Priorities and funded actions
Some Horizon Europe budgets are structured in response to policy ambitions (“destinations”) and deployed through calls for proposals targeting more specific thematic/sector (“Topics”). Thus, your application must be linked to a topic of a call for proposals.
Various categories of projects are eligible:
- RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Technology development and adoption / Testing and validation of a prototype in the laboratory ;
- IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include limited R&D activities ;
- CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking, studies & conferences, communication, studies for new research infrastructures ;
- MSCA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / ERC individual grants: Training networks for researchers, Individual grants for experienced researchers, Staff exchange – mobility for researchers and non-scientific staff.
In addition, calls specify the categories of eligible beneficiaries:
- Collaborative projects, composed of a coordinator and several partners organisations (consortium) ;
- Single-beneficiary projects, involving a single organization ;
- Individual scholarships, open to natural persons in their own name with their home institution.
Forthcoming
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-01: Improvin gcapabilities of law enforcement to counter climate-related challenges
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-02: Open topic on preventing and countering the misuse of emerging technologies for criminal purposes, including issues related to lawful access to data
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-03: Missing persons: prevention and investigation
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-04: Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions and crime
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-05: Enhancing the security of citizens against terrorism and lone-actor violence in confined spaces such as schools
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-FCT-06: Prevention and mitigation of misuse of synthetic biology for bioterrorism purposes
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-BM-01: Advanced border surveillance and situational awareness
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-BM-02: Accessible and available travel facilitation
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-BM-03: Reliability of age assessment methods in the context of security and border management
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-INFRA-01: Tools and processes to support stress tests of critical infrastructure
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-INFRA-02: Security challenges of the green transition in urban and peri urban areas
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-INFRA-03: Targeted innovative capabilities for the resilience of critical entities to natural and human-induced disasters, including hybrid scenarios
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-01: Designing new ways of risk awareness and enhanced disaster preparedness
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-02: Multihazard approach and cumulative / cascading impacts
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-03: Development of innovative tools, processes, equipment and technologies through responses to disasters and emergencies for search and rescue in hazardous conditions
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-04: Open topic on driving innovation uptake of disaster risk
solutions
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-05: Climate security and civil preparedness – new ways to
develop pre- and post-crisis climate-change related scenarios for a more resilient Europe
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-01: Open topic on supporting disruptive technological innovations for civil security
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-02: Demandled innovation in security
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-03: Public procurement of innovation for security
- HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-SSRI-04: Development of ecosystem and nextgeneration capabilities for a secured European Critical Communication System in civil security
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