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HORIZON EUROPE – Enhancing the European R&I system – 2025

HORIZON EUROPE – WIDERA aims at bridging the gap between countries within the European Research Area, to strengthen the European ecosystem and make it more competitive, efficient, and fair.

2025-09-18
44 million euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06
Programme Horizon Europe
Institution European Commission
Sectors Business & Industry Cooperation & Development Research & Innovation Technology & Digital
Beneficiaries Association & NGO EU & International Organisation Professional organisation & network Research centre & university State administration & affiliated entities

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HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06



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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-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-04: Investigating and addressing career barriers faced by underrepresented and marginalised researchers
  • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-05: Programme-level collaboration
  • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-06: Strengthening of the European Science for Policy Ecosystem
  • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-01: Rolling out the ERA Policy Agenda results
  • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-03: Research and innovation to provide evidence that support reforms of research assessment
  • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-02: Enable sustained coordination and guidance at the European level on institutional non-profit open access publishing
  • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-07: Science comes to town 2027

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 44 million euros
  • Budget per topic:
    • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-04: 2 million euros
    • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-05: 4 million euros
    • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-06: 2 million euros
    • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-01: 26 million euros
    • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-03: 2 million euros
    • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-02: 2 million euros
    • HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-07: 6 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 1.500.000 euros and 6 million euros
  • Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs