EU Co-funded Partnership on raw materials for the green and digital transition (Co-funded partnership Raw Materials for the Green and Digital Transition)

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Code: 37453 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-64 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The objective of the European Partnership on Raw Materials is to strengthen the co-ordination of national and regional research programmes in the field of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials, ensuring common understanding of R&I challenges to achieve the objectives of the Critical Raw Materials Act. The Partnership will build on the experience of ERA-NETs: ERA-MIN, ERA-MIN 2 and ERA-MIN 3. The Partnership should cover the whole raw materials value chain including exploration, extraction, processing technologies, and recycling and improve circularity. Sea mining is excluded from this topic.

Improving fairness in the economy through a better understanding of undeclared and underdeclared work

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Code: 37452 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-05 | 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

Un(der)declared work, as well as the evasion of compulsory payments linked to workers’ remuneration (e.g. bogus self-employment to avoid payment to social security schemes) hinder fair social market economy and reduce the sustainability of social protection system.

The proliferation of disruptive technologies, the increased presence of third-country nationals in the Member States, as well as rapidly rising living costs are leading to higher volatility on the labour market, including an accelerated rate of change in the characteristics of labour demand and supply, and new forms of employment such as e.g. project work in the gig-economy.

These circumstances are conducive to growing inequality on the labour market and a spread of unfair practices, including un(der)declared work and the evasion of compulsory payments.

Working time reduction: barriers, challenges, benefits and policy implications

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Code: 37447 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-03 | Programme name: 1777 | Sub-program: Πολιτισμός, δημιουργικότητα και κοινωνίες χωρίς αποκλεισμούς (Πολυτομεακή Προτεραιότητα 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Η μείωση του χρόνου εργασίας, η οποία νοείται ως μια συντονισμένη μείωση των εβδομαδιαίων ωρών εργασίας που επικεντρώνεται σε μία επιπλέον ελεύθερη ημέρα την εβδομάδα χωρίς αντίστοιχη μείωση των αποδοχών, υπάρχει στην οικονομική συζήτηση για περισσότερο από έναν αιώνα, ωστόσο μεγάλο μέρος των πιθανών επιπτώσεών της σε οικονομικές, κοινωνικές και περιβαλλοντικές πτυχές παραμένει ανεξερεύνητο.

Working time reduction: barriers, challenges, benefits and policy implications

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Code: 37448 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-03 | 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

Reduction of the working time, understood as a coordinated reduction in weekly working hours concentrated into an extra free day per week without a corresponding decrease in pay, has existed in the economic debate for more than a century, yet much of its potential impact on economic, social, and environmental aspects remains unexplored.

Innovative solutions for the sustainable production for Semiconductor raw materials (IA)

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Code: 37444 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-63 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The projects aim to improve access to both primary and secondary raw materials, especially critical ones essential for EU industry and strategic sectors. They will help reduce the EU’s dependency on imported raw materials for semiconductor production and strengthen the resilience of European supply chains. Expected outcomes include sustainable and competitive raw material production in the EU, increased recovery from low-grade ores and industrial waste, and more efficient, low-emission mineral processing. The actions will foster collaboration among industry and research stakeholders and support responsible sourcing aligned with EU sustainability principles.

Strategic Partnerships for Raw Materials: Innovative Approaches for sustainable production of Critical Raw Materials (IA)

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Code: 37440 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-62 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The projects aim to enhance the EU’s supply security and access to both sustainably produced primary and secondary raw materials, especially critical and strategic ones vital for EU industries. They will strengthen cooperation with partner countries, improve the industrial viability, safety, and environmental performance of raw material operations, and diversify EU sourcing from third countries. The actions will promote responsible sourcing aligned with EU sustainability principles, encourage the use of UN frameworks (UNFC and UNRMS), and ensure that project results are effectively disseminated to relevant stakeholders. Overall, the projects will support the implementation of the EU Critical Raw Materials Act.

Technologies for critical raw materials and strategic raw materials from end-of-life products (IA)

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Code: 37437 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-61 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The projects aim to enhance the EU’s security of supply by improving access to secondary raw materials, particularly critical and strategic ones essential for industrial value chains and key sectors. They are expected to increase the recovery of such materials from end-of-life products, improve the cost-effectiveness and competitiveness of secondary raw materials production, and boost the efficiency and sustainability of recycling technologies. This includes reducing energy, water, and resource use, as well as minimizing waste and emissions. The projects will also support a responsible and sustainable supply of raw materials in line with EU principles, and contribute directly to the implementation of the EU Critical Raw Materials Act.

Accelerate the uptake of life-cycle assessment (LCA) for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) chemicals and materials and resulting products (RIA)

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Code: 37433 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-52 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Proposals should identify and fill the gaps in LCA tools, methods and data used for improving the environmental sustainability and efficiency of chemicals, materials and resulting products, taking also into account the criticality of raw materials. The Environmental Footprint (EF) methods should in particular be built on. All stages from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal of products should be included. Data-driven decisions and actions for a greener and more sustainable future should be enabled, while respecting planetary boundaries. The tools should be in compliance with the Safe and Sustainable by Design framework, hence to be considered as a reference in the proposal.

Materials Commons for Europe (IA)

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Code: 37430 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-45 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

This action will accelerate research and innovation in the EU in the field of advanced materials by interconnecting existing and new national digital infrastructures. It will lay the foundation for a sustainable European digital infrastructure that will strengthen collaboration between the academic and industrial communities.

This infrastructure will support the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and provide access to High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities. It will promote data sharing based on FAIR principles and enhance interoperability as well as the virtual design and testing of new materials.

The implementation will be undertaken by publicly funded organisations, mandated by their national authorities, which will serve as key national or regional hubs. These organisations will closely cooperate with pan-European initiatives working towards the digital transformation of materials research.

Historical and regional analyses of industrial transitions and their lessons for ensuring a fair green transition

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Code: 37429 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-02 | 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 geographic variation in the impact of the European Green Deal is crucially important. Even though the green transition will have a positive impact and will improve our societies in many respects, regions with sizable employment in coal mining or traditional vehicle manufacturing will be disproportionately impacted.

The resulting labour market imbalances can be addressed by people’s movements within and between countries and training and skilling policies adapted to regional contexts.

Tackling gender-based violence in different social and economic spheres

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Code: 37425 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-01 | 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

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a prevalent issue, with 1 in 3 women in the EU having experienced physical and/or sexual violence, 22% of women in the EU having experienced violence by an intimate partner, and 55% having been sexually harassed.

GBV has destructive consequences for individuals, organisations, the economy, and society as a whole. Gender-based violence is violence directed against a person because of that person’s gender or violence that affects persons of a particular gender disproportionately. 

Innovative Advanced Materials Innovation Procurement (CSA)

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Code: 37423 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-44 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The use of advanced materials has the potential to reinforce the Union’s resilience and competitiveness as well as achieving circularity, materials efficiency and overall sustainability targets. Public procurers can play a leading role in driving innovation and fostering the uptake of advanced materials, thereby speeding up the market introduction of technologies that enable the twin transition and EU’s resilience and economic security. Advanced materials drive innovations in new clean energy technologies provided for in the Net-Zero Industry Act and have the potential to substitute certain Critical Raw Materials (CRMs), thus contributing to the objectives of the CRM Act. Advanced materials can also replace hazardous substances, improve the environmental performance of products and processes, and facilitate circularity.

Public Procurements that make better use of advanced materials can potentially achieve a substantial impact towards these policy objectives in all areas where the public sector is an important customer such as construction, mobility, electronics and energy. Examples of functionalities that could potentially be realised through advanced materials include thermal isolation and protective coatings in construction, superior reliability and durability of energy and mobility infrastructures, improved performance of electronic devices, increased circularity and cost-efficient maintenance of products.

Impacts of culture and the arts on health and well-being

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Code: 37421 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-09 | 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

An Open Method of Coordination expert group is working on culture and health in 2024, building on the preparatory action “Bottom-up Policy Development for Culture & Well-being in the EU” (2022-23)

There has been a major increase of research into the effects of culture and the arts on health and well-being, alongside developments in practice and policy activities in different EU countries. A recent example is the covid-19 pandemic, which challenged individual and collective wellbeing in an unprecedented manner. Its consequences – particularly in terms of mental health – have been felt long after the conclusion of the crisis in medical and public health terms.

Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage

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Code: 37417 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-08 | 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

Europe’s rich heritage includes numerous objects, documents in libraries, museums, and archives, but also sites and cultural landscapes that recall complex and often troubled pasts. These heritage assets, often contested and frequently neglected or at risk of deterioration or abandonment, pose significant challenges for preservation, conservation, interpretation, and engagement.

Gaining a better understanding of the dissonance and contestation surrounding cultural heritage assets is crucial not only for safeguarding memory and heritage but also for fostering historical understanding, cultural dialogue, and reconciliation on persisting dissonances.

Cultural Strategies for Peace: culture and creativity as catalysts for conflict prevention and post-conflict reconciliation

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Code: 37414 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-07 | 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

Rapidly evolving geopolitical dynamics place the EU amid escalating conflicts and emergent crises, requiring an innovative approach to security frameworks, foreign policy, and peacebuilding strategies.

R&I actions can develop groundbreaking solutions for the future, fostering innovative approaches to security and foreign policy. Integrating culture, including cultural heritage and the arts, into these frameworks could contribute to long term peace and stability by preserving community identity and history, enhancing communities’ preparedness to crises, facilitating dialogue, reconstructive learning, reconciliation, and social cohesion.

Europe as a global powerhouse of design for sustainable competitiveness

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Code: 37412 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-06 | 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

Innovation and competitiveness are driven to an ever-greater degree by cultural dimensions and creativity. Successful new digital and physical products and services need to be not only functional but also appealing and attractive, adapted to cultural traits and market needs.

The process of creating or adapting products, services, processes or business models to human needs and desires, commonly called design, is key not only for competitiveness but also for environmental sustainability and cultural affirmation. It is widely acknowledged that the environmental impact of a product is largely determined at the design stage. The same also holds for digital products or services.

Digitally enabled local-for-local textile and apparel production (Textiles for the Future Partnership) (IA)

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Code: 37410 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-31 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Up to 80% of textile and apparel products consumed in Europe are partially or fully made outside Europe, exploiting lower labour cost as well as laxer local standards and regulations with regards to environmental, human health and labour rights protection. This offshoring of production has slowed textile manufacturing technology innovation in Europe and led to a complex long-lead time supply chain, generating unnecessary production and pre-consumer waste from unused mass-produced materials and unsold products not meeting actual demand.

Digitalisation in product development, production and on-demand supply chains has the potential to significantly reduce such overproduction, and enable business models that can competitively offer rapid short run or single piece production as well as related repair or end-of-life dismantling services for effective local recycling.

Assessment of Technology Infrastructure needs in Ukraine (CSA)

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Code: 37408 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-66 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Proposals should put forward a robust methodology to comprehensively analyse the current landscape of Technology Infrastructures facilities and services available in Ukraine and assess the damages to such capacities in result of the war. To this end, the proposed activities should engage with Ukrainian authorities at national and regional level as well as relevant organisations within the R&I ecosystems, such as RTOs, technical universities, research institutes and technology centres, hosting such infrastructures.

Activities proposed under this action should include a comprehensive analysis of user needs for Technology Infrastructures, both in the public and the private sector. This analysis should take into account in particular strategic technologies and long-term development needs of the Ukrainian economy.

EIT Culture & Creativity Regular Open Call for Master’s & PhD Modules 2025

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Code: 37405 | Identifier Code: EIT CC - BP2024-2025 | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 07/07/2025 | End submission calls: 30/09/2025

This call for proposals aligns with the strategic objectives outlined in the EIT Culture & Creativity Strategic Agenda 2024-2027. This call specifically invites applications for the development and implementation of up to six innovative Master’s and/or PhD modules to be integrated into existing academic programmes. All proposals must address one or more of the EIT Culture & Creativity priority areas: Architecture, Audio-Visual Media, Cultural Heritage, Fashion, and Gaming. Emphasis is placed on embedding entrepreneurship education and emerging technologies into the curricula.

Boosting R&I cooperation between EU and Japan on semiconductors (CSA)

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Code: 37403 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2025-CSA-JPN | Programme name: 32499 | Start submission calls: 08/07/2025 | End submission calls: 17/09/2025

The proposal should promote coordination between EU and Japan on life cycle assessment (LCA) in semiconductor manufacturing, support joint research and innovation (R&I) efforts, and explore future collaboration topics. It should also look into funding talent exchanges, enhance cooperation with Japanese research institutions on digital technologies, and support joint actions to strengthen the semiconductor supply chain.