Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative has launched its Call for Training Proposals 2025 and is inviting organisations to collaborate on training deep tech talents by enhancing or expanding deep tech training programmes.
Detailed Call Description
Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected impact:
- Mitigate the deep tech skills gap in Europe by equipping a diverse and inclusive workforce with critical competencies, enabling innovation across key technological areas.
- Position Europe as a leader in deep tech talent development, fostering creativity, inclusivity, and collaboration in training methodologies and curriculum design.
- Enhance Europe’s global competitiveness in deep tech industries while supporting the digital and green transitions through an empowered, well-trained, and gender-balanced workforce.
This Call is seeking proposals from organisations looking to expand or enhance upon existing deep tech training programmes. Improvements may include digitalisation, enhancing accessibility, scaling up, fostering international collaboration, localising content to different languages, establishing new academia-industry-NGO-government partnerships, or updating programmes with more ambitious and impactful KPIs, among other.
Applicants may apply for funding to support trainings in one of the 15 deep tech areas specified on the DTT website:
- Advanced Computing / Quantum Computing
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Advanced Materials
- Aerospace, Automotive and Remote Sensing
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, including Big Data
- Biotechnology and Life Sciences
- Communications and Networks, including 5G
- Cybersecurity and Data Protection
- Electronics and Photonics
- Internet of Things, W3C, Semantic Web
- Robotics
- Semiconductors (microchips)
- Sustainable Energy and Clean Technologies
- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Metaverse
- Web 3.0, including Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, NFTs
The EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative team will conduct 3 info sessions after the publication of the call to ensure open, free, and fair access to the wider community: Call Q&A Session: 17 March, 15h00 (Brussels time). Register here
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The total maximum EIT funding allocated to this call is up to €1.000.000.
Each consortium may request up to €60.000.
The EIT funding will take the form of a lump sum grant, covering up to 100% of the eligible costs. While co-funding is not requested, applicants may provide additional funding from their own resources or other sources to enhance the project’s scope and impact. Consortia may include partners that bring with their own funding.
The exact number of activities to be funded will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the total funding available.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Industry
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Businesses
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Other Beneficiaries
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non associated third countries or international organisations, is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call topic.
To be eligible for funding, the applicants must meet the following criteria by the proposal submission deadline:
- The call is open to the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions.
- All entities participating in this call for proposals must become Pledgers (have their pledge submitted) as early as possible.
- All Pledgers who have joined by 31 December 2024, must have their 2023-2024 reports fully completed in all required sections by the time of application submission, whereas all pledgers joining from 1 January 2025 onwards, must submit their reports as a precondition for pre-financing, if successful.
- Applicants should not have received funding from the DTTI Prize 2023 or from DTTI Call for Training Proposals 2024 for the same actions of the application of the Call 2025.
- Applicants cannot be EIT KICs.
Consortium composition – The consortium must include minimum 2 independent legal entities, coming from at least 2 different eligible countries:
- At least one partner must come from a Member State (MS).
- The other partner can be from either MS or Associated Countries (AC).
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
Address: 29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia, P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Person:
Nedi Kaffa
Scientific Officer
Email: nkaffa@research.org.cy
EU Contact Point
All applicants may also contact info@eitdeeptechtalent.eu to ask questions and clarify any points on the Call content, and its general and technical aspects.