# New or enhanced Innovative Advanced Materials (IAM) enabled sensing functionality (RIA)
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**topic id:** HORIZON-CL4-2026-05-MAT-PROD-25
**call id:** HORIZON-CL4-2026-05
**title:** New or enhanced Innovative Advanced Materials (IAM) enabled sensing functionality (RIA)
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** CL4
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2026-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2026-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL4-2026-05-MAT-PROD-25
**description:** Expected Outcome:
• New technological solutions with improved performance and reduced energy and environmental impact consumption providing significant advances towards the emergence of competitive value chains in IAM-based sensing components in Europe.
• Widespread adoption of low-cost IAM-based sensing solutions in e.g. environmental monitoring, industrial safety, and next-generation smart sensing applications including health monitoring.
 Scope:
Proposals should address at least one of the following two areas.
A. IAM-enabled multifunctional surfaces able to detect and respond to changes in the environment, such as temperature, pH, moisture, microbiological or chemical pollutants, concentration of chemical species in air, gases and liquids, and converting these signals into measurable outputs. Such surfaces should demonstrate high performance in terms of sensitivity, selectivity, response time, durability and cost-effectiveness. Proposals should target applications such as environmental and ecosystems monitoring, as well as health monitoring.
B. The development of enhanced IAM-based sensor demonstrators, that enable miniaturization and integration into application systems e.g. into portable IoT devices, lightweight wearables and wearable systems. These sensors must meet key performance requirements, e.g. compatibility with silicon technology, operation in real conditions with low power consumption, high sensitivity (low limit of detection and/or high signal to noise ratio), high selectivity and fast detection speed.
Stability and resistance to extreme conditions such temperature and humidity should be taken into account. Solutions could also take inspiration from bio-mimicry.
Proposals may contribute to one or both above R&I areas. However the main area addressed must be clearly and unambiguously identified in the proposed project.
Proposals should integrate the value chain and incorporate the relevant manufacturing technologies needed to bring the developed devices towards the market.
Technology must be demonstrated in an industrially relevant environment.
Proposals should include activities aiming at facilitating future exploitation of results.
Consideration of circularity and recyclability, and compliance with the safe and sustainable by design framework should boost the confidence of industry and end-users and enhance the Innovative Advanced Materials ecosystem and uptake.
Where relevant, cooperation with activities funded under the Chips Joint Undertaking, the photonics partnership or other initiatives are encouraged.
Beneficiaries that intend to transfer ownership or grant an exclusive licence must formally notify the granting authority (i.e. DG-CNECT and HaDEA) before the intended transfer or licensing takes place and the granting authority may up to four years after the end of the action object to a transfer of ownership or the exclusive licensing of results.
This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU (IAM4EU).
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Activities are expected to start at TRL 3 and achieve TRL 5-6 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.
**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
To ensure a balanced portfolio covering the two areas described below, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but at least also to one proposal that is the highest ranked within each area, provided that the applications attain all thresholds. For the purposes of the ranking the main area declared by the proposal will be considered.

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
The granting authority may, up to 4 years after the end of the action, object to a transfer of ownership or to the exclusive licensing of results, as set out in the specific provision of Annex 5.

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.

Documents

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)
Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) 
Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA 
Call-specific instructions 
Detailed budget table (HE LS) 
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 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
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
**action type:** HORIZON  Research and Innovation Actions
**budget:** 
  **budget Years Columns:** 
    - 2026
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
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        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2026:** 22500000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-04-15
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 3
        **max Contribution:** 7500000
        **min Contribution:** 7500000
        **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-15
    **113022:** 
      -         **action:** HORIZON-CL4-2026-05-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02 - HORIZON-RIA HORIZON  Research and Innovation Actions
        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2026:** 38000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-04-15
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 2
        **max Contribution:** 19000000
        **min Contribution:** 19000000
        **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-15
    **113023:** 
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        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2026:** 25000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-04-15
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 2
        **max Contribution:** 13000000
        **min Contribution:** 12000000
        **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-15
**keywords:** HORIZON-CL4-2026-05-MAT-PROD-25, HORIZON-CL4-2026-05, Electronic properties of materials, surfaces, interfaces, nanostructures, etc, Materials for sensors, Sensor Technology and Components
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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