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HORIZON EUROPE – Cluster 5 Call 02-2025 (WP 2025) – 2025

Pillar 2 of the Horizon Europe programme aims to boost innovation, competitiveness, and employment in Europe through collaborative projects, international partnerships, and funding opportunities accessible to companies of all sizes and sectors.

2025-09-02
274 million euros
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Call reference HORIZON-CL5-2025-02
Programme Horizon europe
Institution European Commission
Sectors Cooperation & Development Energy Environment & Climate Research & Innovation Technology & Digital Territorial Development Transport
Beneficiaries Association & NGO EU & International Organisation Large company (> 250 employees) Local Authority & Affiliated Entity Professional organisation & network Research centre & university Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees) State administration & affiliated entities

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Priorities and funded actions

Some Horizon Europe budgets are structured in response to policy ambitions (“destinations”) and deployed through calls for proposals targeting more specific thematic/sector (“Topics”). Thus, your application must be linked to a topic of a call for proposals.

Various categories of projects are eligible:

  • RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Technology development and adoption / Testing and validation of a prototype in the laboratory ;
  • IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include limited R&D activities ;
  • CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking, studies & conferences, communication, studies for new research infrastructures ;
  • MSCA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / ERC individual grants: Training networks for researchers, Individual grants for experienced researchers, Staff exchange – mobility for researchers and non-scientific staff.

In addition, calls specify the categories of eligible beneficiaries:

  • Collaborative projects, composed of a coordinator and several partners organisations (consortium) ;
  • Single-beneficiary projects, involving a single organization ;
  • Individual scholarships, open to natural persons in their own name with their home institution.

TOPICS:

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  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-03: Sustainable processing and refining of raw materials to produce battery grade Li-ion battery materials (Batt4EU Partnership)
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-06: Fostering the European battery ecosystem by providing accurate and up-to-date information and stimulating excellence in the European battery R&I community (Batt4EU Partnership)
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-08: Coordinated call with India on waste to renewable hydrogen
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-10: Clean Energy Transition Co-Funded Partnership
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-11: Support to the SET Plan community
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-12: NZIA regulatory sandbox exchange forum support
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-03: Novel approaches to geothermal resources development
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-04: Development of hydropower technologies and water management schemes allowing for win-win situation of flexible hydropower and biodiversity improvement – Societal Readiness Pilot
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-06: Innovative manufacturing of wind energy technologies
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-09: Optimised/Alternative Silicon Growth Technologies (from either liquid or gaseous phase) for PV Applications (EUPI-PV Partnership)
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-11: Novel inverter technologies and flexibility in PV systems (EUPI-PV Partnership)
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-15: Building a Long-Term Africa Union (AU) and European Union (EU) Research and Innovation joint collaboration on Sustainable Renewable Energies
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-16: Support to the BRIDGE initiative
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-17: Control and operation tools for a RES-based energy system
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-21: Cross-regional network and market model for optimisation of long duration storage
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-25: Effects of CO2-stream impurities on CO2 transport and storage
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-26: European investment atlas of potential CO2 storage sites
  • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-27: Using captured CO2 as a resource to replace fossil hydrocarbons in industrial production

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 274 million euros
  • Budget per topic:
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-03: 20 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-06: 3 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-08: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-10: 69 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-11: 7.500.00 euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D2-12: 500.000 euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-03: 20 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-04: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-06: 28 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-09: 18 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-11: 18 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-15: 4 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-16: 1 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-17: 20 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-21: 14 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-25: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-26: 5 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL5-2025-02-D3-27: 14 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 500.000 euros and 69 million euro
  • Funding rate: between 30% and 100% of the total eligible costs