Valorising Horizon project results via innovation ecosystems
Bridging Actions 2027 · HORIZON-RIA · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that help turn promising research results from past Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 projects into real market ready innovations. Winning consortia will run competitive sub grants and provide mentoring, access to testing sites and guidance toward follow on funding so that startups, SMEs and researchers can validate and commercialise their results. The focus areas are agriculture and food, clean energy and transport, health, bioeconomy, and raw materials and advanced materials.
sme scaleup · deep tech · research excellence · agriculture agritech · renewable energy · bioeconomy
Who wins this
This call suits a consortium of knowledge intermediaries such as technology transfer offices, innovation hubs, incubators and clusters that can run cascading grant schemes to help owners of Horizon research results validate and commercialise their innovations in one of the five named thematic areas.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €2.5M to €4M
- Funding model
- Lump sum. Paid per completed work package, with no financial reporting of actual 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.
- Support to third parties
- Beneficiaries must provide financial support to third parties in the form of grants, with a minimum of 60% of the total requested EU contribution per thematic area allocated for this purpose, and a maximum of EUR 150000 per third party.
- Also required
- Proposals must address one of five thematic areas (agriculture and food, clean energy and transport, health, bioeconomy, raw materials and advanced materials) and grants will be awarded to at least the highest ranked proposal in each area.
- 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 Eligibility 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 To ensure a balanced portfolio, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but at least to one application highest ranked within each area, A, B, C, D and E, provided that the applications attain all thresholds. Proposals must clearly indicate the area they are applying to. described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes 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 ]]. 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. Beneficiaries must provide financial support to third parties.The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. Taking into consideration the objective to support prototyping and validation/demonstration of technologies in relevant environments, the maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 150 000 described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions