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Projects the EU funded under this call, with the organisation that led each one.
VALORAILVAlue of LOw carbon and RAil assessment
Led by Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer · France · 2026 · Official record ↗
CLIFRAIL-EUCLimate Innovative Financing for the Rail sector in the EU
Led by Guidehouse Netherlands BV · Netherlands · 2026 · Official record ↗
Based on projects the EU funded on the same subject in this programme.
SYLPLANTAlternative sources for high added value food and/or feed ingredients
HORIZON-JU-CBE-2022-IAFlag-02 · 2023 · Official record ↗
tRail5.0Driving the digital transformation of the European rail ecosystem towards Industry 5.0
HORIZON-JU-ER-2025-EXPLR-01 · 2026 · Official record ↗
AMAZING-6GAmazing Large-Scale Trials and Pilots for Verticals in 6G
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2024-STREAM-D-01-01 · 2025 · Official record ↗
DIREQTDiamond for Industry REady Quantum Technologies
HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2025-QAC1-4-SGA · 2026 · Official record ↗
CALYPSOComputational AI factory Link Yielding Performance, Services, and Outreach
HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2025-AIFA-01 · 2026 · Official record ↗
PROACTIFUNMANNED VEHICLES FOR CIVIL SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE MISSIONS
HORIZON-JU-Chips-2024-1-IA-T1 · 2025 · Official record ↗
RENEWCHEMFirst of a kind industrial facility for bio-based long-chain alcohols
HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025-IAFlag-02 · 2026 · Official record ↗
Each one links to its EU funding record and the partners it works with: a starting list for building a consortium.
The EU’s goal set by the European Green Deal is to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Railways are an essential component for transport decarbonisation and while technological developments would help rail to become more competitive and attractive, significant investment would be needed in the coming years to implement the successful outcome of EU-Rail innovations. In order to achieve this ambitious goal, exploring ways to unlock new financing sources and mechanisms to support sustainable railway development is of key importance.
Key expected outcomes of this Research and Innovation Actions shall include the development of new knowledge with the identification of the key challenges, drivers, and expected measurable outcomes/benefits of implementing the new concepts of environmental economy. More specifically, the studies can include:
The study should aim to provide actionable recommendations to help railways to access the growing pool of climate finance to support their transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient transport system , and can include the following:
Gender dimension
In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.
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Activities are expected to be of low TRL1, with possible technology concept formulated at TRL2, higher TRL are also possible – see General Annex B for a guide to the TRL definitions and criteria to be used.
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Regarding admissibility conditions and related requirements, part A of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2025 General Annexes applies, with the following exception: the limit for a full Research and Innovation Action application is set to 70 pages.
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
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 award criteria included in part D of the General Annexes of the Horizon Europe – Work Programme 2023 – 2025 are complemented with additional criteria as specified in Annex VIII to this Work Programme.
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
The starting date of grants awarded under this topic may be as of the submission date of the application. Applicants must duly justify the need for a retroactive starting date in their application. Costs incurred from the starting date of the action may be considered eligible.
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.
described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme]
Indicative budget
The total indicative budget for the topic will be 0.6 million EUR.
Applicant Private[[As defined in Article 2(5) of Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085.]] Members of the EU-Rail part of consortia responding to this topic should provide in-kind contributions to additional activities to be declared via the template model available on the F&T portal. The amount of total in-kind contributions (i.e. in-kind contributions for operational activities and in-kind contributions for additional activities) should be no less than 1.26352 times the funding request, in aggregate, of these applicant Private Members. Any discrepancy shall be well and duly justified. In this respect, the grant agreements will set, in principle, annual deliverable on in-kind contributions for the projects selected under this topic, as well as mandatory reporting requirements, for those applicants who are Private Members of EU-Rail.
Indicative project duration
30 months. This does not preclude submission and selection of a proposal with a different project duration
Special skills and/or capabilities expected from the Applicant(s)
Applicants shall ensure that their proposals and consortium reflect the aggregated expertise to perform the activities and achieve the objectives set by the topic.
The applicants are expected to gather expertise leveraging from the knowledge of Academia and of the rail supply industry, SMEs and start-ups. In addition, applicants should leverage from the expectations of the end users, in the horizon 2030, considering the R&I contribution and vision from the EU-Rail Master Plan and Multi-Annual Work Plan.
Europe's Rail - Work Programme 2025-2026
Europe's Rail Master Plan
Europe's Rail - Multi Annual 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
Application form - Part B (HE EU-RAIL, IA)
Application form - Part B (HE EU-RAIL, RIA)
Application form - Part B (HE EU-RAIL, CSA)
Evaluation form templates
Evaluation form (HE EU-RAIL, RIA/IA) 
Evaluation form (HE EU-RAIL, CSA) 
Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA 
Call-specific instructions 
Information on financial support to third parties (HE) 
Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
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
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