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Purpose & Target

Grant Purpose and Target

Core objective: To enhance collaborative research and innovation (R&I) efforts addressing global challenges by coordinating national and regional R&I funding programs.
Explicit identification of target recipient type and size: Consortia of legal entities, which can include regional authorities, agencies, and civil society organizations.
SECTOR-AGNOSTIC
Geographic scope and any location requirements: Open to legal entities from EU Member States, Associated Countries, and, exceptionally, non-associated third countries. A consortium must include partners from different eligible countries, with at least two partners from EU Member States.
Key filtering criteria for initial grant screening: Must be a consortium, focused on R&I program coordination and alignment, and involve entities from multiple eligible countries.
Grant frequency and program context: This is a single-stage call within the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2025, continuing the spirit of previous ERA-NET schemes within the new Horizon Europe strategic approach.

Financial Structure

Maximum grant amount per project: 2,000,000.0 EUR.
Total budget available for this specific topic (HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-05): 4,000,000.0 EUR, expected to fund 2 grants.
Applicants must demonstrate clear commitments from participating programmes to pool resources.
Pooled resources are expected to come from national/regional research programmes, pertinent foundations, charities, and transnational initiatives.
The pooled resources are intended for implementing calls for proposals and providing grants to third parties without EU co-funding from this grant. This grant supports the coordination activities.

Eligibility Requirements

Organizational Eligibility

Applications must be submitted by a consortium.
Consortium must include participation, as beneficiaries, of at least three independent legal entities.
Eligible entities include regional authorities, agencies, and civil society organizations.

Geographic Location

Each legal entity must be established in a different Member State, Associated Country, or non-associated third country.
At least two of the legal entities must be established in a Member State.
Legal entities established in non-associated third countries are exceptionally eligible for Union funding.

Consortium Requirements

Mandatory consortium of at least three independent legal entities from different eligible countries.

Exclusion Criteria

Proposals must demonstrate that activities exclude overlaps with ongoing actions co-funded by the EU under Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe.

Application Process

Application Timeline

Submission system opens: May 15, 2025.
Application deadline: September 18, 2025, 00:00:00 UTC.

Required Documentation

Standard application form (HE CSA) is available in the Submission System.
Proposal page limit and layout must adhere to descriptions in Part B of the Application Form.
Standard evaluation form templates (HE CSA) will be used for proposal assessment.

Submission Process

Applications must be submitted via the Electronic Submission Service on the Funding & Tenders Portal.
The submission procedure is single-stage.
Applicants can access existing draft proposals through the 'My Proposals' page within the 'My Area' section of the portal.

Project Implementation

Projects are expected to envisage a duration of up to 3 years. A longer duration is permissible if duly justified by the ambitions and complexity of the proposed activities.

Support Available

A partner search functionality is available to help applicants find suitable consortium partners.

Evaluation Criteria

Impact

Identification of common research and innovation priorities among national and regional R&I programmes, considering relevant international R&I policy developments and trends, leading to coordinated R&I funding agendas.
Implementation of multiannual joint calls, resulting in the funding of transnational collaborative R&I projects.
Implementation of additional joint activities supporting technology, regulatory policy, societal, and market uptake.
Contribution to participating states meeting global challenges, including relevant contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Potential impact demonstrated at national, regional, and transnational level.

Quality and Coherence

Strength of bottom-up initiatives to define new collaborations on chosen priorities.
Effectiveness in aligning national and regional research funding.
Clarity of plans for pooling resources.
Demonstrated complementarity with Framework Programme activities, European Partnerships, and EU Missions.
Justification and clarity for the involvement of non-associated third countries.

Implementation

Clear commitments from participating programmes to pool resources.
Feasibility and robust plans for implementing joint calls for transnational R&I projects and other joint activities.
Demonstrated strategy for leveraging resources from pertinent foundations, charities, and transnational initiatives.

Compliance & Special Requirements

Regulatory Compliance

Admissibility conditions are detailed in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.
Eligibility of countries is described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
Financial and operational capacity requirements, along with exclusion criteria, are outlined in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.
The legal and financial set-up of the grants is described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.
Compliance with EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 is required.

Ethical Standards

The action encourages strengthening collaboration with non-EU countries and promoting shared European values and principles for research and innovation, including advancing gender equality and inclusiveness.

Overlap Prevention

Proposals must explicitly demonstrate that proposed activities do not overlap with ongoing actions co-funded by the EU under Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe.

International Cooperation

International cooperation is actively encouraged.
Any involvement of non-associated third countries must be clearly explained and thoroughly justified within the proposal.

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