Open topic on driving innovation uptake of disaster risk solutions

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.

The following additional eligibility criteria apply: This topic requires the a ctive involvement, as beneficiaries, of at least 3 first responders or authorities in charge of disaster risk 126 from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries.

The following exceptions apply: In line with the “ restriction on control in innovation actions in critical technology areas ” delineated in General Annex B of the General Annexes, entities established in an eligible country but which are 122 https://civil-protection-knowledge-network.europa.eu/media/ecpp-capacities-brochure 123 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0286 124 https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/what/civil-protection/resceu_en 125 Knowledge for Action in Prevention and Preparedness (KAPP)-European Commission-https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/funding-evaluations/financ ing-civil-protection/cp-calls-proposals/knowledge-action-prevention-and-preparedness-kapp-0_en directly or indirectly controlled by China or by a legal entity established in China are not eligible to participate in the action.

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) 127 .

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

This topic aims to foster the widespread adoption and integration of high-TRL (Technology Readiness Level) disaster risk solutions (DRS) across multiple sectors, enhancing societal resilience to various hazards, including climate.

This includes national civil protection authorities as well as other institutions that can demonstrate, through appropriate legal or administrative acts, a formal mandate to design, coordinate, or implement disaster risk prevention, prepar edness, or response, measures. 127 This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents secti on for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/oppor tunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf classified and sensitive information of the General Annexes.

The expected EU contribution is around EUR 3000000 per project; this is guidance rather than a hard cap unless the topic conditions state otherwise.

The Commission currently expects to fund approximately 2 project(s) under this topic.

The topic has an indicative total budget of EUR 6000000.

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 servic es, 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 8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.

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).