HORIZON EUROPE – Supporting the implementation of the Adaptation to Climate Change Mission – 2026

Some Horizon Europe budgets are structured in response to policy ambitions (“destinations”) and deployed through calls for proposals targeting more specific thematic/sector (“Topics”). Thus, your application must be linked to a topic of a call for proposals.

Various categories of projects are eligible:

• RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Technology development and adoption / Testing and validation of a prototype in the laboratory;
• IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include limited R&D activities;
• CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking, studies & conferences, communication, studies for new research infrastructures;
• MSCA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / ERC individual grants: Training networks for researchers, Individual grants for experienced researchers, Staff exchange – mobility for researchers and non-scientific staff.

In addition, calls specify the categories of eligible beneficiaries:

• Collaborative projects, composed of a coordinator and several partners organisations (consortium);
• Single-beneficiary projects, involving a single organization;
• Individual scholarships, open to natural persons in their own name with their home institution.

TOPICS:

Open

• HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-01: National Adaptation Hubs – Bringing together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels (multi-level governance)
• HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-02: Facilitating implementation of actionable solutions for climate adaptation of regions and local authorities
• HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-03: Standardising and supporting climate services for climate adaptation
• HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-04: Bridging the gap between disaster risk management and climate adaptation
• HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-05: Demonstrating solutions to protect and preserve cultural heritage from the impacts of climate change
• HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-06: Improving climate resilience of navigable inland waterways, their surroundings and related water infrastructure
• HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-07: Supporting financing of local adaptation actions with combination of public funding and private financing

Additional information

• To find your National Contact Point: Click here

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 82.19 million euros
• Budget per topic:
  • HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-01: 10 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-02: 5 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-03: 9.19 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-04: 5 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-05: 21 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-06: 12 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-07: 20 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 5.000.000 and 20.000.000 euros
• Funding rate: between 70% and 100% of the total eligible costs