Integration of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms into high-level protocols

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Code: 37224 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

The transition to post-quantum cryptography requires changing the uses of most currently deployed public-key cryptography (RSA and ECC). Research and development efforts are providing signature systems and key-exchange mechanisms that are generally accepted to withstand attacks using classical and quantum computers. Efforts are on the way to include these in core Internet protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS). While this is an important development, many more protocols need to be modified to be quantum-ready and to ensure backward compatibility with legacy systems.

Innovative air mobility and services for sustainable and smart urban, peri-urban transport – Societal Readiness pilot

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Code: 37223 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D6-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

The proposal is expected to develop the conditions and guidelines for a sustainable, smart, safe and resilient ecosystem for urban air mobility and services, with a focus on the urban logistics sector, where drones could be demonstrated and adopted more readily than in passenger mobility.

Security of implementations of Post-Quantum Cryptography algorithms

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Code: 37218 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

The security of the implementations of PQC algorithms is vital for maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and availability of digital information and communications in the face of implementation attacks, such as, for example, side-channel attacks using information from timing, power consumption, electromagnetic radiation, fault attacks disturbing the secure of operation of the device and their combination. Such attacks, eventually also enhanced by the use of deep learning, constitute significant threats to both (embedded and regular) software and hardware implementations.

Preparing for large-scale CCAM demonstrations (CCAM Partnership) – Societal Readiness Pilot

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Code: 37217 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D6-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

In recent years, work in the field of vehicle automation has focused on technological developments, human factors, extensive testing and demonstrations, with the aim of raising public awareness and facilitating market readiness.

Despite the progress achieved, challenges related to technical functionality as well as to usage, demand and affordability remain

Security evaluations of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) primitives

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Code: 37211 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

The intrinsic security of PQC algorithms is based on mathematical problems that are believed to be intractable for both classical and quantum computers. To assess the quantum security of post-quantum primitives is fundamental in order to boost our confidence on post-quantum cryptosystems.

Privacy Enhancing Technologies

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Code: 37209 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Protecting individuals’ personal data and ensuring privacy while allowing for data processing and analysis is fundamental for our society. Privacy-preserving techniques allow to minimize the amount of personal data collected and processed, and to protect that data through advanced cryptographic methods. For instance, machine-learning methodologies are leveraged to dissect medical and behavioural data, aiming to unearth causations and insights into cyber attacks or threats. However, a substantial portion of this data comprises personal information, (such as sensitive health data), raising concerns over potential breaches or misuse, thus jeopardizing the privacy of individuals, societal well-being, and economic stability.

In addition, the challenges related to the exploitation of non-personal/industrial data assets, which could impede the full realization of the data-driven economy, are also subject to the work that can be proposed under this topic. Solutions that can provide security against quantum adversaries are also encouraged.

New advanced tools and processes for Operational Cybersecurity

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Code: 37207 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Proposals are expected to demonstrate the developed frameworks, tools, services, and processes through pilot implementations involving the participation of relevant national cybersecurity authorities and/or essential and important entities as defined in NIS2, implemented with the participation of leading European cybersecurity industry. Proposals should consider the impact of forthcoming legislation, in particular the Cyber Resilience Act.

Advancing remote operations to enable the sustainable and smart mobility of people and goods based on operational and societal needs (CCAM Partnership) – Societal Readiness Pilot

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Code: 37205 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D6-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

This topic aims to investigate the operational and social conditions and requirements to complement the ODD of CCAM solutions through remote operations as defined by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

Here, the term ‘remote operations’ shall be understood as the remote monitoring, support and operation of the Automatic Driving System (ADS) by a person located outside the vehicle.

Generative AI for Cybersecurity applications

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Code: 37202 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

The use of Artificial intelligence is becoming indispensable with applications where massive data is involved. Understanding all implications for cybersecurity requires deeper analysis and further research and innovation.

Generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges in the field of cybersecurity. This topic supports the research on new opportunities brought by Generative AI for Cybersecurity applications, to develop, train and test AI models to scale up detection of threats and vulnerabilities, enhance response time, cope with the large quantities of data involved, and automate process and decision-making support; for example by generating reports from threat intelligence data, suggesting and writing detection rules, threat hunts, and queries for the Security information and event management (SIEM), creating management, audit and compliance reports and reverse engineering malware.

Knowledge sharing and dissemination to support road transport R&I in EU and around the world increasing global EU competitiveness

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Code: 37201 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-19 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

The aim of this theme is to further promote research and innovation (R&I) leading to sustainable road transport in Europe and internationally.

The action should help to identify future R&D needs, bring together a larger number of innovators and stakeholders, stimulate wider participation in EU activities, support the dissemination of results at European and global level and identify possible future actions aimed at renewing European competitiveness.

Data repository for security research and innovation

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Code: 37197 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-SSRI-05 | Programme name: 1777 | Sub-program: Πολιτική ασφάλεια για την κοινωνία (Πολυτομεακή Προτεραιότητα 3)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

The underlying idea of this topic is to avoid that security and disaster risk research projects obtain and prepare data that at the end of the projects is simply lost instead of being stored and shared for reuse.

In the security domain, due to its specificities, the special categories of data involved or/and unique limitations, which may call for additional requirements, a consolidated, common research database is particularly desired. It is of utmost importance that security practitioners are provided with an increased interoperability and improved (cross-border) exchange of data thanks to harmonised data file formats across Europe, which would easily take into account technological evolutions, i.e., be adaptable in time. Such a lack of realistic, up-to-date and sufficient training and testing data for research purposes and consequently the need for a database, data repository or any other effective and useful tool(s) to gather, manage and store varying security research data, have been regularly raised by the projects working in the area of security. The same is true of data on disaster risk management where national or regional analysis and forecasting databases or national disaster risk assessments can be fragmented or sealed without reasonable open, sustainable access to the wider community.

Support to the organisation and dissemination of the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference

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Code: 37193 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-18 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

The action will prepare and provide support to the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference to be organised in 2028, bringing together transport stakeholders to discuss policy, industry and research issues at European and global level.

Open topic for role of the human factor for the resilience of critical infrastructures

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Code: 37187 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-INFRA-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Under this open topic, proposals are invited to address new challenges, and/or develop innovative solutions or strengthen capabilities to tackle existing challenges taking into account the human factor, for the benefit of resilience of critical infrastructures. The emphasis of the proposals should be on the human dependant abilities of critical infrastructure to cope with an adverse event, including their capacity to prepare for the crisis, absorb the impact, reduce the recovery time, and adapt by reducing future exposure and vulnerabilities.

Support of the new EU renewable and low carbon fuel ecosystem for waterborne transport

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Code: 37186 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-16 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

The European Commission is currently involved in several initiatives aimed at accelerating the development of solutions for the market uptake of renewable and low-carbon fuels.

Firstly, at the Commission’s initiative, the EU adopted the FuelEU Maritime Regulation , which sets binding targets for reducing the greenhouse gas emission intensity of energy used on board ships for maritime vessels.

As an accompanying measure to this regulation, the Commission launched the Renewable and Low Carbon Fuel Alliance, which includes a large part of all fuel producers, to facilitate investment in renewable and low carbon fuels for waterborne transport and aviation, to clarify the availability of raw materials, demand and supply, and to promote a commercial range of projects.

Open topic for improved preparedness for, response to and recovery from large-scale disruptions of critical infrastructures

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Code: 37181 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-INFRA-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Under this open topic, proposals are invited to address new challenges, and/or develop innovative solutions to existing challenges in order to increase the resilience of critical infrastructure. Proposals should primarily address sector(s) and/or interdependencies that are not covered, in particular by the past Horizon Europe calls: Resilient Infrastructure 2023 and Resilient Infrastructure 2024. If they relate to some of the topics covered by Horizon Europe Calls Resilient Infrastructure 2021-2022, the proposals should convincingly explain how they will build on their outcomes and not duplicate them.

Adapted to the nature, scope and type of proposed activities, proposals should convincingly explain how they will plan and/or carry out demonstrations, testing or validation of developed tools and solutions. Proposals should also outline the plans to develop possible future uptake and upscaling at regional, national and/or EU level.

Optimal integrated onboard renewable energy solutions, by considering Wind-Assisted Propulsion Systems (ZEWT Partnership)

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Code: 37180 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-15 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

WAP systems (e.g. rotor blades, rigid blades, flexible blades, ventilated blade system, etc.) have attracted considerable attention as a means of reducing ships’ fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and other emissions, and are also considered as the main means of propulsion for future newbuildings.

Several current EU-funded projects are already addressing WAP systems, with a focus on holistic optimised ship design, control and operation, including changes to conventional propulsion with propellers, and focusing on deep sea shipping (DSS).

Open topic on improved intelligence picture and enhanced prevention, detection and deterrence of various forms of organised crime

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Code: 37177 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-FCT-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Under the open topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive solutions for improving the intelligence picture and enhancing the prevention, detection and deterrence of various forms of organised crime, that are not covered by topics of Horizon Europe Calls Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2023-2024. If they related to some of the topics covered by Horizon Europe Calls Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2021-2022, the proposals should convincingly explain how they will build on and not duplicate them. Adapted to the nature, scope and type of proposed projects, proposals should also convincingly explain how they will plan and/or carry out demonstration, testing or validation of developed tools and solutions. Furthermore, proposals should outline the plans to develop possible future uptake and upscaling at national and EU level for possible next steps once the project is finalised. Proposals should also consider, build on if appropriate and not duplicate previous research, including but not limited to research by other Framework Programmes’ projects.

Flexible and mobile solutions for Onshore Power Supply (ZEWT Partnership)

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Code: 37173 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-14 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

The OPS solutions currently available on the market, although compliant with the standards, have gaps in terms of flexibility and modularity, in particular in relation to the expected future demand in terminals with high turnover and diverse maritime traffic.

OPS solutions for port infrastructure are so far static or have limited flexibility at the quay, resulting in many static connections being required to meet port requirements.

As an alternative or complement, further research is required into OPS solutions that enable the provision of OPS within and between different terminals and port areas.

OPS: Onshore Power Supply

Open topic on citizen and regional and/or local authorities’ engagement in enhanced disaster risk awareness, including education, and preparedness

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Code: 37172 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-DRS-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Societal resilience and preparedness to disasters are shaped by the way authorities and citizens exchange, access, understand, and react to information about hazards. As a result, anyone may become more vulnerable if barriers to these processes occur. Strengthening societal resilience to disasters, therefore, requires investment by authorities at operational, strategic, and policy levels to improve engagement with citizens and integrate inclusive communication processes. In order to achieve this, it is important to take into account the diversity of citizens, be it relating to age, gender, educational levels, disability, and other social characteristics.

The European Commission is developing and implementing an EU Preparedness Union Strategy following whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches. The EU’s disaster resilience goal No. 2 is “Prepare – Increasing risk awareness and preparedness of the population. The proposals’ outcomes should especially work towards supporting these two policies and follow the recommendations of the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) to ensure a successful uptake to the end users. Proposals are invited to utilise the Special Eurobarometer on “Disaster risk awareness and preparedness of the EU population” as evidence of needs.

Novel holistic intelligent tools for variable retrofit and decarbonised scenarios (ZEWT Partnership)

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Code: 37169 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-13 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

In the effort to reduce energy from retrofitting, new design requirements and constraints arise, e.g. due to the introduction of new low-carbon fuels and new additional propulsion systems (e.g. wind-assisted systems).

In addition, other technical measures have not yet been “standardised” for upgrading existing ships due to other difficulties or high costs.