Horizon Europe 2025 work programme Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space

Unless otherwise provided for in the specific call/topic conditions, only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in Horizon Europe 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).

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13-14 May 2025: online info days on Cluster 4 – Digital, Industry & Space. Day 1 covers industry and space (destinations 1, 2 and 5), and day 2 covers digital and human (destinations 3, 4 and 6): both days start at 8am CEST (7am GMT).

14 May 2025: Brokerage Event – Industry 2025 (Destinations 1 and 2), online

15-16 May 2025: Brokerage Event – Digital 2025 (Destinations 3,4 and 6), online

19 May 2025: Brokerage Event – Space 2025 (Destination 5), online

In-person events are also available:

• 16th May in Brussels (BE): ADR Info Day with Pitching and Matchmaking
• 20th May in Strasbourg (FR): KETs 2025 Brokerage Event
• 2nd/3rd July in Aalborg (DK): The conference “The Future of Digital Investements in the EU” will include onsite brokerage

Topics available:

Single-stage with a deadline of 23 Sep 2025:

• Integrated approaches for remanufacturing (Made in Europe Partnership) – €35m total funding, c.€5-7m per project
• Physical and cognitive augmentation in advanced manufacturing (Made in Europe Partnership) – €35m total funding, c.€4-6m per project
• Advanced manufacturing technologies for leadership of EU manufacturers in products for the net-zero industry (Made in Europe Partnership) – €42m total funding, c.€5-7m per project
• From heat-driven processes to the use of mechanical and electric forces (Processes4Planet partnership) – €25m total funding, c.€8-10m per project
• Green and resilient flexible production processes (Processes4Planet partnership) – €25m total funding, c.€8-10m per project
• Integrated use of renewable energy carriers in industrial sites (Processes4Planet partnership) – €25m total funding, c.€6-8m per project
• Smart integration of net zero technologies into Energy Intensive industries (Processes4Planet and Made in Europe partnerships) – €25m total funding, c.€5-9m per project
• Solving issues in carbon-neutral iron and steel making processes with diverse input materials of varying quality (Clean Steel Partnership) – €28m total funding, c.€14m per project
• Safe and clean processing technologies and products (Processes4Planet partnership) – €24m total funding, c.€6-8m per project
• Synergies and mutual learning with national and regional initiatives in Europe on Industrial decarbonisation – €1m funding for a single project
• Towards human-centric, sustainable and resilient energy-intensive industries (Processes4Planet and Clean Steel partnerships) – €2m funding for a single project

The three calls below are two-stage, with deadline 23 Sep 2025 for the first stage and 14 Apr 2026 for the second stage:

• Enhanced logistics and operations of construction sites – €13m total funding, c.€6.5m per project
• Developing and embedding upcycling technologies into viable business (Processes4Planet partnership) – €48m total funding, c.€8-12m per project
• Demonstrators for clusters of social circular enterprises – €10m total funding, c.€5m per project

Topics available:

Single-stage calls closing 23 Sep 2025:

• Technologies for critical raw materials and strategic raw materials from end-of-life products – €24m total funding, c.€8m per project
• Strategic Partnerships for Raw Materials: Innovative Approaches for sustainable production of Critical Raw Materials – €30m total funding, c.€7.5m per project
• Innovative solutions for the sustainable production for Semiconductor raw materials – €24m total funding, c.€8m per project
• EU Co-funded Partnership on raw materials for the green and digital transition (Cofunded partnership Raw Materials for the Green and Digital Transition) – €45m total funding, c.€9m per project
• Innovative Advanced Materials Innovation Procurement – €2m for a single project
• Materials Commons for Europe – €28m for a single project
• Accelerate the uptake of life-cycle assessment (LCA) for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) chemicals and materials and resulting products – €15m total funding, c.€4-5m per project
• Digitally enabled local-for-local textile and apparel production (Textiles for the Future Partnership) – €10m total funding, c.€5m per project

Single-stage calls closing 2 Oct 2025:

• Innovative Advanced Materials (IAMs) for photonics, enabling low-power and ultrabroadband performance for telecommunication – €10m total funding, c.€5m per project
• Innovative Advanced Materials (IAMs) for conformable, flexible or stretchable  electronics – €15m total funding, c.€5m per project

Two-stage calls with deadline 23 Sep 2025 for the first stage and 14 Apr 2026 for the second stage:

• Innovative Advanced Materials (IAMs) for product monitoring, smart maintenance and repair strategies in the construction sector – €30m total funding, c.€6m per project
• Innovative Advanced Materials (IAMs) for robust, fast curing sealants and coatings for manufacturing and final assembly – €30m total funding, c.€6m per project
• Development of safe and sustainable by design alternatives to Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) – €30m total funding, c.€7m per project

Topics available (all topics in this cluster are single-stage calls closing 2 Oct 2025):

• Large-scale pilots for supply end-to-end infrastructures integrating device, network computing and communication capabilities for Telco Edge Cloud deployments, as a basis for Connected Collaborative Computing Networks (3C networks) – €75m funding for a single project
• Alignment of stakeholders towards the supply-side large-scale pilot of end-to-end infrastructures integrating device, network computing and communication capabilities – €1.8-2.5m funding for a single project
• Roadmap for next generation computing technologies from IoT device level to edge to cloud to HPC – €1.8-2.5m funding for a single project
• Internet Stack: development of technological commons/open-source 3C building blocks – €10m funding for a single project
• Preparing the Advancement of the state of the art of submarine cable infrastructures – €1.9-2.1m funding for a single project
• Fostering Innovative and Compliant Data Ecosystems (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) – €45m total budget, c.€7-9m per project
• Empowering AI/generative AI along the Cognitive Computing continuum (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership) – €30m total funding, c.€6-8m per project
• Software Engineering for AI and generative AI (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership) – €15m total funding, c.€4-6m per project

Topics available:

Single-stage calls closing 23 Sep 2025:

• AI Foundation models in science (GenAI4EU) – €30m total budget, c.€6m per project
• Facilitated cooperation for AI in Science – €3m for a single project

Single-stage calls closing 2 Oct 2025:

• Continuation of the Quantum Technologies Flagship – €4.5m for a single project
• Quantum Computing – complementing the quantum computing FPAs with the development of a technology agnostic software stack – €10m total budget, c.€5m per project
• Supporting Digital Partnerships in Quantum technologies – €8m total budget, c.€2.5-2.7m per project
• Post-exascale HPC – €2.5m for a single project
• Strengthening the fabless Start-up and SME ecosystem in Europe – €1m for a single project
• Robust and trustworthy GenerativeAI for Robotics and industrial automation (AI/Data/Robotics & Made in Europe Partnerships) – €85m total budget, c.€40-45m per project
• Challenge-Driven GenAI4EU Booster (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership) – €45m total budget, c.€15m per project
• Advanced sensor technologies and multimodal sensor integration for multiple application domains (Photonics Partnership) – €25m total budget, c.€4-6m per project
• Assessment methodologies for General Purpose AI capabilities and risks (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership) – €7m total budget, c.€3-4m per project
• Soft Robotics for Advanced physical capabilities (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership) – €20m total budget, c.€10m per project
• Enhanced Learning Strategies for General Purpose AI: Advancing GenAI4EU (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership) – €30m total budget, c.€15m per project

Topics available (all single-stage with a closing date of 25 Sep 2025):

• CSA on access to European spaceports – €1m for a single project
• Digital solutions for autonomy for space transportation systems, design and simulation tools – Digital enablers and building blocks – €3m total budget, €1-3m per project
• Digital solutions for autonomy for space transportation systems, design and simulation tools – targeting demonstration – €7m total budget, €4-7m per project
• ISOS Pilot Mission Detailed Design – Servicing component – €18m total budget, €6-12m per project – this call is only open to applicants from the EU, Norway, and Iceland
• ISOS Pilot Mission Detailed Design – HOST component – €12-17.5m for a single project- this call is only open to applicants from the EU, Norway, and Iceland
• ISOS Pilot Mission Detailed Design – Logistics
  component – €10-12m for a single project
• ISOS Pilot Mission Detailed Design – satAPPs component – €5m total budget, €2-3m per project
• Digital enablers and building blocks for Earth Observation and Satellite telecommunication for Space solutions – €6m total budget, €1-5m per project
• Preparing demonstration missions for collaborative Earth Observation and Satellite telecommunication for Space solutions – €11m total budget, €2-6m per project
• Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) evolution: new and innovative processing and methods for future Sentinels and other satellites for reanalyses – €10m for a single project
• Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) evolution: improved soil-vegetationatmosphere modelling and data assimilation of atmospheric constituents – €3m for a single project
• Copernicus Anthropogenic CO₂ Emissions Monitoring & Verification Support (CO2MVS) capacity: new and innovative methods to estimate the impact of fires on vegetation and related carbon fluxes – €3m for a single project
• Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) evolution: new and innovative ocean data assimilation techniques – €5m for a single project
• Supporting the AI/ML digital transition of Copernicus Services – €12m for a single project
• Innovative Earth observation services in support of maritime litter detection and ship source pollution policies – €5m for a single project
• Space Critical EEE Components for EU non-dependence – RISC-V Microprocessor on 7nm – €4.5-5m for a single project – this call is only open to applicants from the EU, Norway, and Iceland
• Space Critical Equipment and Related Technologies for EU non-dependence – Chip Scale Atomic Clocks and Solar Cells – €8m total budget, c.€3.5-4m per project – this call is only open to applicants from the EU, Norway, and Iceland
• Space Critical EEE Components for EU non-dependence – Connectors – €0.8-1m for a single project – this call is only open to applicants from the EU, Norway, and Iceland
• Space Critical EEE Components for EU non-dependence – Advanced Packages and Memories – €6m total budget, c.€2.5-3m per project –this call is only open to applicants from the EU, Norway, and Iceland
• EU-Japan cooperation on the exploitation of Quantum Space Gravimetry data – €0.45-0.5m for a single project

Topics available:

Single-stage calls closing 23 Sep 2025:

• Horizon Standardisation Booster – c.€1.5m for a single project
• Standardisation landscape analyses tool – c.€1m for a single project
• Artificial Intelligence for knowledge valorisation – c.€2m for a single project
• Value creation pilots for scaling up innovative solutions – c.€2m for a single project
• Pilot initiatives on Technology Infrastructures – total budget €5m, c.€0.5-1m per project
• System innovation experimentation for Industry 5.0 – c.€3m for a single project
• Assessment of Technology Infrastructure needs in Ukraine – c.€1-1.5m for a single project

Single-stage calls closing 2 Oct 2025:

• Core technologies for virtual worlds (Virtual Worlds and Photonics Partnerships) – €43m total funding, c.€5-6m per project
• Generative AI for Virtual Worlds: Advanced technologies for better performance and hyper personalised and immersive experience (AI/Data/Robotics & Virtual Worlds Partnerships) – €20m total funding, c.€4-5m per project
• Drive the evolution of the internet towards open and interoperable Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds: building blocks in priority areas (Virtual Worlds Partnership) – €14.5m total funding, c.€1-3m per project
• Specific support for the Virtual Worlds Partnership and the Web 4.0 initiative (Virtual Worlds Partnership) – €2.5m for a single project
• GenAI4EU central Hub (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership) – €3m for a single project
• International cooperation in semiconductors – €3m for a single project
• GenAI for Africa – €5m total funding, c.€1-2m per project