Automated Scientific Discovery - Materials Science (RAISE pilot) (RIA)
AI in Science · HORIZON-RIA · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that build AI driven, closed loop automation systems for materials science labs, allowing experiments to be planned, run, and analysed with little or no human intervention. It aims to speed up discovery, improve reproducibility, and demonstrate working prototypes that retrofit existing labs rather than requiring a full rebuild. Applications span areas like batteries, solar cells, carbon capture, water purification, and drug discovery.
artificial intelligence · robotics automation · advanced materials · research excellence · deep tech
Who wins this
A consortium of AI and robotics developers working closely with materials science labs that already have a solid level of automation and want to add an intelligent, autonomous decision making layer.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €9M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Also required
- Proposals should demonstrate close interdisciplinary collaboration between computer or AI scientists and domain scientists, and should target labs with an already advanced level of automation and digitalisation.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
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 described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions