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Horizon Europe Cluster 5 — Climate, Energy and Mobility

Horizon CCAM: Generative AI for Perception & Decision-Making

Funds two €6.5M projects using generative AI to sharpen real-time perception and decision-making for automated vehicles.

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Self-driving pilots at Level 3 and 4 keep hitting the same wall: perception and decision-making that's fast and reliable enough for real streets, especially dense urban ones full of pedestrians and cyclists. This topic funds generative AI — large language models, vision-language models, vision-language-action models — to push past that wall, building on early exploratory work from a 2023 CCAM proj

Two projects developing generative AI for automated vehicles: real-time perception and decision-making systems (LLMs, vision-language and vision-language-action models) for Level 3/4 driving, GenAI-generated test scenarios that extend existing CCAM validation datasets, and guidance on where GenAI helps and where it doesn't. Work spans on-board, edge, infrastructure and back-office deployments, with vulnerable-road-user safety named as a use case.

CycleiHow often this grant runs — e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.One-off
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.8 Oct 2026
Decision timeiTypical time from the deadline to the funder's decision.22 weeks
Project durationiHow long the funded work is expected to run.
Award typeiThe form of funding — grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Grant
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.0%
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.€13M

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Last verified: 12 Aug 2026Funder reference: HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D6-03Source: ec.europa.eu