MSCA Staff Exchanges 2025

Code: 36157 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-SE-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/03/2025 | End submission calls: 08/10/2025

MSCA Staff Exchanges promote innovative international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in research and innovation through exchanging staff and sharing knowledge and ideas at all stages of the innovation chain. The scheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps turn ideas into innovative products, services or processes. It is open to research, technical, administrative and managerial staff supporting R&I activities.

The European Capital of Innovation Awards 2026 (iCapital)

Code: 36153 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/03/2025 | End submission calls: 18/06/2025

The European Capital of Innovation Awards aim to champion inspiring cases of municipality-enabled innovation flourishing in cities. The Awards are a prestigious recognition for city administrators who are courageous enough to open up their governance practices to experimentation, to boost innovation by all means, to be a role model for other cities, and to push the boundaries of technology for the benefit of their citizens. In addition to the monetary reward, the prize brings high visibility in the form of renewed public interest and increased media coverage.

EIC Pathfinder Open

Code: 36046 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/02/2025 | End submission calls: 21/05/2025

The overall objective of the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research is to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. It provides support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development. Pathfinder projects aim to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities by realising innovative technological solutions.

The EIC Pathfinder Open supports early stage development of future technologies (e.g. various activities at low Technology Readiness Levels 1-4), based on high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology, breakthrough research (including ‘deep-tech’).

EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative Call for Training Proposals 2025

Code: 36038 | Identifier Code: Edu Cluster | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 25/02/2025 | End submission calls: 08/04/2025

The EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative has launched its Call for Training Proposals 2025 and is inviting organisations to collaborate on training deep tech talents by enhancing or expanding deep tech training programmes.

EIT Call for Proposals 2025 for a new EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) on Water, Marine and Maritime Sectors and Ecosystems (‘Water’)

Code: 35959 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIT-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 20/02/2025 | End submission calls: 17/06/2025

The EIT Community is characterised by a focus on results and on achieving long-lasting impact in the way the EU approaches and manages innovation. It is therefore critical that the KIC demonstrates substantial impact at the socioeconomic level over time, and significant progress towards achieving its mission and objectives. The KIC should harvest intellectual, human, material and financial resources to create valuable outputs such as innovation communities, high quality curricula, start-ups, innovative products, services, technologies, through which it develops and sustains value-added business, enhances competencies necessary for innovation and entrepreneurship, and for developing solutions to major societal challenges.

A KIC is expected to create the following impacts:

• technological/economic/innovation impact by influencing the creation and growth of companies, as well as the creation and deployment at scale of new innovative solutions to address the global challenges, creating direct and indirect jobs and mobilising additional public and private investments;
• educational impact by strengthening human capital in research and innovation, enhancing innovative and entrepreneurial skills both at individual and organisational levels and fostering the creation and diffusion of knowledge and innovation openly within society;
• societal impact, including the impact derived by the delivery of systematic solutions within and beyond the EIT Community, also through Cross-KIC activities, by addressing EU policy priorities in the Water, Marine and Maritime Sectors and Ecosystems (‘Water’) through innovative solutions, engagement with citizens and end-users and by strengthening the uptake of innovative solutions in these areas in society.

EIT Culture & Creativity - Main Innovation Projects 2025

Code: 35885 | Identifier Code: EIT CC - BP2024-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 11/02/2025 | End submission calls: 11/04/2025

The overall goal of the Innovation Programme is to develop a balanced portfolio of projects addressing key challenges in the EIT CC’s five priority areas: Fashion, Cultural Heritage, Architecture, Gaming and Audio-Visual Media.
The Regular Open Call for Main Innovation Projects supports one-year initiatives designed to advance technologies from TRL 6 to TRL 9, ensuring a smooth transition to market. Projects will focus on refining prototypes, branding, market research, and scaling distribution channels.

EIT Culture & Creativity - Short Innovation Projects - Segment 2: Collaborative projects

Code: 35882 | Identifier Code: EIT CC - BP2024-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 11/02/2025 | End submission calls: 11/04/2025

The aim of the EIT Culture & Creativity’s 2025 Innovation Programme is to foster a balanced portfolio of projects that address key challenges in EIT Culture & Creativity’s five priority areas: Fashion, Cultural Heritage, Architecture, Gaming, and Audio-Visual Media.
This call will focus specifically on short innovation projects – projects with a duration of no more than 6 months – that can drive tangible, impactful results within a limited timeframe.

EIT Culture & Creativity - Education Call: Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Courses 2025

Code: 35880 | Identifier Code: EIT CC - BP2024-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 11/02/2025 | End submission calls: 11/04/2025

The EIT Culture & Creativity Call for continuous professional development (CPD) courses 2025 emphasises the development of courses designed to equip students and professionals within the Cultural and Creative Sector Industries with vital skills in creativity, sustainability, digital technologies, entrepreneurship, and sectorspecific innovation.

MSCA Cofund 2025

Code: 35708 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-COFUND-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/01/2025 | End submission calls: 24/06/2025

MSCA COFUND co-finances new or existing doctoral programmes and postdoctoral fellowship schemes with the aim of spreading the best practices of the MSCA including international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as international and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.

Scaling Startups Programme: tailored support with an investment focus

Code: 35705 | Identifier Code: EITUM-BP23-25 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 15/01/2025 | End submission calls: 28/02/2025

For 2025, EIT Urban Mobility will continue to support startup entrepreneurs with the Scaling Startups Programme: a programme enabling startup business to grow while reducing the inherent risk of entrepreneurship with a double-sided approach:

• provide tailored support responding to each startup specific needs
• and facilitating a Demo Day with investors focusing on mobility, smart cities, sustainability, and impact.

Teaming for Excellence

Code: 35370 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-ACCESS-01-01-two-stage | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 03/12/2024 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

Teaming is one of the actions that stimulates the European Union to exploit its potential by maximising and spreading the benefits of research and innovation. The Teaming action is designed to support the creation of new centres of excellence or upgrading the existing ones in low R&I performing countries (except those centres of excellence that have already benefitted from previous Teaming calls). Generally, Teaming is vital for its competitiveness and its ability to address societal challenges.

Deadline dates:

• 10 April 2025
• 20 January 2026

EIC STEP Scale Up

Code: 35323 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-EICSTEP-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 26/11/2024 | End submission calls: 16/12/2025

The EIC STEP Scale Up call presents a unique opportunity for ambitious scale up companies (SMEs and small mid-caps) with game-changing innovations in Europe’s critical technology areas. It offers a powerful combination of financial and strategic support designed to propel your groundbreaking solution to the forefront of these sectors.

This call is part of the implementation of the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) which supports the development or manufacturing of critical technologies throughout the Union or safeguarding and strengthening their respective value chains.

ERC Proof of Concept Grants

Code: 35211 | Identifier Code: ERC-2025-POC | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 13/11/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2025

The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and are therefore available only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.

EIT RawMaterials - Call for KAVA 13 Upscaling- Business Plan 2023-2025

Code: 35153 | Identifier Code: EIT RM BP23-25 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 07/10/2024 | End submission calls: 29/11/2024

The EIT RawMaterials Innovation Community is building a pan-European innovation ecosystem on raw materials that are essential for Europe’s open strategic autonomy.

Upscaling KAVA projects are innovation projects based on validated technologies that need additional step(s) for testing, demonstration, proof of concept and up-scaling prior to commercialisation. The purpose of these projects is to support good technologies, products, and services that are currently under development to reach market entry.

EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application

Code: 35135 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 29/10/2024 | End submission calls: 18/12/2025

The EIC Accelerator focuses in particular on innovations building on scientific discovery or technological breakthroughs (‘deep tech’) and where significant funding is needed over a long timeframe before returns can be generated (‘patient capital’).

The EIC Accelerator supports companies (principally SMEs, including start-ups) to scale up high impact innovations with the potential to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

Inno2Market – Innovate Together 2024

Code: 35043 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 02/10/2024 | End submission calls: 06/12/2024

EIT Manufacturing’s Inno2Market – Innovate Together 2024 aims to strengthen the competitiveness of European Manufacturing in the key strategic areas defined by the European Commission. The programme will focus on the strategic manufacturing technologies defined in the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA), supporting the European Green Deal by enabling the European industry to adapt to the forthcoming regulations.

ERC Consolidator Grants

Code: 34938 | Identifier Code: ERC-2025-COG | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 26/09/2024 | End submission calls: 14/01/2025

The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal.

MSCA Staff Exchanges 2024

Code: 34880 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-SE-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 19/09/2024 | End submission calls: 05/02/2025

Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

For staff members

• Increased set of research and transferable skills and competences, leading to improved employability and career prospects within and outside academia;
• More knowledge and innovative ideas converted into products, processes and services;
• More entrepreneurial mind-sets, testing new and innovative ideas;
• Increased international exposure leading to extended networks and opportunities;
• Enhanced networking and communication capacities with scientific peers, as well as with the general public that will increase and broaden the research and innovation impact.

For participating organisations

• Innovative ways of cooperation and transfer of knowledge between sectors and disciplines;
• Strengthened and broader international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaborative networks;
• Boosted R&I capacity.

Integrated peri-urban areas in the transition towards climate neutrality

Code: 34815 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 11/02/2025

Peri-urban areas lie at the periphery of cities. They are the interface between rural and urban environments and are often the subject of high pressure from the urban core which results in an un-controlled and uneven urban expansion towards the rural territory often triggering environmental degradation. While dispersed and heterogenous in terms of land-occupancy, density and services and amenities distribution, the peri-urban territory integrates mutual inter-dependences within the urban-rural continuum. These can be associated with people (inwards and outwards migration or socio-demographic change) as well as with linkages and flows between a variety of rural and urban related functions and activities (ranging from industrial and recycling manufacturing, agriculture production and food processing, sanitation, waste disposal, drinking water provisions, to housing – including slums and gated communities – transport and associated infrastructure, large-scale commercial sites, and large recreational areas such as parks or forests), which juxtapose, collide and mesh in unintended and unplanned ways.
Peri-urban areas are also the subject of weaker governance structures and limited institutional capacity, which in return limits the capacity to regulate economic activities and land-use and land coverage and makes it difficult to implement effective and integrated local, regional, and functional urban area wide policies and programs.

This topic aims to foster the integration of green and smart mobility, energy, industry and governance solutions and measures within the current peri-urban development and planning practice to reduce these areas GHG emissions and to improve their liveability.

Mobility Management Plans and Behavioural Change

Code: 34812 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 11/02/2025

The shift towards a decarbonised transport system is considered as challenging compared to other sectors of the economy. Achieving urban mobility decarbonisation can involve a variety of policy and technology measures and solutions. Technological innovations should be complemented by measures tapping into changes that target travel patterns and generate a shift in the daily mobility behaviour.
The objective of this topic is to explore, analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of mobility management schemes (influencing behavioural change, travel demand and travel supply) in achieving a decarbonised and energy-efficient urban mobility system.

Rethinking urban spaces towards climate neutrality

Code: 34810 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 11/02/2025

With our cities being overly populated and dense, the scarcity of urban public space requires smart urban design, planning, management and prioritisation in urban space allocation to different uses, amenities, and services. From the reallocation of the urban public space to more sustainable forms of transport and energy generation and use, intermodal hubs, and interchanges to the dynamic management of the street profile and curb side, and the integration of suburban/peripheral areas in the general urban fabric and patterns, current and future research should aim to make urban public spaces more liveable while enabling better a connectivity, accessibility, social interaction, inclusion and transit in the context of a changing climate. Concepts like the “15-minute city” and “superblocks” are gaining momentum and have an enormous potential in shaping the urban planning and design practice and the mobility services based on the principle of proximity.

Zero-pollution cities

Code: 34808 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 11/02/2025

Cities are concerned by various types of pollution, including air, water, soil and noise pollution, and their negative impacts on human health and the environment. Many of these pollutants emanate from the same sources as greenhouse gas emissions being tackled in the context of the EU Mission Climate-Neutral Smart Cities, so it is clear there are potential environmental co-benefits from reducing GHG emissions. Designing effective policies to protect city dwellers from pollution depends on solid evidence as well as on cooperation and communication between and with policy makers and citizens.
Due to resource constraints, city administrations may often need to prioritise between different actions on different forms of pollution – and for this a solid risk-based evidence-base of the exposure to, impacts of and measures against pollution will allow to arrive at more informed and cost-effective local measures.
More informed, coherent and targeted local measures will help European cities to deliver environmental co-benefits under the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral, Smart Cities, comply with or exceed EU legislative standards for air and water quality, and supporting the delivery of environmental objectives such as the targets of the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan and commitments under the Green City Accord.

Applicants should propose projects that deliver better and innovative local measures against pollution through, among others, improved knowledge on the exposures of citizens to pollution and improved health impact assessments and strategies to reduce health impacts related to air, water, soil and/or noise pollution.

Resource Efficiency of PV in Production, Use and Disposal

Code: 34806 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-07 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Photovoltaic power generation is pivotal in the transition to a clean energy system and the achievement of a climate-neutral economy. To this end, it is important to enhance its sustainability while creating wealth and additional employment opportunities in Europe.

Consequently, project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• Reduce the environmental footprint associated to PV technology deployment across all the phases of the system lifetime (production, transport, installation and end of life).
• Define design and processing guidelines to optimally address circularity of PV systems for one or several PV technologies (silicon, thin film, organic PV, perovskite PV, etc.).

Industrialisation of sustainable and circular deep renovation workflows (Built4People Partnership)

Code: 34804 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on the industrialisation of sustainable and circular deep renovation workflows.
Several recent projects and calls have focused on prefabrication for deep renovation, but more work is needed to develop innovative, seamless workflows from design to off-site prefabrication, to installation, construction on-site, maintenance and future dismantling, reuse and recycling of prefabricated elements, duly considering life cycle performance, sustainability, and the potential to use the buildings as carbon sinks.

Digital solutions to foster participative design, planning and management of buildings, neighbourhoods and urban districts (Built4People Partnership)

Code: 34802 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The transition to a climate-neutral society requires that Europe’s building stock also becomes climate-neutral. At the same time, Europe’s building stock has to become climate resilient. This requires a comprehensive approach beyond individual buildings, namely at the level of neighbourhoods or urban districts. However, the decarbonisation of the built environment and its adaptation to a changing climate and to societal needs in terms of comfort, accessibility, inclusiveness, and aesthetics cannot happen without active participation of the buildings’ users and occupants, individual / collective property owners, and energy communities as beneficiaries of the value chain. Professionals, such as project developers, architects, engineers, building owners, planners and statutory authorities, require solutions that develop, analyse, model, visualise and present a multitude and complex set of information in such a way that facilitates such co-design processes. This topic focuses on the development of digital solutions for a stronger participation of end users, citizens and other relevant stakeholders in the design, planning and management of the renovation of existing buildings, neighbourhoods and / or districts.

Support to the activities of the SET Plan Key Action area Renewable fuels and bioenergy

Code: 34800 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-13 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic supports the activities of the SET Plan Key Action area Renewable fuels and bioenergy.

Proposals under this topic should address the following SET Plan sector:

• renewable fuels
• bioenergy

Market Uptake Measures of renewable energy systems

Code: 34798 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-10 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on market Uptake Measures of renewable energy systems. The proposal is expected to develop solutions addressing at least 2 of the expected outcomes (shown below) either for the entire renewable energy market or focusing on a specific energy sector, such as electricity, heating, cooling or renewable fuels.

Expected outcomes:

• Facilitate the wider uptake of renewable energy systems (RES) in the energy, industrial and residential sectors leading to an increased share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption by 2030 and beyond.
• Contribute to provide open source validated tools and methodologies for policy makers and stakeholders for developing more informed RES policy and for analysing the market dynamics when including all renewable energies.
• Contribute to the development of markets and respective financial frameworks that can operate in an efficiently and incentive-compatible manner while accommodating massive shares of renewables.
• Improve social acceptability of renewable energy facilities and installations.

BIM-based processes and digital twins for facilitating and optimising circular energy renovation (Built4People Partnership)

Code: 34796 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on the improvement of Building Information Modelling and Digital Twinning over the full life cycle of buildings, including construction and renovation of buildings, towards enhanced energy efficiency and sustainability and in compliance with circular economy and resource efficiency principles.

Robotics and other automated solutions for construction, renovation and maintenance in a sustainable built environment (Built4People Partnership)

Code: 34794 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The transformation of the built environment should take place in a way that minimises the environmental impact of the works themselves. With the increasing rollout of highly energy efficient, sustainable buildings and deep renovation, there is a growing need for the development of robotic and automated solutions to support sustainable building construction, renovation and maintenance processes that are less disruptive, cleaner and faster.

Innovative, Community-Integrated PV systems

Code: 34792 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-06 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

PV is growing fast, from domestic and commercial, up to utility scale systems. In the years ahead PV systems and solutions will be an integral contributor of distributed generation, pivotal in building functional energy communities, aggregated and operated through advance distributed controls in hierarchical set up with the integrated grid.
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Increase the profitability and penetration of PV systems in renewable energy communities.
• Engage actively citizens and communities in the clean energy transition in particular through the uptake of energy cooperatives and the development of decentralized platforms.

Minimisation of environmental, and optimisation of socio-economic impacts in the deployment, operation and decommissioning of offshore wind farms

Code: 34789 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-08 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The aim is to develop and promote the use of modelling tools and objective holistic assessment metrics for realistic in-depth analysis of (cumulative) impacts of wind installations on the environment and on local communities and to integrate these in design tools for the deployment and decommissioning of offshore wind farms. It will be as well necessary to find innovative solutions to minimize the environmental impact during all stages of the life cycle of offshore wind farms but especially for the construction and decommissioning phase. An assessment framework for installations is needed with nature inclusive design options valuing ‘created habitats’ vs ‘natural habitats’.

Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts

Code: 34787 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-09 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The overall aim is to accelerate the cost-effective construction and deployment of floating wind farms, facilitating their rapid and sustainable deployment across Europe and lower their overall costs.

DACCS and BECCS for CO2 removal/negative emissions

Code: 34785 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-12 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic focusses on DACCS and BECCS, which are technologies that can help reaching climate neutrality by 2050 by creating the carbon sinks required to balance out residual emissions in 2050.

The objective of this topic is to further the technological development of DACCS and BECCS, and addressing the environmental, social and economic challenges and benefits with the view of establishing this concept as a viable technology to fight climate change.

CCU for the production of fuels

Code: 34782 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-11 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Conversion of captured CO2 is not only a means to replace fossil fuels, but also a promising solution for seasonal energy storage. There are still some scientific and technological challenges to overcome to be able to exploit CO2 as a fuel feedstock, the main challenge being that the utilisation of CO2 is limited by the highly energy intensive conversion process.
Proposals will aim at the development of energy-efficient and economically and environmentally viable CO2 conversion technologies, including energy storage and/or displacement of fossil fuels that allow for upscaling in the short to medium term.

PV-integrated electric mobility applications

Code: 34772 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Photovoltaic power generation is pivotal to a clean energy system and the achievement of the net zero-emissions target. To this end, it is important to enhance affordability, sustainability and exploit the modularity and synergies of application of PV technologies. PV technology can contribute to improved features of electric mobility systems not just in terms of CO2 (and air-pollution) emissions reduction but also regarding product aesthetics and user experiences.

Design for adaptability, re-use and deconstruction of buildings, in line with the principles of circular economy (Built4People Partnership)

Code: 34769 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Project results under this topic are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:

• Improved adaptability of buildings and building units to new uses.
• Increased reuse and recycling of building elements and products.
• Extended service life of buildings.
• Increased awareness on best practices for design for adaptability, reuse and deconstruction.

Critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms

Code: 34767 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms. Specigfically, the results of projects under this topic, are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Increased performance of ocean energy technologies with the focus on sustainability, operation and maintenance of ocean energy devices.
• Improved knowledge on how to operate ocean energy devices, their availability, maintainability, reliability, survivability, and sustainability.
• The reduction of the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).

Development of smart concepts of integrated energy driven bio-refineries for co-production of advanced biofuels, bio-chemicals and biomaterials

Code: 34765 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on the development of zero-waste and neutral or negative carbon emission energy-efficient biorefinery concepts for enabling the production of low-cost advanced biofuels through co-production of added value bio-based products and bioenergy.

Development of next generation synthetic renewable fuel technologies

Code: 34763 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on the development of next generation technologies for the production of novel synthetic renewable liquid and gaseous fuels from CO2, and/or renewable carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen or their compounds and from renewable energy.

Digital tools for CSP and solar thermal plants

Code: 34761 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic will support innovative application of digital tools (or to the application of innovative digital tools, or both) in the following areas:

• CSP and/or
• solar thermal heat and/or cold.

Any type of application of the digital tools is in the scope (e.g., component control, performance measurement, self-diagnostic, ancillary services to the power system, digital twins, etc.). Artificial intelligence techniques are also in the scope.

MSCA Researchers at Risk 2024

Code: 34759 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-RR-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/09/2024 | End submission calls: 14/01/2025

Building on the available results of past and on-going Researchers at Risk initiatives which have strengthened support structures across the EU and provided some form of guidance for researchers at risk, further support is envisaged for scaling up and moving towards more customised support for researchers at risk based on the needs already identified in the national and EU initiatives implemented so far.
This action should aim at delivering the best possible solutions to the challenges faced by researchers.

EU Award for Gender Equality Champions

Code: 34713 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-GENDER-Prize | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 04/09/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

The “EU Award for Gender Equality Champions” is a recognition prize scheme meant as a booster and complement of the requirement to have in place a Gender Equality Plan (GEP) and a tool for advancing inclusive gender equality plans and policies in the framework of the new European Research Area (ERA) policy agenda. The Award is also an enabler for the transformation agenda for universities set forth in the new ERA, in synergy with the European Education Area (EEA) and the European Higher Education Area (EHEA, Bologna process), and in line with the new Communication on a European Strategy for Universities adopted on 18 January 2022.

MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024

Code: 34429 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 29/05/2024 | End submission calls: 27/11/2024

MSCA Doctoral Networks will implement doctoral programmes, by partnerships of universities, research institutions and research infrastructures, businesses including SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from different countries across Europe and beyond. MSCA Doctoral Networks are indeed open to the participation of organisations from third countries, in view of fostering strategic international partnerships for the training and exchange of researchers.

Assessment of Soil Health in Africa

Code: 34421 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-09 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/10/2024

Africa has a large degree of degraded soils, suboptimal land use, population growth and increasingly urban population. These factors are contributing to increased competition and pressures on land (less land per farmer, less quality land per farmer, climate change, biodiversity loss) resulting in unfavourable economics of farming and ecosystem management.

The IPBES report on land degradation and restoration highlights huge economic cost of land and soil degradation, including increasing cost of no action. Soil health is key to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Therefore, holistic systems approaches are needed for addressing multiple context specific soil health related challenges at country and regional level. In addition, evidence driven analytical framework is urgently needed for adequate soil health priority setting and planning at regional and national level, alignment of partners and investments.

Managing forest peatsoils

Code: 34419 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-08 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/10/2024

Peatlands can provide multiple ecosystem services such as timber production, climate regulation, water quality control, flood abatement, biodiversity conservation, as well as recreational benefits. However, this potential is compromised due to drainage. Alternative soil management practices for forest peat soils, in particular through the combination of rewetting techniques and forest management (with the exclusion of afforestation), have the potential to improve the environmental, climate and economic performance of peatlands, as well as reduce the impacts of forest harvesting on nutrient, sediment and dissolved organic carbon exports. In particular, practices are needed that effectively address trade-offs from forests multifunctionality and apply an integrated approach to their management (considering biodiversity, climate change challenges, bio-economy needs etc.).

This topic does not cover agricultural emissions.

Development of high spatial-resolution monitoring approaches and geographically-explicit registry for carbon farming

Code: 34416 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-07 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/10/2024

The EU aims to boost sustainable carbon farming solutions by significantly improving Europe’s capacity to quantify, monitor and verify carbon removals. The development of soil carbon removal deployment strategies and a robust and validated soil carbon monitoring system approach, at scale relevant for land managers, are therefore crucial.

To show the extent to which a carbon farming activity results in a positive climate impact, standardised baselines will be established, reflecting the standard performance of comparable activities in similar social, economic, environmental and technological circumstances and geographical locations. This type of baselines ensures objectivity and transparency, minimises compliance costs and other administrative costs, and positively recognises the action of first movers who have already engaged in carbon farming activities. However, the geographically-explicit data needed to identify and set such standardised baselines and help prioritise regions and actions for carbon farming is currently missing.

Moreover, it is important that the EU boosts sustainable carbon farming solutions by enabling a business model that financially rewards land managers for such activities.

The Carbon Removal Certification (CRC) Framework aims to ensure that financial incentives from both private and public sources are channelled towards high-quality carbon removals and nature-based solutions. However, to ensure its correct functioning, interoperable public registries and MRV protocols compliant with standards and technical rules to be set out at EU level are needed.

A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for the study, conservation and restoration of heritage objects

Code: 34413 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 18/06/2024 | End submission calls: 22/01/2025

This topic aims at developing and implementing a set of innovative tools and methods on the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) based on the digital twins of cultural heritage objects stored in the ECCCH, for the study, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage objects. Concrete applications of these tools and methods should be provided for at least the following uses:

• Supporting the study of cultural heritage objects
• Supporting conservation and restoration works

A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for high-value interactions with visitors and heritage objects

Code: 34411 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 18/06/2024 | End submission calls: 22/01/2025

This topic aims at developing and implementing a set of innovative tools and methods on the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) for high-quality interactions with visitors and cultural heritage objects. Concrete applications of these tools and methods should be provided for at least the following uses:

• Creating, sharing and re-using interactive content
• Analysing, designing and testing interactions with visitors

A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for advanced data enrichment

Code: 34409 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 18/06/2024 | End submission calls: 22/01/2025

This topic aims at developing and implementing a set of innovative tools and methods on the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) for advanced data enrichment. Concrete applications of these tools and methods should be provided for at least the following uses:

• Metadata enrichment
• Embedding scientific and professional value as well as IP and other associated rights throughout the digital content production chain
• Collaboration- and business models based on the multi-actor value chain

A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for documenting, interlinking and organising data

Code: 34407 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 18/06/2024 | End submission calls: 22/01/2025

This topic aims at developing and implementing a set of innovative tools and methods on the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) for documenting, interlinking and organising data. Concrete applications of these tools and methods should be provided for at least the following uses:

• Creating, enriching and refining annotated bibliographies
• Documenting the results of fieldwork such as archaeological or paleontological excavations or other collection processes and studies

A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative tools for digitisation and analysis of dynamic processes, objects and complex combined data

Code: 34405 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Societies (Cluster 2)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 18/06/2024 | End submission calls: 22/01/2025

This topic aims at developing and implementing a set of innovative tools and methods on the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH) for digitisation and analysis of dynamic processes, objects and complex combined data. Concrete applications of these tools and methods should be provided for at least the following uses:

• Digitising dynamic objects, processes and practices
• Monitoring the evolving status of cultural heritage objects over time
• Interacting with, cross-mixing and re-mixing different data types

EIT Urban Mobility -Business Plan 2023-2025 - Master School and Fellowship Academy Open Call (MS) - Mobility for more liveable urban spaces

Code: 34391 | Identifier Code: EITUM-BP23-25 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 25/07/2024 | End submission calls: 10/10/2024

This Open Call focuses on a series of specific activity areas aimed at meeting the EIT Urban Mobility Master School and Fellowship targets, including Summer Schools, new urban mobility related Master programmes that have the potential to be integrated into the EIT Urban Mobility Master School and obtain the EIT Label, new universities joining existing EIT Urban Mobility Master programmes, and existing Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) programmes at Master level aligned with the EIT Label Handbook for EIT Fellowships criteria with the potential to join the EIT Urban Mobility I&E Fellowship.

Advanced real-time data analysis used for infrastructure resilience

Code: 34360 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-INFRA-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Projects’ results under this topic, are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes:

• Improved capabilities for risk and faulty events identification in infrastructure networks and smart cities through real-time analysis (including big data) by public and private actors via secured and trusted platforms and interconnected systems where the collaboration follows clear legal and political frameworks.
• Tools and processes for facilitating stakeholders efforts to identify, analyse, assess and continuously monitor risks and boost adaptive capacity to unexpected events risks in advance by allowing for the analysis of various data sources (e.g. audio, video, social media, web-content, spatial information, sensor or machine generated data).
• Fast and continuous real-time identification, classification and tracking of hazardous agents, contaminants or anomalies in infrastructure networks and supply-chains.
• Interoperable interfaces and improved collaboration between infrastructure operation detection and response systems, national/EU risk management/coordination centres and first responder equipment in order to allow for remote on-scene operations considering citizen knowledge.
• Increased cyber-resilience of industrial xG networks and cloud data covering specific infrastructure domains.
• Improved ability to map in real-time the source(s) of risk factors that could endanger the networked infrastructure supported by Earth Observation and geolocation data.

Resilient and secure urban planning and new tools for EU territorial entities

Code: 34358 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-INFRA-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

This topic concentrates on resilient and secure urban planning and new tools for EU territorial entities.

Open Topic

Code: 34356 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-INFRA-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Under the Open Topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive solutions for enhanced interactions among the scientific community, practitioners, city’s risk managers of major crises and citizens or local communities in the event of (natural or man-made) disasters, that are not covered by the other topics of Calls Resilient Infrastructure 2021-2022, 2023, 2024.

Detection and tracking of illegal and trafficked goods

Code: 34354 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-BM-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

European customs need improved capabilities that allow bettering and automatically detecting from traces; interpreting images from scanned cargo; interpreting data; tracking goods; and/or identifying anomalies that support the detection of threats, smuggling or illicit trade eliminating or minimizing disruption to the trade flow. The proposed system should hence advance and/or combine as much as possible the components of detection, tracking and risk-based anticipation.

Integrated risk-based border control that mitigates public security risk, reduces false positives and strengthens privacy

Code: 34352 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-BM-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

The solution(s) proposed under this topic should allow easier and more flexible allocation and change of resources in border checks, for example to meet seasonal peaks. A possible use case is that of roll-on-roll-off ferries. That situation may generate long queues for border and security checks, while often being seasonal. A proposed solution should help perform border checks, as well improve the speed for detecting threats in vehicles, such as weapons and explosives, without people coming out of vehicles and without slowing down (dis)embarkment off or onto roll-on-roll-off ferries.

In any case, the proposed solution(s) should consider both the travellers and the goods accompanying them.

Advanced user-friendly, compatible, secure identity and travel document management

Code: 34350 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-BM-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Authentication of documents is relevant for border management, immigration or visa applications. Furthermore, it could also be relevant to combat other illicit activities, such as financial fraud. Facilitation of travel across external EU borders went and is further going through remarkable developments thanks to subsequent technological generations, and updated procedures and regulatory frameworks. From automated border control gates to “no-gate” solutions, and to “seamless travel”; from secure documents, to digitalised travel documents, and to “dematerialised travel documents” and “digital wallets”. All to ease border crossing for travellers, while maintaining border security against illicit or irregular crossings and protecting fundamental rights. This topic aims at exploring and developing enhanced capabilities for securely managing digitalised travel documents used for travel across external borders.

Interoperability for border and maritime surveillance and situational awareness

Code: 34348 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-BM-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

This topic concentrates on interoperability for border and maritime surveillance as well as to the situational awareness. Specifically, projects’ results under this topic, are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes:

• Increased border surveillance capability, better performing and more cost-efficient, with data and fundamental rights protection by design.
• Improved surveillance and situational awareness of sea borders, but also of maritime infrastructures as harbours and commercial and civilian maritime security, including in key areas such as the Arctic.
• Improved multi-level, multi-authority and cross-border (among Member States and Associated Countries practitioners) collaboration thanks to better interoperability of sensing, analysis and C2 systems.

Open Topic

Code: 34346 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-BM-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Under the Open Topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive solutions for enhanced interactions among the scientific community, practitioners, city’s risk managers of major crises and citizens or local communities in the event of (natural or man-made) disasters, that are not covered by the other topics of Calls Border Management 2021-2022, 2023, 2024.

Cost-effective sustainable technologies and crisis management strategies for RN large-scale protection of population and infrastructures after a nuclear blast or nuclear facility incident

Code: 34342 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

This topic concentrates on cost-effective sustainable technologies and crisis management strategies for RN large-scale protection of population and infrastructures after a nuclear blast or nuclear facility incident.

Hi-tech capacities for crisis response and recovery after a natural-technological (NaTech) disaster

Code: 34340 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

This topic concentrates on the creation of hi-tech capacities for crisis response and recovery after a natural-technological (NaTech) disaster.

Harmonised / Standard protocols for the implementation of alert and impact forecasting systems as well as transnational emergency management in the areas of high-impact weather / climatic and geological disasters

Code: 34334 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

This topic concentrates on harmonised/standard protocols for the implementation of alert and impact forecasting systems as well as transnational emergency management in the areas of high-impact weather / climatic and geological disasters.

Open Topic

Code: 34331 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Under the Open Topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive solutions for enhanced interactions among the scientific community, practitioners, city’s risk managers of major crises and citizens or local communities in the event of (natural or man-made) disasters, that are not covered by the other topics of Calls Disaster-Resilient Society 2021-2022, Call Disaster-Resilient Society 2023 and Call Disaster-Resilient Society 2024.

Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of chemical, biological and radiological threats to agricultural production, feed and food processing, distribution and consumption

Code: 34329 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-DRS-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

This topic concentrates on the prevention, detection, response and mitigation of chemical, biological and radiological threats to agricultural production, feed and food processing, distribution and consumption.

Post-quantum cryptography transition

Code: 34327 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-CS-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Projects’ results under this topic, are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes:

• Increasing the maturity of current post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and contribution to further standardisation.
• Easy-to-use tools for the large-scale implementation of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, based on state-of-the-art standards.
• Secure and efficient transition from pre- to post-quantum encryption through tools implementing a hybrid approach combining recognised pre-quantum public key algorithms and additional post-quantum algorithms.
• Phase-in of post-quantum algorithms or protocols to new or existing applications.
• Demonstrators and good-practice implementations of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms on varied hardware and software platforms.
• Application-oriented recommendations for the widespread implementation of post-quantum cryptography across the EU.

Approaches and tools for security in software and hardware development and assessment

Code: 34325 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-CS-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

This topic is focused on approaches and tools for security in software and hardware development and assessment.

Specifically, projects’ results under this topic, are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes:

• Improved hardware and software security engineering; resilient systems design.
• Improved access to testing of hardware and software in virtual, closed and secure environments.
• Systematic and, where possible, automated study of vulnerabilities, software analysis, vulnerability discovery, and dynamic security assessment.
• Trustworthy certifiable hardware and software.
• AI-based security services e.g. predictive security, advanced anomaly and intrusion detection, system health checks.

Accelerating uptake through open proposals for advanced SME innovation

Code: 34322 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-SSRI-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

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.
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.

Demand-led innovation through public procurement

Code: 34320 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-SSRI-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Projects’ results under this topic are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes:

• An identifiable community of EU civil security authorities with common user/functional needs for innovative technology solutions.
• Tested and validated capacity of EU technology and industrial base to develop and produce technology prototypes that meet the needs of the EU user community.
• Improved delineation of the EU market (including demand and supply) for innovative civil security systems that can articulate alternative options for uptake in function of different industrialisation needs, commercialisation needs, acquisition needs, deployment needs and additional funding needs (beyond R&I funding).

Tracing of cryptocurrencies transactions related to criminal purposes

Code: 34317 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-08 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Cryptocurrencies are a widely used method by criminals, including terrorists, to transfer or conceal funds due to their anonymity, ease of use and lack of international borders and restrictions (exactly same aspects that make use of traditional bank routes difficult for them).

This topic is focused on tracing of cryptocurrencies transactions related to criminal purposes.

CBRN-E detection capacities in small architecture

Code: 34315 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-07 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Projects’ results under this topic are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• Improved vulnerability assessments by law enforcement and local managers of public spaces by detection of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRN-E) threats in the public spaces and flow of public transport, in order to provide broader situational awareness to practitioners in the field.
• Enhanced planning capabilities of security practitioners and policy-makers due to the access of new data and identification of potential vulnerabilities connected to the design/refurbishment and improvement of different public spaces.
• Recommendations are provided for further improving safety and security-by-design approach to public spaces and mass transportation systems.
• Improved training of Police Authorities in collaboration with different public and private actors (e. g., crisis management and civil protection authorities, fire brigades, regulatory agencies, emergency health services, security managers, private security organisations, civil society groups etc.) to enhance their preparedness to attacks on public spaces.
• Enhanced modelling capabilities for security practitioners and policy-makers due to the identification of potential new vulnerabilities and data available, and improved support to planning of respective resources and activities.

Open Topic

Code: 34311 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-06 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Under the Open Topic, proposals are welcome to address both existing and upcoming challenges in fighting crimes strongly influenced by cultural and/or societal issues that are not covered by the other topics of Horizon Europe Calls Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2021-2022, Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2023 and Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2024.

Combating hate speech online and offline

Code: 34309 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Hate speech has harmful impacts on the individual victims, or groups of victims, but also on our society at large. This topic is focused on combating hate speeches.

Radicalisation and gender

Code: 34305 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Terrorism resulting from radicalisation and violent extremism is a serious threat to European security.

Projects’ results under this topic are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes:

• Improved understanding of motivation of women and girls for supporting extremist ideologies, such as grievance and stigmatisation.
• Improved understanding of the role of masculinity in men and boys’ motivation for the support of extreme ideologies.
• Better understanding of the group dynamics at play during processes of radicalisation, including factors for factionalism and potential splinters in terrorist organisations.
• Development of strategies aimed at enhancing the use of motivation factor in detection, prevention and de-radicalisation efforts.
• European Police Authorities, Prison Authorities, social care workers, teachers and other P/CVE practitioners benefit from modern and validated tools, skills and training curricula to identify early symptoms of radicalisation.
• Identification and assessment of best practices that are transferable across Member States improving and developing modules and trainings, strengthening adaption of local community policing in diverse communities.
• Design girls and women’s empowerment approaches through legal, financial and/or cultural means aimed at tackling the root causes of radicalisation and extremism.

Lawful evidence collection in online child sexual abuse investigations, including undercover

Code: 34303 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

This topic focuses on the lawful evidence collection in online child sexual abuse investigations, including undercover investigation techniques.

Open Topic

Code: 34301 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

Under the Open Topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive forensic solutions for fighting crime and terrorism, that are not covered by the other topics of Horizon Europe Calls Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2021-2022, Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2023 and Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2024.

Mitigating new threats and adapting investigation strategies in the era of Internet of Things

Code: 34299 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 20/11/2024

This topic is focused on the mitigation of new threats, adapting investigation strategies in the era of Internet of Things.
The successful proposal under this topic, should help Police Authorities understand the implications of the fast-developing IoT environment in order to keep pace with the evolution of its applications, recognise and tackle the emerging (digital and especially physical) threats that this may pose.

EIT Urban Mobility -Business Plan 2023-2025- Regional Innovation Scheme Urban Mobility Specialists (RISUMS) Open Call 2025- Mobility for more liveable urban spaces

Code: 34265 | Identifier Code: EITUM-BP23-25 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 04/07/2024 | End submission calls: 30/09/2024

This Call for Proposals, Regional Innovation Scheme Urban Mobility Specialists (RISUMS), aims to select the strongest proposals that will deliver activities to support the RIS strategy in the selected regions and countries in all fields of activity, such as enlarging the network, scouting and supporting new talents or products, and deploying new solutions.

The EIT Community New European Bauhaus (NEB) - Business Plan 2023-2025 - EIT Community Connect NEB: Citizen-generated solutions and initiatives to advance sustainability, beauty and inclusivity - Open Call 2025

Code: 34263 | Identifier Code: Strategic Synergies | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 04/07/2024 | End submission calls: 26/09/2024

The overall purpose of this call is to activate citizen generated solutions and initiatives to resolve challenges facing European cities and peri-urban and rural areas to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between people and to create citizen generated transdisciplinary projects that address sustainability, quality of experience and inclusiveness.

EIT Community Connect NEB: Local communities and public authorities building sustainable, beautiful and inclusive public space - 2025

Code: 34261 | Identifier Code: Strategic Synergies | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 04/07/2024 | End submission calls: 10/10/2024

The primary focus of the Co-create NEB Call for Proposals is to co-create and build sustainable, beautiful and inclusive public space and demonstrate new solutions to boost the transformation of our cities and peri-urban and rural areas.

Strengthening the sustainability and resilience of EU space infrastructure

Code: 34250 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

The overall goal of this Challenge is to support the development of innovations that will strengthen the protection of EU space infrastructure.

The specific goals of this challenge are:

1. development of technologies for space debris mitigation and active debris removal;
2. concepts for in-space recycling of dysfunctional orbital assets;
3. innovations for protecting EU space infrastructure.

Nanoelectronics for energy-efficient smart edge devices

Code: 34248 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

The overall goal of this challenge is to explore novel materials and beyond CMOS devices, non-von Neumann architectures and alternative information processing paradigms to drastically reduce energy consumption in order to meet application-specific needs of smart edge devices and circuits.

Nature inspired alternatives for food packaging and films for agriculture

Code: 34246 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

This Pathfinder Challenge aims to support ambitious interdisciplinary research that will lead to the development and production of sustainable nature inspired alternatives for food packaging and agricultural production such as, but not limited to, greenhouse and mulch films. These materials must have a reduced environmental impact, through design and production, while delivering the functional characteristics of plastics.

Towards cement and concrete as a carbon sink

Code: 34243 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

One default pathway to decarbonize cement is to capture and store CO2 of current production processes (CCS). Technologies for CCS are in development and expected to increase the cost of cement. To avoid additional costs of future emissions as much as possible, accelerated deep-tech innovations are needed to fully negate or even absorb emissions by the sector in future. The breakthrough innovations sought with this Pathfinder Challenge aim to be more cost effective than CCS. Moreover, this Pathfinder Challenge encourages breakthrough innovations that utilize CO2. Such innovations can play an important role in future CCUS economies, and trigger future revenue opportunities for the sector by offering negative emissions at scale.

This Pathfinder Challenge seeks to support breakthrough innovations and (alternative) pathways for decarbonized and carbon-negative cement and concrete.

Solar-to-X devices for the decentralized prosumption of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials as climate change mitigation pathway

Code: 34241 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/06/2024 | End submission calls: 16/10/2024

The objective is to make progress towards synthetic fuels and chemicals technologies which integrate all necessary conversion steps into a single device, and which are solely and directly driven by solar energy.

The European Innovation Procurement Awards 2025

Code: 34224 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PRIZE-EIPA | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 26/06/2024 | End submission calls: 26/09/2024

The European Innovation Procurement Awards 2025 aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate both procurement of innovative solutions and the innovative ways the solutions are procured. It also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms society and the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as green energy transition.

ERC Starting Grant

Code: 34222 | Identifier Code: ERC-2025-STG | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 10/07/2024 | End submission calls: 15/10/2024

The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal.

ERC Synergy Grants

Code: 34183 | Identifier Code: ERC-2025-SyG | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 11/07/2024 | End submission calls: 06/11/2024

The aim of the ERC Synergy Grants 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.

EU Prize for Women Innovators

Code: 34178 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-PRIZE-EPWI | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/06/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

The European Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind Europe’s game-changing innovations, so that they may inspire other women and girls realise their full potential as the EU’s future scientists, innovators, and tech leaders.

There are two prize categories:

• The Women Innovators prize
• The Rising Innovators prize

EIT Food Impact Funding Framework

Code: 34170 | Identifier Code: EITFood BP23-25 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 21/06/2024 | End submission calls: 10/07/2024

EIT Food is dedicated to creating lasting and sustainable change in the food system. EIT has launched a competitive, open Impact Funding Framework to promote ambitious, long-term collaboration that will lead to food systems change to benefit us all and it is looking for proposals from consortia based around lead organisations who can work effectively, move quickly, and are supported by high-quality research, communications and impact assessment expertise.

Mutual learning and support scheme for national and regional innovation programmes

Code: 34093 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) | Start submission calls: 06/06/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

This topic focuses on mutual learning and support scheme for national and regional innovation programmes.

Expanding Academia-Enterprise Collaborations

Code: 34091 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) | Start submission calls: 06/06/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

The action should foster the creation of innovation ecosystems with educational and research institutions, or strengthen their existing links. Additionally, the action supports co-designed programmes of activities of at least two (2) years, proposed jointly by educational institutions, research institutions, and other R&I actors from ‘emerging’ and ‘moderate’ innovation ecosystems and the private sector from innovation hubs (‘strong innovators’ and ‘innovation leaders’), to ensure better connectedness between higher education institutions and research organisation with other actors of innovation ecosystems.

Trans-national cooperation among Marie Skłodowska-Curie National Contact Points (NCP) 2024

Code: 34087 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-NCP-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 16/05/2024 | End submission calls: 04/09/2024

The objective is to facilitate the trans-national co-operation between National Contact Points (NCPs) for the MSCA, including those established in Third Countries, with a view to identifying and sharing good practices and raising the general standard of support to applicants, taking into account the diversity of actors and experiences.

Harnessing the multifunctional potential of soil biodiversity for healthy cropping systems

Code: 34057 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-06 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/10/2024

Below ground biodiversity plays a major role in soil structure, nutrient supply, water cycling, nutrient uptake by plants, and in the biocontrol of plant pests and diseases. The interactions between communities of soil organisms, crops and their environment (holobiont) profoundly influence crop, soil and agroecosystem health and productivity. Notably, the interplay between soil fauna, soil microbial community, soil chemistry, and plant immune responses can be enhanced to harness the potential of soil ecosystem to defend against pathogens, pests and other detrimental organisms and to promote plant health and productivity. By managing soil ecosystems to enhance soil health through farming practices (e.g., crop rotation, use of microbiome solutions, etc.), it is possible to support plant defences, suppress diseases, improve nutrient availability and enhance plant resilience to various stressors. In addition, agricultural sustainability will be increased and contribute to climate change mitigation.

There is a need to develop, test and deploy management practices that, by enhancing soil health, will facilitate, for instance, the management of soil-borne plant pests and diseases (e.g., bacteria, fungi, nematodes, root-feeding insects), and support ground nesting pollinators.

Soil health, pollinators and key ecosystem functions

Code: 34053 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/10/2024

Pollination is a key ecosystem service for crops and food production. Therefore, a specific focus on pollinating insects is required. Many solitary wasps and 70% of wild bees nest below ground and require protection during this crucial period of their lifecycle.

Projects results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• Improved knowledge and understanding of the biology and ecology of insect species spending part of their life cycle on or in the soil, with specific focus on ground-nesting pollinators.
• Better understanding of the major causes of the decline of these insects and the synergistic effects of various threats, including the quantitative and qualitative aspects related to the magnitude of their decline.
• More effective measures to tackle the loss of soil-dependent insects.

Systems to quantify nitrogen fluxes and uncertainties in European landscapes

Code: 34050 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/10/2024

Soil-derived gaseous nitrogen emissions from agriculture are often overlooked due to challenges in monitoring. A comprehensive assessment of both gaseous and non-gaseous nitrogen losses, including their geographical distribution and varying temporal resolution, is essential to inform effective greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategies and encourage the adoption of higher Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tiers at the national level.

Nitrogen losses are highly episodic, and the current temporal and spatial resolution of information regarding nitrogen dynamics across Europe is insufficient for a comprehensive estimation of the full nitrogen budget at a continental scale. The most commonly used methodology for measuring N-flux involves discontinuous flux measurements accompanied by standard gap-filling methods, which lead to large uncertainties and biased emission factors. Additionally, most existing observations focus on temperate zones and single flux exit pathways, neglecting the full spectrum of nitrogen forms, including both gaseous and non-gaseous forms across different climatic conditions. Data and observations are particularly lacking in the Mediterranean basin and some nitrogen transformation pathways are not well investigated. To address these gaps, accurate information must be acquired, which will facilitate the development of effective management strategies that effectively minimise total nitrogen losses from soil. Additionally, this information will improve the parameterization and validation of models and increase the confidence of model predictions when scaled to the continental level. This will ultimately lead to a more refined and accurate estimation of nitrogen surplus, enrich existing dashboard estimates, and further support the evaluation of the effectiveness of management strategies, and guide future research and policy decisions related to mitigation efforts.

Towards a dynamic monitoring system to assess status and spatiotemporal changes of soil erosion at European scale

Code: 34048 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/10/2024

Current EU/European estimates on soil loss by water and wind erosion are long-term averages performed with empirical models, which, in agricultural areas, are subject to huge uncertainties. Improved estimates would contribute to developing a process-based model, which can incorporate management practices and their potential for reducing soil loss by water, and wind erosion in agricultural fields and facilitate the adoption of the best practices. Other processes such as tillage erosion or gullies can also be considered.
Existing partially explicit parcel data (e.g., LPIS-GSA), data from the EU Land use and land cover survey (LUCAS) and the latest updates from the COPERNICUS platform could/should be used to improve current pan-European modelling frameworks.

Living Labs in urban areas for healthy soils

Code: 34046 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/10/2024

Urbanization is a challenge for soil health, due to construction and infrastructure development that entails, among other, land take, soil sealing, contamination or compaction. Against this background and by working together on common challenges, actors in living labs in urban areas will be able to replicate actions and solutions, compare results, exchange good practices, validate methodologies, benefit from cross-fertilisation, and connect with their local/regional ecosystem.

Co-creating solutions for soil health in Living Labs

Code: 34044 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/10/2024

The Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ proposes a novel approach to research and innovation in the area of soil health, including the implementation of living labs.

For the purpose of the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, soil health living labs are defined as “user-centred, place-based and transdisciplinary research and innovation ecosystems, which involve land managers, scientists and other relevant partners in systemic research and co-design, testing, monitoring and evaluation of solutions, in real-life settings, to improve their effectiveness for soil health and accelerate adoption”.

Living labs are thus collaborations between multiple actors that operate and undertake experiments on several sites at regional or sub-regional level. Individual sites could be, e.g., farms, forest stands, urban green or industrial areas, enterprises and other locations, where the work is carried out and monitored under real-life conditions.

Lighthouses, in contrast, are defined as “places for demonstration of solutions, training and communication that are exemplary in their performance in terms of soil health improvement”. They are individual, local sites (one farm, one forest exploitation, one industrial site, one urban city green area, etc.) that either can be part of a living lab or be situated outside a living lab.

According to the Mission Implementation Plan, living labs involve actors from different backgrounds, disciplines and/or sectors and are composed of 10 to 20 experimental sites. However, depending on the specific context (e.g., the land use(s), the soil health challenge(s) addressed), applicants can propose living labs with fewer experimental sites.

Size & weight reduction of cell and packaging of batteries system, integrating lightweight and functional materials, innovative thermal management and safe and sustainable by design approach (Batt4EU Partnership)

Code: 34042 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-02-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

This topic focuses on delivering a safe and sustainable by design approach for batteries reduced in size and weight which will deliver the performance necessary for mobile applications. The objective is to ruggedise energy storage packs by enlarging the environmental and operational conditions in which they can operate, while maintaining a high level of performance and achieving a reduction in the size and weight of the battery pack.

Post-Li-ion technologies and relevant manufacturing techniques for mobility applications (Generation 5) (Batt4EU Partnership)

Code: 34039 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-02-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

This topic aims at developing:

• Generation 5 technologies for mobility applications.
• Relevant manufacturing techniques which are affecting performance, safety and costs.
• Cell designs which will allow for full and easy recyclability at the end of their life.

This topic also aims at evaluating the possible manufacturing compatibility with existing lithium-ion production infrastructure.
Proposals should address improvements in sustainable materials designs to reach the manufacturability and high safety of the selected Generation 5 technology for mobility applications.

Sustainable high-throughput production processes for stable lithium metal anodes for next generation batteries (Batt4EU Partnership)

Code: 34037 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

As Li metal anodes will be needed for the Gen 4b, Gen 4c and Gen 5 batteries, It is important to create a European production chain for their manufacturing, in order to guarantee secure supply chains for the next generation battery producers with a focus on high performance and recyclability for Gen 4b, Gen4c or Gen5 cells.
Therefore this topic is focused on sustainable high-throughput production processes for stable lithium metal anodes for next generation batteries.

EU Member States/Associated countries research policy cooperation network to accelerate zero-emission road mobility (2ZERO Partnership)

Code: 34034 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-13 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

This topic focuses on the EU Member States/Associated countries research policy cooperation network, to accelerate zero-emission road mobility.

A framework for cooperation will enhance the efforts to achieve this pan-European challenge by joining forces, sharing knowledge, bundling financial resources and coordinating activities, creating complementarities, coherence and building synergies across the EU (e.g. 2ZERO partnership) and EU Member States (MS) and Associated Countries (AC)´s R&I funding programmes, national plans, efforts, approaches and in collaboration with the Associated Countries.

A new framework to improve traffic safety culture in the EU

Code: 34031 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-12 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

A Safe System entails the understanding and managing of all elements of the transport system, including the behaviour and interplay of its actors. Comparative analysis shows persistent differences in road safety performances between EU Member States/Associated countries. These differences may be attributable to differences in culture, which are hard to explain with classical risk models. Efforts should therefore be made to complement road safety initiatives by a safety culture perspective, i.e., the values, beliefs, priorities and viewpoints shared among groups of road users and stakeholders that influence their decisions to behave or act in ways that affect safety, while also considering energy consumption.

Assessing road safety cultures in different national, regional or local systems, groups and organisations is believed to help understanding and explaining different patterns of risk perception and risk taking across communities and countries – and can likewise inform tailored interventions for these (sub-)cultures, which all come with their specific norms, values, beliefs and behaviours (including gender-related behavioural patterns). These interventions should address all relevant actors in the system for road transport of people and goods, and consider future developments, such as potential impacts by increasing automation levels or by the introduction of new means of road transport such as e-scooters and hoverboards.

Effects of disruptive changes in transport: towards resilient, safe and energy efficient mobility

Code: 34029 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-11 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

The importance of a robust transport systems becomes highly evident in times of rapid, changes that are neither planned, scheduled nor predicted. The COVID-19 pandemic has pointed at several issues (e.g. delivery of essential goods, ensuring uninterrupted and safe public transport operations for essential workers etc.) that need to be addressed to secure future resilience of the transport system and to ensure that the level of transport safety is not only maintained, but also meeting more demanding targets. For instance, the decreased use of public transport during the pandemic has to some extent led to increases in both biking and walking, but also an increased use of cars in some parts of the world. At the same time, decreased traveling has meant fewer vehicles on the roads in certain areas, whereas others have seen an increase of delivery vehicles, as home deliveries have surged. Likewise, the current energy market realities have made even more pressing the need of an energy efficient mobility system that could absorb disruptions in the fuel supply chain.

Digital tools/services and new transport means (e.g. urban air mobility and micro mobility), new ways how to use the infrastructure (e.g. even more shared spaces with different types of vehicles, both highly automated and manually controlled) in a more energy efficient manner and new behaviour should be included in the research.

Ensuring the safety, resilience and security of waterborne digital systems

Code: 34027 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-10 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

Increasingly, modern waterborne transport relies upon smart digital and connected systems to ensure safe and efficient operation. Waterborne digital system can be vulnerable to both malicious intervention and the consequences of system failure. The challenge to assure the safety and resilience of digital systems is particularly important within large complex vessels where the level of integration and connectivity is high and where the consequences of failure can be particularly severe. Therefore, the topic is focused on ensuring the safety, resilience and security of waterborne digital systems.

Policies and governance shaping the future transport and mobility systems

Code: 34025 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-09 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

Governance, policies and incentives play an important role in shaping transport and mobility systems and influence the development and implementation of different technologies and modes of transport (e.g. walking, cycling, public transport and rail). It is therefore important to study how policies and regulations could be best used to govern transport and mobility systems in desired directions, so that they become more sustainable and just, for instance with regard to gender, place, or low-income households, as well as their fiscal impacts.

In addition, the COVID-19 crisis has significantly altered commuting habits; remote and telework have become widespread together with other flexible work arrangements. The true impact of these changes on gas emissions and on the well-being of people as well as on the real-estate market (offices) are not known. This is now an opportunity to leverage on an ongoing change in habits that could result in significant GHG reduction.

Improved transport infrastructure performance – Innovative digital tools and solutions to monitor and improve the management and operation of transport infrastructure

Code: 34021 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-08 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

Innovative digital tools and solutions will allow to upgrade transport infrastructure ensuring an improved performance and safety, together with a reduction of emissions and better inclusiveness. Increasing the performance of multi-modal transport infrastructure can be achieved through improving the efficiency of the assets and by the cross-modal data management. Digital solutions are key to reduce drastically disruptions in traffic flows, increase transport efficiency and lower its dependency on fossil fuels.

Transport infrastructure needs to be capable of harvesting the benefits from digitalisation at management and operations levels, as well as in relation with the user. Digitalisation can support the achievement of sustainability targets and provide a better service to infrastructure end users, including enhanced public transport services. Digital technologies, such as big data, the Internet of Things, Digital Twins, together with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques provide a great potential for developing mobility solutions.

The integration between transport infrastructure and digital technologies will help achieve personalised seamless passenger and freight journeys transport across different transport modes. This integration will consider safety and security starting from the design phase, while simultaneously automating and accelerating the decision process at every level from maintenance to traffic management.

Special attention should be given to the accessibility of new digital tools from persons with disabilities and older persons, in order to ensure that this segment of the population is also able to participate fully and benefit from digital progress. As set by the Green Deal, priorities should be given for projects allowing modal shift from road to more sustainable mode such rail and inland waterways.

Scaling up logistics innovations supporting freight transport decarbonisation in an affordable way

Code: 34019 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-07 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

Building on previously funded projects and ongoing activities (e.g. Connecting Europe Facility, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects), ensuring compliance with the data sharing framework pursued by the Digital Transport and Logistics Forum (DTLF), and taking into account the development of the common European mobility data space, proposals will pilot, demonstrate and scale up systemic collaborative solutions regarding logistics nodes, multimodal logistics networks connectivity, business and governance models. The focus will be on both digital and physical interoperability as well as on the adoption of zero-emission vehicles/vessels.

Optimising multimodal network and traffic management, harnessing data from infrastructures, mobility of passengers and freight transport

Code: 34017 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-06 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

Optimised multimodal network and traffic management is essential for an efficient transport network and seamless door-to-door mobility of passengers and freight. Such advanced capabilities need to be supported by harnessing data from physical and digital infrastructures, as well as from the mobility of passengers and freight, involving different types of vehicles, rolling stock, aircraft and vessels (including zero-emission, connected and automated), technologies and the use of innovative services. At the same time, novel forms of mobility (e.g. shared, micro-mobility or even hyperloop) and new services (e.g. Mobility as a Service) present new challenges, but also great opportunities for enhanced management and optimisation of the transport network. This includes advances to fully utilise dynamic and interoperable data exchange from multiple actors and transport modes, for well-tested and validated systems and operations, with appropriate governance arrangements in place.

Robust Knowledge and Know-How transfer for Key-Deployment Pathways and implementation of the EU-CEM (CCAM Partnership)

Code: 34015 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

A common basis for CCAM Knowledge in Europe is available today with the online CCAM Knowledge Base which constitutes a one stop shop for all relevant R&I initiatives, tools, methodologies, regulations and standards in the field. The Knowledge Base should be expanded and further adapted to the needs of all relevant stakeholders. Results and lessons learned from the EU, national and international projects should be made available and accessible to targeted user groups. Proposed actions should in particular provide support for stakeholders to move into operations by identifying key building blocks and standards for deploying pilot services and enable capacity building for key actors of different use cases /applications domains as well as for citizens and non-experts on how to use CCAM systems and services and to become aware of new developments and related risks.

The EU Common Evaluation Methodology (EU-CEM) developed in project “FAME” funded under CL5-2021-D6-01-06 aims at becoming the basic methodology for all CCAM related evaluations to support collaboration, exchange and harmonisation. The methodology will need to be implemented for existing and innovative use cases by CCAM projects and aligned with national mobility strategies and approaches. Training programmes for CCAM projects will be necessary to integrate the methodology and to collect feedback on lessons learned during its implementation.

A States Representatives Group (SRG) has been created within the CCAM Partnership to ensure a continuous dialogue at European and national level for the sharing of information on CCAM R&I to increase coordination between European and national R&I funding schemes, and among national programmes. To carry out its mission efficiently, the SRG will need support to collect and analyse information on national R&I initiatives and to implement cooperation activities.

AI for advanced and collective perception and decision making for CCAM applications (CCAM Partnership)

Code: 34012 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

To integrate and tackle complex traffic scenarios, CCAM technologies will require highly advanced decision-making based on enhanced collective awareness – the stage beyond on-board perception, advancing, incorporating information from multiple sources and including interpretation for the aggregation of this information. Developing collective awareness should take into account the state of the vehicle, the driver and the road user environment. It can also involve the tracking of other road users’ behaviour and generating predictions on a short horizon, which can be based on the input from advanced behavioural models, e.g. those developed within CL5-2022-D6-01-03 projects. The integration of these findings will lead to collective awareness for CCAM.

The use of multiple sources (sensors and sensor fused information, maps, infrastructure, other road users, and localisation systems) and the sharing of the overall situational information and related intentions of the vehicle and that of its direct environment will be an important building block towards collective awareness. Collective awareness should create a larger time window in safety critical situations and generate benefits for the overarching mobility system, which include efficient traffic management and improved traffic flow as it incorporates situation prediction capabilities and environmental benefits (which can eventually include e.g. smart charging strategies).

In order to continue to define the role and limits of AI and of emerging new developments within AI, this topic recommends exploring Hybrid Intelligence (HI) as such a new subset of AI. Hybrid Intelligence is the process of developing and mobilising Artificial Intelligence (AI) to expand on human intelligence and expertise, thereby ensuring human-like control of CCAM operations. Applying an HI approach will allow CCAM technologies to integrate human expertise and intentionality into its decision-making in order to generate meaningful and appropriate actions that are aligned with ethical, legal and societal values.

Orchestration of heterogeneous actors in mixed traffic within the CCAM ecosystem (CCAM Partnership)

Code: 34010 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

The aim is to advance on the orchestration of heterogeneous actors in mixed traffic by building on, linking and integrating the following streams of research results and innovation challenges.

Scenario-based safety assurance of CCAM and related HMI in a dynamically evolving transport system (CCAM Partnership)

Code: 34008 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

To ensure the safety of CCAM, it is essential that vehicles are not only safe during the (first) type approval, but also during their complete lifetime in a fast-changing road transport system. Changes can result from the evolution of the CCAM system itself, for example, as a result of increasing connectivity using V2X communication, the use of AI-based systems, and OTA (over-the-air) software updates.

Until full automation in transport is reached, the human driver will keep on playing an essential role. Also, the interaction with other road users will change, supported by technologies that allow a CCAM system to communicate its intentions to other road users.

As a consequence of these innovations and developments, the safe deployment of CCAM systems needs an extension of the safety validation procedures and certification schemes, taking advanced human-machine interaction and a continuous in-service monitoring approach into account. Due to the many different scenarios and variations that can occur realistically and that consequently need to be tested, it should be possible that a large part of the assessment is performed in a virtual simulation environment.

Centralised, reliable, cyber-secure & upgradable in-vehicle electronic control architectures for CCAM connected to the cloud-edge continuum (CCAM Partnership)

Code: 34006 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

This topic is related with the centralised, reliable, cyber-secure & upgradable in-vehicle electronic control architectures for CCAM connected to the cloud-edge continuum.

A complete redesign of the in-vehicle control architecture is needed, combining innovations at hardware, software and data levels in the vehicle and in connection with distributed intelligence in the edge-cloud continuity.

It should build on a centralised e.g. zonal or domain-based layout using distributed high-performance computing for connecting sensing and actuation systems with software updates over the air, big data flows and AI at the edge, resulting in a novel and upgradable electronic in-vehicle control scheme for safe and efficient automated driving functions and tele-operations.

Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers – pilot

Code: 34003 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

This action particularly supports whole organisations and innovation ecosystems to implement the standards for attractive research careers laid down in the Charter for Researchers. A special focus is placed on organisational change in support of early career researchers, to offer them more and better career opportunities, including through strengthened coordination of measures at European, national, and regional level and increased cooperation between academia, industry, government and public sector.

Science comes to town

Code: 34001 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

The new European Research Area (ERA) has the engagement of citizens, local communities and civil society at its core, seeking greater societal impact and increased trust in science. This action supports ERA Policy Agenda (2022-2024) action 14 – ‘Bring science closer to citizens’ through broad and inclusive engagement of all relevant stakeholders in a range of activities with a view to increasing the understanding, acceptance, uptake and impact of R&I in society.

The action supports a consortium involving cities to host a coordinated joint 1-year programme with focus on connecting citizens and scientists in the participating cities and beyond, including the following: A year-long programme of various events and activities, such as lectures, workshops, exhibitions, competitions or prizes, in the spirit of the European Capital of Culture or the European Green Capital, that highlights the contribution of science to society and the results of R&I projects supported by national/regional/EU funds, including the Horizon Europe programme.

Experimentation and exchange of good practices for value creation

Code: 33998 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-ERA-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 15/05/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

To bring existing good practices in knowledge valorisation to support value creation across Europe, we need more experimentation, peer learning and testing of new models as well as trying out good practices in different environments.

Replication and adaptation of best practices is a powerful way to support the design, implementation and evaluation of knowledge valorisation investments and measures that enhance the quality and extent of knowledge uptake at all levels. It involves identifying and taking inspiration from best practices developed across Europe, engaging in an exchange of experiences with peers and connecting to new partners, as well as driving and supporting the set-up of new measures or the reform of existing ones.

Researchers can play an important role in engaging with citizens and bringing research results into communities that need innovative solutions. This can contribute to making research results more adapted to the needs of citizens and communities, and strengthen the uptake of research by society benefitting both the research communities and the citizens as users and co-creators.

Overcoming barriers and delivering innovative solutions to enable the green transition

Code: 33991 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2024-CLIMATE-02-3 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 24/09/2024

Under this topic, proposals should seek to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges related to barriers towards the green transition and propose creative or disruptive solutions to overcome them that are not covered by the other topics of Horizon Europe Cluster 6 calls in Work Programmes 2021-2022 and 2023-2024.

Closing the research gaps on Essential Biogeochemical Ocean Variables (EOVs) in support of global assessments

Code: 33989 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2024-CLIMATE-02-2 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 24/09/2024

This topic focuses on the procedure of closing the research gaps on Essential Biogeochemical Ocean Variables (EOVs).

Successful proposal results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Improved key biogeochemical ocean monitoring variables and indicators and to foster the development of regional approaches to ocean climate monitoring and reporting, overcoming current limitations and gaps;
• Improved Earth System Models representing key biogeochemical processes in the ocean with reduced uncertainty of climate change projections at regional scales, and reduced biases.
• Better understanding of the links between the ocean’s physical, biogeochemical and biodiversity components and their variability over time; the impacts of environmental stressors on ocean health, GHG sources and sinks, biology and ecosystems.

New knowledge and innovations for climate-smart farming - connecting research stations

Code: 33987 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2024-CLIMATE-02-1 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 24/09/2024

This topic is focused on new knowledge and innovations for climate-smart farming – connecting research stations.

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• The knowledge base of climate-smart farming practices is significantly expanded beyond the state of the art;
• Additional effective and innovative approaches for climate-smart agriculture in plant and animal production are developed and assessed in real conditions with all relevant actors involved;
• The widespread adoption by farmers of new knowledge, skills and innovative farming practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (in particular CO2, methane and nitrous oxide), and that foster adaptation of the sector to climate change, is accelerated.

Future Engagement Model for the EOSC Federation

Code: 33970 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 13/06/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

The work of this CSA should build on the (federation) services offered by the European Commission’s EOSC Core Platform and provide feedback and input for the evolution of the EOSC Core Services and the EOSC Exchange to ensure a wider uptake. In this context, the CSA will also assist with the update and promotion of the EOSC Interoperability Framework and assist in the set-up a process for its updates.

Assessing the state of research infrastructures in Ukraine

Code: 33968 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2024-DEV-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 13/06/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

This topic supports the assessment of the state of RIs in Ukraine, the identification of key needs and the development of an investment roadmap for RI reconstruction, closing the skills gap and facilitating well-connected R&I communities.

Demonstration of approaches to improve bankability of solutions by design, addressing the co-benefits (mitigation and adaptation) to improve revenues streams

Code: 33966 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-06 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

While evidence suggests that there is financing available to address climate adaptation, it is also evident that there is a shortage of bankable opportunities. Most promising climate adaptation projects rely on grants and public investments for their development. In many cases, while they benefit the public good, they struggle to prove any profitability and they risk getting abandoned at the end of the project when the initial financing comes to an end.

The European Investment Bank has shown that climate projects succeeding in securing investments are very rarely only addressing adaptation to climate change and in most of the cases they rather add a climate proofing component to a bigger project.

Proposals should identify financially valuable cases of climate projects including climate adaptation dimension on top of other benefits.

Demonstration of solutions specifically suited to rural areas and small/ medium size population local communities

Code: 33963 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-07 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic focuses on the demonstration of solutions specifically suited to rural areas and small/ medium size population local communities.

Proposals should identify approaches and innovative solutions leading to an increase of the resilience and adaptation capacity to climate change which are particularly suitable for implementation by small and medium local authorities and the rural context. These solutions could include technological, social and business-related aspects or a combination of those. Nature-based solutions should be explored as priority and be at the very heart of the development whenever possible.

Demonstration of approaches by regions and local authorities focused on increasing climate resilience of the most vulnerable social groups (just climate resilience)

Code: 33960 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-08 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic is related with the demonstration of different approaches by regions and local authorities focused on increasing climate resilience of the most vulnerable social groups (just climate resilience).

Proposals should identify, develop, test and demonstrate equitable adaptation actions and solutions, increasing adaptive capacity, reducing vulnerability and risks and addressing specific climate vulnerabilities identified as relevant at regional and local scale, taking into account place-based climate data, socio-economic information, and local governence.

Systemic and cross-sectoral solutions for climate resilience, tailored to the local needs of regions and local authorities

Code: 33958 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-09 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The growing complexity, interdependencies and interconnectedness of modern societies and economies require that climate action is tackled with a systemic approach. Effectively adapting to climate change relies on cross-sectoral approaches, looking at the system as a whole, and on the inclusion of a variety of actors.

This topic focuses on systemic and cross-sectoral solutions for climate resilience, tailored to the local needs of regions and local authorities.

Supporting national, regional and local authorities across Europe to prepare for the transition towards climate neutrality within cities

Code: 33956 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 16/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

Cities are increasingly taking a leading role in the green and digital transition. National and regional authorities have a key role to play to support cities ambition and facilitate the process.

The objective of this action is to strengthen existing national networks in Member States and Associated Countries as well as encourage and support the creation of such structures in countries where this has not yet taken place and empower them to act as clearly identifiable national contacts to support cities in pursuing their climate neutrality ambition and related targets.

Setting up a New European Bauhaus hub for results and impact

Code: 33954 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

A ‘New European Bauhaus hub for results and impacts’ is required to collect, centralise, manage, monitor and exploit the knowledge produced by the NEB projects, the NEB Community and other relevant NEB actions (e.g. projects resulting from EU-funded calls dedicated to NEB across the different EU programmes, NEB Lab) while also ensuring cooperation and collaboration between them. By having an overview of all the knowledge produced, the progress made, the challenges faced and the research gaps yet to overcome, the hub will be an agile instrument that will contribute to informing the implementation of the NEB Facility and will help to increase its impact. Ultimately, it will contribute to advancing the objectives of the NEB in a coherent manner.

New governance models for the co-design and co-construction of public spaces in neighbourhoods by communities

Code: 33951 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

Addressing societal challenges such as climate change, energy poverty, the pandemic, ageing population or the increased societal divide will require to rethink the way we develop and live in our neighbourhoods. It is key to empower people to take an active role in co-designing those spaces. This can lead to greater acceptance, enhanced sense of belonging, social trust and an increased willingness to further engage with the community, and thus promote a global positive social impact on people’s well-being and the neighbourhood as a whole.

Building on work carried out in previous projects, proposals will study, refine and validate existing engagement approaches, that allow residents, businesses, cultural organisations and local governments to co-design and co-create public spaces in neighbourhoods. For instance, this should include how to involve citizens in the development and maintenance of public spaces and neighbourhoods; or flexible designs allowing communities to re-create or re-furbish spaces according to evolving needs. Special attention should be paid to involve diverse groups and citizens at risk of exclusion.

Exploiting the potential of secondary bio-based products

Code: 33949 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

Although the NEB has been championing for the built environment, more research is needed on products that make use of secondary bio-based construction materials, such as from by-products or waste from other industries or processes, including bio-based composites and residues/by-products from agriculture or from fishing, aquaculture and agro-food industries, in line with the cascading principles. Using such products in the construction sector will reduce reliance on primary resources, hence minimising the environmental impact associated with their extraction and processing.

Proposals should increase the potential of innovative bio-based products making use of materials from secondary sources for construction applications, thereby enhancing the circular bio-based economy in the construction sector, in line with the NEB values and the cascading principles.

Improve design for transformative approaches and build local capacity for implementation of available solutions focused on climate adaptation

Code: 33947 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Local adaptation to climate change measures should never be taken in isolation. They are part of the socio-economic fabric of the region and its bio-geographic constraints (for example, its position in a certain river basin, along a certain coastline or in mountainous areas).

This topic aims to better integrate the Mission on adaptation to climate change into the regional socio-economic policies and the just transition. This should be also coupled with raising the awareness of local authorities for co-creation opportunities between adaptation and other investments.

Research the complex interplay between the climate and biodiversity crises towards more systemic approaches and solutions

Code: 33944 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Climate change and biodiversity loss are two interdependent crises that are complex, cascading, and compounding. Tackling them in an effective way must rely on a much more systemic approach than what has been achieved so far, which requires a better understanding of their interdependencies and feedback loops.

This topic is focused on the research of the complex interplay between the climate and biodiversity crises towards more systemic approaches and solutions.

Develop and refine outcome indicators to measure progress on climate resilience at national, regional and local levels, including knowledge and feedback developed from the Mission

Code: 33942 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic aims at strengthening the EU’s capacity, knowledge, and involvement of relevant stakeholders in the monitoring and evaluation of current adaptation policies. It aims to facilitate policy, financial, corporate, and individual planning and decisions affecting resilience to climate impacts. Lessons learnt from currently available indicators, the literature, efforts underway surveying the use and prospects for indicators within the framework of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and feedback from the experience in the first years of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change work provide the basis for further developments.

Bringing together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels (multi-level governance)

Code: 33940 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic focuses to bring together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels (multi-level governance).

The successful project is expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• The national relevant governance for innovation and climate adaptation is further engaged and mobilised to contribute to the objectives of the EU Mission on adaptation to climate change, and benefit from it.
• The EU Mission is deeply connected with national multi-level governance feeding into Member States, regions and local authorities’ efforts to implement the European Climate Law’s requirements on climate adaptation, and to further develop and update their national, regional and local adaptation plans.
• A set of ‘National Adaptation Hubs’ bridge the gap between the EU and regional/local levels, in the Adaptation mission and further disseminate the solutions emerging from the Mission to other regions and local authorities that are not Charter Signatories.
• A robust twinning scheme grouping of regions and local actors facing similar challenges ensures peer-learning and cross-fertilisation of experiences, further strengthening ongoing peer learning opportunities within the EU Mission, and also providing a tool to disseminate EU Mission’s knowledge beyond the regions and local authorities directly participating in the EU Mission.

Bringing available and actionable solutions for climate adaptation to the knowledge of the regions and local authorities

Code: 33938 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic will focus to bring available and actionable solutions for climate adaptation to the knowledge of the regions and local authorities.

Analysing further, regional, local authorities are the target group of the proposed activities and the customers of the in-depth knowledge provision on solutions; as such they are not expected to participate as part of the consortium, but they should receive tailor made services from the project funded by this action, which should primarily use the Mission Implementation Platform’s channels to feed them with new information products, also based on the needs (already) expressed by them.

Community-led actions to restore our ocean, seas and waters

Code: 33874 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Reaching the ambitious Mission objectives and targets is dependent on mobilising a broad set of actors to take meaningful action to restore our ocean, seas and waters. Practical, easily accessible support is needed for established or emerging communities of actors to facilitate the deployment at scale of innovative actions, measures and initiatives contributing to the EU Mission’s objectives, and the transformations required at national, regional, and local level.

Each proposed action under this topic should address one of the four basins covered by the Mission ‘Restore our ocean and waters by 2030’.

ERA Fellowships

Code: 33855 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 11/09/2024

Fellowships should be provided to excellent researchers, undertaking cross-border mobility. Applications must be made jointly by the researcher together with a legal entity in the academic or non-academic sector located in a Widening Country.

Fellowships are open to researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in R&I projects by either coming to the EU from any country in the world or moving within the EU to a Widening Country.

European Blue Parks – Offshore marine protected areas

Code: 33853 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The proposed activities should cover all following objectives:  

• mapping the distribution and condition of marine (benthic and pelagic) habitats in offshore areas (beyond 12 nautical miles from the coast);
• providing the scientific basis for establishing new marine protected areas (or enlarging existing ones) in offshore areas, including strictly protected ones;
• assessing pressures (including cumulative ones) in offshore areas and establishing the necessary conservation measures for MPAs, including through elaboration of their management plans and monitoring schemes.

Our Blue Future – Co-designing a future vision of a restored ocean and water system in the EU by 2030 and 2050

Code: 33850 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This action will develop and co-design transitional alternative futures of the EU, in which the Ocean, seas and waters are conserved or restored to good health.

To support the implementation of the European Green Deal, the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters and the related EU climate, biodiversity and pollution targets, project results are expected to contribute to all of the followings:

• Increased confidence in and support for the transitions required by the European Green Deal, by co-designing possible science-based transition scenarios for reaching the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters objectives and related EU climate, biodiversity and pollution targets, including environmental, social, economic and political considerations.
• Support progress in restoring our ocean and waters, in adapting to climate change, reversing biodiversity loss and pollution, by co-designing inspiring narratives that stimulate effective action by policy-makers, citizens and stakeholders, and by identifying the pathways that are necessary to realise them.
• Increased awareness of decision-makers, stakeholders and citizens, in relation to the urgency of the climate, biodiversity and pollution crises and the central role of restoring the entire water system to address these crises.

Danube river basin lighthouse – Protection and restoration of migratory fish habitats

Code: 33846 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Proposals under this topic are expected to show how their activities and results will achieve the Mission objective 1 – Protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity. Proposals should focus on the demonstration of sustainable and effective solutions for the enhancement of a protected network of critical habitats, involving relevant actors at a transnational/national scale and across relevant sectors, relevant national and regional authorities, riparian communities, landscape planners, ecologists as well as concerned economic actors, including fishers.

Science for Community – Building the marine Citizen Science data network of the future to valorise data coming from the ocean and increase engagement

Code: 33843 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The objective of this topic is to establish a Marine Citizen Science data network, which will aim to bring together the very important, but scattered and un-coordinated actors of marine citizen science, active in data collection. Such a network will provide a sense of community to these different in nature parties, will increase visibility of marine citizen science data collection activities in Europe and will invest in coordinating these activities by providing a harmonisation framework, which will increase the added value coming from marine citizen science. Such an activity will ensure dual effects towards the Mission’s Ocean cross-cutting enabling actions: it will support targeted engagement of different categories of social actors in the production of credible Marine Knowledge and it will thus directly support the development of the Digital Ocean and Water Knowledge System.

Atlantic and Arctic sea basin lighthouse, Mediterranean Sea basin lighthouse, Baltic and North Sea basin lighthouse - Reducing the environmental impacts of fisheries on marine species and habitats

Code: 33841 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Proposals under this topic are expected to identify, test, validate and demonstrate in real conditions, a set of suitable innovative and economically viable solutions, technologies, practices and processes to minimise the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems, specifically aiming at protecting sensitive species and juvenile fish as identified in the Marine Action Plan as well as respecting animal health and welfare.

Each proposal should address one sea basin – i.e.:

1. Atlantic and Arctic basin or
2. Mediterranean Sea basin or
3. Baltic and North Sea basin), where identified solutions will be demonstrated in several relevant fisheries.

Proposals should take a holistic approach aiming at protecting marine biodiversity while also avoiding potential negative environmental impacts, including on the seabed.

Support for the Coalition of waterfront cities, regions and islands for Mission Ocean and Waters

Code: 33839 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-02-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The proposal should coordinate, support and strengthen this growing movement to create a broad Coalition supporting the Mission Ocean and Waters, which will focus on waterfront cities with their ports (coastal and inland), as well as regions and islands committed to implementing this Mission. Importantly, it should aim to build a broad coalition, which also includes, in addition to the regions/cities/islands who already adhered to the Mission Charter, new and so far less active members with equal representation from all Mission lighthouse areas.

ERC Advanced Grants

Code: 33812 | Identifier Code: ERC-2024-ADG | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 29/05/2024 | End submission calls: 29/08/2024

ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements.

EIT Urban Mobility -Business Plan 2023-2025- Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) Education Open Call - Mobility for more liveable urban spaces

Code: 33806 | Identifier Code: EITUM-BP23-25 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 17/05/2024 | End submission calls: 17/07/2024

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.

Stimulating transnational research and development of next generation quantum technologies, including basic theories and components (Cascading grant with FSTP)

Code: 33793 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Projects are expected to contribute to the support of transnational projects in quantum technologies, fostering synergy between European, national and regional initiatives and promoting broader partnerships between the European stakeholders in quantum technologies.

Intellectual asset management support for public research organisations, academic institutions and their spin-offs (CSA)

Code: 33791 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-02-35 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 10/09/2024

To increase Europe’s capacity to convert high level scientific success into social and economic benefits a broad definition of entrepreneurship is needed. The aim of the action is to ensure the highest level of support for public research organisations in Europe including universities and their entrepreneurial agendas in order to improve access to and use of the knowledge assets very often created by public research funding.

Synergy with national and regional initiatives in Europe on Innovative Materials (CSA)

Code: 33789 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-02-36 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 10/09/2024

This topic focuses on synergy with national and regional initiatives in Europe on Innovative Materials (CSA).

Proposals should support the coordination between relevant national and regional public authorities funding research and innovation in 2DM-based technologies and advanced materials.

Advancing Large AI Models: Integration of New Data Modalities and Expansion of Capabilities (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)

Code: 33767 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic centres around the development of innovative multimodal large AI models, covering both the training of foundation models and their subsequent fine-tuning.

Proposals should address at least one of the following focus areas:

• the integration of innovative modalities of data for large AI models during training and inference. Examples of innovative modalities include event streams, structured data and sensor measurements. The incorporation of such new modalities could potentially bring unforeseen enhancements to model performance and enable their application in new domains like weather forecasting, robotics, and manufacturing.
• enhanced multimodal models that exceed the current state of the art, with either significantly improved capabilities or the ability to handle a larger number of modalities. This focus area also encompasses models capable of multi-modal output generation. Current large-scale multimodal models most commonly engage with only vision and language.

Digital Humanism - Putting people at the centre of the digital transformation (CSA)

Code: 33747 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Digital Humanism is here defined as the continuing search for a European answer to keep up high civilization standards stemming from enlightenment and the humanist era, and to further develop them in the digital world. Such a digital environment should enable all Europeans to make full use of digital and technologies, to have a society where geographical distance matters less, so that all Europeans can benefit from the digitalisation in their daily activities (ranging from work, learning, to enjoying culture or leisure activities) but also in their interactions with governments, and participation in democratic processes.

This requires intense, cross-disciplinary work of computer (and technology) sciences with legal, economic, sociological, philosophical and other kinds of expertise as a co-development exercise.

Developing and deploying a network of quantum gravimeters in Europe

Code: 33745 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic is consetrated on the development of a network of quantum gravimeters in Europe.

Quantum gravimeters (gravity sensors) can deliver high-sensitivity, real-time, non-invasive gravity measurements, with much greater precision than classical gravimeters. They have started to demonstrate their disruptive potential in many application sectors, including Earth observation and civil engineering.

Support for transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic areas of Digital, Industry and Space (CSA)

Code: 33743 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-02-34 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 10/09/2024

This topic focuses on the support of transnational activities of National Contact Points in the thematic areas of Digital, Industry and Space (CSA).

Projects are expected to contribute to the Improved and professionalised NCP services across Member States and Associated Countries, supporting access to Horizon Europe calls, lowering the entry barriers for newcomers, and raising the average quality of proposals.

Explainable and Robust AI (AI Data and Robotics Partnership) (RIA)

Code: 33739 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

To achieve robust and reliable AI, novel approaches are needed to develop methods and solutions that work under other than model-ideal circumstances, while also having an awareness when these conditions break down. To achieve trustworthiness, AI system should be sufficiently transparent and capable of explaining how the system has reached a conclusion in a way that it is meaningful to the user, enabling safe and secure human-machine interaction, while also indicating when the limits of operation have been reached.

Facilitate the engagement in global ICT standardisation development (CSA)

Code: 33737 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-03-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Digital, Industry & Space (Cluster 4)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The aim is to reinforce the presence of EU and associated states experts in the global ICT standardisation scene, by setting up an ICT standardisation observatory and a facility supporting the participation of key European specialists (especially from SMEs, societal stakeholders and Academia) in key international and global Standard Developing Organisations. In particular, the project should foresee actions related to topics in the Rolling Plan for ICT standardisation as well as related to internet standardisation.

Experimental local action for EU missions: knowledge institutions as focal points of transdisciplinary research and innovation activities with European outreach

Code: 33734 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CROSS-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 15/05/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

The EU Missions on cancer, climate adaptation, climate neutral cities, oceans and soil, pursue objectives agreed between Member States and the European Commission in the context of the European Green Deal and health policies. Sustainably managing common-pool resources and the provision of public goods are an important dimension in the EU Missions. scholars consider small-scale multistakeholder activities within a local or regional innovation ecosystem to be crucial for the non-technological innovation processes. Such innovation ecosystems for transformative change include non-commercial stakeholders like civil society and administrations.

The proposal should aim to implement, for the benefit of a specific location or region in an EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon Europe, a research and innovation action.

MSCA International Cooperation 2024

Code: 33731 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-INCO-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 14/05/2024 | End submission calls: 04/09/2024

The objective of the present call is to foster international cooperation in MSCA in Horizon Europe, through a dedicated support action to complement and ensure coordination between existing promotion channels at local level, and ensure consistency with formal R&I policy dialogues at bilateral and regional levels.

Spotlight on plant priority pest: fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)

Code: 33729 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-03-1 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/05/2024 | End submission calls: 24/09/2024

A successful proposal should support the farm to fork strategy to transition to fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food systems from primary production to consumption, notably the target to reduce by 50% the overall use and risk of chemical pesticides and reduce the use by 50% of the more hazardous pesticides and the biodiversity strategy. Activities will work on protective measures against pests of plants and on measures to prevent the introduction into, establishment and spread within the Union territory of Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith).

European Partnership of Agriculture of Data

Code: 33727 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-02-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 02/05/2024 | End submission calls: 25/06/2024

This partnership aims to enhance climate, environmental and socioeconomic sustainability, and productivity of agriculture and to strengthen policy monitoring and evaluation capacities through exploiting the potential of Earth and environmental observation and other data, in combination with innovative data technologies.

EIT Manufacturing Call for proposals Innovation & Entrepreneurship - Master & Doctoral School for the Manufacturing Business Plan 2023-2025

Code: 33722 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 08/07/2024

The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Call covers activities related to Master and Doctoral School, to develop the following programmes for students and professionals:

• Summer School 2025 for EIT Manufacturing Master School
• Doctoral I&E programme 2025

The focus for 2025 is to scale up the results of the Master and Doctoral School activities multiplying the impact of the same through commercialisation and distribution within a wide number of learners.

EIT Manufacturing Competition LEADERS - Women Innovators in Manufacturing at EIT RIS Business Plan 2023 - 2025

Code: 33700 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 14/05/2024 | End submission calls: 15/07/2024

The purpose of the “LEADERS – Women Innovators in Manufacturing at EIT RIS” competition is to support and highlight women researchers and innovators who have played a main role in developing solutions addressing manufacturing-related challenges.

EITM Call for Proposals for New Higher Education Institutions’ accession to EIT Manufacturing Master and Doctoral Schools and new Master programmes

Code: 33696 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 16/04/2024 | End submission calls: 17/06/2024

EIT Manufacturing Master and Doctoral School engages students from different academic backgrounds in the manufacturing sector.

The scope of this call is twofold:

• Expand Partnerships: add new HEIs to the EITM Master and Doctoral School, including those from uncovered countries, to diversify partnerships and ensure multiple HEI combinations for each programme.
• Enhance Program Portfolio: introduce new Master programmes covering topics not currently addressed, aligning with EITM thematic areas and industry needs for skilled graduates.

EIT Manufacturing Call for RIS proposals 2025

Code: 33693 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 29/04/2024 | End submission calls: 08/07/2024

The EIT Manufacturing Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) aims at widening participation in the KIC’s activities, as well as increasing the impact of EIT Manufacturing in EIT RIS countries. The EIT RIS has been designed as a two-way interaction scheme. By sharing its good practice related to Knowledge Triangle Integration and increasing its activities in EIT RIS eligible countries, EIT Manufacturing welcomes activities for:

• further developing business skills, talent, cooperation opportunities in education, currently untapped entrepreneurial potential
• accessing markets and business, customers for innovative ventures, innovation, knowledge, know-how and technology transfer possibilities
• additional testbeds for applications of innovative solutions
• supporting access to co-funding options provided by EU, regional and national support schemes

EIT Manufacturing Call for Innovation proposals 2025

Code: 33690 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 29/04/2024 | End submission calls: 08/07/2024

The Call for Proposals fosters innovation within the manufacturing sector by addressing pressing industrial challenges and facilitating a transition towards more resilient, sustainable, and human-centered manufacturing practices. It focuses on leveraging cutting edge technologies and methodologies to improve operational efficiency, sustainability, and the attractiveness of the manufacturing work environment. The call underscores the importance of advancing manufacturing technology, sustainability, and efficiency to maintain global competitiveness.

In the context of this call, EIT is looking for education proposals on the following 2 topics:

• Topic 1: Innovative Solution for Industrial Challenges
• Topic 2: Transition towards a resilient and human-centered Manufacturing

EIT Manufacturing Call for Education proposals 2025

Code: 33687 | Identifier Code: EITM BP 2023-2025 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 29/04/2024 | End submission calls: 08/07/2024

The education call main objective is the upskilling and reskilling of the European manufacturing workforce.

It is composed of two topics: Sustainable manufacturing for the future and, Digital innovation in manufacturing. The main outcome of the funded activities will be full learning programmes to support the development of skills on the identified topics.

Support a pragmatic clinical trial programme by cancer charities

Code: 33533 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

An important aim of Missions is bringing together various disciplines, sectors and actors, such as philanthropy. Hundreds of cancer charities and foundations across Europe support patient-centred research, including clinical trials.

The EU contribution aims to facilitate the coordination and networking between charities themselves as well as with relevant stakeholders across Member States and Associated Countries.
The EU contribution will not co-fund the trials.

Improving the understanding and management of late-effects in adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer

Code: 33531 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic will contribute to the achievement of the Mission’s objective to improve the quality of life of cancer patients, survivors and their families. The focus should be exclusively on adolescent and young adult (AYA, age range 15-39) cancer patients and survivors.

Accessible and affordable tests to advance early detection of heritable cancers in European regions

Code: 33528 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

There is a need to validate, pilot, and upscale easy-to-use genetic, multi-omics or other biomarker-based tests for early detection of cancers with an underlying heritable genetic risk, for uptake in regional or national healthcare systems.
Proposals should aim to deliver results through validating, piloting, and upscaling genetic, multi-omics, or other biomarker-based tests for early detection of cancers with underlying heritable genetic risk in routine healthcare.

Use cases for the UNCAN.eu research data platform

Code: 33526 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The aim of this topic is to operationalise the UNCAN.eu research data platform foreseen in the Cancer Mission implementation plan, through a series of use-cases. To this goal, proposals are expected to develop tools supporting researchers to access, manage and analyse cancer digital data, building among others on resources developed by EOSC4cancer.

Support dialogue towards the development of national cancer data nodes

Code: 33524 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Data is an essential resource to improve our understanding of cancer, advance prevention and early detection strategies, facilitate the delivery of personalised care, and better address the quality of life of cancer patients and survivors.

The Cancer Mission supports the creation of the European Initiative to Understand Cancer (UNCAN.eu, a federated European cancer research data infrastructure) and the European Cancer Patient Digital Centre (ECPDC, a European network of national digital infrastructures for cancer patients).

An information portal for the European Cancer Patient Digital Centre

Code: 33522 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01-06 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The aim of this action is to design, develop, deploy and operate a pilot information portal of the ECPDC to support the information needs of patients, survivors and caregivers and covering all the spectrum of the cancer patient journey. Specific Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are developed and implemented to timely update the information provided and facilitate the user experience. The future European Cancer Patient Digital Centre (ECPDC) will provide digital services to support cancer patients, survivors and caregivers to facilitate their access to quality information and data sharing.

Framework Partnership Agreement for a European Networked Catalyst Fund for Social Innovation in Support of the Missions

Code: 33520 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CROSS-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

The action aims at putting the EU Missions in a better position to achieve their societal and environmental transition objectives by improving the funding environment for the upscaling social innovation in the EU and associated countries.

The action shall strengthen the engagement of social innovation actors including philanthropy in the missions.

Successful social innovation projects with a real potential for scaling to advance the EU Missions will benefit from structured and networked funding environment.

A European Social Innovation Advisory Network in support of EU Mission Objectives

Code: 33518 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CROSS-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

Leveraging social innovation gives rise to solutions that prove more adapted to society, locally and regionally, as well as more robust. In a nutshell, social innovations are “innovations that are social in ends and means.

Social innovation is not only good for society, but also enhances society’s capacity to act. Social innovation engages and empowers citizens, results in a greater sense of agency, i.e. their ability to take action or to choose what action to take, and greater buy-in by citizens, industrialists, and public authorities, elicits active, democratic participation, enhances the resilience of communities, increases the relevance, acceptance, and uptake of innovation, and helps foster lasting changes in individual behaviours, social practices, and governance models. In short, social innovation acts as a system changer.

As such, social innovation processes are relevant to all EU Missions mobilising additional stakeholders and stakeholder communities (like philanthropic funders and for- and with-impact investors) for the benefit of the Missions.

ERA Talents

Code: 33516 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-03-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/04/2024 | End submission calls: 26/09/2024

The ERA Talents action aims to boost interoperability of careers in the academic and non-academic sectors and improve employability of R&I talents across sectors.
The action has a centre of gravity in Widening countries.
It fits within the overall Union policy of promoting more attractive research careers, implemented through Action 4 of the ERA Policy Agenda 2022-2024, and responds to the Council Conclusions on “Deepening the European Research Area:  “Deepening the European Research Area: Providing researchers with attractive and sustainable careers and working conditions and making brain circulation a reality”.

European partnership for pandemic preparedness

Code: 33514 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-12-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/04/2024 | End submission calls: 26/11/2024

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination 3 “Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden”.

The partnership will be firmly anchored within the framework of the European Health Union package that aims to improve the EU’s capacity in the vital areas of prevention, preparedness, surveillance, risk assessment, early warning, and response.

Transformative investments in research for pandemic preparedness are needed at European level. Stronger collaboration and coordination between European actors, including the appropriate infrastructures and networks, are an important prerequisite for improving EU’s pandemic preparedness and stepping up our contribution to global cooperation in this area.

Pre-commercial procurement for environmentally sustainable, climate neutral and circular health and care systems

Code: 33511 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2024-CARE-14-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/04/2024 | End submission calls: 26/11/2024

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination 4 “Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care”.

Good hygiene and safety are vital in this setting however innovative solutions can help to reduce the environmental impact of the healthcare sector through the efficient use of resources, increasing circularity, and the introduction of “greener” materials, technologies and practices. The declaration calls for action and joint vision on ensuring better health outcomes, in part through the transformation of health and care systems to become climate-resilient, low-carbon, sustainable, circular and equitable. Such a transformation will contribute in the long term to improving patient care by enhancing both the sustainability and overall efficiency of health and care systems.

European Partnership: One Health Anti-Microbial Resistance

Code: 33508 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-09-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/04/2024 | End submission calls: 25/09/2024

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination 3 “Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden”.

The partnership should contribute to the priorities set in the European One Health Action plan to fight AMR and in the Council Recommendation on stepping up EU actions to combat antimicrobial resistance in a One Health approach that provide European frameworks with actions and objectives focused on areas with the highest added value for Member States, including boosting research development and innovation.

Implementation research for management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of non-communicable diseases (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases - GACD)

Code: 33506 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-13-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/04/2024 | End submission calls: 26/11/2024

The topic is focused on implementation research for management of multiple long-term conditions in the context of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) (MLTC NCD) in LMICs and/or disadvantaged populations in HICs. Proposals should focus on implementation science around interventions that will generate evidence about when, for whom, and under what circumstances, patient-centred approaches can improve integrated care for patients with MLTC NCD.

Pandemic preparedness and response: Maintaining and enhancing the preparatory work for a co-funded European partnership for pandemic preparedness

Code: 33498 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-17-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Health (Cluster 1) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/04/2024 | End submission calls: 30/05/2024

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination 3 “Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden”.
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated how unilateral research initiatives may lead to a fragmented research landscape, with substantial room for efficiency gains in the development of the highly needed evidence to guide policy actions when facing an emergency.
A coordination and support action is working towards improving the EU’s preparedness to predict and respond to emerging infectious health threats by better coordinating funding for research and innovation at EU, national (and regional) level towards common objectives and an agreed Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024

Code: 33496 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 11/09/2024

The objective of the present call is to provide fellowships to excellent researchers, undertaking international mobility. Applications will be made jointly by the researcher and a beneficiary in the academic or non-academic sector.

MSCA Feedback To Policy 2024

Code: 33493 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-FTP-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/04/2024 | End submission calls: 03/09/2024

One of the objectives of this action is to support ongoing and planned Commission initiatives which focus on exploiting and assessing the impact of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects results in relation to thematic and cross-cutting priorities, including the EU Missions. It also aims to assess the extent to which MSCA projects achieve two of the core horizontal policy objectives of the programme: the development of researchers’ training, skills and career and the related promotion of intersectoral collaboration.

MSCA COFUND 2024

Code: 33490 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2024-COFUND-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 26/09/2024

MSCA COFUND co-finances new or existing doctoral programmes and postdoctoral fellowship schemes with the aim of spreading the best practices of the MSCA including international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as international and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.

Transition Open 2024

Code: 33397 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-TRANSITIONOPEN-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

EIC Transition funds innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and validation of your novel technology from the lab to the relevant application environments (by making use of prototyping, formulation, models, user testing or other validation tests) as well as explorations and development of a sustainable business case and business model towards commercialisation.

The European Social Innovation Competition 2024

Code: 33281 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-EUSIC-PRIZES-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 09/04/2024 | End submission calls: 11/06/2024

The European Social Innovation Competition aims at raising awareness about social innovation across a wide audience, sparking the creation of new socially innovative ideas, creating a network of like-minded practitioners and supporting finalists to transform their ideas into structured businesses.

EIT Urban Mobility - Business Plan 2023 - 2025 - Main Innovation Open Call 2025 - Mobility for more liveable urban spaces

Code: 33256 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 04/04/2024 | End submission calls: 04/06/2024

At EIT Urban Mobility, the mission is to accelerate change towards a sustainable mobility model for liveable urban spaces. In the current context of climate emergency, the objective is to support the community of innovators to develop solutions that help mitigate and adapt to climate change and, at the same time, improve the quality of life in our cities, create jobs and strengthen the European mobility sector. To this end, the primary emphasis of Innovation Programme for 2023-2025 is to radically advance commercially viable solutions/services/products that support this mission and these goals.

The aim for this call is to strategically select projects that complement the existing portfolio by addressing new sectors, business models, technological advances or market demands.

Competence Hub Long-term Open Call

Code: 33164 | Identifier Code: EITUM-BP23-25 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 14/03/2024 | End submission calls: 14/05/2024

EIT Urban Mobility’s Competence Hub focuses on developing high-quality, innovative, and adaptable training courses for mobility professionals and organisations interested in reskilling/upskilling with a view to making cities more livable and mobility more efficient and sustainable.

The European Capital of Innovation Awards 2024 (iCapital)

Code: 33103 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2024-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02-1 / HORIZON-EIC-2024-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02-2 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 05/03/2024 | End submission calls: 18/06/2024

The European Capital of Innovation Awards aim to champion inspiring cases of municipality-enabled innovation flourishing in cities.

The Awards will feature two categories:

• European Capital of Innovation 2024 category.
• European Rising Innovative 2024 City category.

Startup Europe

Code: 32221 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) | Start submission calls: 11/01/2024 | End submission calls: 25/04/2024

This action will connect local digital and deep tech start-up ecosystems and support cross-border acceleration activities for start-ups that demonstrate traction (i.e. market-product fit or at least a seed round raised). Among the start-up ecosystems to be connected, specific attention will be given to the inclusion of ecosystems in ‘moderate’ or ‘emerging’ innovator countries and/or regions.

The African Union-European Union Innovation Platform

Code: 32219 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE) | Start submission calls: 11/01/2024 | End submission calls: 25/04/2024

The action funded under this topic will have the objective of supporting the implementation of the AU-EU Innovation Agenda.

The aim of the topic will be to foster the links and networks between innovation stakeholders from the AU and EU innovation ecosystems, also including the social innovation dimension.

Development of technical and business solutions to optimise the circularity, resilience, and sustainability of the European battery value chain (Batt4EU Partnership)

Code: 32183 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

This topic focuses on the development of technical and business solutions to optimise the circularity, resilience, and sustainability of the European battery value chain.

Proposals should cover at least two of three scope categories (business models, cross-industry tools, sustainable design) and at least three bullet points.

Smart grid-ready buildings

Code: 32181 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

There is a need to deliver solutions to improve the interoperability of European buildings with energy carriers (e.g. electricity grid, district heating networks) and with non-energy services (e.g. mobility). This will allow buildings to play an active role in the energy system integration.

Assessment of air pollutant emissions from low-carbon fuels in the heavy-duty, aviation, and maritime sectors

Code: 32179 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-18 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

This topic is focused on the assessment of air pollutant emissions from low-carbon fuels in the heavy-duty, of aviation and maritime sectors.

Emerging energy technologies for a climate neutral Europe

Code: 32176 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-04 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

This topic focusses on the development of novel bottom-up technological solutions with breakthrough potential across all parts of the energy sector value chain, as well as all energy-related aspects in the transport sector.

Structuring the Waterborne transport sector, including through changed business and industrial models in order to achieve commercial zero-emission waterborne transport (ZEWT Partnership)

Code: 32173 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-16 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

There is a need to objectively analyse the segments of the waterborne transport sector, and within each segment characterize the business models, identify the barriers to the take up innovative low and zero-emission waterborne transport solutions and in cooperation with the stakeholders to propose commercial models which can provide a better incentive for increasing the investment in low or zero-emission solutions in the European waterborne transport sector.

This topic focuses on the structuring of the Waterborne transport sector, through changed business and industrial models in order to achieve commercial zero-emission waterborne transport.

Furthering the development of a materials acceleration platform for sustainable batteries (combining AI, big data, autonomous synthesis robotics, high throughput testing) (Batt4EU Partnership)

Code: 32171 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-05 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

The aim is to integrate advanced multi-scale computational modelling, materials synthesis, characterisation and testing to perform closed-loop autonomous materials findings and interphase engineering that would accelerate by at least a factor of five the discovery of new battery chemistries with ultra-high performances.

Advanced sustainable and safe pre-processing technologies for End-of-Life (EoL) battery recycling (Batt4EU Partnership)

Code: 32169 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-01 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

The current EOL LIB recycling technologies are focused on improving the recovering efficiency of Cobalt that is the most valuable material. However, other no-Co battery contents need to be extracted in one go to develop recycling processes with economic, societal and environmental perspectives.

The goal is to develop and integrate new advanced pre-processing concepts that enable more efficient and safe technologies for recycling EoL LIBs. Substantial improvements should be achieved in the processes environmental and economic viability and in the circular economy, narrowing the sustainability gaps in the whole battery recyclates pre-treatment.

Non-Li Sustainable Batteries with European Supply Chains for Stationary Storage (Batt4EU Partnership)

Code: 32166 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D2-01-02 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

Non-lithium-based batteries have the potential to provide solutions for integration of renewables by providing energy storage solutions, either stand-alone, or as part of larger grid. Proposals are invited for projects which advance the development of non-Li battery systems, show their potential to be manufactured at scale at a cost the market will bear, and which meet regulatory requirements (including regulations for the recycling/re-use of batteries).

Coordinating and supporting the combined activities of member and associated states towards the objectives of the Zero Emission Waterborne Transport partnership so as to increase synergies and impact (ZEWT Partnership)

Code: 32164 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-17 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

This topic focuses on the coordination and support of combined activities of member and associated states towards the objectives of the Zero Emission Waterborne Transport (ZEWT) partnership so as to increase synergies and impact.

Valuable coordination between national and European research was established, including the waterborne transport sector. The benefits from synergies towards the achievement of common goals, align with the objectives of the ZEWT partnership.

Alternative heating systems for efficient, flexible and electrified heat generation in industry

Code: 32162 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-01-03 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

Alternative forms of energy such as for example ultrasound, microwaves, plasma, infrared, visible and ultraviolet radiations, are unconventional and contactless heat sources, that create the possibility of new, efficient and flexible processes, in that they are applied precisely where they are needed and with shortened reaction times. They are key enablers for switching processes from fossil energy to renewable or low-carbon energy sources, and can contribute to increasing their energy efficiency, thereby reducing fossil fuel imports dependency.

They provide higher production flexibility, allowing variable throughputs to better follow market demand and enabling leaner production paradigms (e.g. decreased stock, production on demand), as well as flexibility for the electricity grid via demand response. Furthermore, such technologies are suitable for downscaling, which can be an advantage in some cases (e.g. local waste or biomass feedstock processing).

Advanced digitalisation and modelling utilizing operational and other data to support zero emission waterborne transport (ZEWT Partnership)

Code: 32160 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-15 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

This topic focuses on advanced digitalisation and modelling utilizing operational and to other data to support zero emission waterborne transport.

Specifically, the higher levels of integration between different functions of an Integrated Green Vessel DT (e.g. during design and operation of waterborne transport assets) require both complex multi-physics simulations and advanced levels of data organisation. This leads to the need for higher computational efficiency to meet future requirements in terms of accuracy, and the integration of the digital representation of suitable technologies for the transformation of vessels into “Green Vessels” within an Integrated Green DT that will aim to improve the vessels environmental performance.

Demonstrating efficient fully DC electric grids within waterborne transport for large ship applications (ZEWT Partnership)

Code: 32158 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-14 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

The application of DC grids on-board has already started and will grow significantly because of its promising aspects such as reduction of complexity, increased modularity and improved integration. However, further progress is required to unlock the full potential of an on-board DC grid for large ship applications (over 5000 GT) addressing the entire network for both primary and secondary (auxiliary) distribution system, taking into account the various on-board applications of ship’s electrification systems (e.g. high-power fuel cells, batteries, etc.) The challenge is to focus not only on secondary distribution, but also on the integration/interconnection of new sustainable primary power systems within a DC grid network serving the entire ship.

Demonstration of Technologies to minimise underwater noise generated by waterborne transport (ZEWT Partnership)

Code: 32156 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-13 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

Whilst on-going research seeks to characterize the underwater radiated noise (URN) which poses the greatest threat to aquatic species and the marine environment as well as characterizing potentially promising solutions to reduce the impacts of URN, the demonstration of technologies to minimize the harmful impacts from waterborne transport URN remains less developed. An important challenge is to predict URN at the design stage to be able to implement less noisy environmentally friendly solutions from an early stage. This challenge is faced both at equipment design level and at the ship integration stage. Consequences of the noise reduction solutions for GHG emissions should be considered.

Current approaches to the regulation of URN focus on controlled criteria (fixed speed, no waves etc.), whilst ships operate at various speeds, loads and sea states which further complicate the challenge of designing a quiet ship suitable for a wide range of conditions. A further challenge is to be able to operate a noise measurement system on-board which can provide instantaneous information to the crew on the ship’s operational radiated noise.

Combining state-of-the-art emission reduction and efficiency improvement technologies in ship design and retrofitting for contributing to the "Fit for 55" package objective by 2030 (ZEWT Partnership)

Code: 32153 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-12 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

Legislative proposals within the EU’s “Fit for 55” package targeting the reduction of waterborne transport emissions will assess emissions reductions based on operational data collected within the framework of the EU’s MRV regulation.
Contributing to fit for 55 objectives, the challenge is to develop at least three concept vessels which will further improve energy efficiency by at least 20%, compared to a 2022 reference performance for equivalent ships.
This “design for operation” approach will integrate and combine both operational energy savings and emission reduction technologies.

Achieving high voltage, low weight, efficient electric powertrains for sustainable waterborne transport (ZEWT Partnership)

Code: 32151 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-11 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

The voltage level of battery installations on-board vessels is typically limited and within the regulations for low voltage installations. By increasing the voltage level of the on-board distribution system, the energy conversion can achieve higher efficiencies and be more compact, due to the smaller cross-sectional area of conductors and lower losses.
The necessary regulatory aspects also need to be defined to facilitate market take up for waterborne transport. Although e.g. high-voltage Li-Ion battery packs may be presently applied, the current state-of-the-art still offers solutions that are too heavy to enable electrification of a wider range of larger waterborne transport assets.
Further study of the adaptation and the on-board integration solutions available for recently developed technologies, such as Li-Ion NMC, LTO, LFP is needed.

Building on the current state of the art solutions should contribute towards the battery electrification of a wider range of vessel types, for both maritime and inland waterway transport which are characterized by the need for larger battery systems and longer autonomy.

Towards a flying testbed for European leadership in aviation

Code: 32148 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-10 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 07/12/2023 | End submission calls: 18/04/2024

This topic aims at significantly reinforcing the EUs leading position in Aerospace innovation through radical, experimental innovation needed for zero-emission aircraft of the future. By creating a flying, experimental test bed the twin transition of Europe towards a climate neutral and digital society will be accelerated and EU global industrial leadership will be strengthened.

Permanently Open Call for Targeted Innovation Projects

Code: 32146 | Identifier Code: EITUM-BP23-25 | Programme name: Horizon Europe (2021-2027) | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 14/12/2023 | End submission calls: 31/12/2025

This Permanently Open Call will target various topics aimed to address EIT Urban Mobility Innovation portfolio gaps, market failures, emerging trends and technologies, new policies and regulations, and other relevant events.