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HORIZON EUROPE – Call 03 – 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.

2026-04-15
96.5 million euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference HORIZON-CL6-2026-03
Programme HORIZON EUROPE
Institution European Commission
Sectors Agriculture & Fisheries Business & Industry Cooperation & Development Environment & Climate Research & Innovation Territorial Development
Beneficiaries Association & NGO EU & International Organisation Large company (> 250 employees) 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-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-01: Additional activities for the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP)
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-02: Improving analytical capacity and understanding of social drivers in agriculture to better assess social sustainability in the sector
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-03: Empowering the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-04: Supporting AllAtlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-05: Coordinated European contribution to the WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch and its international governance
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-06: A services and business incubator for geospatial open-source developments
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-07: Interconnect Earth Observation research for addressing environmental policies
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-08: Boosting data availability and AI solutions in food for consumers and food service professionals
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-09: Increasing knowledge flows to practice within AKIS via EU thematic knowledge hubs
  • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-10: Embracing innovation in agriculture by peer topeer learning via on farm demonstrations and cost-benefit analysis

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 96.5 million euros
  • Budget per topic:
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-01: 22 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-02: 10.8 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-03: 9 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-04: 4.5 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-05: 7 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-06: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-07: 5.4 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-08: 15 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-09: 7 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-10: 9.8 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 3.5 million and 7.5 million euros
  • Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs