Horizon Europe Cluster 4 and 6 Inward Multilateral Brokerage Event

Innovate UK invites Cluster 4 and Cluster 6 experts to express their interest in attending an in-person Inward Multilateral Brokerage event focusing on select Horizon Europe Work Programme (WP) 2026-27 topics taking place at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) – part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult in the UK over one and a half days. Applications are welcome from the UK, and EU selected Member States. The visits will enable delegates to build partnerships, strengthen collaboration, and to accelerate joint participation in Horizon Europe.

Posted on: 22/04/2026

The Programme Agenda will include pitches, and pre-arranged meetings involving UK and EU delegates based on their interested WP 2027 topic(s) in scope. Innovate UK will also host site visits, enabling delegates to informally network with each other and tour facilities along the way.

Open to UK and EU delegates

Innovate UK welcomes participation from:

  • UK SMEs, larger organisations, academia, RTOs
  • Up to five delegates from each of the following eight EU Member States: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain

The visits aim to create a high value environment for forming consortia to shape competitive Horizon Europe proposals. We aim to have 40 UK and 40 EU participants overall.

Travel and accommodation costs covered

To remove barriers to participation and ensure a diverse and broad representation, Innovate UK will reimburse travel and accommodation costs up to £200 for all UK delegates, however subsistence will not be covered. Coaches for the site visits have been pre-arranged.

Further information about the Cohort Visit

  • CPI Darlington

    Wed 10 June
    12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and networking
    13:00 – 13:15 Opening remarks
    13:15 – 14:30 Pitch session 1
    14:30 – 15:30 Networking and 1:1 sessions
    15:30 – 17:30 Site visits by coach pre-arranged to CPI’s renowned scale-up sites in Wilton and Sedgefield.

    Thurs 11 June
    8:00 – 9:15 Pitch session 2
    9:15 – 10:30 Networking and 1:1 sessions
    10:30 – 11:45 Pitch session 3
    11:45 – 12:45 Lunch and networking
    12:45 – 13:45 Tour of Darlington facilities on site
    13:45 – 14:00 Closing remarks
    14:00 Event ends

  • Cluster 4 Industry [Click here for the Cluster 4 WP 2026-27]

    • HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-06: Circular innovative advanced materials: facilitating the transition from design to markets (RIA) (Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU and Made in Europe partnerships)
    • HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-22: Innovative advanced materials and new production processes – reducing dependencies on Critical and Strategic Raw Materials (IA) (Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU and Processes4Planet partnerships)
    • HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-02: Advanced manufacturing for key products (Made in Europe partnership)
    • HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-62: Fast Track to Innovation for breakthroughs in the Chemical Industry Action Plan
    • HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-08: Textile circularity through advanced processing and manufacturing technologies and system approaches (IA) (Textiles for the Future partnership

     

    Cluster 6 [Click here for the Cluster 6 WP 2026-27]

     

    • HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-07: Towards commercialisation of food systems microbiome solutions
    • HORIZON-CL6-2027-01-CIRCBIO-03: Developing novel recycling technologies for complex plastic materials applying biotech solutions
    • HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-07: Advancing the European bio-based innovation enabled by biotechnology and biomanufacturing concepts
  • Where: CPI, Darlington
  • When: 10-11 June 2026
  • Application deadline: 8 May
  • Evaluation deadline: 15 May
  • Notification: 18 May

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