Bringing innovative climate preparedness and resilience solutions closer to the market
Bridging actions 2027 · HORIZON-CSA · Up to TRL 7 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds a single coordination project that will run competitive cascade calls to give direct financial support to businesses developing climate adaptation and resilience solutions. The money is meant to help solutions already at TRL 7 move closer to market, covering things like business development, regulatory guidance, pilot testing and commercialisation support. The project also works with public authorities to aggregate demand and identify barriers to scaling these solutions across Europe.
climate adaptation · renewable energy · water management · agriculture agritech · public health · sme scaleup · regional development
Who wins this
A consortium with expertise in business innovation, market development, legal and regulatory affairs and financial management that can coordinate cascade funding calls and distribute grants to at least 25 climate resilience businesses across multiple sectors.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €20M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- private for-profit entities (as third party recipients)
- Support to third parties
- Financial support to third parties up to EUR 800,000 per third party, aimed at private for-profit entities established in a Member State or Associated country, with at least 25 third parties to be supported and at least 80% of the EU contribution allocated to this support.
- Also required
- The first cascade call must be launched within the first 12 months of the project, and the consortium should give priority to at least one solution in each of seven priority sectors, water, food and agriculture, transport, energy, health, civil security and critical infrastructure.
- 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 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 Beneficiaries must provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 800,000 to bring innovative climate preparedness and resilience solutions closer to the market[[ It is estimated that EUR 60,000 - the usual amount maximum amount that can be paid to a third party - is an insufficient amount to provide meaningful support to businesses and projects to bring innovative climate preparedness and resilience solutions closer to the market. Experience with the direct support to businesses foreseen by the project, and with pilot demonstrations, show that a cost between EUR 400,000 and EUR 800,000 is more appropriate to cover various costs required to meet the ambition of the action.]]. Eligible third parties are private for-profit entities established within a Member State or an Associated country. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions