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Horizon Europe is an EU research and innovation programme. It has a budget of €95.5 billion and runs until 2027.
The UK agreed a deal to associate to Horizon Europe on 7 September 2023.
UK researchers can now apply for Horizon Europe funding, certain that all successful UK applicants will be covered through the UK’s association (or through the guarantee) for the remainder of the programme.
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £110 million for ambitious research and innovation projects in any sector, and tailored support to develop careers for future leaders. This funding is from UKRI.
- Competition opens: Monday 23 June 2025
- Competition closes: Wednesday 5 November 2025 11:00am
This competition has not yet opened.
Programme: Horizon
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01 (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01)
Opening date: 22 May 2025
Deadline date: 18 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) has opened its 2025 Calls in May for submission in September.
The main outcome will be the availability of higher speed optical access networks and future end-to-end packet optical network architecture to be integrated and interfaced to the overall 6G architecture. Such systems can be applied to all domains in the system and allow a very energy-efficient data transport for very high throughput rates.
Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) has opened its 2025 Calls in May for submission in September.
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of at least £1 million for collaboration with Canadian SMEs on joint Semiconductors projects.
Programme: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01 (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01)
Planned opening date: 22 May 2025
Deadline date: 18 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
Programme: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01 (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01)
Planned opening date: 22 May 2025
Deadline date: 18 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
Programme: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01 (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01)
Planned opening date: 22 May 2025
Deadline date: 18 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
Programme: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01 (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01)
Planned opening date: 22 May 2025
Deadline date: 18 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
Programme: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01 (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01)
Planned opening date: 22 May 2025
Deadline date: 18 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
UK registered businesses can apply for loans for close to market innovative projects with strong commercial potential. They must significantly improve the UK economy and drive societal benefit.
Competition opens: Thursday 10 July 2025
Competition closes: Wednesday 27 August 2025 11:00am
UK registered academic institutions, research and technology organisations (RTOs) or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £9 million to fund innovation projects with businesses or not for profit organisations.
- Competition opens: Monday 16 June 2025
- Competition closes: Wednesday 17 September 2025 11:00am
Apply for funding to build a Canada-UK academic NetworkPlus in semiconductor research, share expertise in areas of joint interest and seed future projects. Focus on joint research and development strengths in compound semiconductors, photonics, NEMS/MEMS, advanced packaging and chip design.
Funding for this activity is unilateral. It will develop a roadmap and vision for a longer-term larger scale Canada-UK initiative in semiconductors.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
2 July 2025 9:00am Opening date
10 September 2025 4:00pm Closing date
ESA’s OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR KICK-STARTS (BASS ARTES 4.0) is always open. This means that businesses from any sector can apply for Kick-Starts throughout the year.
Please note that for 2025 the following deadlines for submissions apply:
- Friday 29 August 2025
- Friday 31 October 2025
Programme: Horizon
DIGITAL - CNECT (HORIZON-CL4-2025-03)
Planned opening date: 10 June 2025
Deadline date: 02 October 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
Programme: Horizon
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01 (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01)
Opening date: 22 May 2025
Deadline date: 18 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time
Programme: Horizon
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-02 (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-02)
Opening date: 18 June 2025
Deadline date: 18 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time