Loading page...
Log inCreate account
Loading page...
This round is closed. The next round and similar open calls are listed below. Synced from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal on 9 November 2026.
This call is closed. These open or upcoming calls fund the closest work.
Based on projects the EU funded on the same subject in this programme.
eLTER EnRicheLTER EnRich - Bridging phases towards the Integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure
HORIZON-INFRA-2023-DEV-01-02 · 2024 · Official record ↗
ResearchData4SocietyTHE POTENTIAL OF RESEARCH DATA – HOW RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES PROVIDE NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND BENEFITS FOR SOCIETY HIGH-LEVEL PRESIDENCY CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SE-CONF-ART195-IBA · 2023 · Official record ↗
EMSO EVOLVEEuropean VisiOn for Long-term Ocean Observations and EnVironmEntal Sustainability
HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-03 · 2026 · Official record ↗
RIECS-ConceptTOWARDS A PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EXCELLENT CITIZEN SCIENCE
HORIZON-INFRA-2024-DEV-01-01 · 2025 · Official record ↗
StR-ESFRI4Support to Reinforce the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures 4
HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-04 · 2026 · Official record ↗
HABILITERHigh-level Advancement for Building and Implementing Long-term Infrastructure Training and Expertise Resources
HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-DEV-01 · 2026 · Official record ↗
IMPULSEIMProving User experience, Long-term sustainability and Services of EU-OPENSCREEN
HORIZON-INFRA-2023-DEV-01-03 · 2024 · Official record ↗
EvolveBBMRIAccelerating datafication for support of EU health priorities, greening of biobanks and integrated approach to “One Health”
HORIZON-INFRA-2023-DEV-01-03 · 2024 · Official record ↗
Each one links to its EU funding record and the partners it works with: a starting list for building a consortium.
Project results are expected to contribute to several of the following expected outcomes:
This topic targets the consolidation of the EU research infrastructures landscape through the support, together with the countries that are members of the research infrastructures, to the strengthening, long-term sustainability, reorientation or evolution of ESFRI Landmarks[1] or European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs)[2].
The proposed action should justify the specific objectives and focus on activities that are critical for the sustainability and optimised use of the ESFRI Landmarks or ERICs, such as activities aiming at several of the following objectives:
In case of reorientation or evolution of the research infrastructure scope, activities should fill gaps in the research infrastructures landscape[3], enabling the research infrastructure to address new research or societal challenges and/or serve new user communities, increasing and improving service capacity and/or integrating new resources/facilities.
Due attention should be given to related EU initiatives, strategies and priorities and, where relevant, to complementarity and relevance to activities in other parts of Horizon Europe, such as better addressing SRIAs of Horizon Europe partnerships. Proposals should explain concrete complementarities and any synergies with previous or current EU grants, notably under the research infrastructures part of the Horizon Europe work programme, e.g. INFRADEV and INFRATECH grants.
Given the funding rate, proposals should ensure a minimum adequate backing by the beneficiaries, who should provide the remaining share for the activities covered by the Grant Agreement and foster the sustainability of the ESFRI Landmark or ERIC.
Specific attention should be given, where relevant, to the greening of technologies and methodologies used by the research infrastructure, to the interaction with industry/SMEs, to the fostering of the innovation potential of the infrastructures, and to their integration into local, regional and global innovation ecosystems.
[1] See list of ESFRI Landmarks in the ESFRI RIs PORTFOLIO https://ri-portfolio.esfri.eu/
[2] See ERIC Landscape – Active European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs) https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-research-and-innovation/our-digital-future/european-research-infrastructures/eric/eric-landscape_en
[3] Although the action aims at individual support to a pan-European research infrastructure, applicants should consider the ESFRI Landscape Analysis and liaise during the action with other relevant ESFRI/ERICs to ensure complementarity https://landscape2024.esfri.eu/ .
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
The following additional eligibility criteria apply:
Due to the scope of this topic, proposals must include at least one of the ESFRI Landmarks[[See the list of ESFRI 'Landmarks' in the 2021 ESFRI Roadmap on https://roadmap2021.esfri.eu/ For ESFRI Landmarks that are not an ERIC or an international European research organisation, the beneficiary must be the legal entity hosting the infrastructure in the lead country (such legal entity is a minimum requirement to become an ESFRI Landmark).]] or European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs)[[European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) | European Commission (europa.eu)]] as beneficiary. Such beneficiaries, and the research infrastructure(s) that they operate, must be explicitly identified in the proposal. For distributed ERIC the ERIC must be the beneficiary.
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
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
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]].
The funding rate is 80% of the eligible costs.
described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.
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) /!\ Topic HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-03: Do not use the general templates available on this portal for your Detailed budget table. You must download the specific templates for this topic directly from the submission platform.
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
Applicants asked the EU 3 questions about this call and the EU published the answers. They clarify the call documents but do not replace them.
For this topic, applicants should enter 100% of the eligible costs in the detailed budget table provided in the submission system.
The detailed budget table for DEV-01-03 has been specifically designed to reflect the financial set-up of this topic. Therefore, all costs declared in the budget table (per beneficiary and per work package) must correspond to 100% of the eligible costs.
Then, as explained in the “Instructions” tab of the budget table, the tab called “Lump sum breakdown” will automatically calculate the maximum grant amount that can be requested, which corresponds to 80% of the total eligible costs.
It is therefore very important that applicants use the correct budget table template provided in the submission system.
Finally, the amount corresponding to 80% of the eligible costs (i.e. the maximum grant amount calculated in the lump sum table) is the amount that must be introduced in Part A of the proposal.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 22 May 2026
The topic indicates that proposal should “focus on activities that are critical for the sustainability and optimised use of the ESFRI Landmarks or ERICs, such as activities aiming at several” of listed objectives.
While the topic explicitly refers to activities aiming at several of the listed objectives (more than one), it does not define how many objectives should be addressed by the proposed activities. It is at the discretion of the applicants to define this and present a credible approach to address the scope of this Topic and reach the expected outcomes.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 6 May 2026
The topic indicates that proposal should “focus on activities that are critical for the sustainability and optimised use of the ESFRI Landmarks or ERICs, such as activities aiming at several” of the listed objectives.
As indicated in the topic text, proposals should focus on activities that are critical for the sustainability and optimised use of the ESFRI Landmarks or ERICs. These include activities aiming at several of the listed objectives but may include also activities addressing other objectives, provided they are critical for the sustainability and optimised use of the ESFRI Landmarks or ERICs.
The proposal should describe convincingly how the proposed activities contribute to the expected outcomes of the topic.
Read it on the EU portal ↗Answered 6 May 2026
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
A free account keeps your shortlist and sends deadline reminders. The EUACC connector brings this call, its FAQs, past winners and similar calls into Claude or ChatGPT, so you can check fit and draft with sources.