Climate security and civil preparedness – new ways to develop pre- and post-crisis climate-change related scenarios for a more resilient Europe

Affiliated entities do not count toward the minimum consortium-composition threshold.

At least one of the qualifying independent beneficiaries must be established in an EU Member State.

The standard consortium must contain at least three independent beneficiaries established in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries.

The three qualifying beneficiaries must be established in at least three different EU Member States or Associated Countries.

An entity that is not eligible for Horizon Europe funding may generally participate as an associated partner unless the call says otherwise.

Each beneficiary must be established in a country eligible for Horizon Europe funding, unless an explicit call-level or essential-participation exception applies.

Due to the scope of this topic, relevant international organisations with headquarters in a Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country are exceptionally eligible for funding. 128 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0286 The following additional eligibility criteria apply: This top ic requires the active involvement, as beneficiaries, of at least 3 authorities in charge of disaster risk 129 from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries.

Applicants must complete the Horizon Europe ethics self-assessment as part of the application.

For an Innovation Action, the maximum Horizon Europe funding rate is normally 70%; non-profit legal entities may receive up to 100%, unless the specific topic sets a different rate.

Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme fo r Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) 130 .

For these participants, applicants must fill in the table “Information about se curity practitioners” in the application form with all the requested information, following the template provided in the submission IT tool.

Proposals should aim to develop methodologies, tools, and technologies that enhance situational awareness both before a crisis (pre-crisis) and after a crisis (post-crisis), enabling decision-makers and populations to respond effect ively.

The expected EU contribution is around EUR 4500000 per project; this is guidance rather than a hard cap unless the topic conditions state otherwise.

The Commission currently expects to fund approximately 1 project(s) under this topic.

The topic has an indicative total budget of EUR 4500000.

The project must focus exclusively on civil applications and comply with the applicable prohibited-research 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).

Technology Readiness Level Activities are expected to achieve TRL 7-8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

Please refer to the related provisions in section B Security — EU classified and sensitive information of the General Annexes.

Security Sensitive Topics Some activities resulting from this topic may involve using classified backg round and/or producing of security sensitive results (EUCI and SEN).