ERC SYNERGY GRANTS

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Code: 38122 | Identifier Code: ERC-2026-SyG | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 10/07/2025 | End submission calls: 05/11/2025

The aim is to provide support for a small group of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone.

Empowering Truck Drivers – Revolutionizing European Logistics

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Code: 38121 | Identifier Code: PPPA-2025-EMPOWERTD | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 02/09/2025 | End submission calls: 04/11/2025

The awarded consortium will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing an app for truckers, free of charge, where drivers and operators can access detailed information about any point of interest, and provide their feedback. The information generated by the app should also be made available and exploitable by third party systems.

The work includes the identification of points of interest in scope, defining main indicators and information needs of truckers, determine functional requirements, development of the app and the supporting systems, testing, deployment and communication.

SoilTribes | Open Call to Support Initiatives Led by Multi-Actor Teams

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Code: 38116 | Identifier Code: SoilTribes | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 11/08/2025 | End submission calls: 10/10/2025

SoilTribes invites applications for lump sum grants aimed at supporting innovative, multi-actor initiatives that foster soil literacy, raise public awareness, and engage diverse communities in the protection and restoration of soil. These grants are designed to trigger behavioral change and galvanize innovation at the intersection of science, arts, and society.

dAIEDGE 3rd Open Call – Collaborative Projects

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Code: 38113 | Identifier Code: dAIEDGE | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 14/08/2025 | End submission calls: 14/10/2025

dAIEDGE is a Network of Excellence (NoE) for distributed, trustworthy, efficient and scalable AI at the Edge. The dAIEDGE Network of Excellence (NoE) seeks to strengthen and support the development of a dynamic European cutting-edge AI ecosystem under the umbrella of the European Lighthouse for AI, and to sustain the development of advanced AI.

The 3rd Open Call aims to expand the role of the dAIEDGE Network of Excellence in the edge AI continuum, encompassing micro-, deep-, and meta-edge, with a focus on standardisation, open-source contributions, and infrastructure development.

HERIFORGE 1st Open Call

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Code: 38111 | Identifier Code: HERIFORGE | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 27/08/2025 | End submission calls: 27/10/2025

The main goal of HERIFORGE (cultural HERitage and Immersive technologies for innovation FORGE) is to develop a network of three interconnected place-based hubs in Poland, Cyprus and Turkey providing Research and Innovation environment for innovation in the Cultural and Creative Industries with the responsible use of XR (extended reality) technologies and cultural heritage for the benefit of social resilience.

Support for the Ukrainian tech SMEs and startups

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Code: 38109 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-UKRAINIANTECH-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 12/08/2025 | End submission calls: 26/11/2025

This action focuses on deep-tech startups which 1) have high-impact innovation technology, product, service, or business model that could create new markets or disrupt existing ones, and 2) have the ambition and commitments to scale up.

The successful applicants are expected to work on the deep-tech innovation within the abovementioned priority areas. Such companies often struggle to attract financing because the technology and investment risks are too high.

This topic is designed to enable promising deep-tech startups to develop further their innovations from at least TRL 4 (technology fully validated in a lab) and attract the investment amounts needed for scale up in a shorter timeframe.

The applicants are expected to demonstrate in their application that they:

• have developed technology validated in the lab level (at least all aspects of TRL 4 completed)
• have the potential to reach application and market in period of 2-3 years;
• possess the necessary Intellectual Property Rights to ensure freedom to operate and adequate protection of the idea;
• have a clear vision on the intended pathway and route to market. This includes specific milestones together with concrete and verifiable KPIs to assess progress towards the market.

Applications from women-led companies are encouraged.

If relevant, for those applicant companies that are currently located in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country, a clear intention to relocate back the company to Ukraine whenever feasible is expected.

Citizen and Stakeholder Engagement in Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) and Forest Restoration

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Code: 38108 | Identifier Code: G-05-2025 | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 14/07/2025 | End submission calls: 12/10/2025

FORWARDS is a project funded by the European Union that will prototype the Forest-Ward Observatory, a pan-European monitoring and evaluation system that will help assess how European forests respond to the impacts of climate change. It will document current restoration activities concerning forests, biodiversity, carbon, and soils, and explore various restoration options to guide decision-making processes towards climate-smart forest management. One of the aims of the FORWARDS project is to engage and empower citizens and stakeholders in the co-creation of solutions that will support the future of forests amidst climate change challenges.

Waste-to-value devices – circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials

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Code: 38104 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/07/2025 | End submission calls: 29/10/2025

Fossil fuels supply a majority of the world’s energy and also provide the raw materials, or feedstocks, for many essential everyday products.

While energy provision is becoming increasingly decarbonized, the production of fuels, chemicals and materials requires carbon atoms as feedstocks.

However, their production can be “de-fossilized”, by utilising renewable energy and alternative carbon sources. Likewise, a circular economy approach offers scope to reduce external dependencies and source other essential molecular feedstocks including critical raw materials from wastes.

Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments

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Code: 38101 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/07/2025 | End submission calls: 29/10/2025

Robotic automation offers significant advantages to several sectors, yet on-site construction robotics is amongst the most challenging and least understood fields in robotics.

The unstructured, dynamic environment with human presence makes navigation and automation of the many concurrent construction tasks deeply challenging. Further, the current state-of-the-art solutions focus on adding higher degrees of automation to legacy tools, such as heavy equipment designed for diesel engines and human operators.

Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer

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Code: 38098 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/07/2025 | End submission calls: 29/10/2025

Imaging is a crucial component of cancer clinical protocols, providing detailed morphological, structural, metabolic, and functional information. However, harnessing the full potential of the data generated through medical imaging in clinical settings remains challenging.

Clinicians often struggle to combine diverse and large-scale data into a comprehensive view of patient care, disease progression, and treatment efficacy.

The inability to seamlessly integrate and interpret diverse data sources result in suboptimal patient outcomes and inefficiencies in the delivery of healthcare.

Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing

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Code: 38095 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/06/2025 | End submission calls: 29/10/2025

Land based agricultural production is the source of approximately 95% of human food nutrients (UN FAO).

Intensive and often inappropriate practices in agriculture have however resulted in severe soil degradation, thereby reducing the capacity of soils to support food production and other important ecosystem services such as the regulation of water, nutrients, and carbon cycles.

Soil degradation is further accelerated by the effects of climate change, with abiotic stresses such as heat, drought, salinity, and waterlogging, often in combination, having negative effects on the world’s crop production.

The direct impact of a changed climate is also frequently accompanied by indirect impacts due to alterations in the composition and behaviour of weeds, insects, pathogens, and soil microbiome, alongside the impacts of increased amounts of human-generated pollutants.

Accelerator for Advanced Strained Silicon on Insulator Substrates

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Code: 38091 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-JU-CHIPS-2025-SG-SSOI | Programme name: 32498 | Start submission calls: 08/07/2025 | End submission calls: 20/11/2025

The proposed accelerator should address all levels of the key technological steps required to bring sSOI substrates to industrial scale:

• Development of industrial-grade sSOI substrates will focus on achieving low defect density, crucial for enhancing electron mobility and ensuring high-performance FD-SOI devices at the 7 nm node. This will involve refining strain engineering techniques, particularly to introduce a uniform global strain that can balance the performance for strained NMOS and relaxed PMOS transistors.
• Ensure compatibility with existing semiconductor manufacturing, the accelerator will refine process integration and optimisation. This includes improving epitaxial growth, wafer bonding, and defect reduction techniques to meet the requirements of advanced FD-SOI production processes.

Finally, the accelerator will promote collaboration across the semiconductor ecosystem, working with other pilot lines, as well as connecting to the design platform and competence centres, among others

Support to the International HPC Summer School

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Code: 38089 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2025-IHPCSS-02 | Programme name: 24429 | Start submission calls: 01/07/2025 | End submission calls: 02/10/2025

The primary objective is European support of the organisation and implementation and of the International HPC Summer School (IHPCSS). This includes financial support for the annual participation of up to 40 early career researchers in HPC from EuroHPC Participating States in the IHPCSS. Building on prior experience, the initiative aims to deliver high-quality, multidisciplinary training in high-performance computing and quantum technologies to graduate students pursuing a PhD and early career postdoctoral researchers. Through co-organisation with leading international partners in HPC, the action will ensure a world-class training programme, delivered by leading HPC specialists, and a balanced mix of theoretical and practical sessions. The IHPCSS also seeks to foster international collaboration, promote diversity and inclusion, and enhance the global visibility of European HPC expertise as promoted by EuroHPC JU. The action will implement structured evaluation mechanisms to continuously improve the programme and explore synergies with other global HPC training initiatives.

CETPartnership Joint Call 2025

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Code: 38086 | Identifier Code: CETP | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 11/06/2025 | End submission calls: 09/10/2025

The CETPartnership has seven Transition Initiatives (TRIs) focusing on RDI Challenges described in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) that address various technologies and system aspects connected to the clean energy transition, as well as several cross-cutting dimensions. 

Fighting discrimination against LGBTIQ people and promoting LGBTIQ equality

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Code: 38084 | Identifier Code: CERV-2025-EQUAL-LGBTIQ | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 15/07/2025 | End submission calls: 23/10/2025

This priority supports key policy objectives set out in the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 and will support projects that help to effectively implement it. The strategy includes initiatives to address intersectional discrimination and inequality experienced on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics in employment, education, health and other areas of life.

We are looking for projects that focus on one or more of the following:

• addressing the challenges LGBTIQ people face in areas where they are particularly disadvantaged (e.g. education, health care, housing);
• LGBTIQ people in the most vulnerable situations, such as transgender and intersex people and those experiencing intersectional discrimination; and rainbow families.

Projects should take into account the:

• Report on the Implementation of the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025
• The 3rd LGBTIQ survey of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
• 2023 special Eurobarometer on discrimination in the EU

The priority does not support research projects.

Projects can be either national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged. We particularly encourage projects to have at least one LGBTIQ specific civil society organisation as one of the main partners. Projects led by LGBTIQ organisations are also encouraged.

Promoting diversity management and inclusion at the workplace, both in the public and private sector

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Code: 38082 | Identifier Code: CERV-2025-EQUAL-DIVERSITYMGT | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 15/07/2025 | End submission calls: 23/10/2025

We are looking for projects that focus on:

• strengthening the Diversity Charters network, supporting the implementation and further development of existing Diversity Charters in the EU and increasing the number of their signatories.

Projects should promote diversity and inclusion at the workplace via an intersectional approach. Projects concerning one ground of discrimination are not the focus of this priority.

The priority does not support research projects or projects on skills development.

Projects can be either national or transnational. 

Fighting against discrimination and racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, including antigypsyism, anti-black, and anti-Asian racism

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Code: 38079 | Identifier Code: CERV-2025-EQUAL-RACI-DISC | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 15/07/2025 | End submission calls: 23/10/2025

This priority supports holistic and intersectional responses5 to discrimination and intolerance – in particular on grounds of racial or ethnic origin, colour and religion – as well as to racism and xenophobia, antigypsyism intolerance, including their manifestations on the ground. Such responses should aim to build trust between individuals, communities and national authorities.

The priority will support projects that help to effectively implement:

• the EU Anti-racism action plan, which aims to combat structural forms of racism faced in particular by people of colour and people of African descent, Muslims or people perceived as such, Roma as well as people of Asian descent.
• the Racial Equality Directive (Council Directive 2000/43/EC), which aims to lay down a framework for combating discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin, with a view to putting into effect in the Member States the principle of equal treatment.
• the EU Roma strategic framework, which aims to promote effective equality, socio-economic inclusion and meaningful participation of Roma, and
• the Council Recommendation on Roma equality, inclusion and participation, which aims to have Member States adopt national Roma strategic frameworks; adopt and implement measures to promote equality and effectively prevent and combat discrimination, antigypsyism, social and economic exclusion, the extremely high at-risk-of-poverty rate and material and social deprivation among the Roma population; and step up meaningful participation by and consultation of Roma people.

We are looking for projects that focus on:

• multisectoral cooperation between civil society organisations, public and private organisations and local authorities to address systemic and structural racism in areas related to access to quality housing, employment (i.a. skills, vocational training.) and social inclusion (fight against poverty, etc.).
• the reporting, rights-awareness, protection, advocacy and interest representation of victims.
• the diversity of Roma, with a specific focus on the political participation of Roma youth, the health of Roma women, the early childhood development and care of Roma children and environmental justice.

The priority does not support research projects.

Projects can be either national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged. For projects concerning Roma inclusion and participation, national consortia are encouraged.

Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call (Multi-cut-off)

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Code: 38078 | Identifier Code: EITUM-BP23-25 | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 02/07/2025 | End submission calls: 30/09/2025

EIT Urban Mobility invites organisations and experts to submit proposals to its Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call, designed to accelerate the development and delivery of high-quality, sustainable professional training and support services that close the urban mobility knowledge gap.

This Call focuses on a series of specific activity areas aimed at enhancing the skills and capabilities of mobility professionals and organisations, particularly at the local/city level, to achieve systemic transformations for more liveable cities. The Call supports proposals that offer high-quality, impact-oriented, and financially sustainable learning experiences, leveraging EIT Urban Mobility’s network and expertise in various learning formats.

Fighting against anti-Muslim hatred

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Code: 38072 | Identifier Code: CERV-2025-EQUAL-ANTIMUSLIM | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 15/07/2025 | End submission calls: 23/10/2025

This priority will support the fight against anti-Muslim hatred/racism and discrimination, and therefore support actions to raise awareness, foster reporting by victims and address negative stereotypes and intolerance against Muslims and persons perceived as such. Muslims form an integral part of European societies. Anti-Muslim racism is increasing throughout Europe and the world and affects the lives of a significant number of EU citizens. It also undermines the trust of many in the institutions and in the values of the European Union.

Priority 3 is split into an open sub-priority and a restricted sub-priority in support of public authorities.

Sub-priority 3.1 – open call:

This open sub-priority will specifically help civil society organisations to combat all forms of anti-Muslim racism, to support victims of anti-Muslim racism and to raise awareness throughout the European Union. The call will also support the improvement of data collection on anti-Muslim racism, which is essential to combat racism and discrimination effectively, and to strengthen resilience among the Muslim communities against any form of racism and discrimination.

We are looking for projects that focus on:

• raising awareness about anti-Muslim hatred/racism and discrimination, its impact on society in general, and on specific target groups such as multipliers (educators, journalists, policy makers …) and combatting stereotypes, conspiracy theories and hate speech against Muslims and people perceived as such;
• providing support and accompanying measures to victims of anti-Muslim discrimination, thus contributing to the resilience of Muslim
• improving the monitoring of anti-Muslim hatred/racism, encouraging reporting and strengthening cooperation with the police at local level and authorities.

Projects should take into account:

• The 2023 special Eurobarometer on discrimination in the EU
• The report The legal framework to combat anti-Muslim hate in the European Union
• The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights report “Being Muslim in the EU” of October 2024

This sub-priority does not support research projects.

Projects can be either national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.

Sub-priority 3.2 – restricted call in support of public authorities:

This sub-priority aims at supporting public authorities in the fight against anti-Muslim hatred/racism.

We are looking for projects that focus on supporting public authorities to:

• develop and/or implement national action plans or strategies on combatting anti-Muslim hatred/racism.
• improve the recording and reporting of anti-Muslim hatred/racism and discrimination and harmonise data collection of anti-Muslim hatred/racism and discrimination
• prevent and counter anti-Muslim hatred/racism through education and training, especially for educators, teachers, the judiciary and media.

This sub-priority does not support research projects.

Projects can be either national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.

Support to public authorities to combat racism, xenophobia, LGBTIQ-phobia and all other forms of intolerance, including intersectional discrimination

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Code: 38068 | Identifier Code: CERV-2025-EQUAL-RESTRICTED | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 15/07/2025 | End submission calls: 23/10/2025

This priority is restricted to public authorities and bodies at national, regional and local level as lead applicant (consortium coordinator).

The objective of this priority is to help Member States to:

• improve the implementation of the Racial Equality Directive and the Framework Decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia, as well as the EU Directives on Standards for Equality Bodies,
• develop and implement national action plans or strategies to combat racism, xenophobia, LGBTIQ-phobia and all other forms of intolerance.
• improve the collection and use of equality This priority does not support research projects.

Projects can be either national or transnational. Transnational projects are particularly encouraged.