Horizon Europe Cluster 4 — Twin (Green+Digital) Transition for Industry

Funds factory AI that adapts production in real time, improves quality, and cuts scrap, energy use and carbon emissions.

Funds generative, foundation and agentic AI for faster materials development, safer plants and more efficient industrial processes.

Funds industrial substitutes for substances of concern, covering design, production, manufacturing integration and market uptake.

Funds €10–15M projects building launch pads and ground facilities on EU territory, so European launch providers can fly from European spaceports.

Funds €3–6M projects on the digital building blocks of satellite comms and Earth observation — payloads, ground processing, interoperable data access.

Funds €5–10M consortium projects that mature Earth observation and SatCom technology to flight readiness, ahead of real demonstration missions.

Funds €1.5–2.5M teams mining space-science mission data — astronomy, heliophysics, solar-system exploration — into publications, tools and data products.

Funds one EU project, up to €13M, to build and qualify a radiation-hardened FPGA chip so Europe's space missions stop depending on non-EU suppliers.

Funds one €6–7M project to industrialise an EU source of semi-insulating SiC substrates — the wafer base for the GaN chips in satellite radios.

Funds one €3–4M project turning a prototype irradiation facility into a booked-beam-time service for radiation-testing Europe’s space chips.

Funds €2–3M projects developing a European refuelling interface — the docking hardware that lets satellites be topped up in orbit.

Funds six €6–8M projects that make strategic European products with less critical material, energy and imported-input dependence.

Funds €5–6.5M research projects that automate factory de-manufacturing and remanufacturing for a more circular European industry.

Funds €5–6.5M projects that design circular advanced materials and move them from recovery-ready prototypes into energy and construction products.

Funds three €4–6M projects that scale renewable fibres and sustainable chemicals into competitive circular textile production.

Funds €10–12.5M projects that recover critical raw materials from difficult ores and mining waste with cleaner, more efficient processing.

Funds a €3M expert network that improves EU critical-raw-materials data, assessments and policy decisions across the value chain.

Funds six €6–7.5M projects that replace critical raw materials with safe, sustainable advanced materials and processes.

Funds €1M support projects that help universities turn dormant intellectual assets into green and digital products through startups, SMEs and industry.

Funds two €1.5–2.5M actions that give European startups and SMEs simpler access to advanced research and technology infrastructure.

Funds 25 €200k projects that turn Cluster 4 research results into tested, investable products, services and businesses.

Funds up to €2.5M fast-track projects that turn open-ended industrial-technology breakthroughs into the next research pipeline.

Funds fast-track R&I projects that bring breakthrough chemical decarbonisation, circularity and safer-substance innovations closer to market.

Funds €4–6M projects that make human-AI collaboration more inclusive, adaptable and effective on the factory floor.

Funds €7–9M projects that replace fossil process energy with renewable heat, electrification and resilient industrial storage.

Funds two €17.5M research projects that spread AI processing across sustainable, secure edge, cloud and HPC resources.

Funds two €19M pilots that put secure 3C telco-edge-cloud networks to work in mobility and another strategic vertical.

Funds €10M projects that cut the energy and climate footprint of AI data centres through better cooling, power and operations.

Funds three €14M challenge programmes that turn advanced AI into solutions for healthcare, manufacturing or autonomous driving.

Funds an €18M pilot to make AI-driven industrial robots easier to integrate, safer to deploy and reusable across factories.

Funds two €1.5M projects that adapt European AI to local data, innovation hubs and real-world challenges in low- and middle-income countries.

Funds one €4M coordination action to spot future digital technologies and connect the people who can bring them into use.

Funds a €44M frontier-AI project that builds safer, more efficient European models with lower computational demands.

Funds €4.8–5.6M research projects building smaller, smarter and more realistic hardware for inclusive virtual-world experiences.

Funds one €3M coordination action to build an open, trustworthy and competitive European Virtual Worlds and Web 4.0 ecosystem.

Funds a €7M action that helps European experts lead global digital standards and gives SMEs and researchers a stronger voice in ICT rule-making.

Funds six €3–5M research projects that make integrated photonic circuits more capable, compact and power-efficient.

Funds two €2–3M projects that bring autonomous flight, digital design and simulation tools to competitive European space transportation.

Funds up to €1M to ground-test ISOS4I mission systems and qualify a European interface for future in-space services.

Funds €1.5–3M projects linking Earth observation and SatCom technologies for resilient, secure and commercially useful space services.

Funds four €5–10M projects that prepare end-to-end Earth Observation and satellite-communications demonstrations for commercial space use.

Funds €14–15M projects that mature quantum gravimeters for space and build Europe's next Earth-observation sensing capability.

Funds one €250–300k research project to rebuild secure European supply chains for critical space electronics and components.

Funds a €250–300K project that matures critical space equipment and EU-trustworthy supply chains for independent missions.