Detection, monitoring, modelling, and attribution capabilities for Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) activities and assessing their impacts on Earth's climate and ecosystems
Bridging actions 2027 · HORIZON-RIA · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds research to detect, monitor and understand Solar Radiation Modification, a set of controversial climate intervention technologies. It supports building scientific evidence, modelling capabilities and earth observation tools to help policymakers track and attribute SRM activities and assess their risks to ecosystems and climate, without funding actual deployment or field testing of SRM itself.
climate adaptation · environmental monitoring · biodiversity · research excellence · civil society democracy
Who wins this
A multidisciplinary research consortium combining atmospheric scientists, earth observation experts, ecologists and social scientists that wants to build detection, monitoring and governance tools for SRM technologies rather than develop or test SRM itself.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €10M
- 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
- Projects using satellite based earth observation or positioning data must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS; field experiments and deployment type SRM activities are explicitly out of scope; EU representatives will sit on the evaluation committee and conflict of interest risk management for commercial SRM interests must be addressed.
- 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 The evaluation committee will be composed partially by representatives of EU institutions. 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: Quality and efficiency of the implementation: - the risk management procedures to address conflict between the creation of a restricting governance framework for SRM and partners' interest in commercial deployment or development of technologies for the deployment of SRM. 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