- until 7 May 2026
- 92 days left
- Safety and certification guidelines and demonstration of safety components for hyperloop
- € 3,000,000
- Interested Partners
- 1
- Transport infrastructure
- Research & Development
- European Data Infrastructure
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Science Cloud
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Governance for the future
- Mobility
- Mobility for Growth
- Railway Sector
- International Cooperation
- Transport
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Society & Employment
- Mobility for Growth
- Exchange Good Practices
- Startups Support
- Business Growth
- Mobility
- Mentoring, Coaching
- Sustainable Business Models
- Education & Training
- Manufacturing
- Research & Development
- Society & Employment
- Higher Education
- Partners with Industry
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Capacity building
- Boost for Jobs, Growth and Investment
- Mobility
- Research Infrastructures
- Venture Incubation Programme
- Manufacturing
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Digital Technologies
- Society & Employment
- Partners with Industry
- Startups Support
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Mentoring, Coaching
- Sustainable Business Models
- collaboration in the creative economy: research networking
- Horizon Europe
- Creation of talent ecosystems, as integrated networks where cross-sectoral public and private organisations have established close and coordinated cooperation, fostering among others the employability, skills, career development, mobility, career interoperability, and well-being of researchers and other R&I staff;
- Implementation of organisational changes by participating organisations to mainstream the principles of the European framework for research careers and of the European Charter for Researchers, resulting in researchers benefitting from attractive working and employment conditions and diversified career development opportunities, with spillover effects on other R&I staff;
- Well-connected talent ecosystems through regular cooperation between different projects established under this topic and other ongoing actions;
- Enhanced talent ecosystems, enabling a substantial number of researchers and other R&I staff to develop attractive careers and attracting international talents and European diaspora scientists.
- Large-scale demonstration for mapping the distribution and condition of marine habitats to implement the Nature Restoration Regulation
- The prize is not awarded for a life-time achievement contribution to science.
- The prize may not be awarded to members of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Board or committee members or to Board members, directors or employees of the Novo Group.
- Self-nominations are not accepted
- until 12 May 2026
- 97 days left
- EIC 2026 Pathfinder Open
- € 4,000,000
- Interested Partners
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- Manufacturing
- Culture & Creativity
- Education & Training
- Partners with Industry
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Creative Industries
- Exchange Good Practices
- Capacity building
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Startups Support
- Capacity building
- Research & Development
- European Data Infrastructure
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Science Cloud
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- be based at an organisation eligible to apply to Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
- include a project lead that is eligible for funding from Research Ireland. See Guidance for Irish co-Lead for more information
- be proposing activities within the creative economy
- Aquatic Resources
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Environment & Climate Action
- Education & Training
- Digital Technologies
- Space
- Marine & Coast
- Nature Based Solutions
- Nature and biodiversity
- Capacity building
- Digital twins
- Earth observation
- Nominees must have made an important contribution to European Science in areas of relevance to e.g. biomanufacturing, industrial, environmental, food or plant biotechnology.
- Nominees must have a current position and an active research program at a public or non-profit research institution in a European country.
- Nominees can have any nationality.
- Digital Technologies
- Research & Development
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
- European Data Infrastructure
- Βioscience
- Research Infrastructures
- support the UK and Irish governments’ ambition for closer UK-Ireland research collaboration
- build and consolidate new partnerships between creative industries researchers, industry experts and policymakers in Ireland and the UK
- capitalise on the wider momentum towards UK-Irish creative industries collaboration through bringing mutual ambitions around policy, evidence and infrastructure into contact with existing capabilities
- deliver innovative and integrated research that promotes the sharing of best practice and knowledge exchange between creative research institutions in both countries, as well as supporting economic growth through research and innovation and maximising co-investment
- establish UK and Irish researchers at the forefront of global creative economy research and position them to capitalise on the opportunities through EU research funding and to show progress towards triple helix funding
- strengthen and inform policy and evidence ecosystems in the UK and Ireland
- clearly demonstrate the specific added value of enhanced Ireland-UK research collaboration across the breadth of the creative economy
- strengthen creative skills pipelines for researchers in both countries, producing researchers and practitioners who are well equipped to navigate the opportunities and challenges emerging from rapidly evolving UK-Ireland creative economy
- UCPM – Union Civil Protection Mechanism
- Better understanding and attribution of land and ocean carbon sources and sinks
- build and consolidate new partnerships between researchers and stakeholders in the UK and Ireland and provide a platform for longer-term collaboration
- deliver innovative research networking activities that are appropriately tailored to the themes and areas being addressed, such as workshops, seminars and other events, and outreach, mobility, engagement, skills and knowledge exchange activity
- are genuinely collaborative and involve both research organisations and industry and other relevant stakeholders in both countries
- promote the sharing of best practice and knowledge exchange between institutions in the UK and Ireland and clearly demonstrate the specific added value of enhanced collaboration in the field
- until 19 May 2026
- 104 days left
- Knowledge for Action in Prevention and Preparedness (KAPP)
- € 1,000,000
- Interested Partners
- 0
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Capacity building
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Disaster Risk Management
- Security
- People with Special Needs / Learning Disorders
- Vulnerable and marginalised groups
- Society & Employment
- Social Inclusion
- Energy
- Education & Training
- Cohesion Policy
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Governance for the future
- Social protection and inclusion
- Secure, clean and efficient energy
- Capacity building
- Social and territorial cohesion
- Renewable energy
- Sustainable Business Models
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- Environment & Climate Action
- Natural Sciences
- Space
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Exchange Good Practices
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Chemistry
- Geosciences
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Satellite Communications
- Earth observation
- Under the LLM-BRIDGE’s financial support to third parties (FSTP), the selected incubator will receive up to 60 000 € to deliver the VIP.
- The selected incubator will run a 12-week programme designed to help startups validate markets, refine business models, and prepare for the forthcoming LLM-BRIDGE Acceleration Programme.
- Programme Delivery: Execute the 12-week incubation cycle in close coordination with the LLM-BRIDGE Consortium. This includes onboarding, weekly mentoring sessions, and organisation of the final Demo Day.
- Mentoring and Capacity Building: Provide access to a multidisciplinary pool of mentors, business advisors, and AI technical experts who can guide startups through product validation, compliance with EU data and AI regulations, and investor readiness preparations.
- Curriculum Integration: Deliver modules covering entrepreneurial skills, market positioning, user testing, ethical AI design, legal frameworks (AI Act, GDPR, Data Act), and sustainable business models.
- Monitoring and Reporting: Track progress against predefined milestones, collect qualitative and quantitative indicators (e.g. MVP development, market validation, funding readiness), and contribute to consolidated reports for the European Commission under FSTP monitoring rules.
- Ecosystem Engagement: Facilitate connections between startups, research institutions, investors, and industrial partners to foster collaboration and post-programme continuity.
- Data and Ethics Compliance: Ensure all supported startups follow ethical AI practices, data protection principles, and the European approach to trustworthy AI and EU legislation.
- Visibility and Dissemination: Promote the LLM-BRIDGE project through communication channels, events, and digital platforms, highlighting its contribution to Europe’s AI sovereignty and innovation ecosystem.
- Navigable inland waterways, their surroundings and related infrastructure are managed in a more integrated and sustainable manner across Europe and become more climate-resilient
- Climate and environmental risks to water infrastructure (e.g. droughts, flooding, slow onset events, ecological degradation and cascading and compound events) are more effectively addressed in a systemic way. Safe, efficient and reliable navigability conditions are improved.
- Cost-efficient and environmentally friendly measures — especially nature-based solutions — are identified with the involvement of stakeholders. They improve climate resilience of inland waterways while supporting integrated co-benefit and avoiding competing water uses, including between countries and regions.
- Horizon Europe
- Better understanding of oceanic carbon dioxide (CO2) sources and sinks, their drivers and dynamics under different climate scenarios, including their responses to human interventions;
- Better understanding of land ecosystem CO2 sources and sinks, their drivers (both natural and anthropogenic) and their evolution under future climate and land-based mitigation scenarios;
- Progress on reconciling estimates of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and removals from land originating from the climate science and national emissions reporting communities;
- More consistent representation and quantification of lateral transfers of carbon.
- Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers
- Demonstrating solutions to protect and preserve cultural heritage from the impacts of climate change
- Expiring soon
- Innovative solutions for protecting and preserving cultural heritage from the impacts of climate change have been demonstrated and are made widely available for upscaling and deployment across the European Union and beyond. This includes nature-based solutions.
- Regional and local authorities hosting cultural heritage are better prepared to preserve it under a changing climate.
- Relevant stakeholders – including heritage scientists and managers, climate scientists, regional and local policymakers, civil society and representatives from the tourism industry – have co-created and put in place climate-resilient solutions. Citizens and local communities have also been engaged in the process.
- 27 days left
- AI-assisted Methods and Tools for Engineering Automation
- The solutions are expected to be co-designed by all the relevant stakeholders and to engage citizens.
- When relevant, nature-based solutions should be explored as a priority
- The solutions should consider the potential interactions and compound effects of different hazards.
- Careful consideration is necessary to avoid maladaptation.
- Interested Partners
- Society & Employment
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Culture & Creativity
- Environment & Climate Action
- Security
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Nature Based Solutions
- Cultural Heritage / Management
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Disaster Risk Management
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Energy management
- Secure, clean and efficient energy
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
- Industry 4.0
- Partners with Industry
- Research & Development
- Society & Employment
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Environment & Climate Action
- Agriculture & Food
- Security
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Governance for the future
- Nature Based Solutions
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Water Management
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Disaster Risk Management
- Aquatic Resources
- Society & Employment
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Environment & Climate Action
- Agriculture & Food
- Digital Technologies
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Blue Growth
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- Fisheries
- Marine & Coast
- Nature Based Solutions
- Nature and biodiversity
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Water Management
- Pollution
- Digital twins
- Aquaculture
- Sustainable Business Models
- Net Zero
- Equipment, Premises, Staff, Products and Services, Collaboration, Training, Other
- Member States and Associated Countries are provided with cost-effective solutions to reach the targets of the Water Framework and the Marine Strategy Framework directives, the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, and the EU strategy for sustainable chemicals and are enabled to take action to implement the targets of the EU biodiversity, climate adaptation and water resilience strategies for 2030 and the EU zero pollution action plan;
- National, regional and local authorities and other relevant stakeholders have access to and are supported in deploying cost-effective, adaptative and nature-positive solutions to remediate and reduce pollution from nutrients, chemicals, plastics and microplastics from source to sea, while protecting and restoring the capacity of ecosystems to provide services and adapt to climate change impacts;
- Measurable, quantifiable, verifiable and ambitious progress towards reaching one or several interlinked objectives and targets of the Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”, as set out in the Mission Implementation Plan through implementing effective and well-managed place-based and people-centred actions;
- Public and private investment is encouraged and mobilised to implement nature-positive solutions for addressing pollution in the ocean and waters.
- Based on a sound understanding of the main pollution sources and the connectivity between watersheds, coastal and marine ecosystems, identify, assess and make available to stakeholders the most regionally relevant and effective nature-positive solutions and combinations thereof to address pollution and biodiversity loss, considering their relevance under future climate and biodiversity scenarios;
- Test and upscale systemic and innovative combinations of nature-positive approaches, solutions and new technologies to reduce nutrient, chemical, plastic including microplastic pollution, considering together functionally connected freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems;
- Conduct demonstration activities in at least 4 sites from source to sea covering the most relevant socio-ecological systems in one of the Mission basin-scale lighthouses, with direct and strong involvement of public bodies and other relevant socio-economic stakeholders to ensure their support for implementing, maintaining and financing nature-positive solutions in their territories. The scale and range of the site(s) for demonstration activities should be ecologically relevant and impactful for achieving the Mission 2030 objectives;
- Monitor pollution levels in each demonstration site to assess the impact and contribution of the activities towards the Mission objectives and targets, including removal rates, retention capacities, ecosystem responses and modelling techniques, to ensure monitoring of the activities and inform adaptive management. Projects should design monitoring strategies that extend beyond the project duration, contributing to long-term datasets crucial for assessing cumulative impacts, ecosystem recovery trajectories and informing future interventions. The monitoring should make use of, adapt or exploit relevant sensing and modelling tools, EU digital infrastructures, such as the EU Digital Twin Ocean, Copernicus and EMODnet;
- Quantify and forecast the ecosystem services provided by implementing nature-positive solutions (e.g. pollution reduction, ecosystems services restored) and the resulting societal goods and benefits;
- Assess the economic viability, potential for scale-up, and societal acceptance of integrated approaches for the management of connected ecosystems from source to sea and promote the development of new business models to implement these approaches.
- Wellcome Career Development Awards
- Research & Development
- Education & Training
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Capacity building
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- generating significant shifts in understanding
- and/or
- developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools, or techniques that could benefit health-related research.
- develop their research capabilities and leadership skills
- support others to undertake research responsibly and promote a positive and inclusive culture
- begin training the next generation of researchers and support the development of their research skills and careers.
- completed one or two substantial periods of research following their initial research training
- made important contributions to their area of research.
- Journalism Science Alliance
- Social Inclusion
- Education & Training
- Society & Employment
- Audiovisual & Media
- Research & Development
- Higher Education
- Migration
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Inclusive Societies
- Gender Equality
- Storytelling
- Equal opportunities
- Fair working conditions
- Social protection and inclusion
- Behaviour
- Journalism
- Media and Freedom of Information
- Women Empowerment
- People with Special Needs / Learning Disorders
- Vulnerable and marginalised groups
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Promote investigative journalism informed by scientific research
- Facilitate collaboration between media outlets and research institutions
- Encourage cross-border projects addressing issues relevant to European audiences
- Support journalists operating in challenging media environments
- Enhance public understanding of critical topics such as climate, health, technology, and governance
- Urban Mobility | Financial Support to Startups
- Research & Development
- Education & Training
- Manufacturing
- Transport
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Digital Technologies
- Society & Employment
- Higher Education
- Partners with Industry
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Mobility for Growth
- Green Vehicles
- Automotive Sector
- Startups Support
- Business Growth
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- European Infrastructure and Smart Cities
- Mobility
- Sustainable Business Models
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Urban logistics,
- Shared mobility and public transport,
- Mobility data management,
- Electrification of transport and alternative fuels, and
- Health and mobility.
- local (grassroot) civil society organisations (CSOs)
- Social Inclusion
- Society & Employment
- Education & Training
- Cohesion Policy
- Migration
- Inclusive Societies
- Gender Equality
- Citizenship
- Equal opportunities
- Fair working conditions
- Social protection and inclusion
- Capacity building
- Social and territorial cohesion
- Women Empowerment
- People with Special Needs / Learning Disorders
- Vulnerable and marginalised groups
- Evidence-based lobbying/advocacy to influence policy and decision making processes, including revision/updating/ adoption of policies and legislation;
- Civic mobilisation;
- Civic education, including street work (no material or other damage may be caused);
- Awareness raising and outreach of EU rights and values (including street campaigning, use of digital tools);
- Campaigns, communication and public information;
- Provision of free advice, watchdog and monitoring activities on EU policies and rights and values;
- Promotion of the implementation of adopted laws, regulations and Court cases;
- Monitoring of implementation of policies and legislation;
- Research and analysis aimed at informing policy-making at EU and national level, development of tools and standards to support EU values;
- Strategic litigation, both institutional and judicial (limited to capacity building, awareness raising, training, mutual learning, exchange of good practices and analytical activities);
- Coordination and strategic cooperation between CSOs and other stakeholders, public or private sector entities;
- Provision of support services to the target group, such as victims support, training etc., based on human rights approach.
- Network Projects applications
- International Cooperation
- Research & Development
- Trade & Commerce
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Exchange Good Practices
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Commercialisation
- Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
- The project must be directed at researching or developing a product, process or service.
- The project must have a civilian purpose.
- Eureka project participants must be composed of at least two independent legal entities established in two different Eureka participating countries where one of the entities is established in a full member country. Independent legal entities established in any Eureka participating country can be the main participant of a Eureka project. Please note, that organisations from non-Eureka countries are welcome to join if (public or self-) funding is secured by the call deadline.
- No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
- Research on Education: Small
- Research & Development
- Education & Training
- Early Childhood education and care
- Schools
- Vocational Education and Training (VET)
- Higher Education
- Adult Education
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Gamification
- Lifelong Learning
- STEM
- E-learning
- Capacity building
- Digital Skills and Literacy
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- ICT Research & Innovation
- Environment & Climate Action
- Security
- Digital Technologies
- Materials
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Internet of Things
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Cybersecurity
- Sustainability
- Pollution
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Drones
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Blockchain
- Advanced Materials
- European Infrastructure and Smart Cities
- 5G/6G Technologies
- Carbon-free energy supply,
- Green mobility and Smart cities,
- Smarter housings and constructions,
- Bio resources and environment.
- Programme for Artists and Cultural Professionals
- Social Inclusion
- International Cooperation
- Society & Employment
- Culture & Creativity
- Education & Training
- Migration
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- Inclusive Societies
- Creative Industries
- Gender Equality
- Cultural Heritage / Management
- Equal opportunities
- Fair working conditions
- Social protection and inclusion
- Exchange Good Practices
- Arts
- Capacity building
- Women Empowerment
- People with Special Needs / Learning Disorders
- Vulnerable and marginalised groups
- TRACK 1 – FOR GOVERNMENTS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS: Technical assistance to revise or design laws, regulations, policies and measures that promote and protect the status of the artist and artistic freedom. While technical assistance offered under track 1 is primarily expert-driven, applicants may request up to 30,000 USD in order to support the logistics of the project’s implementation (e.g., logistical organization of meetings/consultations/capacity building activities, funding of communication activities, etc.).
- TRACK 2 – FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS: Financial assistance for innovative projects that advance the status of the artist and artistic freedom, at the local, national, regional or international level. These may encompass, for example, capacity building, advocacy, monitoring and research, etc.
- Organizing training sessions, workshops, capacity-building activities.
- Urban Mobility | Flagship Accelerator
- Developing tools, resources, communication materials.
- Navigable inland waterways, their surroundings and related infrastructure are managed in a more integrated and sustainable manner across Europe and become more climate-resilient
- Climate and environmental risks to water infrastructure (e.g. droughts, flooding, slow onset events, ecological degradation and cascading and compound events) are more effectively addressed in a systemic way. Safe, efficient and reliable navigability conditions are improved.
- Cost-efficient and environmentally friendly measures — especially nature-based solutions — are identified with the involvement of stakeholders. They improve climate resilience of inland waterways while supporting integrated co-benefit and avoiding competing water uses, including between countries and regions.
- Conducting advocacy campaigns, research and monitoring activities.
- Address the lack of a common climate modelling framework for EU waterways and improve predictions and projections to optimise waterway management in the short to long term.
- Conduct a comprehensive climate risk assessment of the EU’s navigable waterway from the Trans-European Transport network (TEN-T). This assessment should cover mobility, supply chain security, critical infrastructure, geographical and economic interdependencies and multifunctional water resilience.
- Estimate the investments that are required to adapt to climate change, as well as the costs of inaction.
- Provide actionable information to guide effective climate adaptation solutions, that maximise co-benefits (including for biodiversity) and ensure integrated management of inland navigable waterways.
- Develop adaptation solutions on various waterways. Nature-based solutions and solutions supporting nature restoration should be explored as a priority, in line with the Mission Implementation Plan.
- Enhance stakeholder collaboration mechanisms
- Work closely and coordinate with the other projects funded under this topic, to maximise synergies and avoid duplications.
- Providing emergency support to artists and cultural professionals and institutions, including relocation, residencies, or safe working space.
- Africa-EU CO-FUND action on climate
- Covering other logistical expenses necessary for the project’s implementation.
- International Cooperation
- Research & Development
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Environment & Climate Action
- Education & Training
- Science Cloud
- Nature Based Solutions
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Exchange Good Practices
- Capacity building
- Research Infrastructures
- A long-term collaboration on climate change research between the EU and the African Union is established through development and implementation of the Climate Action pillar of the EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy (CCSE), in co-design between African and European partners;
- Reduced fragmentation by aligning the EU, national and multilateral R&I efforts with increased leverage and impact of funding;
- African scientific, policy and practice communities have knowledge and tools to better understand, withstand and adapt to the accelerating effects of climate change, fostering science-based implementation of the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change, the international dimensions of the EU Adaptation and Preparedness Union Strategy, the Global Gateway and the Team Europe Initiative on Adaptation and Resilience in Africa;
- African science is better accounted for and African scientists are better represented in international fora such as IPCC and UNFCCC.
- Joint Transnational Call 2026 for the BE READY Partnership: Advancing knowledge of host and pathogens dynamics to better combat emerging diseases
- Research & Development
- Health
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Pandemic
- Emerging Infectious Diseases/ Epidemiology Methods
- Innovative Clinical Trial
- Drugs & Medication
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Identification of novel pathogen-specific molecular targets and mutation hotspots (i.e. discovery of critical proteins, enzymes or signalling molecules that play a central role in pathogen infectivity, survival and/or resistance);
- Improving the understanding of cross-species (zoonotic) aspects of host– pathogen interactions (in the context of the One Health approach);
- Application of the “Pathogen X” approach to generate transferable knowledge that can then be applied to other threatening viruses of the same family;
- Identification, development and optimisation of (new) structures with optimal therapeutic activity and low toxicity that can be potential lead compounds (particularly for vulnerable groups);
- Identification and validation of targets, alongside data integration, interoperability and modelling efforts to demonstrate the potential of these targets, including antigenic structures suitable for vaccine development, for subsequent therapeutic development (i.e. proof-of-concept studies);
- Improving data integration and modelling to predict pathogen behaviour and therapeutic susceptibilities;
- Understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying host-pathogen interactions, in humans including host predisposing factors, to guide future diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine development;
- Development and improvement of advanced immunological assays, experimental models and preclinical studies that link host genetics to disease outcomes.
- Arenaviridae
- Regional (sea-basins) components of the EU Digital Twin Ocean
- Coronaviridae
- Additional regional and local assets (data, models, digital twins) are made available on the DTO core infrastructure, EDITO;
- digital twin applications, emphasising on regional and local conditions and addressing regional considerations, including stakeholders needs, availability of data, etc.;
- Enhanced digital twin regional capabilities, creating in the EU DTO core infrastructure, EDITO, the conditions to directly support policy implementation, including marine environmental policy, and Blue Economy applications which build on the regional characteristics of the sea-basin;
- Development of regional what-if-scenarios libraries, including confidence thresholds and related analysis, quantifying the necessary conditions to increase confidence levels, etc.;
- Support to monitoring and sustainable management of regional seas with new tailor-made services for regional seas.
- Filoviridae
- Identify, aggregate and integrate existing regional data (through EMODnet), tools, modelling and local digital twin assets that are not yet widely public (including inland waters assets that are relevant for the integrated source-to-sea approach with emphasis on land-sea connections) and take the necessary action to make them available through EDITO, following all necessary interoperability and standardisation protocols. Under-represented data types (biologging, acoustic telemetry, etc.) are of particular interest;
- Develop regional digital twin services (tailored applications and services that address region-specific challenges, including for instance small islands challenges, coastal resilience, biodiversity conservation and restoration, pollution, climate change adaptation, fisheries and aquaculture and other sectors of the blue economy). These services should target both policy relevant questions and questions related to the development of a regional sustainable and competitive Blue Economy. To support predictive capacities, regional digital twin developments should in particular look for the integration of long-term ecological and biodiversity monitoring datasets, ensuring that modelling and scenarios are grounded in empirical, time-series observations;
- Foster regional stakeholder engagement (regional authorities, regional sea conventions, industry partners, and local communities) to bring in existing assets (databases, local or regional models) co-design and validate digital twin applications for effective policy-making and operational decision support;
- Improve intensive adoption of innovative algorithms of Artificial Intelligence and big data management;
- Through the aforementioned engagement, and via co-creation processes, develop a range of what-if-scenarios, assess their confidence levels and identify actions towards the improvement of said confidence.
- Flaviviridae
- Facilitating development of institutional open access policies through the retention of intellectual property rights
- Hantaviridae
- Research & Development
- Education & Training
- Society & Employment
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Capacity building
- Human Resources (HR)
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Microviridin
- Increased number of EU research performing organisations (RPOs) with well-developed policies on open access publications, which include clause(s) for rights retention;
- Higher share of research publications in open access across the EU and Associated Countries, especially in low-performing countries with respect to open access;
- Increase of access to and preservation of scientific information through institutional infrastructures, such as repositories.
- Orthomyxoviridae
- Develop networks of research institutions working towards aligned institutional policies to enable open access through rights retention;
- Produce comprehensive guidance, tools and training materials, and document lessons learnt and best practice to support RPOs to adopt and expand policies on rights retention;
- Design strategies to maximise approval and adoption of rights retention and open access policies by researchers.
- Paramyxoviridae
- Biotechnology application for CCU
- Phenuiviridae
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Digital Technologies
- Agriculture & Food
- Environment & Climate Action
- Manufacturing
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Research & Development
- Biobased product development
- Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
- Animal / Livestock
- Circular Economy
- Green, flexible and advanced manufacture
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Startups Support
- Sustainability
- Green Deal
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Sustainable Business Models
- Research Infrastructures
- Poxviridae
- innovative and improved purification and conversion of gaseous carbon is developed and scaled up to provide feedstock for industrial processes promoting circularity and climate neutrality;
- advanced industries – applying life sciences technologies and biotechnology – contribute to the climate-neutrality objective.
- Togaviridae
- review the up-to-date progress of R&I in the use of life sciences-based technologies for Carbon Capture and Use (CCU) phases taking into account the capture of gaseous carbon – from any industrial emission and the atmosphere – and its purification and conversion into products. Provide an assessment of their technological readiness, strengths and weaknesses and their potential of carbon storage in products;
- develop and test innovative and effective life sciences-based technologies, either synthetic biology and/or living microorganisms, to concentrate, purify and convert gaseous carbon efficiently into suitable feedstock to produce products. Products in scope exclude food/feed and biofuels/syngas;
- perform a preliminary assessment of the environmental impacts, the social and economic viability and business case of the developed technologies, including their scalability and the identification of markets for their output bio-based products;
- demonstrate one or more technology(ies) among those developed and tested, with the highest environmental, economic and social sustainability;
- evaluate and disseminate the replication potential of the demonstrated solution(s), including technical and economic/financial recommendations for SMEs and industrial operators in general;
- assess the feasibility of establishing a spin-off to implement the results from the best technology(ies) demonstration.
- Pathogen X
- Existing evidence on maladaptation is retrieved comprehensively, and new knowledge is generated for incorporation into main EU repositories, such as Climate-ADAPT or the portal of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change;
- The risk and adaptation assessment frameworks are improved by better integrating the maladaptation dimension;
- Guidelines and tools for maladaptation prevention and correction strategies are made available to adaptation stakeholders at relevant scales and inform the design and implementation of adaptation strategies and plans of the EU and Member States.
- Research & Development
- Society & Employment
- Environment & Climate Action
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- Governance for the future
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Nature and biodiversity
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Sustainability
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Understanding and avoiding maladaptation to climate change
- Existing evidence on maladaptation is retrieved comprehensively, and new knowledge is generated for incorporation into main EU repositories, such as Climate-ADAPT or the portal of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change;
- The risk and adaptation assessment frameworks are improved by better integrating the maladaptation dimension;
- Guidelines and tools for maladaptation prevention and correction strategies are made available to adaptation stakeholders at relevant scales and inform the design and implementation of adaptation strategies and plans of the EU and Member States.
- Advance the understanding and identification of drivers that lead to maladaptation for a wide range of systems, socio-economic and environmental conditions. The analysis should be comprehensive and consider an integrated and systemic approach (including insights from Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) to maladaptation causes and drivers of very diverse nature, such as trade-offs and feedbacks with other priorities and sectors, poor decision making and implementation practices and the inherent uncertainty and other features of the adaptation process). The analysis should also integrate the perspectives of public and private stakeholders and end-users, apply intersectional approach and include data disaggregated by gender, where relevant and feasible.
- Map and analyse evidence to identify and validate effective adaptation practices that prevent maladaptation and help to identify maladaptive ones. Case studies should be used for this purpose, for monitoring and evaluation of the adaptation measures, policies, and actions at a local, regional, and national scale, and from regions and sectors with diverse characteristics and environmental conditions. Engagement of end-users is encouraged to ensure robust and realistic characterisation of maladaptation experiences. Among other sources, integrating evidence from and for the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change is encouraged. Evidence and insights gained should be systematized and incorporated into main EU repositories.
- Strengthen the methodological and analytical toolbox for complex climate risk and adaptation assessments to increase public understanding and policy awareness of maladaptation risks, and to advance both qualitative and quantitative understanding of the most important complex risk feedbacks, particularly when they may result in significant constraints on options for climate action.
- Study and propose corrective responses for the identified maladaptation cases and provide systematised prevention guidelines and best practice examples to avoid maladaptive outcomes.
- By fishers, for fishers: co-management of marine and freshwaters ecosystems and resources
- Society & Employment
- Aquatic Resources
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Environment & Climate Action
- Education & Training
- Digital Technologies
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- Governance for the future
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Fisheries
- Marine & Coast
- Nature Based Solutions
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Capacity building
- Digital twins
- Measurable improvements in the status of critical marine and/or freshwaters habitats (including blue carbon sequestration capacities) and of species through active and passive conservation and restoration measures;
- Increased sustainability of fishing practices and tools and enhanced implementation of eco-system-based approaches as outlined in the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP);
- Measurable socio-economic benefits for local communities, skill development and job creation;
- Enhanced governance in the co-management of ecosystems and resources at local and basin level and overall strengthened Mission governance framework;
- Improved cross-border coordination in fish movement data collection and exchange.
- focus on empowering fishers, including small-scale and recreational fishers, towards a transition to sustainable fisheries by engaging and involving them in co-management of the marine and freshwaters ecosystems and resources, in particular in protected areas and reserves where fishing is allowed;
- show active involvement of fishers since the start of the project;
- test and demonstrate on the ground sustainable and inclusive science-based approaches and solutions for the co-management of marine and freshwaters resources.
- Each proposal should identify explicitly the basin being addressed, i.e.: 1. Atlantic and Arctic sea basin or 2. Mediterranean Sea basin or 3. Baltic and North Sea basin or 4. Danube River basin, including Black Sea. Only one basin per proposal should be addressed.
- Advancing understanding, modelling and prediction of extreme events in a changing climate
- The effectiveness and efficiency of the measures proposed must be demonstrated in at least 5 demonstration sites in three different Member States or Associated Countries per basin.
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- Environment & Climate Action
- Education & Training
- Digital Technologies
- Security
- Space
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Exchange Good Practices
- Capacity building
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Digital twins
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Disaster Risk Management
- Satellite Communications
- Earth observation
- The active involvement of fishers in the testing/demonstration activities is crucial to tailor the solutions to specific conditions and to ensure that their knowledge, needs and expectations are taken in due account.
- Improved understanding of past and present extreme events in the context of climate change in Europe and globally, as well as the interaction between different hazards, their cumulative and/or cascading effects.
- Enhanced seamless prediction and projection modelling and attribution capabilities for extreme events and their likelihood to support preparedness, response and resilience to climate change by EU and national and regional actors. The EU Union Preparedness Strategy, the EU Adaptation Strategy and the European Climate Adaptation Plan can act as a guidance in these efforts.
- Up-to-date contributions towards latest climate science, risk assessments, adaptation strategies and policies and improved early warning systems for single and multi-hazard events.
- Training and communication activities addressing fishers and relevant stakeholders, including local/regional authorities, should be also included to build capacity and promote sustainable developments and business opportunities at local level, including in relation to impact of climate change on resource availability. The involvement of Social Science and Humanities (SSH) experts might be useful for these activities. Proposals should also consider the gender and intersectional dimension in the implementation of the activities.
- Upgrading the EU’s independent knowledge on China’s Science, Technology and Innovation system
- In addition, projects should ensure that fishers adopt ethical and sustainable practices and methods that prioritise animal welfare and prevent unnecessary harm to marine and freshwater species.
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- Digital Technologies
- Security
- Education & Training
- ICT Research & Innovation
- Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Security
- Exchange Good Practices
- Capacity building
- Future and Emerging Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Digital Skills and Literacy
- Quantum Technologies
- Semiconductors
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Activities are expected to contribute to data collection and data sharing through the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) and to support the Digital Twin Ocean.
- Improved understanding and monitoring of China’s STI system to support the development of strategic foresight and evidence-based policies, and further bolster the EU’s ecosystem for independent knowledge on contemporary China;
- Innovative interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies are made available to R&I practitioners and policymakers, allowing for improved assessment of critical technology areas where China has achieved or is expected to achieve breakthroughs, and areas where challenges persist;
- A well-connected network of experts on China’s STI ecosystem that increase attractiveness for EU researchers, especially young researchers, to pursue research careers on contemporary China.
- Continuous monitoring and assessment of the activities implemented by the projects should be ensured to measure ecological and socio-economic impacts (e.g.: on employment, working conditions, income, well-being) and the contribution of the activities to achieve the Mission objectives and targets.
- Build a comprehensive framework that facilitates the creation and sharing of knowledge and monitoring of China’s STI system. This includes generating new and compiling existing knowledge, tools, and resources on developments in China’s STI policies, legal framework, government structures, narratives, and strategies for international collaborations.
- Develop and test innovative interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies for assessing China’s advancements in critical technology areas (e.g., artificial intelligence, advanced semiconductors, quantum, biotechnologies) and for evaluating their impact on the European economic security, strategic autonomy, and on the EU’s ability to achieve the objectives of the Competitiveness Compass. Applicants are encouraged to propose foresight exercises to identify new disruptive, emerging technologies beyond those mentioned above.
- Ensure collaboration between EU experts on China and technical experts (e.g., engineers, technology experts, economists, legal experts). Particular attention should be paid to actively involving young EU researchers in project activities.
- Projects are expected to show a significant replication potential by identifying a range of relevant stakeholders that could replicate the proposed solutions and approaches. Actions plans and roadmaps needed for the replication and up-scale of the solutions should be drawn up by the end of the projects.
- Enhancing ecodesign and circularity of construction products
- Governance issues should be addressed in order to ensure effective implementation of the activities and foster multi-level governance across national, regional and local level and to facilitate exchanges and replication between different actors.
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Materials
- Environment & Climate Action
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Raw Materials
- Circular Economy
- Construction Materials
- Nature and biodiversity
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Sustainability
- Green Deal
- Pollution
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Green Infrastructure
- Proposals should establish operational links and cooperate with the relevant Lighthouse CSAs and the Mission Implementation Platform, notably to contribute to tracking progress towards the objectives of the Mission and coordination of all relevant implementation activities in the lighthouse basin.
- material and product manufacturers apply ecodesign principles in developing and manufacturing products that are safe and contribute significantly to EU climate, zero pollution, circular economy, and biodiversity goals, e.g., through biodiversity-enhancing circular design;
- consumers and professionals benefit from more sustainable and circular products, i.e. durable, safe, reliable, reusable, reparable, upgradable, recyclable products including increased recycled content.
- develop, test and demonstrate new and improved ecodesign of construction materials and products, including design for durability, reusability, reparability, separability, recyclability, and uptake of recycled content. Solutions promoting assembly and disassembly of products should be considered, and solutions for the reuse of recovered materials;
- assess and provide recommendations for mechanisms and incentives to reward design for circularity, disassembly, and product durability – such as extended guarantees, VAT reduction, and others –, and analyse potential trade-offs and propose solutions to overcome them.
- Addressing aquatic pollution and biodiversity loss through nature positive solutions from source to sea
- Aquatic Resources
- Society & Employment
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Environment & Climate Action
- Agriculture & Food
- Digital Technologies
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Blue Growth
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- Fisheries
- Marine & Coast
- Nature Based Solutions
- Nature and biodiversity
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Water Management
- Pollution
- Digital twins
- Aquaculture
- Sustainable Business Models
- Net Zero
- Member States and Associated Countries are provided with cost-effective solutions to reach the targets of the Water Framework and the Marine Strategy Framework directives, the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, and the EU strategy for sustainable chemicals and are enabled to take action to implement the targets of the EU biodiversity, climate adaptation and water resilience strategies for 2030 and the EU zero pollution action plan;
- National, regional and local authorities and other relevant stakeholders have access to and are supported in deploying cost-effective, adaptative and nature-positive solutions to remediate and reduce pollution from nutrients, chemicals, plastics and microplastics from source to sea, while protecting and restoring the capacity of ecosystems to provide services and adapt to climate change impacts;
- Measurable, quantifiable, verifiable and ambitious progress towards reaching one or several interlinked objectives and targets of the Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”, as set out in the Mission Implementation Plan through implementing effective and well-managed place-based and people-centred actions;
- Public and private investment is encouraged and mobilised to implement nature-positive solutions for addressing pollution in the ocean and waters.
- Based on a sound understanding of the main pollution sources and the connectivity between watersheds, coastal and marine ecosystems, identify, assess and make available to stakeholders the most regionally relevant and effective nature-positive solutions and combinations thereof to address pollution and biodiversity loss, considering their relevance under future climate and biodiversity scenarios;
- Test and upscale systemic and innovative combinations of nature-positive approaches, solutions and new technologies to reduce nutrient, chemical, plastic including microplastic pollution, considering together functionally connected freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems;
- Conduct demonstration activities in at least 4 sites from source to sea covering the most relevant socio-ecological systems in one of the Mission basin-scale lighthouses, with direct and strong involvement of public bodies and other relevant socio-economic stakeholders to ensure their support for implementing, maintaining and financing nature-positive solutions in their territories. The scale and range of the site(s) for demonstration activities should be ecologically relevant and impactful for achieving the Mission 2030 objectives;
- Monitor pollution levels in each demonstration site to assess the impact and contribution of the activities towards the Mission objectives and targets, including removal rates, retention capacities, ecosystem responses and modelling techniques, to ensure monitoring of the activities and inform adaptive management. Projects should design monitoring strategies that extend beyond the project duration, contributing to long-term datasets crucial for assessing cumulative impacts, ecosystem recovery trajectories and informing future interventions. The monitoring should make use of, adapt or exploit relevant sensing and modelling tools, EU digital infrastructures, such as the EU Digital Twin Ocean, Copernicus and EMODnet;
- Quantify and forecast the ecosystem services provided by implementing nature-positive solutions (e.g. pollution reduction, ecosystems services restored) and the resulting societal goods and benefits;
- Assess the economic viability, potential for scale-up, and societal acceptance of integrated approaches for the management of connected ecosystems from source to sea and promote the development of new business models to implement these approaches.
- Affordable, Safe and Sustainable aboveground medium to large GH2 storage
- Research & Development
- Manufacturing
- Environment & Climate Action
- Energy
- Digital Technologies
- Partners with Industry
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Circular Economy
- Green, flexible and advanced manufacture
- Value Chains for resilient industry
- Renewable energy
- Hydrogen Technologies
- Sustainability
- Pollution
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Energy Storage Solutions
- Industry 4.0
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Improved materials knowledge through validated data on the mechanical and chemical degradation behaviour of advanced low-cost materials (e.g., hydrogen-compatible steels, nanoparticle-reinforced aluminium alloys, metal matrix composite liners, and multi-layer coatings) for compressed gas storage.
- Development and application of mechanistic-based design and assessment methodologies that capture actual degradation mechanisms under hydrogen service (short, medium and long term i.e., 20-30 years), supporting more reliable and cost-effective storage solutions configuration and design.
- Integration of circular economy principles into compressed gas hydrogen storage through the use of recyclable and low-carbon materials, modular storage solution designs enabling complete reuse of liners and structural components, and energy-efficient manufacturing processes.
- Deliver compressed gas hydrogen storage systems that are affordable, safe, modular, deployable, easily serviceable and long term operable in decentralised hydrogen hubs to support H2 refuelling stations, large H2 feedstocks and industrial clusters.
- Demonstrate measurable improvements over state-of-the-art (e.g., reduced material cost, improved safety, extended fatigue life, lower hydrogen permeability)
- Contribute to harmonised EU safety and performance standards for compressed gas storage, including validated operational envelopes for medium to large tank capacities (5-20 tonnes per module).
- Incorporation of breakthrough fire safety features through novel tank designs that enable self-venting behaviour, reducing the risk of catastrophic failure, including under extreme conditions.
- Provide digital design tools and modular frameworks enabling adaptation of compressed gas storage solutions across regional, climatic, and industrial contexts in Europe, while also delivering recommendations for future design standards to ensure safety, interoperability, and harmonisation across the EU market.
- Increase fatigue life by ≥30% compared to current SoA (typically <5,000 cycles at 700 bar).
- Reduction of safety design margins by ≥20% compared to SoA, while maintaining equivalent or higher safety levels.
- Increase recyclability of fully metal system, metal with liner systems, composite matrix-particulate/fibre systems from current SoA <30% to ≥70% by 2030. Reduce embodied CO₂ footprint of above-ground GH₂ storage tanks by ≥25% compared to conventional designs (baseline: ~15–18 kg CO₂/kg H₂ stored).
- Reduce CAPEX from current SoA ~600 €/kg H₂ stored to ≤450 €/kg H₂ stored by 2030.
- Generate new knowledge on the mechanical performance of low-cost compressed hydrogen storage solutions (e.g., high-strength steels, fibre- and nanoparticle-reinforced polymers, aluminium alloys and composites, hybrid/nano composites, multi-layer coated materials) under low-cycle fatigue and pressure variations in hydrogen environments using simulation-driven fatigue, fracture, and deformation models, validated by lab testing in hydrogen environments.
- Investigate degradation mechanisms like permeability loss, embrittlement, corrosion, and material cracking. Emphasise hydrogen purity monitoring before and after storage using full metal and composite liners in controlled environments to simulate operational hydrogen cycling without relying on full-scale demonstrators.
- Assess and optimise the structural performance of various tank types using recycled materials, tanks with liners and coatings. Perform integrity assessments (fracture, porosity, pressure) and develop standardised acceptance testing protocols covering fire safety, weld quality, permeability, and insulation.
- Ensure there are safety provisions in place to exclude tank rupture, long jet flames, flammable cloud formation in naturally ventilated confined spaces, mitigation of the pressure peaking phenomenon in any enclosed rooms.
- Novel tank architectures should incorporate fire safety provisions such as self-venting behaviour to enhance resilience during accidental exposure to fire.
- Design high-performance foundation and support structures (e.g., concrete plinths or buffer layers) to ensure even load distribution and minimise stress concentrations around hydrogen storage tanks. These structures should demonstrate excellent pumpability, self-compacting behaviour, and stability under thermal and mechanical loads.
- Projects should generate knowledge on the influence of environmental and operational conditions—such as temperature fluctuations, wind loads, seismic activity, and foundation settlement—on the durability and safety of above-ground compressed hydrogen storage systems using advanced simulations and modelling techniques.
- Develop preliminary guidelines for material and weld design in hydrogen-exposed tanks and propose a standardised design framework covering tank architecture, material integration, safety margins, and resilience to industrial or natural hazards (e.g., fire, earthquakes, extreme temperatures).
- Investigate advanced real-time monitoring technologies integrating embedded sensors, non-destructive testing, and Generative AI analytics to detect strain, leakage, and degradation—supporting predictive maintenance and future harmonisation of hydrogen storage design standards.
- Validate the design through comprehensive simulation and physical testing, using coupled mechanical, thermal, and hydrogen interaction models.
- A physical proof of concept (PoC) will be developed to assess the impact of cyclic hydrogen pressurisation on key components such as the composite inner liner, metallic shell, insulation layer, and support structures. The PoC will be informed by lab-scale testing and full-system simulations, with recommendations for scaling to commercial demonstration at all levels (5-20 tonnes).
- Evaluate how storage materials and configurations affect hydrogen purity per ISO 14687, identifying degradation mechanisms and purification needs to optimise CAPEX/OPEX and lifecycle performance.
- thermal insulation concepts for bulk liquid hydrogen shipping
- Research & Development
- Energy
- Manufacturing
- Digital Technologies
- Transforming the energy sector through digitisation
- Partners with Industry
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Secure, clean and efficient energy
- Green, flexible and advanced manufacture
- Value Chains for resilient industry
- Renewable energy
- Hydrogen Technologies
- Digital twins
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Develop an economically viable technology solution strengthening the European import and export market for LH2;
- Contribute to the development of safe, cost- and energy-efficient tanks for LH2 that should be scalable up to a size of a transport volume of up to 250000 m³ per ship, in line with world-wide LNG trade today, and in compliance with the most recent design and safety standards set by IMO;
- Foster the basis for large-scale trade and associated green fuel markets for shipping, heavy-duty mobility, aviation, high energy intensity industries like cement, steel or copper, as well as for thermal use, for instance for refrigeration or superconductor applications;
- Support and promote the European and associated industry in LH2 insulation technologies.
- KP13: LH2 ship tank capacity (350 t in 2024, 2800 t in 2030)
- KP14: LH2 ship tank Capex (50 Euro/kg in 2024, <10 Euro/kg in 2030)
- KP15: LH2 boil-off (0.5 %/d in 2024, <0.3 %/d in 2030)
- Assessment of the regulatory requirements for the transportation of bulk LH2 on ships;
- Development of an insulation system solution, notably the pipes through the insulation and pipe feedthroughs, the connections, and the supporting structures, during normal operation, loading and unloading processes, maintenance, and inspection;
- 2D Numerical analysis of tank heat ingress and internal heat and mass transfer (boil off rate, stratification, and temperature distribution in the insulation) taking into account thermal cycling (e.g. as those related to sloshing events, loading or unloading);
- Numerical analysis of tank internal and external supports to minimise heat leaks through thermal bridges while keeping structural integrity under high thermal stresses and transport conditions at sea;
- Design and manufacture a tank prototype with a capacity of at least 30 m3 to trade-off costs and representativeness and test it at relevant environmental conditions (with LH2, appropriate heat loads, accelerations) to confirm the benefits of the new insulation approach and to validate the numerical analysis;
- Analysis of the scalability of the concept among transport volume ranges;
- Demonstration of the techno-economic viability of the concept;
- Investigate cost-efficient manufacturing processes;
- Develop a System Oriented Digital Twin to assess the impact of the insulation at tank level within its functional operation/scenarios (venting, cool down, first-filling, refuelling), and to serve as support for scalability studies after its validation against the prototype experiments;
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for the tank concept, and analysis of the resilience and fault-tolerance of the system;
- Demonstration of the safety performance of the insulation concept;
- Evaluate the effects of the insulation system design on the risk management of the LH2 tank;
- Fire resistance of the insulation assembly by modelling and testing;
- Design a tank with improved insulation within the minimum size among proper transport volume ranges;
- Pre-normative standardisation of integrity assessment for LH2 and marine environment exposure and test methods in cooperation with relevant stakeholders from the industry.
- Pre-Normative Research on hydrogen odorisation: enhancing safety and detection along the hydrogen value chain
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- Energy
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Secure, clean and efficient energy
- Exchange Good Practices
- Renewable energy
- Hydrogen Technologies
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Providing data on different odorants or chemical families of odorants to regulatory bodies to ensure that hydrogen gas grids and appliances meet safety and performance standards throughout the European Union, including the tolerance of materials used that come in touch with odorants (and its degradation products if any);
- Harmonised standards and guidelines to reduce over-conservatism and ensure consistent safety measures;
- Standard methods for odorisation and de-odorisation of hydrogen.
- By 2030 hydrogen safety is understood and lived holistically and odorisation is one of the applied safety measures;
- By 2030 public awareness of odorised hydrogen is enhanced and the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier widely accepted in the EU, as a target group especially the non-experts.
- Chemical characterisation of the odorant molecule (if already known, based on literature) for example by using GC-MS/MS, NMR and elemental analysis for new compound;
- Provide analytical methods to quantify the lowest concentration (ppb/ppt levels) of the odorant/s detectable by olfactory test, as well as methods suitable for controlling fraud in the odorant employed at hydrogen (i.e. using tracing analysis);
- Stability tests of the odorising molecule and characterisation of possible degradation and transformation products while providing tracing methods to quantify the degree of degradation of the odorising molecule by relevant analytical methods;
- Assessment of in-silico toxicity of the odorant/s at different concentrations, and eventually of the transformation products/degradants;
- Absorption/permeation tests for the odorant (including the degradation molecules (differentiation for example via chromatography)) in hydrogen for different polymers (pipes or seals) and examination of possible material alterations ;
- Impact on end users’ system in term of performance or environmental impact (i.e., fuel cell, combustion, chemical use as for fertiliser etc.).
- Science comes to town 2029
- Research & Development
- Rural / Urban Development
- Social Inclusion
- Education & Training
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Urban Innovative Actions
- Sustainable Urban Development
- Gender Equality
- STEM
- Open Science
- Strengthened capacity, networks and involvement of the participating cities in science communication and citizen engagement in science;
- More informed, evidence-based policymaking and increased public engagement through inclusive and participatory discussions and debates on science and R&I policy;
- Improved attractiveness of diverse careers in R&I for younger generations.
- EUCYS (European Union Contest for Young Scientists): science competition, awarding prizes and awards, for 14- to 20-year-olds who are first prize winners of national science contests for school science projects.
- EU TalentOn (European Union Contest for Early Career Researchers): science competition, awarding prizes and awards, bringing together at least 100 early-career researchers, 21-35 of age, to work on scientific solutions to societal challenges.
- Next generation scenarios for informing climate and sustainability transitions
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- Society & Employment
- Environment & Climate Action
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- Governance for the future
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Nature and biodiversity
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Exchange Good Practices
- Pollution
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Strengthened collaboration and integration across research communities, better capturing interactions and trade-offs between various climate domains as well as between climate and non-climate objectives, such as biodiversity or pollution related. This will support more comprehensive and consistent evaluations, benefiting key global assessments (IPCC, IPBES) and improving their impact on European and global policies (European Green Deal, UNFCCC, CBD);
- More relevant, robust and actionable scenarios that inform optimal policy interventions, serving the needs and supporting decision-making of diverse end-users at various spatial scales, from policymakers and planning authorities to businesses and civil society;
- More globally representative, diverse, inclusive, transparent, widely accepted and better communicated scenarios that support climate-resilient development pathways and foster global consensus on climate action.
- Facilitating implementation of actionable solutions for climate adaptation of regions and local authorities
- International Cooperation
- Society & Employment
- Bioeconomy & Biotechnology
- Environment & Climate Action
- Education & Training
- Governance for the future
- Nature Based Solutions
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Exchange Good Practices
- Capacity building
- The wide range of solutions tested and deployed in the context of the Adaptation Mission and the good practices emerged in its Community of Practice are harvested, assessed, structured and systematised to support the implementation of the Mission.
- Regional and local authorities can access, in the local language, the latest and most actionable solutions for climate adaptation relevant to their (climatic) conditions.
- Adaptation solutions stemming from research and innovation are ready for replication and scale-up, contributing to the delivery of the Adaptation Mission and acceleration of adaptation efforts across Europe. Legacy of the knowledge created by the Mission is also ensured.
- Knowledge and understanding of the policy implications of adaptation solutions is increasingly utilised in the policy cycles at EU, national, and regional and local levels.
- Systematically identify and harvest knowledge and solutions from relevant projects. While the priority should be given to solutions from projects funded by the Adaptation Mission, other relevant projects from Horizon Europe and other EU and national funding programmes should be considered.
- Produce a detailed inventory of adaptation solutions, in coordination with the Mission Implementation Platform, in which each solution is presented to enable regions and local authorities to easily implement/replicate them. The inventory should:
- Be structured in line with the Mission Implementation Plan’s “key community systems and enabling conditions”, in view of ensuring maximum coherence within the Mission.
- Build on previous analyses or information already harvested by REGILIENCE-plus, other projects such as, NetworkNature+, RESIST’s inventory and other relevant projects/initiatives.
- Include key information to allow for replication (including but not limited to cost effectiveness, financing and potential barriers & enablers).
- These solutions should be proactively promoted with the regions and local authorities participating in the Adaptation Mission to support replication and uptake of those solutions. This should be done, amongst other things through multilingual approach. The proposals could also support the authorities in the development and implementation of such solutions in their regional and local contexts (i.e., know-how).
- The proposal should also feed the EU policy cycle by identifying good practices that merit particular attention by EU policymakers in view of strengthening policy innovation in coming cycles (feedback to policy task).
- The project is expected to last until the end of the Mission, i.e. end of 2030.
- Mission secretariat – to ensure the relevance of the activities within the Mission
- The Mission Implementation platform– the project funded under this topic should support and closely cooperate with the Mission Implementation Platform, to avoid duplication and streamline the communication to regions and local authorities. The collaboration should be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding to be concluded as soon as possible after the projects’ starting date.
- The National Hubs– to enhance the dissemination of information and make sure that this dissemination is tailored to the national context.
- Standardising and supporting climate services for climate adaptation
- Research & Development
- Society & Employment
- Environment & Climate Action
- Agriculture & Food
- Education & Training
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Governance for the future
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Water Management
- Capacity building
- Green Infrastructure
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- The methodology for identifying, selecting and consolidating global and regional reference climate data sets and scenarios is advanced and their consistent use across the EU in relation to climate adaptation is supported.
- Standardisation and quality of climate services across the EU are improved, and their uptake is enhanced.
- Climate services and best practices are used effectively to inform climate adaptation policies and decisions
- Advance innovative and robust methodologies to identify, select, distil and consolidate consistent global and regional reference climate data sets and scenarios with their associated uncertainties to be clearly communicated. This should be done in close collaboration with end-users, to ensure their operational relevance and usability in adaptation decision-making across the EU. These references should be based on appropriate available observations, (re)-analyses and simulations from the main EU and/or international initiatives (e.g. CMIP, CORDEX, DestinE) using quantifiable and traceable approaches;
- The proposed solution should incorporate a mechanism for regular updates to the underlying climate scenarios, to ensure that selected climate projections remain aligned with the latest updates on emission scenarios and available scientific information;
- Incorporate the above methodologies and mechanisms into the standardization of climate services.
- Support the standardization of climate services, with special consideration for compound and other complex climate risks across temporal (multi-year to multidecadal) and spatial scales (local to regional);
- Promote and demonstrate the use of pilot standardized climate services in key adaptation-related areas, assessing and integrating quality-assured climate information into decision-making. This should be in line with the adaptation objectives of the Paris Agreement and could include for example:
- Climate finance proofing processes and tools to support regulated institutions to adhere to the EU Taxonomy Regulation adaptation objectives;
- Climate resilience of (public and private) investments in the built environment and critical infrastructure from design to delivery and exploitation;
- Other sectors (e.g. health, agriculture, energy, water management, insurance, natural environment) if properly justified.
- Assessing the performance of policy instruments to inform climate change mitigation action
- Research & Development
- Transport
- Energy
- Environment & Climate Action
- Agriculture & Food
- Digital Technologies
- Society & Employment
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Mobility for Growth
- Green Vehicles
- Secure, clean and efficient energy
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Zero – waste
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Mobility
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Enhanced knowledge of the effectiveness of policy instruments on EU and Member State level to inform mitigation action and policy improvements, ensuring a fair transition and social acceptability;
- Methodologies are developed and improved for ex-ante assessment and ex-post evaluation of greenhouse gas emission reductions from climate policies and measures;
- Strengthened collaboration and established networks between researchers, policy experts and government officials involved in designing and evaluating climate policies on EU and national level.
- International Cooperation
- Research & Development
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Trade & Commerce
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Exchange Good Practices
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Commercialisation
- Define your project idea.
- Collaborate internationally, sharing expertise.
- Develop products, processes or services that can be easily commercialised.
- which organisations can receive funding,
- which project activities can be funded
- and funding rates.
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- ICT Research & Innovation
- Energy
- Health
- Digital Technologies
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Manufacturing
- Space
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Big Data
- Internet of Things
- Secure, clean and efficient energy
- Exchange Good Practices
- Digital Health
- Future and Emerging Technologies
- Blockchain
- European Infrastructure and Smart Cities
- 5G/6G Technologies
- Industry 4.0
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Satellite Communications
- Urban Mobility | Startup Ecosystem Agents
- Transport
- Environment & Climate Action
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- ICT Research & Innovation
- Society & Employment
- Mobility for Growth
- Automated Road Transport
- Green Vehicles
- Automotive Sector
- Aeronautics
- Maritime Transport
- Railway Sector
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Startups Support
- Business Growth
- Sustainability
- Future and Emerging Technologies
- Mobility
- Mentoring, Coaching
- Sustainable Business Models
- Net Zero
- Berlin (Germany)
- London (United Kingdom)
- Paris (France)
- Turin (Italy)
- One Nordic country (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden)
- One eligible RIS country (excluding Italy, Portugal and Spain)
- At least 5 years of experience supporting startups, preferably in mobility, transport, or related deep-tech and sustainability sectors;
- Strong networks within the local startup ecosystem, including startups, investors, corporates, public authorities, and support organisations;
- Solid knowledge of the local mobility market and regulation, combined with an understanding of the European and global mobility startup landscape;
- Proven experience in startup scouting, selection, mentoring, and acceleration, including delivery of high-quality support programmes;
- Active involvement in startup investment activities, directly or in close collaboration with investors;
- A professional team, including at least two key members with 7+ years of experience in startup ecosystems;
- Operational capacity and access to a centrally located, well-connected venue;
- Experience in organising startup and investor networking activities;
- Capacity to act as a trusted local Startup Ecosystem Agent for EIT Urban Mobility.
- Piloting a Skills Guarantee for Workers in Transition
- Manufacturing
- Transport
- Education & Training
- Society & Employment
- Partners with Industry
- Automotive Sector
- Lifelong Learning
- Capacity building
- Boost for Jobs, Growth and Investment
- Social-partner-led or private-sector-led mechanism.
- Public-Employment-Service-led or other public-authority-led mechanism.
- Public-private partnership.
- Research on Education
- Education & Training
- Research & Development
- Early Childhood education and care
- Schools
- Vocational Education and Training (VET)
- Higher Education
- Adult Education
- Science Cloud
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Gamification
- Lifelong Learning
- STEM
- E-learning
- Capacity building
- Digital Skills and Literacy
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- emale Heart – Mechanistic Research
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- Health
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Diagnostic test products and equipment
- Exchange Good Practices
- Patients Care/Satisfaction/Advocacy
- Chronic Diseases
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- How does age and life-phase affect the development and progression of cardiovascular disease?
- What are the long-term effects of disease drivers and treatments on cardiovascular function, and do they differ between sexes?
- Why are women more likely to exhibit impaired endothelial function?
- Why does non-obstructive coronary artery disease in women more often present with symptoms of myocardial ischaemia?
- Do causative feedback loops exist between cardiovascular disease and the observed sex specific comorbidities?
- Agriculture & Food
- Business Development & Entrepreneurship
- Environment & Climate Action
- Trade & Commerce
- Sustainable Food Security
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Food technology
- Agrifood value chain
- Farming Systems
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Startups Support
- Commercialisation
- Phase 1 – Design [Deliverable: Activity plan] (November 2026 – February 2027) – Payment of 30% of the total fund
- Phase 2 – Development [Deliverable: Report on Results/Outcomes] (March 2027 – July 2027) – Payment of 50% of the total fund
- Phase 3 – Validation [Deliverable: Final report on community-associated activities] (August 2027 – January 2028) – Payment of the final 20% of the total fund
- International Cooperation
- Agriculture & Food
- Health
- Digital Technologies
- Environment & Climate Action
- Energy
- ICT Research & Innovation
- Trade & Commerce
- Sustainable Food Security
- Healthcare, economic growth and sustainable health systems
- Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Emerging Infectious Diseases/ Epidemiology Methods
- Diagnostic test products and equipment
- Exchange Good Practices
- Agrifood value chain
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Sustainability
- Pollution
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Patients Care/Satisfaction/Advocacy
- Drugs & Medication
- Energy Storage Solutions
- Chronic Diseases
- Quantum Technologies
- Commercialisation
- Pioneer Innovator
- Disruptive Technologies
- Natural Sciences
- Health
- International Cooperation
- Social Inclusion
- Research & Development
- Society & Employment
- Environment & Climate Action
- Healthcare, economic growth and sustainable health systems
- Digital transformation in Health and Care
- Digital Solutions and Cybersecurity in Health and Care
- Science Cloud
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Migration
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Inclusive Societies
- Gender Equality
- Equal opportunities
- Fair working conditions
- Social protection and inclusion
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Pandemic
- Emerging Infectious Diseases/ Epidemiology Methods
- Mental Health
- Diagnostic test products and equipment
- Cancer
- Innovative Clinical Trial
- Exchange Good Practices
- Women Empowerment
- People with Special Needs / Learning Disorders
- Sustainability
- Digital Health
- Patients Care/Satisfaction/Advocacy
- Hospitals
- Drugs & Medication
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Geosciences
- Astronomy
- Zoology
- Vulnerable and marginalised groups
- Telemedicine
- Chronic Diseases
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Female Heart – Clinical Research
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- Health
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Diagnostic test products and equipment
- Innovative Clinical Trial
- Exchange Good Practices
- Chronic Diseases
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Early detection, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of CVD to improve outcomes for women
- Consideration of specific conditions with relatively higher female prevalence, such as spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA), ischemia with non-obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA), Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)
- Contribution of sex-specific or sex-associated risk factors, for instance pregnancy-related cardiovascular complications or effects of female hormonal transitions on cardiovascular disease
- Factors that impact women’s cardiovascular health experiences, such as social determinants of health (e.g. gender, ethnicity, culture, age, language, disability, access to care, socioeconomic status, remote/urban habitation).
- education systems and 21st century challenges
- strengthen the Nordic and Nordic-Baltic position in educational research,
- broaden and deepen research collaborations and networks,
- contribute to the development of knowledge-based policy across the Nordic and/or Baltic countries, and
- ensure wide dissemination of results to decision-makers and stakeholders.
- democracy, integration, inclusion and/or exclusion in education
- the impact of emerging and/or disruptive technologies in education, including digital tools and artificial intelligence
- organisation of educational systems, teacher education, and/or continuous education, competence development and upskilling for teachers
- Inclusion of early-career researchers: proposals should actively involve early-career researchers in key roles. The proposal should reflect on how the inclusion of the early-career researchers will support their career path.
- Interdisciplinarity: research questions should draw on and integrate expertise from multiple disciplines.
- Societal engagement and impact: research should involve stakeholders throughout the process and generate knowledge relevant to policymakers, practitioners, and other societal actors.
- exploratory networks within humanities and social sciences (NOS-HS)
- cross-border networking and the exchange of professional experience and good practices,
- stronger capacities for intercultural dialogue and mental health support, and
- the professional development of cultural managers in line with EU standards,
- Distinguished Innovator
- Research & Development
- International Cooperation
- Agriculture & Food
- Health
- Digital Technologies
- Manufacturing
- Environment & Climate Action
- Energy
- ICT Research & Innovation
- Trade & Commerce
- Sustainable Food Security
- Healthcare, economic growth and sustainable health systems
- Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing
- Partners with Industry
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Emerging Infectious Diseases/ Epidemiology Methods
- Diagnostic test products and equipment
- Exchange Good Practices
- Agrifood value chain
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Sustainability
- Pollution
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Patients Care/Satisfaction/Advocacy
- Energy Storage Solutions
- Chronic Diseases
- Quantum Technologies
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Commercialisation
- event organizers and performers managers
- Performances in Barcelona that connect with audiences and make the event lively.
- Creative approaches to showcasing urban technologies and recycled materials.
- Activities that increase the visibility and impact of the project.
- Proven experience in organising and managing artistic events.
- Option 1: A public open space (such as a square).
- Option 2: A public enclosed space (securely closed at night).
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Startups Support
- Capacity building
- Research & Development
- European Data Infrastructure
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Science Cloud
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- ‘EIC Pathfinder Open’, open to support projects in any field of science, technology or application without predefined thematic priorities.
- ‘EIC Pathfinder Challenges’ to support coherent portfolios of projects within predefined thematic areas with the aim to achieve specific objectives for each Challenge.
- Do you see a plausible way of achieving the scientific breakthrough that will make this technology possible?
- Can you imagine collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of researchers and innovators to validate the scientific basis of the future technology, realise a proof of principle, and explore paths to impact?
- Convincing long-term vision of a radically new technology that has the potential to have a transformative positive effect to solving a challenge in our economy and society.
- Concrete, novel and ambitious science-towards-technology breakthrough, providing advancement towards the envisioned technology.
- High-risk/high-gain research approach and methodology, with concrete and plausible objectives.
- Knowledge for Action in Prevention and Preparedness (KAPP)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Capacity building
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Disaster Risk Management
- Security
- People with Special Needs / Learning Disorders
- Vulnerable and marginalised groups
- Transport infrastructure
- Research & Development
- European Data Infrastructure
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Science Cloud
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Governance for the future
- Mobility
- Mobility for Growth
- Railway Sector
- Safety and certification guidelines and demonstration of safety components for hyperloop
- Definition of proposals for technical safety requirements
- Analyse the safety needs of the hyperloop technology following and supporting the work done in CEN/CLC/JTC20;
- Collect best practices and data from the implementation of transport systems;
- Benchmark existing safety regulatory requirements of other transport modes and define the commonalities;
- Propose possible technical safety requirements related to infrastructure, design, operational protocols and system reliability for hyperloop systems for both passenger and freight in view of contributing to the prEN 18166:2025;
- Specify a detailed list of possible safety requirements at the level of sub-system and component defined in the action.
- Development of a technical safety guideline proposal and input to standards:
- Analyse the system architecture defined in Hyper4Rail and EN 17930:2024 and specify a list of key sub-system and components relevant for safety and propose a detailed system definition for future European standards;
- Carry out a sensitivity analysis of performances/operations and safety requirements for the hyperloop system with the aim to identify the target safety level based on results coming from Hyper4Rail;
- Analyse the safety practices from existing transport modes such as rail and aviation and propose a common risk assessment approach for risk mitigation;
- Identify and collect hazards built on the work done in Hyper4Rail and establish a safety method taking into account safety methods from other existing transport modes such as rail and aviation;
- Recommendations for a common safety method for operations and maintenance of the hyperloop system including methods to verify compliance with the technical safety requirements;
- Consultation with relevant regulatory bodies and collaboration with CEN/CLC/JTC20 and if relevant with other relevant technical committees (e.g. CEN/TC 256, CLC/TC 9X, CEN/TC 391, ISO/TC 292);
- Develop a Certification Roadmap proposal:
- Identify the legal requirements and processes for certification of future hyperloop solutions based on experience from existing transport solutions;
- Develop a roadmap including timelines, estimated costs (taking into account also the tests performed in WS2), and high-level designs of necessary certification facilities based on the hyperloop concept developed in Hyper4Rail;
- Propose a basic decision-making structure (Including the possibility of using existing regulatory bodies EASA, ERA) leading to the authorisation of running operation in Europe of the hyperloop new potential transport system: on regulatory, standard and industry standard levels;
- Consultation process with regulatory bodies: EASA, ERA, and others applying relevant regulations.
- Work-stream 2: Functional validation of safety components for hyperloop
- Functional validation of key technologies, components, and subsystems critical for passenger safety in laboratory environment (TRL4), with at least:
- Validation of control command and signalling system with special focus on the communication aspects in low frequency but high density environment;
- Validation of at least 2 key components of the vehicle (e.g. braking systems or traction bogies) in a low pressure environment;
- Validation of the functional interface for passenger exchange door on board the vehicle / platform screen door for passengers exit station.
- Validation of the above systems according to the defined requirements and means of verification developed in work-stream 1 and testing activities performed in view of addressing the open point identified in wok-stream 1 .Design of the procedure and test environment needed to validate all safety requirements and to apply and verify the certification process defined in work-stream 1.
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Future and Emerging Technologies
- Industry 4.0
- Partners with Industry
- Research Infrastructures
- Commercialisation
- a pilot line facility capable of manufacturing
- AI-assisted Methods and Tools for Engineering Automation
- a zone of full-scale testing
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Energy management
- Secure, clean and efficient energy
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
- Industry 4.0
- Partners with Industry
- a development of new processes or tools and their introduction in several domains
- Advanced AI-assisted methods and tools, including generative AI, for the automation of software engineering tasks, from enhancing human efficiency and optimizing resource utilization to enabling complex data/problems analysis/interpretation and supporting intelligent decision-making. Such engineering tasks often involve multiple domains (e.g., modelling, control, data management, communication, mechatronics, etc.) and stakeholders, with the burden of daunting legacy integration, refactoring (e.g., to re-design and replace obsolete technology), and the compliance with specific standards, regulations and certifications.
- Open and extensible AI-assisted integrated platform, based on methodologies including AI-support, AI-based tools and toolchains, following a well-defined engineering process, including the integration with legacy tools. The platform shall provide flexible usage in small and large multi-domain and multi-stakeholder engineering teams, impacting existing and upcoming ECS engineering automation tools and their usage.
- Showcasing and evaluation for software-defined vehicles of efficiency enhancements in terms of cost and time for complex data/knowledge management, resource optimization, energy consumption, interoperability, product/process quality/trustworthiness, learning curve and usability, over the whole lifecycle, from design, through deployment, operations, and maintenance, to the product end-of-life and recycling, and its evolution.
- Best practices and small proof-of-concept studies for other sectors, e.g. medical/pharmaceutical and/or digital industry.
- the development of frameworks or platforms together with the usage of these frameworks or platforms in innovative products.-Having a deployment plan leading to short to midterm economic value creation in Europe.
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
- Prototyping
- Research & Development
- European Data Infrastructure
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Science Cloud
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Socioeconomic and cultural transformations
- Execution by a consortium that may consist of SMEs, large enterprises, universities, institutes, public organizations;
- Must take place in the territory of at least 3 different regional or local authorities that host cultural heritage, each established in a different Member State or Associated Country, with the involvement of these regional or local authorities and of relevant heritage managers (preferably participating in the consortium as a beneficiary or associated partner).
- Should already identify at least 3 replicating regional or local authorities from 3 different Member States or Associated Countries, interested in reapplying the lessons learnt (totally, partially or with the required adjustments) in their territories. For the replication, the consortium could include one or more partners that would provide support for the technical exchanges and the knowledge uptake in the replicating” regions or local authorities. Replicating regions are not necessarily expected to carry out on the ground activities already in the course of the project. However, replicating regions should at least prepare the theoretical framework for replicating the successful solutions and explore means to fund the implementation of those solutions.
- Developing innovative technologies and/or using them in innovative ways;
- National Adaptation Hubs – Bringing together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels
- Targeting demonstration of the innovative approach in a relevant product, service or capability, clearly addressing the applications relevant for societal challenges;
- Society & Employment
- Environment & Climate Action
- Education & Training
- Governance for the future
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Capacity building
- Demonstrating value and potential in a realistic lab environment reproducing the targeted application;
- The relevant national governance for innovation and climate adaptation is further engaged and mobilised to contribute to the objectives of the Adaptation Mission and benefit from it. In turn, the Mission fosters multi-level governance, supporting Member States, regions and local authorities in their efforts to implement the European Climate Law’s requirements on climate adaptation, and to further develop and update their adaptation plans.
- Mission solutions are disseminated beyond the regions and local authorities actively involved in the Mission and peer learning opportunities (within and outside) the Mission are strengthened, to bridge the gap between the EU, the national and local levels.
- Having a deployment plan showing the valorisation for the Chips JU ecosystem and the contribution to the Chips JU goals and objectives.
- Continue and extend the “National adaptation hubs” established by the Adaptation Mission
- Build on the key community systems and enabling conditions identified in the Mission Implementation Plan to identify the priority areas of work of the “National adaptation hubs”. These priority areas should reflect what is included in the National Strategies and/or Plans on Adaptation to Climate Change, while maintaining enough thematic flexibility over time to be able to integrate the priority themes addressed by the future European Climate Adaptation Plan.
- Feed relevant knowledge and contribute to national, regional and local authorities’ efforts related to the adaptation objectives in the Climate Law – with particular reference to the adoption and implementation of national adaptation strategies and plans.
- Include groups or pairs from the same EU Member State (within each “national adaptation hub”) as well as between different countries, helping consolidate the multi-level governance.
- Identify the right grouping and pairing participants from Mission-funded and Mission-related activities to other regions in the EU, with particular attention to vulnerable regions.
- Group or pair less advanced regions with front-runners (when relevant). Such knowledge transfer will help less advanced regions contribute more effectively to National-level efforts (see point on Climate Law requirements).
- Ensure close connections with the Mission’s Community of Practice.
- Mission secretariat – to ensure the relevance of the activities within the Mission
- The Mission Implementation platform– the project funded under this topic should closely cooperate with the Mission Implementation Platform and ensure synergies – where relevant- with the exchanges taking place within the Adaptation Mission’s Community of Practice. The collaboration should be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding to be concluded as soon as possible after the projects’ starting date.
- The project stemming from HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-02 to ensure synergies and coordinate the respective activities
- National Adaptation Hubs – Bringing together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels
- Society & Employment
- Environment & Climate Action
- Education & Training
- Governance for the future
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Capacity building
- The relevant national governance for innovation and climate adaptation is further engaged and mobilised to contribute to the objectives of the Adaptation Mission and benefit from it. In turn, the Mission fosters multi-level governance, supporting Member States, regions and local authorities in their efforts to implement the European Climate Law’s requirements on climate adaptation, and to further develop and update their adaptation plans.
- Mission solutions are disseminated beyond the regions and local authorities actively involved in the Mission and peer learning opportunities (within and outside) the Mission are strengthened, to bridge the gap between the EU, the national and local levels.
- Continue and extend the “National adaptation hubs” established by the Adaptation Mission
- Build on the key community systems and enabling conditions identified in the Mission Implementation Plan to identify the priority areas of work of the “National adaptation hubs”. These priority areas should reflect what is included in the National Strategies and/or Plans on Adaptation to Climate Change, while maintaining enough thematic flexibility over time to be able to integrate the priority themes addressed by the future European Climate Adaptation Plan.
- Feed relevant knowledge and contribute to national, regional and local authorities’ efforts related to the adaptation objectives in the Climate Law – with particular reference to the adoption and implementation of national adaptation strategies and plans.
- Include groups or pairs from the same EU Member State (within each “national adaptation hub”) as well as between different countries, helping consolidate the multi-level governance.
- Identify the right grouping and pairing participants from Mission-funded and Mission-related activities to other regions in the EU, with particular attention to vulnerable regions.
- Group or pair less advanced regions with front-runners (when relevant). Such knowledge transfer will help less advanced regions contribute more effectively to National-level efforts (see point on Climate Law requirements).
- Ensure close connections with the Mission’s Community of Practice.
- Mission secretariat – to ensure the relevance of the activities within the Mission
- The Mission Implementation platform– the project funded under this topic should closely cooperate with the Mission Implementation Platform and ensure synergies – where relevant- with the exchanges taking place within the Adaptation Mission’s Community of Practice. The collaboration should be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding to be concluded as soon as possible after the projects’ starting date.
- The project stemming from HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-02 to ensure synergies and coordinate the respective activities
- Palaeoclimate science for a better understanding of Earth system dynamics
- Research & Development
- Environment & Climate Action
- Natural Sciences
- Science Cloud
- European Data Infrastructure
- Support to policy and international cooperation
- Nature and biodiversity
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Geosciences
- Open Science
- Research Infrastructures
- Better process understanding of past climate changes at different time scales, their variability and interactions with ecosystems, leading to improved Earth system models;
- Future climate change scenarios produced in light of past changes in the Earth system, in particular warm climates/high sea-level situations, and abrupt transitions;
- Identification of thresholds in Earth system components and better characterisation of driving mechanisms and feedbacks that may be responsible for non-linear behaviours, including indicators of abrupt changes, and early warning signals within palaeoclimate records;
- Synthesis of climate variations that can serve as fundamental basis for IPCC assessments and benchmarks for model inter-comparisons.
- Producing and aggregating in databases high-resolution, well-dated, interoperable palaeoclimatic records on climate variability in terms of amplitude, time (onset, duration, frequency) and space (location, extension), extending the instrumental time series to improve our understating of the proxy records and the quantification of their uncertainties;
- Development of Earth system models with outputs that allow a more direct comparison to palaeo data, modelling climate variability, thresholds, and impacts across timescales from years to millennia;
- Describing short- to long-term climate evolution and the natural climate variability using quantitative reconstructions from different proxies of past climate periods;
- Identification of climate-related (including ecological) tipping points and their consequences using palaeo data and model experiments.
- Allowing for consistent integration of large-scale and more regional/local factors to be reproduced by climate models using natural forcings.
- Promoting public engagement in R&I and scientific literacy
- Innovative ways for engaging young people in science and promoting scientific literacy;
- Common ERA approaches in engaging and communicating with young people in relation to R&I.
- Engage young people, in different national settings, in participatory science activities that tackle complex social issues (e.g., climate change, biodiversity loss, digital skills inequalities, economic effects of AI transitions, energy poverty, social inclusion), ensuring the inclusion of those not habitually involved in science;
- Create communities of practice that include public engagement experts, science communicators, citizen scientists, youth organisations, researchers and innovators, and policymakers with a view to co-developing handbooks and guidelines on engaging youth in science;
- Provide recommendations for developing common ERA approaches to engage and communicate with young people regarding R&I.
- Scaling-up national initiatives on public engagement in R&I to ERA level taking into consideration different audiences, languages and contexts;
- Improved engagement and cooperation of researchers and innovators, science communicators, and public engagement experts with civil society;
- Increased understanding of the value of scientific processes by society and the importance of public needs and values in addressing societal challenges through R&I.
- Develop online dialogue platforms, in different national (language) settings, containing profiles of researchers and innovators, their availability for public visits, and the scientific issues to be discussed; the platforms should also facilitate the arrangement of meetings between the researchers and interested organisations or institutions;
- Implement the meetings while taking care to reach out to and include members of the public not habitually involved in science, and adapting the science communication and public engagement for different audiences, languages and contexts;
- Take stock of all visits and provide lessons learned and recommendations for the future development of similar activities.
- A neutral, scientifically validated methodology for monitoring and analysing online political discourse across different Member States and languages, providing policymakers and stakeholders with reliable data and insights into how polarising narratives develop, spread and interact online.
- A set of advanced AI-powered tools and techniques for multilingual sentiment, discourse and network analysis, designed and tested to ensure transparency, neutrality and compliance with GDPR and the Digital Services Act, and adaptable for future research and policy needs.
- Evidence-based mitigation strategies and recommendations that translate analytical findings into practical measures for countering polarisation and disinformation online, while fully respecting freedom of speech and the diversity of political expression in the EU.
- Established cross-sector collaboration networks that bring together technology experts, fact-checkers, researchers, media organisations and civil society actors, creating a strong foundation for sustained knowledge-sharing, policy support and alignment with broader EU initiatives such as the Democracy Shield, in particular with the announced common research framework.
- Realistic and challenging scenario linked to risk assessments
- Management and control structures for the project and for the conduct of the exercises
- Activation of the Mechanism
- Deployment of an EU Civil Protection Team
- Deployment of assets and teams of the European Civil Protection Pool (ECPP)
- Use of the Common Emergency Communication and Information System (CECIS)
- Information exchange between the affected country(ies), participating states and the ERCC
- The involvement of relevant national operational structures
- EU Host Nation Support guidelines
- EU observers
- Evaluation, lessons learned and way forward
- EU visibility
- Towards a European network of ocean technology testing sites
- Harmonized approaches and processes across sites to ensure consistent and simplified access, taking into consideration the sensitivity of marine ecosystems in and around the sites;
- Accelerated innovation cycles for ocean technologies, shortened time-to-market and reduced costs and risks associated with offshore trials;
- Availability of cost-efficient at physical testing sites and expertise reducing the need for specialised in-house equipment and competencies;
- Enhanced ocean technologies ecosystem in support of European leadership in the global market;
- Provision of cost-efficient access to testing sites and expertise, reducing the need for specialised in-house equipment and competencies.
- Identification and mapping of testing sites, taking into consideration the sensitivity of marine ecosystems in and around the sites, with involvement of relevant actors and related services, including digital twin-based testing sites if relevant;
- Analysis of user needs and identification of existing gaps in ocean testing sites (physical and digital) and in the provision of services, including certification services, simulation, prototyping support, environmental monitoring and environmental impact assessment related services, as well as obstacles hampering access and use by the industry;
- Set up of an integrated and coordinated European network of testing sites, addressing, in a harmonised and simplified way, issues such as: alignment of access policy and conditions, regulatory framework and governance models, service delivery models, data security issues, protection of trade secrets and IPRs, outreach measures towards new users, SMEs and start-ups in particular; support to training and skills development;
- Measures to support collaboration between academic and research institutions, including European Research Infrastructure, industry players, regulators and investors to accelerate the innovation cycles of marine technologies as well as coordination between geographically dispersed sites;
- Identification of joint investment opportunities to enhance the capacity and the portfolio of services of testing sites (e.g.: potential technological upgrades; access to new sites; provision of new services; etc.) and ensure long-term sustainability.