Accelerating uptake through open proposals for advanced SME innovation

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Code: 37092 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-SSRI-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

Europe’s 25 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the EU economy. SMEs can bring innovation to societal challenges, including the security of EU citizens. Innovative SMEs and high-tech start-ups can transform and modernise EU security capabilities.

However, despite the innovation capacity of EU SMEs, these often experience difficulties in finding their way to the public markets. These include red tape in public contracts, access to new customers, access to finance, industrial competition and IP valorisation. These difficulties are exacerbated in markets that show restrictions of different kind, as it is the case of security.

Knowing that SMEs require additional support to reach the security buyers and that the collaboration opportunities offered by the projects of the Pillar II of Horizon Europe can be a catalyst for uptake, this topic aims to offer a collaborative environment for small and medium innovators to tailor their innovations to the specific needs of civil security end-users.

Living labs co-creating innovative solutions for forests and freshwater ecosystems restoration

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Code: 37087 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-01-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

 The European Climate Law requires Member States to adopt and implement national adaptation strategies and plans in which they should promote nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based adaptation.

It notably acknowledges that forests are carbon sinks, which contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, while ensuring that forests continue to grow and provide many other services.

STEP: Setting up facilities and production lines for manufacturing new innovative products/services

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Code: 37084 | Identifier Code: STEP/0625 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 13/06/2025 | End submission calls: 05/09/2025

The aim of the STEP programme is to support enterprises in Cyprus to establish facilities and production lines for the development and manufacturing of innovative products and services, in line with the EC STEP Regulation.

International Call for Digital Europe Programme selected countries

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Code: 37076 | Identifier Code: Code4Europe | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 07/07/2025 | End submission calls: 07/09/2025

The EU Code Week Grants for Grassroots programme is a new initiative designed to foster digital innovation and coding education throughout Europe. The Code4Europe Consortium is setting up a grant scheme in order to foster grassroots activities and widen the support offered by EU Code Week in local ecosystems. JA Europe is currently inviting applications for grants to fund both the creation of new support hubs in selected countries and impactful local flagship activities in digital education, coding, and computational thinking.

Strengthening the resilience of water systems and water sector to climate and global socio-economic change impacts

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Code: 37072 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-01-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

We are facing a triple interconnected global crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

Water is at the heart of these challenges. We can no longer ignore the global water crisis. The global hydrological cycle is changing.

Over the last three consecutive years, we have also witnessed not only alarming droughts in many parts of the EU, reaching as far as the eastern and northern countries that had previously been spared, but also catastrophic incidents of pollution and deadly floods throughout Europe.

Developing agroecology living labs and lighthouses for climate action under the Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) partnership

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Code: 37069 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-05-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

Agroecology is a holistic approach based on using ecological processes and optimising them to support agricultural production .

By working more closely with nature and ecosystem services, it has the potential to increase the cyclicality, diversification and autonomy of farms, to address climate challenges while maintaining and enhancing biodiversity, and to promote the full transformation of agricultural systems and agricultural value chains, from input substitution and beyond.

Research and innovation for food waste prevention and reduction at household level through measurement, monitoring and new technologies

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Code: 37066 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

 Food waste is not only a moral and economic issue, but also a source of depletion of the limited natural resources of the environment.

Food waste has a huge environmental impact, accounting for around 16 % of total greenhouse gas emissions from the EU food system .

Therefore, by reducing food waste we can also contribute to the fight against climate change.

Making food systems more resilient to food safety risks through the deployment of technological solutions

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Code: 37063 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

Proposals must contribute to all of the following areas:

• in the areas of food safety and food fraud, many efforts have been made in the framework of European Framework Programmes to generate knowledge and potential applications.
• support innovation to drive advances in the food system, implementing digital and technological solutions at high TRL that address existing gaps in food safety and/or food fraud.
• Identify existing regulations and provide recommendations on which technologies could use sandboxes to drive future commercialization.

Open topic: Innovating for on-farm post-harvest operations, storage and transformation of crops into food and non-food products

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Code: 37060 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

Under this theme, proposals should test, develop and pilot innovative solutions to support farmers to improve their position in value chains, benefit from the valorisation of their agricultural products and improve their financial sustainability.

Proposals should improve the climate and environmental performance of the resulting farmers’ activities and businesses.

Emerging and future risks to plant health

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Code: 37058 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

Plant health is vital for agriculture, forestry, ecosystems, ecosystem services and biodiversity on a global scale.

The current EU legislative framework on plant health plays a vital role in protecting the EU from the introduction of new plant pathogens, as well as in combating existing plant pathogens more effectively.

Open topic on modern information and forensic evidence analysis and on frontline policing

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Code: 37054 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-FCT-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 the open topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive solutions for improving modern information and forensic evidence analysis or frontline policing, that are not covered by topics of Horizon Europe Calls Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2023-2024. If they relate to some of the topics covered by Horizon Europe Calls Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2021-2022, the proposals should explain how they will build on and not duplicate them.

Preparing farmers, their workforce and advisors to the future of agriculture by providing the relevant knowledge, skills and competences at the right time and place

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Code: 37050 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-14 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 24/09/2025

Knowledge, skills and competences are key factors for a more competitive, sustainable and resilient agriculture.

However, in many EU Member States there are growing concerns about the lack and mismatch of knowledge, skills and competences among farmers working in diverse and rapidly changing environments.

In order to be prepared for and benefit from the various climatic, environmental, technological, socio-economic and other relevant drivers of change, the rural community, in particular farmers, their workforce and their advisors, should be able to acquire and put into practice the relevant knowledge, skills and competences, at the right time and in the right place, in a lifelong pathway.