HORIZON EUROPE – CLIMATE – 2027

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

Forthcoming

• HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-07 : Advancing understanding, modelling and prediction of extreme events in a changing climate
• HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-08 : Palaeoclimate science for a better understanding of Earth system dynamics
• HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-09 : Assessing the performance of policy instruments to inform climate change mitigation action
• HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-10 : Understanding and avoiding maladaptation to climate change
• HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-11 : Africa-EU CO-FUND action on climate
• HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-12 : Better understanding and attribution of land and ocean carbon sources and sinks
• HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-13 : Next generation scenarios for informing climate and sustainability transitions

Additional information

• To find your National Contact Point (NCP): Click here

Useful

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

• Total budget of the call: 123 million euros
• Budget per topic:
  • HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-07 : 18 million euros
  • HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-08 : 14 million euros
  • HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-09: 9 million euros
  • HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-10: 18 million euros
  • HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-11: 15 million euros
  • HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-12: 25 million euros
  • HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-13: 24 million euros
• Amount of the grant: between 3 million euros and 15 million euros
• Funding rate: between 50% and 100% of the total eligible costs

This grant is a lump sum grant.