Access to research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing industry needs in priority areas
Bridging actions 2027 · HORIZON-RIA · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that open up Europe's best research infrastructures to industry, especially SMEs, startups and scaleups, so companies can access advanced facilities and services to carry out research and innovation. It supports transnational and virtual access, user training, and streamlined access portals in six priority areas including biomedical and food technologies, clean energy and mobility, advanced materials, accelerators, microelectronics, and ocean sensing. The goal is to make these infrastructures more attractive, efficient and sustainable for industry driven research.
research excellence · advanced materials · biotechnology · renewable energy · semiconductors · ocean marine
Who wins this
This call suits a consortium of research infrastructure operators, including at least one ESFRI Landmark or ERIC, that wants to open its facilities and services to industrial users in one of the six targeted priority areas.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €5M
- 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.
- Eligible applicants
- research organisation, public body
- Also required
- Proposals must include at least one ESFRI Landmark or ERIC as beneficiary, must address one of six listed priority areas, and must include access provision activities as a core element, with unit costs allowed for trans-national and virtual access.
- 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 The page limit of the application is 100 pages. 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. The page limit of the application is 100 pages. 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). Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks. Given the specific nature of this topic, access provision activities must be included in the proposal. Please read carefully the provisions under the section “ Specific features for Research Infrastructures ” of this work programme part before preparing your application. The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding as a beneficiary with zero funding, or as an associated partner. The JRC will not participate in the preparation and submission of the proposal - see General Annex B. 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 covering as many of the six areas as possible, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but also to those proposals that are the highest ranked per each area subject to budget availability, provided that the applications attain all thresholds. described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes The following additions to the general award criteria apply: For the 'Excellence' criterion, the following aspects will also be taken into account: The extent to which the access activities (trans-national and/or virtual access) will offer access to the state-of-the-art infrastructures of European interest in the field, high quality services, and will enable users to conduct excellent research and/or innovation. The extent to which the project will contribute to facilitating and integrating the access procedures, to improve the services the infrastructures provide and to further develop their on-line services. 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 additional access rights: Beneficiaries shall grant royalty-free access to their intellectual property relating to tools, standards, specifications, and other outputs generated by this action that are directly relevant to advertise the research infrastructures services and their modality of access, and for implementing access calls (such as peer-review process and communication with applicants), to the EU institutions and to the beneficiaries of projects funded by the EU in view of a more sustained and integrated EU access scheme. This access shall be provided through a mechanism to be defined in the proposal, during and up to two years beyond the lifespan of the Grant Agreement. Eligible costs may take form of unit costs for trans-national and virtual access to research infrastructures as defined in the Decision authorising the use of unit costs for the actions involving trans-national and virtual access. (see Annex 2a of the Horizon Europe Model Grant Agreement). described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions