| Cluster 4 – Digitalizáció, ipar és világűr | |||||||
| HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-71 | Scientific exploitation of space data | single stage | budget based | 2023.03.28 | RIA | Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: – Support the data exploitation of European missions and instruments, in conjunction, when relevant, with international missions. – A higher number of scientific publications based on Europe’s space data, high-level data products made available through appropriate archives, and tools and methods developed for the advanced processing of data. Projects are also expected to add value to existing activities on European and international levels, and to enhance and broaden research partnerships. – Increased collaboration of scientific teams both within and outside Europe across different domains. – To strengthen European scientific excellence and support the development of leading-edge scientific research in Europe | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-31 | Toolbox for efficient IP licensing for market uptake and societal value creation | single stage | lump sum | 2023.03.29 | CSA | Proposals are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: – Promote effective use and deployment of intellectual property ensuring easier access to and sharing of IP-protected assets which are essential to the development of digital and industrial solutions among others, benefitting society. – Provide models to improve the preparedness to respond to future emergencies with adequate solutions (including digital and industrial solutions) via efficient technology licensing. | |
| HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-54 | Green and digital skills and training needs for a just transition | single stage | lump sum | 2023.03.29 | CSA | Expected Outcome: – Reduce skills gaps that hold back the green and digital transitions, by developing and disseminating suitable skills development programmes and training modules, including to prepare future scale-up e.g. through ESF+ or the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). – Support collective action on skills development by companies and providers of education and training, and hence support deep-tech innovation; and contribute to the European Year of Skills 2023, to the large-scale skills partnerships in key industrial ecosystems under the Pact for skills[], and to the flagship to skill, re-skill and up-skill talents in the deep tech fields outlined in the Commission’s new European Innovation Agenda. – Support the training of advanced ICT-specialist skills or other key digital technologies’ skills that would contribute to industrial leadership and strategic autonomy and rely on advanced specialised know-how, and to reaching the digital decade targets | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-33 | Fostering knowledge valorisation through societal and cultural interactions | single stage | budget based | 2023.03.29 | CSA | Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: – Value creation and transfer to economy and society by increased interactions between arts and cultural institutions, citizens and industry; – Innovative solutions with strong societal acceptance for uptake and transformative capacity through new conceptualisations of societal challenges enabled through artistic methodologies and approaches; – Enabling interactions, schemes and modes engaging civil society, arts, cultural institutions and industry to benefit diverse communities, develop skills and promote preparedness, recovery and the twin transition. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| Cluster 5 – Klíma, energia és mobilitás | |||||||
| HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01-10 | Improving the evidence base regarding the impact of sustainability and climate change education and related learning outcomes | single stage | budget based | 2023.04.18 | RIA | Project(s) are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: – A better understanding of which interventions and measures are effective to produce intended but also novel learning outcomes needed for the green transition of our society and economy. – Improved methods for measuring impact and implementation of sustainability and climate-related education. – Better feedback-loops between improved output-oriented monitoring of sustainability and climate-related education and education policy-related decision-making, including planning and reorienting curricula and programmes, to ensure that policy and programmes remain relevant and effective. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| Cluster 6 – Élelmiszer, biomassza alapú gazdaság, természeti erőforrások, mezőgazdaság és környezet | |||||||
| HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01-8 | Addressing biodiversity decline and promoting Nature-based Solutions in higher education | single stage | lump sum | 2023.03.28 | CSA | This topic aims to contribute to education, skills development and awareness raising about biodiversity loss, and how this can be addressed, notably with Nature-based Solutions (NBS), in the higher education sector. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01-1 | Better understanding of routes of exposure and toxicological and ecological impacts of chemical pollution on terrestrial biodiversity | single stage | budget based | 2023.03.28 | RIA | According to IPBES global assessment report, pollution is one of the five main direct drivers of biodiversity loss. This topic focuses on chemical pollution, which has been increasing in the last decades with key differences by region and by type of pollution. | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl6-2023-biodiv-01-1 |
| HORIZON-CL6-2023-ZEROPOLLUTION-01-6 | Biosensors and user-friendly diagnostic tools for environmental services | single stage | budget based | 2023.03.28 | RIA | A successful proposal will contribute to all Destination ‘Zero pollution’ and in particular impacts related to enhancing circular bio-based systems to operate according to planetary boundaries, replacing fossil-based systems and their carbon footprint, mitigating climate change, restoring biodiversity and protecting air, water and soil quality along supply chain of biological feedstock and industrial value chains within the EU and Associated Countries and across borders. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01-10 | Build up of knowledge on Nature Positive Economy and supporting its scale-up | single stage | budget based | 2023.03.28 | RIA | In line with the European Green Deal priorities, in particular the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 and the revised climate targets, the successful proposal will support the development of policies and market conditions to scale up and accelerate the implementation of nature positive economic activities with particular focus on Nature-based Solutions (NBS). It will promote mainstreaming of biodiversity, ecosystem services and natural capital valuation in the society and economy. | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/horizon-cl6-2023-biodiv-01-10 |
| HORIZON-CL6-2023-COMMUNITIES-01-1 | Enhancing social inclusion in rural areas: focus on people in a vulnerable situation and social economy | single stage | budget based | 2023.04.12 | RIA | Proposals are expected to: – Identify and analyse the drivers of social exclusion and the challenges to address disparities and marginalisation in various rural areas in Europe, (e.g., remote rural areas, rural areas in the EU’s outermost regions (defined in article 349 TFEU), costal and mountain areas, rural areas close to towns and cities); – Gain a better understanding of the needs of and challenges faced by people in a vulnerable situation in various rural areas of Europe, the possible ways to address economic and demographic challenges, including ageing, disability, and vulnerability of young people where relevant (in particular those not in employment, education or training NEET), and accessibility to adequate services (e.g. considering also universal design), including social ones (e.g. for people with mental or physical disabilities); – Benchmark policies, services, including social ones, and initiatives developed at various levels to empower people in a vulnerable situation to full and effective participation and inclusion in society, including social economy and entrepreneurship (e.g., social farming, itinerant services and mobility, multishops), pooling of services and creation of meeting places to enhance social interaction (e.g., multidisciplinary health houses, associative cafés), public-private partnerships, and rural-urban linkages. Assess the quality, strengths and weaknesses of these services and to what extent they are used by/reach the target groups; – Explore the role, potential and limitations of social economy and social enterprises in supporting the population in a vulnerable situation in rural areas, including for the provision of basic and adequate social services; – Make policy recommendations on how to improve service delivery and other relevant measures in order to meet the needs of people in a vulnerable situation, as well as on how to create and enabling framework for the upscale of social economy in rural areas; – Accompany pilot innovation actions supporting people in a vulnerable situation and social entrepreneurship to draw additional knowledge from concrete examples. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01-3 | Interdisciplinary assessment of changes affecting terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, building on observation programmes | single stage | budget based | 2023.03.28 | RIA | Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes: – Attribution of ecosystem changes to direct and indirect drivers, and monitoring of driver effects on ecosystems through time; – Enhanced understanding of the adverse impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; – Enhanced science base, leading to better design and monitoring conservation and restoration actions for terrestrial, freshwater, and transitional ecosystems, including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and increase of carbon removals, and supporting nature-based solutions; – Enhanced support to a better alignment of the objectives and priorities of the relevant EU directives (Habitat, Bird, WFD, Nitrates); – Better and more transparent quantification of various uncertainties in ecosystem data and models, and propagation of these uncertainties into monitoring, spatial prioritization, and other applications. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| EIC | |||||||
| HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOROPEN-01 | EIC Accelerator Open 2023 | multiple cut-off | budget based | 11/01/21; 22/02/23; 07/06/23; 04/10/23 | Blended finance | The EIC Accelerator Open has no predefined thematic priorities and is open to proposals in any field of technology or application. The EIC Accelerator supports the later stages of technology development as well as scale up. The technology component of your innovation must therefore have been tested and validated in a laboratory or other relevant environment (e.g. at least Technology Readiness Level 5 or higher). The EIC Accelerator looks to support companies where the EIC support will act as a catalyst to crowd in other investors necessary for the scale up of the innovation. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01-01 | EIC Pathfinder Open | single stage | budget based | 2023.03.07 | You should apply to this call if you are looking for support from EIC Pathfinder Open to realise an ambitious vision for radically new technology, with potential to create new markets and/or to address global challenges. EIC Pathfinder Open supports early stage development of such future technologies (e.g. various activities at low Technology Readiness Levels 1-4), based on high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology breakthrough research (including ‘deep-tech’). This research must provide the foundations of the technology you are envisioning. | ||
| HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITIONOPEN-01 | Transition Open 2023 | multiple cut-off | budget based | 2023.04.12.; 09.27. | EIC Transition funds innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and validation of your novel technology from the lab to the relevant application environments (by making use of prototyping, formulation, models, user testing or other validation tests) as well as explorations and development of a sustainable business case and business model towards commercialisation. Your proposed activities must include further technology development on the results achieved in a previous project and follow user-centric methodologies to increase chances of the innovation’s future success in the market. | ||
| WIDERA | |||||||
| HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-03-01 | European Excellence Initiative | single stage | lump sum | 2023.04.12 | CSA | The objectives of this action are to: – Raise excellence in science and in value creation through deeper and geographically inclusive cooperation in alliances of higher education institutions, such as – but not limited to – European Universities alliances selected under Erasmus+, with a particular focus on Widening countries; – Improve global competitiveness and visibility of Europe’s higher education institutions, creating critical mass in key areas such as the green transition and Horizon Europe mission areas. | |
| HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-01-01-two-stage | Teaming for Excellence | two stage | budget based | 2023.04.12.; 2023.03.07. | CSA | Disparities in R&I performance are due to, among other reasons, the insufficient critical mass of science and lack of centres of excellence having sufficient competence to engage countries and regions strategically in a path of innovative growth. Teaming is responding to this challenge establishing new centres of excellence or modernising existing ones with the help of leading EU or AC partnering institutions. This will help countries to increase their R&I intensity and to attain a competitive position in the European R&I system and globally, especially by becoming drivers of change. | |
| HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ERA-01-03 | Experimentation and exchange of good practices for value creation | single stage | budget based | 2023.03.09 | CSA | Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: – Value creation and transfer to the economy and society by increased interlinkages and cooperation between knowledge valorisation actors (academia/research; industry/SMEs; public administration/policy-makers and society/citizens) in line with ERA Policy Agenda action 7; – New solutions to societal and economic challenges by stronger uptake and deployment of research results, including through the involvement of citizens and civil society; – Improvements of structures, strategies, practices and skills for knowledge valorisation through sustainable reforms and new initiatives. | |
| MISSIONS | |||||||
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01-04 | European natural lakes: demonstration of integrated approaches for protection and restoration of natural lake ecosystems and their biodiversity | single stage | budget based | 2023.09.20 | IA | Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: – Enhance the implementation of the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity Strategy, the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan, the EU Bioeconomy Strategy and the Water Framework Directive as well as other EU instruments and policies that concern freshwater ecosystems; – Improved ecological and chemical status of European natural lakes; – Demonstrated integrated and replicable approaches to protection and restoration of natural lake ecosystems, their biodiversity and healthy functioning, integrating all aspects of good ecological and chemical status of lakes under the Water Framework Directive; – Demonstrated effective and replicable nature based solutions for restoration and protection of European lakes; – Demonstrate improved solutions and systems for effective collaboration between, municipalities, regions and, if relevant, countries within a lake catchment area; – Create opportunities for scaling up of solutions for protection and restoration of European lakes through involvement of ‘associated regions’. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01-02 | Danube river basin lighthouse – Demonstration of effective and sustainable management of sediments in the Danube river-Black sea system | single stage | budget based | 2023.09.20 | IA | Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: – Contribution to the implementation of the European Green Deal and the Water Framework Directive and related guidance documents as well as other EU instruments and policies that concern freshwater ecosystem protection, in particular to the implementation of the Updated River Basin Management Plan for Danube[1] (2021) as regards sustainable sediment management in the Danube river basin; – Demonstrated sustainable and effective solutions for sediment management at a river basin scale, including solutions for the restoration of sediment balance, quality and flow in the Danube river-Black sea system; – Measurable improvements in the quality (including a reduction of harmful chemicals, plastics and microplastics) and quantity of sediments flows demonstrate the effectiveness of the measures and solutions implemented; – Improved transnational and trans-sectoral cooperation between national authorities and other actors involved in sediment management at river basin scale; – Scaling up of solutions for the sustainable management of sediments at river basin scale in other European river basins through the involvement of river basin management bodies and ‘associated regions’; – Active support to the Mission’s Digital Ocean and Water Knowledge system through advances in knowledge related to land-sea and river-sea interactions. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-04 | Innovations to prevent and combat desertification | single stage | budget based | 2023.09.20 | IA | Activities under this topic will help to progress towards the objectives of the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, in particular its specific objective 1, “Reduce land degradation relating to desertification”. Project results should contribute to all of the following outcomes: – The socio-economic and climatic drivers, the extent and the impacts of different types of land degradation (incl. water scarcity, vegetation loss, soil erosion) in (semi-)natural and agricultural systems of arid areas and areas becoming increasingly arid are clearly understood, accurately and reliably measured at the most relevant scale and in connection with specific land uses. This knowledge is widely shared among relevant actors from various sectors. – The economic viability and environmental effectiveness of solutions for the prevention of desertification and for the restoration of degraded land (such as soil protection measures that help retain water and reduce water needs, improve management of soil organic matter, avoid salinization, protect biodiversity, minimise soil sealing and increase land resilience to droughts) is demonstrated in the different local or regional contexts. – Enhanced access for land managers in desertification-prone areas to effective, context-specific restoration and prevention solutions and to information about the conditions under which they are effective. – The number and size of areas under sustainable soil and water management are expanded, and the retention of moisture in the landscape and the management of soil organic matter are improved across different land-use types and local-regional conditions. In consequence, dryland soils become more resilient and less vulnerable to drought and desertification. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-07 | Back to earth: bringing communities and citizens closer to soil | single stage | budget based | 2023.09.20 | CSA | Activities under this topic will help progress towards the overall goal of the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, in particular by contributing to its specific objective 8 “Increase soil literacy across society”. Activities should also contribute to the Education for Climate Coalition and to the Long-term vision for EU’s rural areas as the Mission is one of its flagship initiatives. Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes: – Increased societal awareness on the importance of soil and the challenges it faces and of the impact of individual decisions (like housing, food and transport behaviour) on soils. This is manifested by an increased engagement in the protection and restoration of soil health. – Opportunities for engaging in creative ways in soil protection are widely available and supported by soil-related arts products and innovative methodologies (including digital ones, but not limited to these). – Cultural and creative industries (CCIs), artists and civil society organisations are mobilised and work together alongside with universities, research institutes and public institutions and citizens to increase soil literacy in society. – Increased capacity of public and private institutions at different levels (e.g. European, national, regional and local) to engage with the wide public in creative ways to promote sustainable soil management. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-08 | Co-creating solutions for soil health in Living Labs | single stage | budget based | 2023.09.20 | RIA | Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes: – Living labs across Europe are fully operational and have established themselves as places for co-creation and testing of solutions for soil health in rural and urban areas. – Increased capacities for participatory, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary R&I approaches, allowing for effective cooperation between research, practice and policy to tackle soil health challenges. – Practice oriented knowledge and tools are more easily available to land managers and contribute to an enhanced uptake of solutions for soil health and related ecosystem services. – Strengthened collaborations between actors across territories and sectors and increased consideration of effective solutions for soil health in regions where the selected living labs are operating. – Policy makers in the EU and Associated Countries are more aware of local needs with regard to soil health and can use this knowledge to design more effective policies. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-02 | Soil pollution processes – modelling and inclusion in advanced digital decision-support tools | single stage | budget based | 2023.09.20 | RIA | Project results should contribute to all of the following outcomes: – Increased understanding of the impact of various types of soil pollution on soil processes, soil functions and related ecosystem services along with increased insight into how soil pollution responds to different land-uses and soil-management practices, restoration mechanisms, emission controls, climate extremes, drying-rewetting cycles and land cover dynamics at various scales. – Enhanced access to soil relevant knowledge and data for a wide range of stakeholders that can inform practices and policies for reduced levels of pollution, enhanced take up of sustainable soil management practices and restoration of polluted soils, especially those with high risk to human health and environmental wellbeing. – Enhanced capacities are in place to integrate diverse data streams (including from Earth Observation), to model and predict soil-related processes and their interactions with soil pollutants, and ultimately to demonstrate the effectiveness of policy measures (for air, water, soils) and their impact on soils. – Data and tools available can feed effectively and further advance the “Destination Earth” initiative[ | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01-03 | Pragmatic clinical trials on minimally invasive diagnostics | single stage | budget based | 2023.04.12 | RIA | Proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed and tailored towards and contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: – Cancer patients and their caregivers have access to optimised and affordable, minimally-invasive diagnostic interventions that increase their quality of life, across European regions, Member States and Associated Countries; – Healthcare professionals and academia deliver better outcomes through routine healthcare, including quality of life, for men and women with cancer who often suffer from sex-related co-morbidities and side-effects; – National healthcare providers, policymakers and authorities in European regions, Member States and Associated Countries will have the evidence to implement optimised and affordable minimally-invasive diagnostics in their healthcare systems, including in everyday medical practice. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01-01 | Addressing poorly-understood tumour-host interactions to enhance immune system-centred treatment and care interventions in childhood, adolescent, adult and elderly cancer patients. | single stage | budget based | 2023.04.12 | RIA | Proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed and tailored towards, and to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: – Researchers and health professionals understand tumour-host processes that spur cancer development and progression in patients and how this forms the basis for the future design and optimisation of treatment or care interventions for poorly-understood cancers and their subtypes, including in children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. – Researchers, innovators, and professionals from different disciplines and sectors ensure accessibility and re-usability of their data, models, tools and technology to support the UNCAN.eu[1] platform, which is currently in preparation. – Health policy makers are aware of an improved understanding of tumour-host interactions in cancer patients that would allow the co-design of cancer-related innovation and health policies in the Member States, Associated Countries and beyond, including those aimed at delivering treatment and care developing care solutions for and with cancer patients. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-OCEAN-SOIL-01-01 | Mission Climate adaptation, Mission Ocean & waters and Mission Soil Deal for Europe – Joint demonstration of an integrated approach to increasing landscape water retention capacity at regional scale | single stage | budget based | 2023.09.20 | IA | Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: – Demonstrated effective and inclusive integrated approaches to the management of landscape, soil, water and vegetation at a regional level, to increase the resilience to climate change impacts on soils, waters, habitats and biodiversity; – Demonstrated effective nature-based solutions and ecological approaches to increase landscape water retention capacity, including soil water retention capacity; – Demonstrated economic feasibility of these solutions, ensuring their long term sustainability; – Enhanced implementation of the European Green Deal, the EU Adaptation Strategy, the EU Biodiversity Strategy, EU legislation for the protection of freshwaters (such as the EU Water Framework Directive and EU Groundwater Directive) and the EU Soil Strategy for 2030; – Better information and greater mobilisation of all relevant actors, including citizens, local and regional authorities and planning bodies, farmers, foresters, land owners, business owners and economic operators, soil protection and management organisations, water management and planning bodies, for an effective and sustainable governance of soil, water and all other landscape components to achieve climate change resilience and increase water retention in the landscape. | Funding & tenders (europa.eu) |
