Horizon Euratom: Nuclear Materials Partnership (CONNECT-NM) Phase 2

Continuation funding for the co-funded European partnership on nuclear materials research (CONNECT-NM), delivered as additional activities — and optionally additional partners — added to the existing HORIZON-EURATOM-2023-NRT-01-04 grant agreement, not a new consortium or a new competition. Funds materials-science work behind the safety, efficiency and economics of nuclear installations: structural materials and fuels for current reactors and advanced designs including small modular reactors (SMRs), predictive modelling ('materials by design'), experimental qualification such as neutron irradiation testing, knowledge-management tools including nuclear design codes, and financial support to third parties that secure access to shared nuclear research infrastructure (capped at €300,000 each). The partnership's own research scope widens beyond CONNECT-NM's original materials list — for example to polymers — and covers every EU Member State and Associated Country working on nuclear materials research, not only countries that generate nuclear power.