Open strategic autonomy, economic and research security in EU foreign policy

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Code: 37330 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-DEMOCRACY-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 EU’s open strategic autonomy refers to the EU’s ability to act autonomously (i.e. without depending on other countries) instrategically important policy areas, linked to both the economic and non-economic sectors.

These areas may include energy, research, health, health, media, technology, defence, defence, food, industry, as well as development cooperation, democracy promotion and the defence and promotion of human rights.

Master School and Fellowship Open Call 2026

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Code: 37328 | Identifier Code: EITUM-BP23-25 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 25/06/2025 | End submission calls: 10/09/2025

EIT Urban Mobility invites universities, academic consortia, and education-focused innovators to submit proposals to its Master School and Fellowship Open Call, designed to accelerate the development and delivery of high-quality learning experiences that build the skills and capabilities needed for sustainable urban mobility.

Using captured CO2 as a resource to replace fossil hydrocarbons in industrial production

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Code: 37327 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-27 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

Proposals should aimto reduce the capital costs and the energy and environmental footprint of CO2 conversion technologies to make them suitable for wider application in the near to medium term.

European investment atlas of potential CO2 storage sites

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Code: 37323 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-26 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

The project is expected to create a digital atlas of “investable” underground CO2 storage sites in the EU and associated countries.

The European CO2 Storage Atlas, which is currently being revised and updated by the GSEU project, including estimated capacity and level of storage readiness, provides a good basis, but also shows that data gaps need to be filled and access to the necessary data during project implementation will be critical.

RIS Education Open Call 2026

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Code: 37320 | Identifier Code: EITUM-BP23-25 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 25/06/2025 | End submission calls: 10/09/2025

This call aims at funding projects that can support the overall RIS strategy and aims, offer high-quality education, reach a large audience and market, and gain recognition efficiently with a lasting effect. The EIT Urban Mobility RIS Education objectives are focused on capacity building in innovation and entrepreneurship and urban mobility. These objectives are reflected in the activity types proposed in this call. The activities responding to these objectives should aim to improve transferrable skills that will lead to further innovation and entrepreneurship in urban mobility in RIS countries.

Effects of CO2-stream impurities on CO2 transport and storage

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Code: 37319 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-25 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

Based on the application chosen (either transport or storage), projects have to deliver:

• Recommendations for design and operation of pipelines and/or ship offloading, including recommendations for public health and safety requirements and for protective and/or mitigating material and/or approaches and/or monitoring technology to avoid adverse effects on the integrity of the relevant transport infrastructure caused by impurities;
• Recommendations for public health and safety requirements and for protective and/or mitigating material and/or approaches and/or monitoring technology to avoid adverse effects on the integrity of the storage complex;
• Guidance and recommendations for technology providers, regulatory authorities, certification and standardisation bodies, and define and implement ambitious dissemination actions to promote the project results and support their uptake.

Cross-regional network and market model for optimisation of long duration storage

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Code: 37315 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-21 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

The project will develop and test new, advanced, integrated models and toolsfor interregional grids and markets dominated by intermittent and stochastic renewable energy sources.

This spatio-temporal model will be designed to generate, analyse and optimise scenarios for the strategic integration, identification and sizing of LDES (here defined as: >12h) for a future European energy system.

Control and operation tools for a RES-based energy system

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Code: 37312 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-17 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

Projects are expected to:

• Design and test innovative technologies, processes, and control mechanisms for the seamless integration of massive volumes of renewable energy sources (RES) at distribution and transmission levels. The solutions are expected to incorporate both hardware and software aspects;
• Address network constraints and increase flexibility capabilities of grids, through advanced operation and control mechanisms and tools, for improving the overall grid performance and the efficiency of RES uptake;
• Ensure effective coordination between transmission and distribution levels of the electricity grids, for the integration of massive volumes of RES at multiple voltage levels, maintaining grid stability and overall preparing for a RES-based energy system.

The demonstration, test and validation of the activities should be carried out in at least two pilots in different EU Member States and Associated Countries.

Support to the BRIDGE initiative

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Code: 37309 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-16 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

The proposal should provide professional support for the overall organisation of the BRIDGE initiative, including administrative and organisational support for its governance, working groups and action groups, as well as coordination with other relevant European or national initiatives.

Building a Long-Term Africa Union (AU) and European Union (EU) Research and Innovation joint collaboration on Sustainable Renewable Energies

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Code: 37306 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-15 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

The proposal will build on the achievements of the LEAP-RE project to strengthen and create a sustainable framework for cooperation.

The proposal will expand and provide support to the established community of researchers, industry, innovators and funding agencies involved in the partnership, and will seek to build links with other relevant R&D communities.

The activities will contribute to the development of human and institutional capacities and will transform the SA-EU R&I Partnership on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy into a long-term platform for collaboration.

Novel inverter technologies and flexibility in PV systems (EUPI-PV Partnership)

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Code: 37302 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

Proposals should demonstrate new inverter technologies with higher efficiency, reliability, and lower cost, incorporating materials like GaN and SiC to provide grid services.

They are expected to include smart design with monitoring capabilities, electromagnetic compatibility, advanced control techniques, and integration with other components to collect data and support Digital Twin development.

Finally, system integration and cybersecurity should be assessed, offering guidance for future hardware and software improvements.

Optimised/Alternative Silicon Growth Technologies (from either liquid or gaseous phase) for PV Applications (EUPI-PV Partnership)

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Code: 37299 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

Due to their efficiency and durability, crystalline silicon wafers are by far the most common absorber material used in the production of solar cells and modules today.

These wafers are primarily made using either a directional solidification that produces large-grained multi-crystalline (mc-Si) wafers with a greater defect density (and therefore almost out of production) or a solar-optimised Czochralski (Cz) growing method that produces crystalline silicon with low defect density (c-Si).

Innovative manufacturing of wind energy technologies

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Code: 37296 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

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

• Develop and demonstrate innovative wind energy manufacturing technologies that improve the health and safety working conditions of staff along the supply chain;
• Develop and demonstrate innovative wind energy manufacturing technologies that allow for reduced energy and material consumption, increased circularity, lower costs and decreased pollution;
• Develop and demonstrate automated and/or semi-automated manufacturing solutions that ensure high-quality products, high productivity, increase the lifetime and the reliability of wind energy systems;
• Develop and demonstrate manufacturing solutions for wind energy technologies that allow for high production throughput, optimisation of logistics and transport of components and reduced impacts on the environment, cultural heritage, landscapes and people.

Development of hydropower technologies and water management schemes allowing for win-win situation of flexible hydropower and biodiversity improvement – Societal Readiness Pilot

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Code: 37293 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

Proposals are expected to develop hydropower technology solutions or improved water management schemes or a combination of both, which allow for synergies between flexible hydropower energy generation and local ecosystem management for existing run-of-river hydropower or reservoir hydropower plants or cascades of such plants, which are connected to the grid

Novel approaches to geothermal resources development

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Code: 37290 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

Proposals should focus on demonstrating innovative approaches to resource development:
(i) in the area of shallow depth and low/medium enthalpy geothermal (depth 0-500 meters and temperature below 150ºC) and/or
(ii) in the area of deep depth and high enthalpy geothermal (depth above 500 meters and temperature above 150ºC).

Proposals must also explicitly identify whether they relate to
(i) shallow geothermal,
(ii) deep geothermal or
(iii) both shallow and deep geothermal.

NZIA regulatory sandbox exchange forum support

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Code: 37287 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-12 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

Covering all of the following points proposals are expected to:

• Provide support to the goals of the net zero Europe Platform related to net zero regulatory sandboxes and to reach out to stakeholders involved in net zero regulatory sandboxes across Member States (including assigned contact points, competent authorities, potential participating entities, including SMEs and start-ups, social partners, consumers and other stakeholders).
• Prepare comparative analyses and assessments of the national legislative frameworks for net zero regulatory sandboxes and other regulatory sandboxes relevant for innovative net zero technologies in line with the Regulation on strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology manufacturing ecosystem.
• Create and regularly update a publicly available free repository on regulatory sandbox schemes and concrete projects for net zero technologies in the Union.

Support to the SET Plan community

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Code: 37283 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

The projects are expected to support ETIPs and/or IWGs and/or stakeholder fora in one of the sectors listed below, taking into consideration the specific needs of the sector they address, the emerging European policy priorities, and the coordination with other initiatives (to avoid overlaps).

The proposals are expected to address one of the following sectors: geothermal energy, hydropower, ocean energy, photovoltaics, renewable fuels and bioenergy, solar thermal energy, renewable heating and cooling, direct solar fuels, wind energy, energy efficiency in buildings, sustainable and efficient energy use in industry, direct current technologies, carbon capture storage and use, hydrogen, and energy systems.

Clean Energy Transition Co-Funded Partnership

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Code: 37280 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

The Clean Energy Transition co-funded Partnership (CET Partnership) is a transnational initiative on joint R&I programming to boost and accelerate the energy transition, building upon regional and national R&I funding programmes.

Coordinated call with India on waste to renewable hydrogen

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Code: 37277 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

The topic aims at developing innovative technologies to produce renewable hydrogen from biogenic wastes without recycling potential such as agricultural, forest and biogenic part of municipal wastes, sewage sludge and industrial waste waters, through biochemical and thermochemical Waste to renewable Hydrogen (W2rH) pathways.

Focus will be on increasing the resource efficiency (carbon to hydrogen yield), reducing the GHG emissions or even generating a negative carbon footprint, decreasing environmental footprint for pollution and water consumption, and significantly reducing the production cost of hydrogen. 

Fostering the European battery ecosystem by providing accurate and up-to-date information and stimulating excellence in the European battery R&I community (Batt4EU Partnership)

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Code: 37274 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/09/2025

The project proposal should cover all of the following tasks:

• Animate and organise the National and Regional Coordination Group (NRCG) in coordination with the Batteries European Partnership Association (BEPA);
• Cooperate with the European Technology and Innovation Platforms (ETIPs), Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs)^[2] and similar stakeholder fora.
• Provide support to existing SET Plan Implementation Plans and advancement towards more interconnected activities, both in terms of contents and implementation mechanisms;
• Create and maintain an online accessible platform which provides:
  • A rolling assessment of the current state-of-the-art of the battery technology, both globally and in the EU and Associated Countries;
  • An updated set of technical targets and intermediary KPIs to track the progress of the battery technology in the EU;
  • A rolling overview of open and recently closed calls on batteries from research and innovation programmes on European, national, and regional level. This task should build upon the links with the NRCG, ETIPs, and any ongoing IPCEIs on batteries. Direct collaboration with national funding agencies is encouraged.