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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.
The Thematic Call for proposals aims at supporting new space-based services for the digital transformation and sustainability of the sport sector, specifically in the organisation, management, and further exploitation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Drive innovation and economic growth by developing groundbreaking space-based technology.
Supporting early-stage companies is vital to ensuring the continued growth of the space industry. Whether that’s through downstream applications, in-orbit servicing and manufacturing or spacecraft technologies…
We invest in innovations emerging from the UK’s publicly funded science and knowledge base. We specialise in engineering biology, defence & security, fusion energy, and space to facilitate sustainable growth, enhance the health and security of society, improve productivity, and deliver economic gains emerging from UK’s public funding portfolio.
Our investment decisions are based on both the potential societal impact of technologies and the potential for financial return.
Innovate UK’s Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP) helps innovative SMEs to collaborate and explore global markets, accelerating business growth.
Each GBIP, focused on a specific market and technology or sector area, involves a cohort of up to 15 ambitious innovative UK businesses looking to grow and scale globally. The programme aims to help businesses explore future opportunities and to better understand what is needed to be successful on the global stage.
The GBIP provides detailed market knowledge, cultural insight, and introductions and connections, opening doors that SMEs might find difficult to do themselves. Each business is supported by an Innovate UK Business Growth innovation and growth specialist to help maximise the potential of being part of the programme and beyond.
Loans of up to £1m to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition, with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum.
Cycle closing date: 01/07/2026
The EIC Accelerator is a funding programme under Horizon Europe that offers support to start-ups and SMEs
UK organisations can apply for funding to collaborate on industrial research projects with partners in Eureka member countries and Japan.
Competition opens: Monday 13 October 2025
Competition closes: Wednesday 21 January 2026 11:00am
To facilitate the smooth deployment of innovations and architectures, EU-RAIL has set-up a High-Level Deployment Group. This Group established in 2024 a dedicated FRMCS Deployment Subgroup to focus specifically on FRMCS future deployment activities, drawing upon insights and results from the sector plans, activities as well as EU-Rail test and demonstration initiatives.
Planned opening date 30 October 2025
Deadline date 11 February 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time
Opening date 14 October 2025
Deadline date 08 January 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time
Women founders or co-founders with UK registered businesses at the late stage start-up phase can apply for a grant of up to £75,000 and bespoke business support, to further their ambitious growth plans.
- Competition opens: Wednesday 26 November 2025
- Competition closes: Wednesday 4 February 2026 11:00am
The Cross-Border Cyber Hubs platforms will contribute to enhancing and consolidating collective situational awareness and capabilities in detection and CTI, supporting the development of better performing data analytics, detection, and response tools, through the pooling of large amounts of data, including new data generated internally by the consortia members.
Opening date 09 December 2025
Deadline date 28 May 2026 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.
This competition is open to single applicants from micro, small or medium sized enterprises registered in the UK.
Opening date:
23 October 2025 9:00am UK time
Closing date:
7 January 2026 11:00am UK time
For the following programming cycle, the emphasis is on continuation of activities initiated during past years.
The objective is to create or strengthen National Cyber Hubs, with state-of-the-art tools for monitoring, understanding and proactively managing cyber events, in close collaboration with relevant entities such as CSIRTs, ISACs, etc. They will also, where possible, benefit from information and feeds from other Cyber Hubs in their countries and use the aggregated data and analysis to deliver early warnings to targeted critical infrastructures on a need-to-know basis. National Cyber Hubs could also consider the possibility of monitoring undersea infrastructure, such as submarine cables.
Opening date 09 December 2025
Deadline date 28 May 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time
This announcement is the second call for proposals for “innovation studies” driven by the business needs of SMEs and Start-ups highly competent in generative AI, professional software development, and data processing. The innovation studies must use large-scale European HPC resources (e.g., pre-exascale and exascale supercomputers) to develop and customise generative AI models such as foundation and large language models.
Opening date
03 December 2025
Deadline date
25 February 2026 17:00 (Brussels time)
This topic will open up new opportunities for European-based semiconductor packaging companies and their supply chain by building on currently available services of RTOs and all Chips JU pilot lines. The LFA projects should prepare and speed up the transfer of technologies from pilot lines to industrial deployment.
Opening date 03 December 2025
Deadline date 25 February 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time
Boosting cooperation for industrial implementation on advanced packaging of chiplets and heterogeneous integration in Europe.
Opening date 03 December 2025
Deadline date 25 February 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time
The Local Digital Twins for Smart Sustainable Cities (LDT4SSC) initiative is launching an Open Call for Pilots to engage European local and regional authorities, as well as a wide range of stakeholders, including public administrations at local, regional, and national levels, businesses, technology developers, suppliers, research institutions, and academia, in building a networked ecosystem of Local Digital Twins (LDTs).
The first call focuses on Work Strand 1 (WS1), which aims to interconnect existing LDTs and create a federated EU-wide network supporting seamless data exchange and interoperability. WS1 focuses on federation and interoperability, requiring pilots to prioritise cross-border data exchange and the creation of shared data spaces, demanding a baseline of digital maturity and collaboration among multiple public authorities.
Opening date
14 November 2025
Deadline date
15 January 2026 23:59 (Brussels time)