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:
Forthcoming
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DATA-02: Open Internet Stack Sovereign Solutions
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DATA-03: Open Internet Stack Support for Scale
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DATA-06: Efficient and compliant access to and use of data
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-01: Apply AI: Pilot of the “Science for AI” Pillar of RAISE (“Resource for AI science in Europe”)
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-19: Challenge-Driven GenAI4EU Booster in Apply AI prioritised sectors
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-08: Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing: Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-09: Advanced Local Digital Twins using AI for Early Warning and Preparedness
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-11: Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-12: Standards for Quantum Technologies – Coordination and Support Action
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-18: Large-Scale Photonic Quantum Computing Platform Technologies
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-14: Networking and Future Photonics Strategy (CSA) (Photonics Partnership)
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-15: Strengthening the cooperation of semiconductor-intensive EU regions
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITALEMERGING-17: Fostering 2-Dimensional Materials (2DM) based emerging and enabling technologies
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-HUMAN-01: Developing and demonstrating core technologies for Virtual Worlds and Web 4.0
- HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-HUMAN-02: Web 4.0 architectural framework and Open Internet Stack applications for virtual worlds
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