HORIZON-INFRA-2026-01-EOSC-02: Trusted frameworks for…

On this page · 5 sections→

01Open now
02Who wins calls like this
03Call scope
04Eligibility & conditions
05Official source

Open now: calls like this one

This call is closed. These open or upcoming calls fund the closest work.

Expanding and deepening the EOSC Federation (EOSC Partnership)HORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-01Upcoming · 15 Jun 2027
Strengthening the potential of the EOSC for knowledge valorisation and industry-academia collaboration (EOSC Partnership)HORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-02Upcoming · 15 Jun 2027
Connecting research infrastructures and a wider user community across the European Research Area through access to advanced research infrastructure servicesHORIZON-INFRA-2027-SERV-01-03Upcoming · 15 Jun 2027
Pillar I: Facilitating development of institutional open access policies through the retention of intellectual property rightsHORIZON-WIDERA-2027-05-ERA-01Upcoming · 11 Mar 2027
Developing a model for a Data Lab for Science linking with EOSC and RAISE (RAISE pilot) (CSA)HORIZON-RAISE-2027-01-04Open · 2 Feb 2027

Who wins calls like this

Based on projects the EU funded on the same subject in this programme.

Who leads the winning projects

Other63%
Research centres38%

€6.0Mtypical EU grant per project

Most common lead countriesNetherlands, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy

Projects funded on similar topics

EOSC GravitySupporting the EOSC Partnership in further consolidating the coordination and sustainability of the EOSC ecosystem
HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01-02 · 2025 · Official record ↗
€4.7M
EOSC Data CommonsServices for inter- and cross-disciplinary data discovery, access, sharing and reuse in the EOSC Federation
HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01-05 · 2025 · Official record ↗
€7.0M
EOSC Track IIEOSC Track II: Sustaining the EOSC Monitoring Mechanism
HORIZON-INFRA-2026-IBA-01 · 2027 · Official record ↗
€400k
EOSC-ENTRUSTEOSC-ENTRUST: A European Network of TRUSTed research environments
HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-06 · 2024 · Official record ↗
€4.2M
EOSC-MarineEOSC-Marine: Operationalizing the EOSC Node | European Digital Twin Ocean to Support the EU Mission Ocean & Waters
HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-01 · 2026 · Official record ↗
€7.9M
EOSC MeshEOSC Mesh: Connecting Nodes to Advance the EOSC Federation
HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-01 · 2026 · Official record ↗
€9.6M
CDIF4EOSCDeveloping and implementing the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework for EOSC
HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-02 · 2026 · Official record ↗
€8.0M
SIESTASecure Interactive Environments for SensiTive data Analytics
HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-06 · 2024 · Official record ↗
€5.0M

Organisations that keep winning here

Each one links to its EU funding record and the partners it works with: a starting list for building a consortium.

What this call funds

Expected Outcome

Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

Countries, research communities and institutions are equipped with data sovereignty frameworks harmonised within EOSC and aligned with EU legislation and international agreements.
Improved mechanisms and solutions for effective control over sensitive data and for enabling lawful data use and sharing across EU member states, scientific disciplines and third countries with EU adequacy decision in place.
More harmonised guidelines, support and training to researchers and data stewards on applying EU and national legislation and international agreements for data access, sharing, reuse, licensing and associated services within EOSC.
Increased interoperability with relevant solutions of other European data spaces for secure data management and processing.

Scope

Research data sovereignty refers to the possibility for effective control by data owners of data usage and sharing when necessary. Effective and transparent community-driven data sovereignty frameworks are important enablers of open science, in particular ensuring safe and trusted management of personal or sensitive data, safeguarding the quality of curated research datasets and the effective application of related EU and national digital and data legislation. Data sovereignty mechanisms can also improve the resilience and preparedness of research and data infrastructures against risks related to access to and preservation of critical data and services, including risks related to data generated and stored outside the EU/EEA.

The exponential growth of available research data and the increasingly collaborative and cross-disciplinary research has accentuated challenges related to secure, efficient and lawful cross-border data sharing for research purposes. Removing barriers to data sharing while ensuring data sovereignty is crucial to realise the potential of EOSC to foster trusted cross-country and cross-discipline scientific collaboration.

This topic aims to support data sovereignty while enabling seamless and trusted data sharing and access across scientific disciplines, EU Member States and third countries where the EU considers sufficient data protection is in place, tackling different regulatory regimes and procedures.

Proposals should include the following activities:

Development and implementation of national, community and/or institutional research data sovereignty frameworks, including policies for data sharing and access, harmonised and aligned with EU digital and data legislation and international agreements such as adequacy decisions and digital partnership agreements, as well as best practices from EOSC, related common European data spaces and international data-sharing standards and initiatives.
Demonstration and validation of concrete adoption cases of data sovereignty policies by national, community or institutional actors, aligned with open science and the FAIR data principles.
Development of harmonised governance frameworks, ensuring smooth enforcement of data sovereignty policies.
Development of comprehensive data provenance tools to trace and verify the quality and lineage of data used in research, and demonstration through identified use cases within relevant selected thematic areas.
Development of templates and guidelines for secure and sovereign data management, including template agreements on data sharing, publication, and reuse, and guidelines for licensing.
Development of guidelines for classifying critical data and services based on sensitivity and relevance to scientific communities and European policies, and for managing risks related to access to and preservation of such critical data and services.
Analysis of data categories and definitions across scientific disciplines, incorporating compliance with security requirements set out in EU and national legislation.
Development of recommendations for the establishment of a support centre, linking with relevant national and thematic competence centres, focused on compliance of data management with EU and national legislation, and proof of concept of its integration and sustainable operation in the EOSC Federation.

Projects are encouraged to explore synergies with relevant EU initiatives such as other common European data spaces that address sensitive data or data critical for research. To ensure complementarity and use of latest research results, proposals should build on ongoing and previous INFRAEOSC projects such as those funded by topics 2023-EOSC-01-06, 2023-EOSC-01-04 and 2024-EOSC-01-04 and align with the EOSC Federation policies and standards[1]. This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership for the European Open Science Cloud[2].

[1] As described in the EOSC Federation Handbook and other relevant documentation potentially adopted by the EOSC Federation

[2] https://eosc.eu/partnership/

Eligibility & conditions+

General conditions

1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries

described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

3. Other Eligible Conditions

Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.

described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion

described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds

are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

The following additions to the general award criteria apply:

For the ‘Impact’ criterion, the following aspects will also be taken into account:

The extent to which the proposed work incorporates the necessary coordination efforts and resources with other relevant projects and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) governance structure in the context of the EOSC Partnership.

are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement

described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants

Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional access rights:

Each beneficiary must grant royalty-free access to its results to the EOSC Association for monitoring and developing policies and strategies for the European Open Science Cloud. Each beneficiary must also provide directly to the EOSC Association the information the beneficiary deems necessary for monitoring and developing policies and strategies for the European Open Science Cloud.
Each beneficiary must grant royalty-free access to its intellectual property rights which are part of the results and are needed for further developing the European Open Science Cloud to legal entities identified by the granting authority and established in Member States or countries associated to the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. Such access rights are limited to non- commercial use.

Beneficiaries must deposit the digital research data generated in the action in a trusted repository federated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in compliance with EOSC requirements.

Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025)[[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]]

described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.

Specific conditions

described in the specific topic of the Work Programme

Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):

Application form templates — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System

Standard application form (HE RIA, IA)

Standard application form (HE CSA)

Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations

Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA)

Standard evaluation form (HE CSA) 

Guidance

HE Programme Guide 

Model Grant Agreements (MGA)

HE MGA 

Lump Sum MGA 

Framework Partnership Agreement FPA 

Call-specific instructions 

Detailed budget table (HE LS) 

Information on financial support to third parties (HE) 

Information on clinical studies (HE) 

Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"

Additional documents:

HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 1. General Introduction

HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 3. Research Infrastructures

HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 15. General Annexes

HE Programme Guide

HE Framework Programme 2021/695

HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764

EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509

Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme

Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment

EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement

Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual

Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 

Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

Official source

Confirm the current call documents and submission conditions with the funding authority.

View on EU portal ↗

Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal · synced 2026-11-09

Who wins calls like this

Based on projects the EU funded on the same subject in this programme.

Who leads the winning projects

Other63%
Research centres38%

€6.0Mtypical EU grant per project

Most common lead countriesNetherlands, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy

Projects funded on similar topics

EOSC GravitySupporting the EOSC Partnership in further consolidating the coordination and sustainability of the EOSC ecosystem

HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01-02 · 2025 · Official record ↗

€4.7M

EOSC Data CommonsServices for inter- and cross-disciplinary data discovery, access, sharing and reuse in the EOSC Federation

HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01-05 · 2025 · Official record ↗

€7.0M

EOSC Track IIEOSC Track II: Sustaining the EOSC Monitoring Mechanism

HORIZON-INFRA-2026-IBA-01 · 2027 · Official record ↗

€400k

EOSC-ENTRUSTEOSC-ENTRUST: A European Network of TRUSTed research environments

HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-06 · 2024 · Official record ↗

€4.2M

EOSC-MarineEOSC-Marine: Operationalizing the EOSC Node | European Digital Twin Ocean to Support the EU Mission Ocean & Waters

HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-01 · 2026 · Official record ↗

€7.9M

EOSC MeshEOSC Mesh: Connecting Nodes to Advance the EOSC Federation

HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-01 · 2026 · Official record ↗

€9.6M

CDIF4EOSCDeveloping and implementing the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework for EOSC

HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-02 · 2026 · Official record ↗

€8.0M

SIESTASecure Interactive Environments for SensiTive data Analytics

HORIZON-INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-06 · 2024 · Official record ↗

€5.0M

Organisations that keep winning here

Each one links to its EU funding record and the partners it works with: a starting list for building a consortium.

What this call funds

Expected Outcome

Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

Countries, research communities and institutions are equipped with data sovereignty frameworks harmonised within EOSC and aligned with EU legislation and international agreements.
Improved mechanisms and solutions for effective control over sensitive data and for enabling lawful data use and sharing across EU member states, scientific disciplines and third countries with EU adequacy decision in place.
More harmonised guidelines, support and training to researchers and data stewards on applying EU and national legislation and international agreements for data access, sharing, reuse, licensing and associated services within EOSC.
Increased interoperability with relevant solutions of other European data spaces for secure data management and processing.

Scope

Proposals should include the following activities:

Development and implementation of national, community and/or institutional research data sovereignty frameworks, including policies for data sharing and access, harmonised and aligned with EU digital and data legislation and international agreements such as adequacy decisions and digital partnership agreements, as well as best practices from EOSC, related common European data spaces and international data-sharing standards and initiatives.
Demonstration and validation of concrete adoption cases of data sovereignty policies by national, community or institutional actors, aligned with open science and the FAIR data principles.
Development of harmonised governance frameworks, ensuring smooth enforcement of data sovereignty policies.
Development of comprehensive data provenance tools to trace and verify the quality and lineage of data used in research, and demonstration through identified use cases within relevant selected thematic areas.
Development of templates and guidelines for secure and sovereign data management, including template agreements on data sharing, publication, and reuse, and guidelines for licensing.
Development of guidelines for classifying critical data and services based on sensitivity and relevance to scientific communities and European policies, and for managing risks related to access to and preservation of such critical data and services.
Analysis of data categories and definitions across scientific disciplines, incorporating compliance with security requirements set out in EU and national legislation.
Development of recommendations for the establishment of a support centre, linking with relevant national and thematic competence centres, focused on compliance of data management with EU and national legislation, and proof of concept of its integration and sustainable operation in the EOSC Federation.

[1] As described in the EOSC Federation Handbook and other relevant documentation potentially adopted by the EOSC Federation

[2] https://eosc.eu/partnership/

Trusted frameworks for secure and efficient data sharing in EOSC (EOSC Partnership)

Open now: calls like this one

Who wins calls like this

Projects funded on similar topics

Organisations that keep winning here

What this call funds

Expected Outcome

Scope

General conditions

Specific conditions

Official source

Get told when calls like this open.

Trusted frameworks for secure and efficient data sharing in EOSC (EOSC Partnership)

Open now: calls like this one

Who wins calls like this

Projects funded on similar topics

Organisations that keep winning here

What this call funds

Expected Outcome

Scope

General conditions

Specific conditions

Official source

Get told when calls like this open.