Top 10 Funding Opportunities:

European Partnership on Innovative SMEs (June 2025)

Projects supported under this topic are expectec to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, improved knowledge transfer in the European innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) ecosystem, through increased and sustained collaboration between SMEs, public research partners and academia.

Large-Scale Pilots for Supply End-to-End Infrastructures Integrating Device, Network Computing and Communication Capabilities for Telco Edge Cloud Deployments

The project supported under this topic is expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, strengthening European industrial ecosystems for the 3C Network, while enabling the path towards sustainability and competitiveness of key vertical sectors in the EU, to be supported in the work programme 2026-2027 of Horizon Europe by future large-scale pilot focusing on 3Cs demand in vertical industrial sectors such as “industrial virtual worlds” (automotive, aerospace, processing, manufacturing, agriculture, electronics), services (mobility, energy, smart communities, health) or others.

Robust and Trustworthy GenerativeAI for Robotics and Industrial Automation (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics and Made in Europe Partnerships)

Projects supported under this topic are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, development of advanced foundation models for robotics, fostering increased autonomy and generalization capabilities, thus enabling robots to dynamically learn and comprehend their physical surroundings in real-time, ensuring adaptability and reliability across diverse and complex scenarios.

Horizon Europe 2025 EU Missions: 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030: Supporting Regional and Local Authorities in Developing Their Action Plans Towards Climate Resilience

Project results are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, each Action Plan that regional and local authorities have developed setting in motion the implementation of a concrete list of actions to advance towards climate resilience.

Horizon Europe 2025 EU Missions: 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030: Supporting Regions and Local Authorities in Assessing Climate Risks

Project results are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, the regional multi-risk assessment framework and the supporting toolbox already developed in the context of the Mission being further improved and their use being mainstreamed.

Horizon Europe 2025: EU Research Infrastructures: Advancing AI-Readiness and Machine Actionability in the EOSC Ecosystem

Project results are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, EOSC advancing AI-readiness and Machine-Actionability (MA) in the ecosystem by offering AI-ready federated infrastructure and easy-to-use platform services for EOSC, in order to respond to one of the main challenges of research infrastructures for AI in science, namely the lack of interoperability between AI/ML solutions.

Horizon Europe 2025 EU Missions: 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030: Restoring Ocean and Waters in Regions

Project results are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, measurable, quantifiable, verifiable and ambitious progress towards reaching one or several interlinked objectives and targets of the Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”, as set out in the Mission Implementation Plan through implementation of effective and well-managed place-based and people-centred actions.

Horizon Europe 2025 EU Missions: 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030: Restoring Ocean and Waters in Waterfront Cities and their Ports

Project results are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, involvement and increased readiness of cities and port authorities for testing, deploying and upscaling systemic innovative solutions for restoring their urban waterfront ecosystems and preventing their degradation, incl. by strengthening synergies with their own programmes and resources.

Enhanced Learning Strategies for General Purpose AI: Advancing GenAI4EU (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)

Projects supported under this topic are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, development of General Purpose AI (GPAI) models and architectures demonstrating enhanced capabilities, such as formal reasoning, mathematical problem-solving, confidence level estimation, long-term planning, and seamless adaptation to dynamic and non-stationary environments.

Horizon Europe 2025 EU Missions: 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030: Restoring Ocean and Waters on Islands

Project results are expected to contribute to outcomes including, but not limited to, involvement and increased readiness of islands in testing, deploying and upscaling systemic innovative solutions for restoring islands, incl. by strengthening synergies with their own programmes and resources.