# Innovative Advanced Materials Innovation Procurement (CSA)
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**topic id:** HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-44
**call id:** HORIZON-CL4-2025-01
**title:** Innovative Advanced Materials Innovation Procurement (CSA)
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** CL4
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-23T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-05-22T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-44
**description:** Expected Outcome:• Leverage innovation procurement processes to stimulate innovation in advanced materials addressing specific needs or challenges faced by public procurers.
• Drive market transformation by aligning public procurement strategies with broader policy objectives, such as the twin transition.
• Establish market dialogue between the public demand side and the supply side, industry, and research organisations, reducing the gap between innovation procurement strategies and innovative solution development roadmaps on both sides.
• Develop proposals for amending Commission guidelines and sharing best practice on innovation procurement targeting resource and energy efficiency gains due to innovative technologies related to advanced materials.
• Identify standardisation needs for procurers in line with the Commission communication on Advanced Materials for Industry Leadership.
 Scope:The use of advanced materials[1] has the potential to reinforce the Union’s resilience and competitiveness as well as achieving circularity, materials efficiency and overall sustainability targets. Public procurers can play a leading role in driving innovation and fostering the uptake of advanced materials, thereby speeding up the market introduction of technologies that enable the twin transition and EU’s resilience and economic security. Advanced materials drive innovations in new clean energy technologies provided for in the Net-Zero Industry Act and have the potential to substitute certain Critical Raw Materials (CRMs), thus contributing to the objectives of the CRM Act. Advanced materials can also replace hazardous substances, improve the environmental performance of products and processes, and facilitate circularity.
Public Procurements that make better use of advanced materials can potentially achieve a substantial impact towards these policy objectives in all areas where the public sector is an important customer such as construction, mobility, electronics and energy. Examples of functionalities that could potentially be realised through advanced materials include thermal isolation and protective coatings in construction, superior reliability and durability of energy and mobility infrastructures, improved performance of electronic devices, increased circularity and cost-efficient maintenance of products.
Mandatory requirements in public procurement procedures, relating to for example energy efficiency performance or environmental sustainability, are foreseen in the Energy Efficiency Directive[2], the Net Zero Industry Act[3] and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation[4]. More generally, the EU Public Procurement Directives allow contracts to be awarded not only based on lowest price, but also on other criteria linked to the subject matter of the contract, such as improved performance/functionalities provided by advanced materials. Furthermore, the Competitiveness Compass for the EU[5] foresees the introduction of a European preference in public procurement for strategic sectors and technologies, reinforcing technological security and domestic supply chains, as well as simplifying and modernising rules, in particular for start-ups and innovative companies.
The objective of this coordination and support action (CSA) is to create a Europe-wide consortium of public procurers that define together unmet procurement needs for innovative solutions based on advanced materials.
The consortium should prepare future procurement topics to conduct Pre-Commercial Procurements (PCP)/Public Procurements of Innovative Solutions (PPI) that make use of advanced materials with novel functionalities for sectors where public procurers and key customers, in particular aligned with objectives pertinent to advanced materials.
Proposal objectives should reflect making best use in public procurements of innovative material properties that contribute to superior product performance (including the impact on e.g. production, maintenance or recyclability) and/or contribute to policy objectives such as those formulated in the Green Deal, the Net-Zero Industry Act, the Critical Raw Materials Act and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation while having the potential to be exploited as widely as possible.
Activities supported by this CSA should include the following aspects:
• open market consultation with the industry;
• market analysis and analysis of potential barriers (status of market developments regarding advanced materials versus the procurement needs, standardisation, certification, regulatory requirements, intellectual property rights, contracting models, payment schemes, etc.);
• consultations with other public buyers and relevant stakeholders such as end-users to prepare for a future market uptake of the solutions and effective use of innovation procurement (PCP/PPI).
 [1] Advanced Materials for Industrial Leadership, COM(2024)98 final
[2] Energy Efficiency Directive
[3] Regulation 2024/1735
[4] Regulation 2024/1781
[5] COM(2025)30 final
**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
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]].

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 CSA) 
Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations 
Standard evaluation form (HE CSA) 
Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA 
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 2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 14. 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
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