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Horizon Europe Cluster 5 — Climate, Energy and Mobility

Horizon Beyond-State-of-the-Art Solar PV

Funds three €12M innovation projects that scale efficient, reliable and resilient solar-PV manufacturing beyond today’s commercial technologies.

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Europe’s solar deployment goals require more resilient manufacturing capacity and faster movement from promising PV technologies to competitive products. This scheduled Horizon Europe Innovation Action funds three €12 million projects to demonstrate production technologies beyond the current commercial state of the art.

Projects should demonstrate cells and modules with higher conversion efficien

Demonstrate solar cells and modules with conversion efficiency beyond commercially available products while matching leading reliability and degradation performance. Projects develop multi-MWp-ready, energy-efficient and defect-free production technologies, equipment and pilot lines with digitalised and automated processing. The work targets commercialisation of innovative PV technologies, European manufacturing resilience and the EUPI-PV research agenda, with exploitation, scalability, deployment, business and KPI-reporting plans and a final TRL 7 objective.

CycleiHow often this grant runs — e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.Biennial
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.31 Mar 2027
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.30%
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.€36M

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Last verified: 25 Aug 2026Funder reference: HORIZON-CL5-2027-02-D3-15Source: ec.europa.eu