SoilTribes | Open Call to Support Initiatives Led by Multi-Actor Teams

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Code: 38116 | Identifier Code: SoilTribes | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 11/08/2025 | End submission calls: 10/10/2025

SoilTribes invites applications for lump sum grants aimed at supporting innovative, multi-actor initiatives that foster soil literacy, raise public awareness, and engage diverse communities in the protection and restoration of soil. These grants are designed to trigger behavioral change and galvanize innovation at the intersection of science, arts, and society.

dAIEDGE 3rd Open Call – Collaborative Projects

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Code: 38113 | Identifier Code: dAIEDGE | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 14/08/2025 | End submission calls: 14/10/2025

dAIEDGE is a Network of Excellence (NoE) for distributed, trustworthy, efficient and scalable AI at the Edge. The dAIEDGE Network of Excellence (NoE) seeks to strengthen and support the development of a dynamic European cutting-edge AI ecosystem under the umbrella of the European Lighthouse for AI, and to sustain the development of advanced AI.

The 3rd Open Call aims to expand the role of the dAIEDGE Network of Excellence in the edge AI continuum, encompassing micro-, deep-, and meta-edge, with a focus on standardisation, open-source contributions, and infrastructure development.

HERIFORGE 1st Open Call

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Code: 38111 | Identifier Code: HERIFORGE | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 27/08/2025 | End submission calls: 27/10/2025

The main goal of HERIFORGE (cultural HERitage and Immersive technologies for innovation FORGE) is to develop a network of three interconnected place-based hubs in Poland, Cyprus and Turkey providing Research and Innovation environment for innovation in the Cultural and Creative Industries with the responsible use of XR (extended reality) technologies and cultural heritage for the benefit of social resilience.

Support for the Ukrainian tech SMEs and startups

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Code: 38109 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-UKRAINIANTECH-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 12/08/2025 | End submission calls: 26/11/2025

This action focuses on deep-tech startups which 1) have high-impact innovation technology, product, service, or business model that could create new markets or disrupt existing ones, and 2) have the ambition and commitments to scale up.

The successful applicants are expected to work on the deep-tech innovation within the abovementioned priority areas. Such companies often struggle to attract financing because the technology and investment risks are too high.

This topic is designed to enable promising deep-tech startups to develop further their innovations from at least TRL 4 (technology fully validated in a lab) and attract the investment amounts needed for scale up in a shorter timeframe.

The applicants are expected to demonstrate in their application that they:

• have developed technology validated in the lab level (at least all aspects of TRL 4 completed)
• have the potential to reach application and market in period of 2-3 years;
• possess the necessary Intellectual Property Rights to ensure freedom to operate and adequate protection of the idea;
• have a clear vision on the intended pathway and route to market. This includes specific milestones together with concrete and verifiable KPIs to assess progress towards the market.

Applications from women-led companies are encouraged.

If relevant, for those applicant companies that are currently located in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country, a clear intention to relocate back the company to Ukraine whenever feasible is expected.

Citizen and Stakeholder Engagement in Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) and Forest Restoration

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Code: 38108 | Identifier Code: G-05-2025 | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 14/07/2025 | End submission calls: 12/10/2025

FORWARDS is a project funded by the European Union that will prototype the Forest-Ward Observatory, a pan-European monitoring and evaluation system that will help assess how European forests respond to the impacts of climate change. It will document current restoration activities concerning forests, biodiversity, carbon, and soils, and explore various restoration options to guide decision-making processes towards climate-smart forest management. One of the aims of the FORWARDS project is to engage and empower citizens and stakeholders in the co-creation of solutions that will support the future of forests amidst climate change challenges.

Waste-to-value devices – circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials

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Code: 38104 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/07/2025 | End submission calls: 29/10/2025

Fossil fuels supply a majority of the world’s energy and also provide the raw materials, or feedstocks, for many essential everyday products.

While energy provision is becoming increasingly decarbonized, the production of fuels, chemicals and materials requires carbon atoms as feedstocks.

However, their production can be “de-fossilized”, by utilising renewable energy and alternative carbon sources. Likewise, a circular economy approach offers scope to reduce external dependencies and source other essential molecular feedstocks including critical raw materials from wastes.

Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments

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Code: 38101 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/07/2025 | End submission calls: 29/10/2025

Robotic automation offers significant advantages to several sectors, yet on-site construction robotics is amongst the most challenging and least understood fields in robotics.

The unstructured, dynamic environment with human presence makes navigation and automation of the many concurrent construction tasks deeply challenging. Further, the current state-of-the-art solutions focus on adding higher degrees of automation to legacy tools, such as heavy equipment designed for diesel engines and human operators.

Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer

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Code: 38098 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/07/2025 | End submission calls: 29/10/2025

Imaging is a crucial component of cancer clinical protocols, providing detailed morphological, structural, metabolic, and functional information. However, harnessing the full potential of the data generated through medical imaging in clinical settings remains challenging.

Clinicians often struggle to combine diverse and large-scale data into a comprehensive view of patient care, disease progression, and treatment efficacy.

The inability to seamlessly integrate and interpret diverse data sources result in suboptimal patient outcomes and inefficiencies in the delivery of healthcare.

Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing

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Code: 38095 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 24/06/2025 | End submission calls: 29/10/2025

Land based agricultural production is the source of approximately 95% of human food nutrients (UN FAO).

Intensive and often inappropriate practices in agriculture have however resulted in severe soil degradation, thereby reducing the capacity of soils to support food production and other important ecosystem services such as the regulation of water, nutrients, and carbon cycles.

Soil degradation is further accelerated by the effects of climate change, with abiotic stresses such as heat, drought, salinity, and waterlogging, often in combination, having negative effects on the world’s crop production.

The direct impact of a changed climate is also frequently accompanied by indirect impacts due to alterations in the composition and behaviour of weeds, insects, pathogens, and soil microbiome, alongside the impacts of increased amounts of human-generated pollutants.

Accelerator for Advanced Strained Silicon on Insulator Substrates

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Code: 38091 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-JU-CHIPS-2025-SG-SSOI | Programme name: 32498 | Start submission calls: 08/07/2025 | End submission calls: 20/11/2025

The proposed accelerator should address all levels of the key technological steps required to bring sSOI substrates to industrial scale:

• Development of industrial-grade sSOI substrates will focus on achieving low defect density, crucial for enhancing electron mobility and ensuring high-performance FD-SOI devices at the 7 nm node. This will involve refining strain engineering techniques, particularly to introduce a uniform global strain that can balance the performance for strained NMOS and relaxed PMOS transistors.
• Ensure compatibility with existing semiconductor manufacturing, the accelerator will refine process integration and optimisation. This includes improving epitaxial growth, wafer bonding, and defect reduction techniques to meet the requirements of advanced FD-SOI production processes.

Finally, the accelerator will promote collaboration across the semiconductor ecosystem, working with other pilot lines, as well as connecting to the design platform and competence centres, among others

Support to the International HPC Summer School

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Code: 38089 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2025-IHPCSS-02 | Programme name: 24429 | Start submission calls: 01/07/2025 | End submission calls: 02/10/2025

The primary objective is European support of the organisation and implementation and of the International HPC Summer School (IHPCSS). This includes financial support for the annual participation of up to 40 early career researchers in HPC from EuroHPC Participating States in the IHPCSS. Building on prior experience, the initiative aims to deliver high-quality, multidisciplinary training in high-performance computing and quantum technologies to graduate students pursuing a PhD and early career postdoctoral researchers. Through co-organisation with leading international partners in HPC, the action will ensure a world-class training programme, delivered by leading HPC specialists, and a balanced mix of theoretical and practical sessions. The IHPCSS also seeks to foster international collaboration, promote diversity and inclusion, and enhance the global visibility of European HPC expertise as promoted by EuroHPC JU. The action will implement structured evaluation mechanisms to continuously improve the programme and explore synergies with other global HPC training initiatives.

CETPartnership Joint Call 2025

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Code: 38086 | Identifier Code: CETP | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 11/06/2025 | End submission calls: 09/10/2025

The CETPartnership has seven Transition Initiatives (TRIs) focusing on RDI Challenges described in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) that address various technologies and system aspects connected to the clean energy transition, as well as several cross-cutting dimensions.