the sustainable development of the Research, Technological Development and Innovation (RTDI) System, through the funding of pioneering research projects in cutting-edge fields. Additionally, the Programme aims to contribute towards creating growth prospects for the local economy and to tackle social and other contemporary challenges.

Competitiveness, energy security and integration aspects of advanced biofuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin value chains

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Code: 38195 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D3-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/09/2025 | End submission calls: 17/02/2026

Projects are expected to assess the energy security and industrial competitiveness aspects of value chains for advanced biofuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin, in view of the new situation in the EU regarding energy security and industrial competitiveness with the rest of the word. 

Large-scale production of liquid advanced biofuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin

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Code: 38176 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D3-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/09/2025 | End submission calls: 17/02/2026

Demonstrate innovative large-scale production of liquid advanced biofuels and/or renewable fuels of non-biological origin for sectors with specific need for such fuels (particularly aviation and shipping and energy-intensive industries).

Production is expected to be based on various EU sustainable biomass feedstocks, notably biogenic residues and wastes, biogenic part of slurries and industrial wastes, and/or on non-biological origin feedstocks, such as renewable hydrogen and CO₂ or renewable carbon, nitrogen, or their compounds, through chemical, biochemical, biological, and thermochemical pathways, or a combination of them.

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

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Code: 38173 | Identifier Code: POST-DOC/0925 | Programme name: 2941 | Sub-program: i. “RESTART 2016-2020” Programmes | Start submission calls: 18/09/2025 | End submission calls: 28/11/2025

The “POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS ” Program aims to support existing and integrate new postdoctoral level scientists into the Research, Technological Development and Innovation (RTDI) system of Cyprus for the preparation of high-level research projects, seeking their involvement in the development of new research activities, the creation of a critical mass of researchers in cutting-edge scientific fields and the creation of sustainable highly specialized jobs for the employment of new scientists.

In addition, the Program is expected to contribute to addressing the problem of brain drain abroad, a phenomenon that has worsened in recent years.

SOFT Innovation Prize 2026

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Code: 38169 | Identifier Code: EURATOM-2026-SOFT-PRIZE | Programme name: 23715 | Start submission calls: 03/06/2025 | End submission calls: 03/03/2026

Fusion research encompasses innovation in the domains of physics and technology over a wide range of specialisations.

Fusion researchers are constantly challenging the scientific state-of-the-art and improving the technology thereby creating the conditions for innovation, much of which can be exploited in other science and industrial sectors for the benefit of society.

The fundamental basis of the Euratom Programme is the drive and support for innovation across the product development chain from research to market. In this context the researcher plays a critical role.

Welfare monitoring: data driven risk assessment in fast and slower growing broilers (BROWARD)

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Code: 38165 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2025-BIOHAW-01 | Programme name: 29844 | Start submission calls: 17/06/2025 | End submission calls: 26/11/2025

The objective of this call for proposals is to identify a consortium of EFSA Art 36 organizations (EC regulation 178/2002) that will fill in this gap of knowledge by achieving the following project outcomes:

• Standardized data collection protocols for broiler welfare measurements
• Field data collection on broiler welfare
• Establish a dataset with Animal Based Measures, resource-based measures and management-based measures that can inform future risks assessments

Scaling up deep tech ecosystems

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Code: 38162 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIE-2026-01-CONNECT-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) | Start submission calls: 10/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

Pan-European research infrastructures are strategic assets to boost R&I, scientific discoveries and deep-tech developments at regional, national and European levels.

They have a strong role in increasing the R&I potential of academia and industry in local and regional ecosystems, thus enhancing competitiveness, innovation in strategic areas and overcoming fragmentation.

The Council conclusions on strengthening the competitiveness of the EU and overcoming the fragmentation of the European Research Area encouraged better use and deployment of Research Infrastructure facilities and services by academia and industry, including SMEs and start-ups across the entire EU.

European network of national competence centers for innovation procurement

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Code: 38159 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIE-2026-01-CONNECT-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) | Start submission calls: 10/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

Many public buyers around Europe still lack experience on innovation procurement and need training and guidance.

To tackle this challenge, several countries around Europe have set up national competence centers that cooperate with policy makers in their country to implement capacity building measures for innovation procurement.

With support of Horizon 2020 funding, in the past, five new competence centers were set up and started collaborating with five existing competence centers across borders.

Expanding Investment Ecosystems

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Code: 38157 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIE-2026-01-CONNECT-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) | Start submission calls: 10/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

The lack of later-stage funding and partners for expansion to foreign markets is one of the most problematic aspects of business growth particularly for the startups from less developed innovation ecosystems. In order to scale to a leading business, startups need to expand to foreign markets beyond their region.

At earlier stages start-ups are typically supported by local investors and partners. However, in order to expand inside the EU they would need access to the funding from actors with presence and knowledge in these new markets.

The lack of partners for expansion to foreign markets beyond their region is harmful for local start-ups’ growth and investor activity and the development of regional scale-ups, even more so for women-led companies.

While the limited number of established European start-up hubs attract significant money and traction, the innovation ecosystems in other areas struggle to keep pace with fewer resources, including funds and technical expertise.

In the struggle for resources, many start-ups face the choice to either forego growth and ultimately close their business or move elsewhere, while foreign investors struggle to enter new markets due to insufficient information about the market, its opportunities and regulatory frameworks.

Call for proposals for the development of new diagnostic tests for vector-borne diseases (HERA)

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Code: 38154 | Identifier Code: EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-2 | Programme name: 10993 | Start submission calls: 04/09/2025 | End submission calls: 04/12/2025

The activities conducted under this action will focus on supporting late-stage development of medical devices, bringing them to (near-) market; improvement of existing products in terms of accessibility, affordability, or accuracy; or, in case of unmet needs, aid the creation of innovative solutions. Supported actions will need to advance beyond the current R&I status and, where applicable, must also take into account ongoing Union projects, such as under Horizon Europe, guaranteeing complementary. This will expand diagnostic capabilities to address emerging and re-emerging pathogens in the Union, by providing advanced tools to monitor and respond to outbreaks.

Updating diagnostic technologies to improve accuracy, speed, and accessibility and the optimisation of diagnostic technologies such as molecular assays and serological tests, should be supported by evidence on novel antigens or genetic sequences, including clinical testing.

Call for proposals to support the development of innovative medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats (HERA) – Reusable respiratory personal protective equipment (PPE)

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Code: 38151 | Identifier Code: EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-1-b | Programme name: 10993 | Start submission calls: 04/09/2025 | End submission calls: 04/12/2025

Call for proposals to support the development of innovative medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats (HERA) – Medicinal products

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Code: 38148 | Identifier Code: EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-1-a | Programme name: 10993 | Start submission calls: 04/09/2025 | End submission calls: 04/12/2025

Call for proposals to support the development of innovative medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats (HERA) – Detection and diagnosis

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Code: 38146 | Identifier Code: EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-1-c | Programme name: 10993 | Start submission calls: 04/09/2025 | End submission calls: 04/12/2025

The objective is to improve the Union’s readiness to respond to intentional health threats, including cross-border ones, by supporting the development of medical countermeasures to biological, chemical and radio-nuclear agents for which there currently are no or only limited treatment options.

This action will focus on supporting advanced research on threat-agnostic medical countermeasures against CBRN agents and platform approaches to treat injuries from CBRN agents.

Setting up of Cross-Border Coordination Points

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Code: 38124 | Identifier Code: PPPA-2025-BRIDGEFOREU | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 14/08/2025 | End submission calls: 13/11/2025

CBCP and prospective CBCP set-up according to the Regulation aim at providing solution of legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context and in land or maritime border regions of neighbouring Member States.

Any activity for the operational setting-up of CBCP (such as, but this list is indicative only and not exhaustive, rent or purchase of real estate, of digital equipment or systems, of furniture and office equipment; procurement of studies and advise to define the CBCP functioning model; purchase of office supplies; purchase of design and development of web pages; legal consulting; legal assessment of the first files (as defined in articles 7 and 8 of the Regulation) received by the CBCP);

Any communication activity related to the CBCP.