Horizon Europe CL4, materials, industry, space: upcoming calls (and info event)

The programme Horizon Europe, part Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space (CL4) prepares announcement of topics for international projects to be funded in 2025. Calls are planned to open in May and June 2025, deadlines in September and October 2025.

► On 13. and 14. 5. 2025, the European Commission organise information days on these calls. Event webpage.
► On 27. 5. 2025, a Czech national infoday on these calls is organised. Event webpage (in Czech).

The information in this news is based on unofficial sources, the calls are still subject to change. Source.

If you plan to participate in a proposal submitted to a Horizon Europe call, please, contact well in advance the Project Management Department (Martina Holíková, martina.holikova@natur.cuni.cz).
See also Horizon Europe – practical information on faculty website.

If you are interested in one of the topics, but you don’t know, how to find a project coordinator or partners, please, contact the Project Management Department and we’ll recommend to you some networking opportunities.

If you have international research contacts and your research can be potentially used in applied research and in innovation, but cannot find a suitable topic in Horizon Europe, contact us and we can try to find a topic for you.

• CL4 calls on Funding & Tenders Portal – links to pages of the individual topics will be published here (a topic page includes i.a. basic information, topic description, links to relevant documents, frequently asked questions, interface for proposal submission.)
• Draft Work Programme 2025: Digital, Industry and Space (source) – context and goals, description of all topics, budget information etc.
• About CL4 by European Commission.
• About CL4 by Czech National Contact Points – news, events etc.

Projects are carried out by international consortia with significant participation of users of results of the projects, the usual consortia size is ca. 8–25 entities (depending on scope of the topic) from EU countries or countries associated to Horizon Europe. Each project proposal must focus on one of the specific topics prescribed by the programme for the given year. About this type of projects on faculty website

CL4 contains topics potentially relevant for researchers in who’s research results can be used in the fields of e.g., advanced materials, production of safe chemicals and critical raw materials, utilisation of Artificial Intelligence in science, utilisation of data from Earth Observation (Copernicus) and others.

Examples of topics that seem relevant for the Faculty of Science:
If a topic title sounds relevant for you, read its full description, especially from the Expected Outcome a Scope, in the Work Programme (draft).

• HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-33:
  Integrated use of renewable energy carriers in industrial sites
• HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-62:
  Strategic Partnerships for Raw Materials: Innovative Approaches for sustainable production of Critical Raw Materials
• HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-43:
  Innovative Advanced Materials for robust, fast curing sealants and coatings for manufacturing and final assembly
• HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-46:
  Innovative Advanced Materials for photonics, enabling low-power and ultra-broadband performance for telecommunication
• HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-47:
  Innovative Advanced Materials for conformable, flexible or stretchable electronics
• HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-51:
  Development of safe and sustainable by design alternatives to Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
• HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-52:
  Accelerate the uptake of lifecycle assessment for Safe and Sustainable by Design chemicals and materials and resulting products
• HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01:
  Advanced sensor technologies and multimodal sensor integration for multiple application domains
• HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-DIGITAL-61:
  AI (Artificial Intelligence) Foundation models in science
• HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-DIGITAL-62:
  Facilitated cooperation for AI (Artificial Intelligence) in Science
• HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-41:
  Copernicus Climate Change Service evolution: new and innovative processing and methods for future Sentinels and other satellites for reanalyses
• HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-42:
  Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service evolution: improved soil-vegetation-atmosphere modelling and data assimilation of atmospheric constituents
• HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-43:
  Copernicus Anthropogenic CO₂ Emissions Monitoring & Verification Support capacity: new and innovative methods to estimate the impact of fires on vegetation and related carbon fluxes
• HORIZON-CL4-2025-02-SPACE-46:
  Innovative Earth observation services in support of maritime litter detection and ship source pollution policies
• HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-14:
  Core technologies for virtual worlds
• HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-66:
  Assessment of Technology Infrastructure needs in Ukraine

News published by Ludmila Součková on 18. 3. 2025.
Updated 21. 3. 2025 (link to Czech national infoday).

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