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HORIZON EUROPE – Call 01 – single stage – 2026

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.

2026-09-17
210 millions euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference HORIZON-CL6-2026-01
Programme HORIZON EUROPE
Institution European Commission
Sectors Agriculture & Fisheries Business & Industry Cooperation & Development Health Research & Innovation Technology & Digital Territorial Development
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)

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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:

Forthcoming

  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-01: Understanding and tackling the decline of insects
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-02: Developing methods to assess the presence, functions and sensitivity of groundwater ecosystems
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-03: Pushing the frontier of knowledge and conservation action for deep sea ecosystems
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-04: Ensuring continuous effectiveness of protected areas in conserving habitats and species while facing intensifying drivers of biodiversity loss
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-05: Advancing integrated scenarios and prediction models for informing transition to a nature positive society
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-06: Boosting agrobiodiversity for food security and sustainable competitiveness
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-01: Improving circularity of multilayer flexible plastic food contact packaging
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-02: Advancing recycling technologies for mixed post-consumer textiles waste from blended products
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-03: Advanced recovery of critical raw materials from Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-04: Demonstrating and deploying innovative collection, sorting-for-reuse and repair systems for textiles at city/region level (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative topic)
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-05: Understanding biomass flows in Europe
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-06: Bioeconomy policy support hub for Member States, regions and sectors
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-07: Advancing the European bio-based innovation enabled by biotechnology and biomanufacturing concepts
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-08: Supporting pre-normative research for standardization of the bio-based products
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-09: Balancing food security, bioeconomy, climate and biodiversity objectives to unlock sustainable value chains
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-10: Biobased innovation in society: supporting the sustainable way of living
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-11: Harnessing the unique properties of marine organisms to deliver sustainable blue bio-based products
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-01: Toward a comprehensive assessment of the disturbance of marine ecosystems by anthropogenic underwater noise
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-02: Bioremediation of
    Ukraine’s ecosystems contaminated by conflicts
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-03: Developing managed aquifer recharge techniques (MAR) in a rural context

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 210 million euros
  • Budget per topic :
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-01: 13 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-02: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-03: 18 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-04: 13 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-05: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-06: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-01: 11 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-02: 11 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-03: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-04: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-05: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-06: 3 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-07: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-08: 8 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-09: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-10: 8 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-11: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-01: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-02: 11 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-03: 12 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 3 and 9 million euros
  • Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs