Horizon Border Security: Surveillance & Drone Detection
Funds two €6M projects that build border detection and surveillance tech, run jointly with national Border and Coast Guard authorities.
Europe's land and sea borders are getting harder to watch. Migration pressure, conflict, and economic, social, and climate stress push more people to cross irregularly, often in dangerous conditions that call for search and rescue. At the same time, cheap and increasingly capable drones, uncrewed boats, and underwater vehicles make it easier to move goods — and sometimes people — across the same b…
Developing and demonstrating technology that improves land and sea border surveillance and situational awareness for Europe's Border and Coast Guard authorities: detecting, locating, characterising, and — where legally allowed — neutralising unmanned aerial, surface, and underwater vehicles used to smuggle goods or people across external EU borders, and improving general situational awareness during large-scale or irregular border-crossing events and search-and-rescue operations. Proposals must show a measurable, beyond-state-of-the-art improvement in detection range, accuracy, response time, automation, or system resilience, and integrate with the EU's EUROSUR border-surveillance system.
Sign up free to see the funding breakdown
Sign up free to see the industries in scope
Sign up free to see the full eligibility
Sign up free to see how to apply
Sign up free to see what you submit
Sign up free to see how they score you
Sign up free to see the timeline
Sign up free to see where teams trip up
Guides for this application
All guides →Horizon Europe Grants for Startups: A Founder Guide
A practical guide to Horizon Europe grants for startups, including EIC, consortia, eligibility, Funding & Tenders, TRL, budgets, and EU strategy.
BudgetGrant Financials and Co-Funding Evidence: Examples for Startup Applications
See examples of grant financials, match funding evidence, co-funding tables, accountant letters, investor commitments, and budget-to-work-plan checks.
Start hereTRL Levels Explained for Deeptech Founders
Learn what TRL levels mean, how to estimate technology readiness, and how TRL affects grants, EIC Accelerator, SBIR/STTR, funding stage, and application evidence.
Write proposalHow to Write a Grant Proposal Reviewers Can Score
Learn how to write a grant proposal around reviewer criteria, evidence, work packages, budget logic, and commercialization for deeptech and R&D funding.
More from European Commission
All grants from this funder →Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions and crime
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research and pilot collaboration between police authorities and civil-society groups to prevent addiction-linked crime across the EU.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Horizon Border Security: Age Assessment Reliability
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €1.33M project, run with border and coast guard authorities, that compares how reliable different ways of estimating a young migrant's age really are.
Horizon Civil Security: Bioterrorism Prevention
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €3M project that reviews how synthetic biology could be misused for bioterrorism and pinpoints where monitoring and regulation fall short.
Horizon Civil Security: Critical Communications System
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €3M project building rugged, post-quantum-secure comms devices for first responders that keep working without cellular coverage.
Similar grants
Browse the directory →
Grand Solutions Grant
🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark
Funds Denmark-wide flagship consortia tackling difficult science and engineering problems through shared-stage support.
BIRD Cyber
🇺🇸DHS · United States
Funds U.S.-Israeli teams developing cybersecurity applications through BIRD grants.
BIRD Homeland Security
🇺🇸DHS · United States
Funds U.S.-Israeli teams developing homeland security technologies through BIRD conditional grants.
Innovation Support to Operations Phase 3
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds UK-registered companies delivering manufacturable, TRL 6-ready defence technology innovations scalable to operational use within twelve months.
Optical wireless communications research and testing facility
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding to establish a national optical wireless communications test facility.
Innobooster Grant
🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark
Funds Danish small businesses and entrepreneurs for knowledge based technology development with co investment support.