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HORIZON EUROPE – Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society – 2025 – Two-stage – 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.

2025-09-16
22.200.000 million euros
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Call reference HORIZON-CL2-2025-02-TWO-STAGE
Programme Horizon Europe
Institution European Commission
Sectors Citizenship & Human Rights Cooperation & Development Culture, Media & Communication Employment Social Economy
Beneficiaries Association & NGO Media & cultural organisation Research centre & university

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HORIZON-CL2-2025-02-TWO-STAGE



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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:

Open

  • HORIZON-CL2-2025-02-HERITAGE-02-two-stage: Innovative approaches to intangible cultural heritage for societal resilience
  • HORIZON-CL2-2025-02-TRANSFO-04-two-stage: Gender differences in career trajectories of parents and their implications for gender equality and family well-being

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 22.200.000 euros
  • Budget per topic:
    • HORIZON-CL2-2025-02-HERITAGE-02-two-stage: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL2-2025-02-TRANSFO-04-two-stage: 10.200.000 euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 3 and 4 million euros
  • Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs

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