# Accelerating the circular transformation of the EU automotive industry
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**topic id:** HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-07
**call id:** HORIZON-CL5-2025-04
**title:** Accelerating the circular transformation of the EU automotive industry
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** CL5
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-04T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-05-06T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D5-07
**description:** Expected Outcome:Project results are expected to contribute to all the following outcomes:
• Widespread and shared understanding of circular economic principles with a harmonised approach across the full life-cycle value chain of road transport and beyond;
• Increased Europe’s resource sovereignty, lower the environmental footprint, and strengthen the competitiveness of the European automotive-full life-cycle value chain;
• Definition of requirements and boundaries for a European circular economy eco-system in the automotive sector also towards possible definitions of future standards;
• Increased development and adoption of product passports and digital twins, further optimising reuse and remanufacturing of all possible components, systems and sub-systems and vehicle recycling;
• A roadmap for highly visible and focused European Pilot Projects (lighthouses) is developed that drives the industrial transformation towards circularity at an accelerated speed in the European automotive-full life-cycle value chain. 
 Scope:Proposals are expected to address all the following aspects, focussing on end-of-life strategies:
• Identify stakeholders and industrial sectors and implement all needed measures for a direct involvement: • Support full life-cycle value chain stakeholder communities from European to regional levels; 
• Map ongoing projects and remanufacturing processes and analyse existing industrial strategies and roadmaps within the automotive value chain; 
• Design and implement a strong stakeholders’ engagement process. 
 
• Analyse the full life-cycle value chain eco-system, identify bottlenecks, gaps, and hurdles for transformation towards a circular automotive industry;
• Support the implementation and awareness of AI-based tools and processes for open and closed material, systems and component loops that can significantly increase the end-of-life value, the re-useability and re-cyclability “by design” of all vehicle components and materials also in other industrial sectors;
• Assess the economic, environmental and societal impact of a future circular automotive industry (e.g., business cases and investments, contribution to the environmental footprint and the Green Deal objectives, job creation, competitiveness…), and analyse possible viable business models along the full life-cycle value chain (9R principles), within a circular automotive industry;
• Support the conceptualisation of a possible future European Pilot Project (lighthouse) “Recycling Factory of the Future” including viable business models, also analysing the spillovers to other sectors, and outlining a pathway towards its possible implementation with all relevant stakeholders of the full life-cycle value chain;
• Define and develop possible future product passports and digital twins.
**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
The following exceptions apply: 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
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 obligations regarding open science practices: Open access to any new modules, models or tools developed from scratch or substantially improved with the use of EU funding under the action must be ensured through documentation, availability of model code and input data developed under the action.

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
 Not applicable.

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

Additional documents:
 HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
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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