# Understanding and overcoming barriers to the scale-up of innovations supporting EU Missions
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**topic id:** HORIZON-MISS-2026-07-CROSS-02
**call id:** HORIZON-MISS-2026-01
**title:** Understanding and overcoming barriers to the scale-up of innovations supporting EU Missions
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** MISS
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2026-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-12-09T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MISS-2026-07-CROSS-02
**description:** Expected Outcome:
• The missions’ stakeholder communities are better aware of the diversity of risk perception and risk management strategies related to technological and non-technological innovations among them.
• European, national, regional and philanthropic funders can better address barriers (socio-technical, economic, cultural, and regulatory) to the achievement of mission objectives by strengthening stakeholder groups’ specific risk management strategies.
• Improved understanding and removal of barriers to scaling up innovative solutions relevant to EU Missions. 
 Scope:
This call aims to identify and address the barriers preventing the scaling and deployment of innovative technologies and non-technological innovations that support the five EU Missions in achieving their objectives. The analysis should notably consider how the risk perception and risk management strategies of diverse stakeholder groups affects the scalability of innovations in the context of EU Missions. By integrating insights from Social Sciences, and Humanities, projects will explore socio-technical, economic, cultural, and regulatory challenges to unlock the full potential of existing, performant but underutilised solutions.
This call invites research-led interdisciplinary consortia to investigate the barriers (socio-technical, economic, cultural, and regulatory) that impede the scaling of technological and non-technological solutions. The projects activities shall cover all five EU Missions.
Proposals should create a better understanding of socio-technical barriers based on investigations of risk perception and risk management related to technological and non-technological innovations. This shall include risk perception and risk management in regulatory and governance bodies, and the identification of socio-technical path dependencies in the context of missions. This shall include, without being limited by:
• Exemplary assessment of stakeholders perception of the social, economic, and environmental effects of innovations in missions settings.
• Exemplary assessment of examples of behavioural and systemic change as a result of shifting patterns of thought of risk and risk management and action, and experiment with new ways to drive transformation.
• Analyses of the role of experimentation (including by ‘culturally aware and emotional nudging’) to change risk perception and management as means of knowledge production and communication. 
 Projects should feed their insights to other EU mission projects, including those working on the topic “Advancing lead markets and proof-of-concept for deep tech solutions contributing to EU Missions.”
**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.
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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
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).

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
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 RIA, IA) 

Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
HE MGA 

Additional documents:
 HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 12. Missions
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
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:** 
    - 2025
  **budget Topic Action Map:** 
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        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 1000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-31
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 1
        **max Contribution:** 1000000
        **min Contribution:** 1000000
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-09
    **110722:** 
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        **budget Year Map:** 
          **2025:** 2000000
        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-31
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 1
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        **min Contribution:** 2000000
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-09
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        **budget Year Map:** 
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        **deadline Dates:** 
          - 2026-03-31
        **deadline Model:** single-stage
        **expected Grants:** 2
        **max Contribution:** 4000000
        **min Contribution:** 4000000
        **planned Opening Date:** 2025-12-09
**keywords:** HORIZON-MISS-2026-07-CROSS-02, HORIZON-MISS-2026-01, Emerging industries, Innovation strategies, Innovation support services, Regulatory framework for innovation, Technology implementation
**last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00

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