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).

Our European team can help you find eligible partners to form a consortium.

The exception is the Skills Bridging Action: this is open to applications from individual small and medium enterprises (SMEs), located in an EU Member State or Associated Country, which includes the UK.

There may be further eligibility conditions for specific topics. Please check the Work Programme and contact our team to ensure your eligibility before applying.

The call covers three main areas:

1. Knowledge valorisation and data access: Knowledge valorisation ensures that scientific results go beyond academic publication and are effectively translated into value for society, the economy and public policy. It reinforces Europe’s competitiveness by improving the exploitation of research results, supporting innovation, job creation, and enabling companies, particularly start-ups and SMEs, to bring new solutions to the market, while also contributing to the Union’s strategic autonomy by reducing dependencies on external technologies and maintaining leadership in key areas such as digital, health and climate.
   • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-05-01 aims to address labour and skills shortages, facilitating SMEs’ access to highly skilled research talent.
   • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-02 aims to bridge the gap between research outcomes under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe and initiatives supporting knowledge valorisation through Innovation Ecosystems across thematic areas.
   • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-03 addresses the lack of coherent EU-level pathways for scaling climate resilience solutions across economic sectors, with the objective of strengthening competitiveness, enabling cross-sector replication, and embedding climate resilience by design across the European economy, while acting as a bridge towards the next framework programme and the ECF.
   • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-02-05 supports actions that bring solutions from Horizon Europe Pillar II closer to production and uptake by testing and validating them in real-world conditions, taking into account societal needs, cultural diversity and responsible innovation.
2. Research infrastructures and data access:
   • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-06 and HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-07 respond to the strategic objectives of the European Strategy on Research and Technology Infrastructures, aiming to develop more sustainable access schemes, enhance outreach to new communities and industry, and ensure a continuum of complementary services with technology infrastructures (topic HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-06 ). They also aim to position research infrastructures as hubs for international cooperation and as foundations for global scientific networks, including through training and mobility programmes to build capacity and foster talent development (topic HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-07).
   • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-04 aims to increase the resilience and sustainability of key research data and knowledge infrastructures in the life sciences sector, by supporting their integration into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation and broader collaborative frameworks, improving data sharing and access, developing sustainable funding approaches, and strengthening technical capacity. The action is closely linked to the HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-08 aims to strengthen the sustainability and resilience of key European infrastructures and resources in climate science, thereby reinforcing the EU’s leadership and autonomy in access to climate data.
3. Artificial Intelligence (AI): these proposed Apply AI actions introduce an innovative approach to structurally support cross-domain priorities enabling AI-based innovation in key sectors identified in the Apply AI Strategy. It aims not only to address immediate sectoral needs but also to contribute directly to the policy priorities of the next framework programme, translating research into innovation aligned with concrete market needs. The topics included (HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-09, -01-10, -01-12, -01-13) target urgent actions to address market failures and reduce strategic dependencies. Many high-potential AI solutions currently fail to reach the market or scale due to persistent, sector-specific barriers. These horizontal actions therefore focus on identifying and addressing such systemic obstacles, including through piloting dissemination mechanisms (e.g. platforms or marketplaces for AI solutions) and testing AI technologies, including in real-world conditions, in order to generate the insights needed to overcome barriers to scale.

Single-stage calls opening 6 Oct 2026, deadline 18 Mar 2027:

• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-09: EU AI Media Platform – modular multilingual public-interest infrastructure for European news and audiovisual media (IA) – Apply AI. c.€10m for a single project.
• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-10: Autonomous Drive Ambition Cities (IA) – Apply AI. c.€15m for a single project.
• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-12: Large-Scale piloting of next-generation AI-driven digital platforms for a more affordable, secure and sustainable European energy system (IA) – Apply AI. c.€15m for a single project.
• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-13: EU Frontier AI Initiative: Advanced Scaling Frameworks for High-Performance AI Models (RIA) – Apply AI. c.€15m for a single project.

Single-stage calls opening 20 Oct 2026, deadline 28 Jan 2027:

• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-02-02 (RIA): Valorising Horizon project results via innovation ecosystems. c. €2.4m-€5m each for up to 5 projects.
• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-02-05 (IA): Advancing promising results from Pillar II collaborative research through the innovation journey. Up to €2.5m each for up to 13 projects.

Single-stage calls opening 9 Mar 2027, deadline 15 Jun 2027:

• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-04 (RIA): Supporting the long-term resilience and European sovereignty of critical research data and knowledge repositories and scientific services for the life sciences. c.€8m for a single project.
• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-06 (RIA): Access to research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing industry needs in priority areas. c.€5m each for up to 3 projects.
• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-07 (CSA): Europe’s world class research and technology infrastructures as strategic assets for talent to Choose Europe. c.€1.5m each for up to 5 projects.

Single-stage calls opening 6 Oct 2026, deadline 16 Feb 2027:

• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-04-03 (CSA): Bringing innovative climate preparedness and resilience solutions closer to the market. c.€20m for a single project.
• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-04-08 (CSA): Sustainability and resilience of climate projections and related data records for European and global science and policy. c.€5m for a single project.

Single-stage call opening 20 Oct 2026, deadline 16 Feb 2027:

• HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-05-01 (CSA): Skills Bridging Action: c.€150k-€300k each for up to 130 projects.