Open topic on supporting disruptive technological innovations for civil security

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

Eligible co sts 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 for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Res earch and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) 159 .

For participants with practitioner status, applicants must fill in the table “Information about security practitioners” in the application form with all the requested in formation, following the template provided in the submission IT tool. 158 https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/ceris-community-european-research-and-innovation-security_en 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).

The expected EU contribution is around EUR 1500000 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 3000000.

A key focus is bridging the gap 159 This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisi ons’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_ he_en.pdf 160 In the context of this Destination, the concept of ‘disruptive technological innovations’ refers to breakthrough technologies starting at low or very low TRL (<4) and holding the promise of inducing a paradigm shift in the way civil security operations are currently carried out, e.g.

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

Technology Readiness Level Activities are expected to achieve TRL 4-5 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.

The following exceptions apply: Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.

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