Horizon Europe 2025 work programme Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space
Topics available under Horizon Europe’s Cluster 4 programme for 2025/26, with up to €75m available for the largest single projects
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
03/05/2025
Registration Closes
02/10/2025
Award
The indicative amount of EU funding contributions for projects in this cluster ranges from €1m to €6m. 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 4, “Digital, Industry and Space”, are summarised below; for 2025, they have been subdivided into 6 Destinations. For further details on each call, visit the Horizon Europe list of work programmes for 2025, and also sign up for the Info Days (13-14 May) and Brokerage Events (14, 15, 16 and 19 May) below.
Calls in this cluster have various closing dates in September or October 2025, with some second stage closing dates on 14 Apr 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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Click on the title of each day to find out more and register.
13-14 May 2025: 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 (Destination 1 and 2)
15-16 May 2025: Brokerage Event – Digital 2025 (Destination 3,4 and 6)
19 May 2025: Brokerage Event – Space 2025 (Destination 5)
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Topics available (all calls below are single-stage with a deadline of 23 Sep 2025 except the final three):
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
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Topics available (all single-stage calls closing 23 Sep 2025 except for the last 5 listed):
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
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
The three calls below are two-stage, 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
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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
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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
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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
ISOS Pilot Mission Detailed Design – HOST component – €12-17.5m for a single project
ISOS Pilot Mission Detailed Design – Logistics
component – €10-12m for a single projectISOS 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
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
Space Critical EEE Components for EU non-dependence – Connectors – €0.8-1m for a single project
Space Critical EEE Components for EU non-dependence – Advanced Packages and Memories – €6m total budget, c.€2.5-3m per project
EU-Japan cooperation on the exploitation of Quantum Space Gravimetry data – €0.45-0.5m for a single project
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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
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