Horizon Europe – Horizontal Activities (2026-2027)

2025-2026

Opening: 18 December 2025
Deadline(s): 15 September 2026

  • HORIZON-CID-2026-01-01:
    R&I in Support of the Clean Industrial Deal: Decarbonisation of energy intensive industries (IA) (Processes4Planet and Clean Steel partnerships)

2027

Opening: 12 Jan 202
Deadline(s): 15 Sept 2027

  • HORIZON-CID-2027-01-01:
    R&I in Support of the Clean Industrial Deal: Decarbonisation of energy intensive industries (IA) (Processes4Planet and Clean Steel partnerships)

2026

Opening: 28 May 2026
Deadline(s): 24 Nov 2026

2026-2027

Opening: 13 Oct 2026
Deadline(s): 02 Feb 2027

2026-2027

Opening: 13 Oct 2026
Deadline(s): 14 Jan 2027

  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-01:
    Understanding the nature and the extent of the effects of PFAS on biodiversity and ecosystem services
    • Interested members: CESAM
  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-02: Better understanding, anticipating and addressing the biodiversity benefits and impacts of the clean and digital industries
  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-03: Systemic approaches to accelerate transformative change for biodiversity
    • Interested members: CESAM
  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-01: Assessing direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity decline of invertebrates
    • Interested members: CESAM, ILE-SAS
  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-02: Living labs co-creating solutions for the restoration of ecosystems addressing implementation bottlenecks and improving resilience to risks
    • Interested members: UK-CEH, ESSRG, INBO, CESAM
  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-03: Networking to scale up living labs for nature restoration solutions and to address bottlenecks to implementation
    • Interested members: INBO, ILE-SAS
  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-04: Innovative solutions to fight wildlife trafficking and to reduce invasion of invasive alien species
    • Interested members: ILE-SAS
  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-05: Cost-effective biodiversity monitoring for EU policies

Opening: 06 Oct 2026
Deadline(s): 16 Feb 2027

  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-04-01:
    Understanding the nature and the extent of the effects of PFAS on biodiversity and ecosystem services
    • Interested members: CESAM
  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-04-02:
    Detection, monitoring, modelling, and attribution capabilities for Solar Radiation Modification activities and their impacts on Earth’s climate and ecosystems

2027

Opening: 03 June 2027
Deadline(s): 16 Sept 2027

  • HORIZON-NATURE-2027-03-01:
    Advancing interdisciplinary, data-driven research at the biodiversity- health interface under a One Health approach

2026-2027

Opening: 06 Oct 2026
Deadline(s): 18 March 2027

  • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-09:
    EU AI Media Platform – modular multilingual public-interest infrastructure for European news and audiovisual media (IA) – Apply AI
  • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-10:
    Autonomous Drive Ambition Cities (IA) – Apply AI
  • 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
  • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-13: EU Frontier AI Initiative: Advanced Scaling Frameworks for High-Performance AI Models (RIA) – Apply AI

Opening: 06 Oct 2026
Deadline(s): 16 Feb 2027

Opening: 20 Oct 2026
Deadline(s): 28 Jan 2027

2027

Opening: 09 Mar 2027
Deadline(s): 15 June 2027

  • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-04: Supporting the long-term resilience and European sovereignty of critical research data and knowledge repositories and scientific services for the life sciences
  • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-06: Access to research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing industry needs in priority areas
  • HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-07: Europe’s world class research and technology infrastructures as strategic assets for talent to Choose Europe