Horizon Europe 2025 work programme Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society
Topics available under Horizon Europe’s Cluster 2 programme for 2025/26, with funding of up to €5m per project
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
03/05/2025
Registration Closes
16/09/2025
Award
The indicative amount of EU funding contributions for projects in this cluster ranges from €2m to €5m. This can cover up to 100% of costs depending on the call.
Organisation
Horizon Europe
The European Commission has pre-published all of the 2025 Horizon Europe Work Programmes, which list the funding opportunities under the 2025 call topics.
No matter your field – whether you’re a business, university, research institute, charity, or not-for-profit – you could be eligible to apply for Horizon Europe funding to advance your cutting-edge research and innovation, fostering lasting impact and meaningful change.
Our Innovate UK European Team and UK National Contact Points can support you with these exciting potential funding opportunities and help you get the most out of Horizon Europe.
UK organisations are usually eligible to take part in Horizon Europe actions (as part of a three-organisation consortium; see “Who can apply?” below). Our teams can help you to find collaboration partners.
The available topics in Cluster 2, “Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Societies”, are summarised below; for 2025, they have been subdivided into 3 Destinations. For further details on each call, visit the Horizon Europe list of work programmes for 2025, and also sign up for the Info Day (15 May) and Brokerage Day (16 May) below.
The initial closing date is 16 Sep 2025 for all of the calls in this cluster. For two-stage calls, the second stage closing date is 17 Mar 2026.
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Unless otherwise provided for in the specific call/topic conditions, only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in actions provided that the consortium includes, as beneficiaries, three legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
- at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State;
- and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries (this includes the UK).
Our European team can help you find eligible partners to form a consortium.
There may be further eligibility conditions for specific topics. Please check the Work Programme and talk to our team to ensure your eligibility before applying.
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The information day on 15 May, 9.30am CET (8.30am GMT) aims to inform (potential) applicants about topics included in the Cluster 2 ‘Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Societies’ work programme for 2025.
Click here to find out more, and to view the livestream of the Info Day on 15 May.
The online brokerage event organised on 16 May 2025 (9.30am-4pm CET, 8.30am-3pm GMT) will be dedicated to consortium building in Cluster 2: “Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society”.
The event will include an information session, pitch presentations of consortia in preparation, as well as the opportunity for bilateral meetings with partners interested in the same topics for the 2025 calls. Following successful registration and activation of your profile, participants can pre-arrange bilateral meetings by a user-friendly matchmaking tool.
Detailed information and registration for the brokerage event
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Topics available:
Advisory support and network to counter disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) (€3-3.5m for a single project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Fostering the consolidation of European science diplomacy (€2.5-3m for a single project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Preparing the EU for future enlargement: challenges and opportunities (€10.5m total budget, c.€3-3.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Open strategic autonomy, economic and research security in EU foreign policy (€7m total budget, c.€3-3.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Countering and preventing radicalisation, extremism, hate speech and polarisation (€10.5m total budget, c.€3-3.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Towards a European research hub on contemporary antisemitism and Jewish life and culture (€3-3.5m for a single project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
The autocratic appeal: nature, drivers and strategies (€10.5m total budget, c.€3-3.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Economic inequalities and their impact on democracy (€10.5m total budget, c.€3-3.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Fighting against disinformation while ensuring the right to freedom of expression (€10.5m total budget, c.€3-3.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
The role of civic and citizenship education for strengthening civic and democratic participation and support for common European values (€10.5m total budget, c.€3-3.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Independence of the judiciary as an aspect of rule of law compliance (€10.5m total budget, c.€3-3.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Community of democracy practitioners and researchers (€3-3.5m for a single project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
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A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage – Innovative use cases (€26m total budget, c.€2.5-4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Leveraging artificial intelligence for creativity-driven innovation (€15m total budget, c.€4-5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Evolution of culture in a virtualising world (€10.5m total budget, c.€2.5-3.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Europe as a global powerhouse of design for sustainable competitiveness (€13.5m total budget, c.€3.5-4.5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Cultural Strategies for Peace: culture and creativity as catalysts for conflict prevention and post-conflict reconciliation (€12m total budget, c.€3-4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe’s contentious and dissonant heritage (€2.5-3.5m for a single project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Impacts of culture and the arts on health and well-being (€2m for a single project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Innovative approaches to intangible cultural heritage for societal resilience (€12m total budget, c.€3-4m per project): first stage deadline 16 Sep 2025, second stage deadline 17 Mar 2026
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Tackling gender-based violence in different social and economic spheres (€10.2m total budget, €3.4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Historical and regional analyses of industrial transitions and their lessons for ensuring a fair green transition (€10.2m total budget, €3.4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Working time reduction: barriers, challenges, benefits and policy implications (€10.2m total budget, €3.4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Improving fairness in the economy through a better understanding of undeclared and underdeclared work (€10.2m total budget, €3.4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Evaluation and use of evidence in education policy and practice (€10.2m total budget, €3.4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Impact of the learning environment and the use of digital tools in everyday life on key skills and competence development (€10.2m total budget, €3.4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Improving mental health outcomes for people in education, training and work (€15m total budget, €3m-5m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Good practices for increased autonomy of persons with disabilities, including physical, mental, intellectual and sensory disabilities (€10.2m total budget, €3.4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Intergenerational fairness in the context of demographic change in the EU (€10.2m total budget, €3m-4m per project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Migration and climate change: building resilience and enhancing sustainability (€2m for a single project): single stage, deadline 16 Sep 2025
Gender differences in career trajectories of parents and their implications for gender equality and family well-being (€10.2m total budget, €3.4m per project): first stage deadline 16 Sep 2025, second stage deadline 17 Mar 2026
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