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EU Missions under Horizon Europe

Supports Five EU funded moonshot programmes targeting climate, cancer, ocean health, smart cities, and soil coordinated R&I grants with targets.

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EU Missions under Horizon Europe sit in the European Commission's research portfolio and group five mission programmes around climate adaptation, cancer, ocean and waters, climate-neutral and smart cities, and healthy soils. They are framed as 2030 goal-driven portfolios rather than single-topic grants, with each mission defined by a measurable public outcome.

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Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.

Horizon Climate Adaptation: National Hubs
Between cycles

Funds a €10M project that runs a climate-adaptation hub in every EU country, linking national, regional and local governments.

€10M pool
Horizon Climate Adaptation: Solutions Knowledge Hub
Between cycles

Funds a €5M project that turns Adaptation Mission pilots into a ready-to-use knowledge base for regions and local authorities.

€5M pool
Horizon Climate Mission: Data & Service Standards
Between cycles

Funds a single €9M project that consolidates reference climate data and standardises the climate services behind Europe's adaptation policy.

€9.2M pool
Horizon Climate: Disaster Risk & Adaptation Bridge
Between cycles

Funds one €5M project to connect Europe's climate adaptation and disaster risk communities into shared guidance for regional and local authorities.

€5M pool
Horizon Climate Adaptation: Resilient Inland Waterways
Between cycles

Funds €6M projects for research consortia piloting nature-based flood and drought fixes across Europe's canal and river freight network.

€12M pool
Horizon Adaptation Mission: Blended Financing
Closed

Funds a €20M facility for organisations that blend public grants with EIB-backed bank loans to finance local climate-adaptation projects, up to €800K each.

€20M pool
Horizon Cancer Mission: Virtual Human Twins
Between cycles

Funds up to four €8-9M grants for teams building AI-driven digital models of a patient's cancer to predict how it develops and guide personalised treatment.

€35M pool
Horizon Cancer Mission: Microbiome Early Detection
Between cycles

Funds a €15M project that turns microbiome signals into a test for spotting cancer risk years ahead of any symptoms.

€15M pool
Horizon Cancer: Pragmatic Immunotherapy Trials
Between cycles

Funds three pragmatic clinical trials, €7-8M each, testing existing cancer immunotherapies in real-world care for patients whose disease resists treatment.

€22.2M pool
Horizon Cancer Mission: Precision Palliative Care
Between cycles

Funds three €5M projects that build earlier, AI-assisted palliative care models for cancer patients and test them in real clinical and home-based settings.

€15M pool
Horizon Cancer Mission: Mental Health for Young Survivors
Between cycles

Funds a €7M platform giving adolescent and young adult cancer patients and survivors personalized digital tools for coping and psychological support.

€7M pool
Horizon Cancer Mission: Ukraine Research Capacity
Between cycles

Funds a €5M programme that pairs EU and Associated Country research institutions with Ukrainian cancer centres for joint training and staff exchanges.

€5M pool
Horizon Cancer Mission: Older Patients' Quality of Life
Closed

Funds five projects, €5-6M each, that develop and test care approaches built around what cancer patients over 65 actually need during and after treatment.

€25M pool
Horizon Ocean Mission: Marine Habitat Mapping
Between cycles

Funds four €7–7.75M projects that map marine habitat condition at scale, working with public authorities to hit new EU nature-restoration deadlines.

€31M pool
Horizon Ocean Mission: Aquatic Pollution and Biodiversity
Between cycles

Funds 4 grants up to €7.75M for consortiums that clean up polluted waterways and rebuild wildlife habitat, demonstrated live in one EU sea or river basin.

€31M pool
Horizon Ocean Mission: Fisheries Co-Management
Between cycles

Funds fisher-led projects that restore marine and freshwater ecosystems while testing co-managed, sustainable fishing practices at real demonstration sites.

€31M pool
Horizon Ocean Mission: Testing-Site Network
Between cycles

Funds one coordinator, up to €2.9M, that links Europe’s ocean-tech test sites β€” physical and digital-twin β€” into a single shared network.

€2.9M pool
Horizon Ocean Mission: Regional Digital Twin
Between cycles

Funds one project per sea basin that plugs local ocean data into the EU's shared Digital Twin Ocean platform, for marine policy and Blue Economy use.

€19.4M pool
Horizon Cities Mission: Public Transport & Shared Mobility
Open

Funds two €10M projects that make city public transport more energy efficient and better linked to car-sharing, ride-hailing and other shared mobility.

€20M pool
Horizon Cities Mission: Low-Temperature Building Heating
Open

Funds three €6M projects that swap fossil-fuel heating in apartment blocks for heat pumps and low-temperature district heating.

€18M pool
Horizon Cities Mission: Circular Construction
Open

Funds five €9.5M projects that pair construction innovators with city partners to build and demonstrate circular-economy tools and business models.

€47.5M pool
Horizon Soil Mission: Soil Health Monitoring Skills & Tools
Between cycles

Funds a single €5M project that trains land managers, lab staff and advisors to sample, test and read soil health data the same way across the EU.

€5M pool
Soil Health Living Labs in Alpine and Atlantic Regions
Closed

Funds regional living labs that co-create, test and monitor viable soil-health solutions in Alpine and Atlantic landscapes.

€24M pool
Horizon Soil Mission: Antimicrobial Resistance in Soils
Between cycles

Funds two €7M projects that map how antimicrobial resistance develops in soil and turn it into guidance for policymakers and land managers.

€14M pool
Soil Health Labs for Forests and Natural Land
Closed

Funds field-tested soil monitoring and restoration methods for land managers working beyond conventional farmland.

€24M pool
Horizon Soil Mission: Ukraine Innovation Support
Between cycles

Funds one €5M coordination project connecting researchers, farmers and policymakers to rebuild soil health knowledge and capacity across war-affected Ukraine.

€5M pool
Horizon Soil Mission: AI Decision Tools for Soil Management
Between cycles

Funds one €9M project turning long-term field-trial data into AI decision-support tools for farmers, advisors and land managers.

€9M pool
Horizon Soil & Climate Adaptation Missions: Extreme-Weather Resilience
Closed

Funds two €10M projects that test and scale soil-resilience solutions across at least three EU regions, run jointly by the Soil and Climate Adaptation Missions.

€20M pool
Cross-Border Climate Resilience Demonstrators
Scheduled

Funds €10–15M projects that help neighbouring regions jointly withstand floods, droughts, wildfires and other climate risks.

€72.3M pool
AI for Regional Climate Resilience
Scheduled

Funds four €3M projects that put trustworthy AI to work for climate resilience in European regions and local authorities.

€12M pool
Cancer Mission: Functional Genomics for New Treatments
Scheduled

Funds €7–8M projects that use functional genomics and patient data to uncover precise new targets for difficult-to-treat cancers.

€32.3M pool
Clinical Research for Common Cancers
Scheduled

Funds €7–10M programmes that bring better cancer diagnosis and treatment trials to patients across four or more European countries.

€20M pool
Cancer Mission: First-in-Human Trials for Rare Cancers
Scheduled

Funds €7–9M projects taking biomarker-guided rare-cancer treatments into first-in-human, multicentre phase 1 trials.

€24M pool
Equitable Cancer Care Economics and Outcomes
Scheduled

Funds three €5–7M projects that make cancer control more equitable, effective and cost-aware for patients and families.

€10M pool
Pre-Commercial Procurement for Cancer Care
Scheduled

Funds €8–10M procurer consortia to bring affordable cancer technologies, devices and medicines from tender to patient benefit.

€26M pool
Young Cancer Survivors Quality of Life Network
Scheduled

Funds one €3M coordination action that helps cancer charities and funders improve quality of life for young survivors across Europe.

€3M pool
Ocean Mission: Resilient Coasts, Rivers and Islands
Scheduled

Funds €8–8.925M projects that make Europe’s coasts, rivers, waterfront cities and islands safer and more resilient to climate change.

€35.7M pool
Circular Seafood Supply Chains
Scheduled

Funds €7.2–7.7M projects that turn seafood waste and by-products into circular, profitable and lower-impact ocean value chains.

€30.9M pool
Green and Resilient Harbours
Scheduled

Funds two €5.5–5.95M projects that turn ports into cleaner, circular and climate-resilient hubs for ocean and waters recovery.

€11.9M pool
Restoring European Blue Forests
Scheduled

Funds €3.5–4M projects that restore blue forests, protect coastal carbon and make marine ecosystems more resilient.

€15.9M pool
Urban LVDC Microgrid Demonstrations
Scheduled

Funds €7M projects that prove safe, efficient LVDC microgrids in buildings and help cities replicate them through digital twins.

€20M pool
Hydrogen Cities Twinning
Scheduled

Funds one €5M coordination action that twins Hydrogen Valleys with cities planning clean hydrogen for hard-to-abate sectors.

€5M pool
Climate-Resilient Multimodal Passenger Hubs
Scheduled

Funds two €9M Innovation Actions to make multimodal passenger hubs safer, more inclusive and resilient to climate disruption.

€18M pool
Boosting climate-neutral cities through Pre-Commercial Procurement
Scheduled

Funds a public-procurer consortium to take climate-neutral city solutions from demand to market.

€26.8M pool
Circular Logistics in Cities
Scheduled

Funds three €7.5M innovation actions that make urban freight packaging reusable, trackable and part of a circular logistics system.

€22.5M pool
Landscape Agroforestry for Healthy Soil
Scheduled

Funds two €8M projects that scale agroforestry across landscapes and make healthier soil a practical, profitable choice.

€16M pool
Mission Soil: Community Research on Polluted Land
Scheduled

Funds two €5.5M projects that let communities map the health risks of polluted soils and shape safer local responses.

€11M pool
Biotechnology for Healthy Soil and Resilient Agriculture
Scheduled

Funds two €6.4M projects that turn soil-friendly biotechnology into scalable, safe and market-ready farm solutions.

€12.8M pool
Long-Term Soil Degradation Drivers
Scheduled

Funds one €7M research project that uses historical evidence to explain soil degradation and improve future soil-health decisions.

€7M pool
Mission Soil and Cancer: Living Labs for Carcinogenic Contamination
Scheduled

Funds two €12M projects using living labs to remediate carcinogenic soils and trace cancer risks through people, food, water and air.

€24M pool
Climate-Resilient Urban Wastewater Solutions
Scheduled

Funds €9.5M projects that make city wastewater systems climate-resilient, resource-positive and ready for wider replication.

€28.5M pool
Urban Nature Restoration for Climate-Neutral Cities
Scheduled

Funds four €10M innovation actions that restore urban nature, tree canopy and connected green spaces with cities and communities.

€40M pool