Subjects out there underneath Horizon Europe’s Cluster 6 programme for 2025/26, with as much as €130m out there for the most important single initiatives.

UK organisations and companies can apply for Horizon Europe funding, working as a part of a consortium with no less than three international locations, considered one of which should be an EU Member State.

The out there matters in Cluster 6 are summarised beneath; for 2025, they’ve been subdivided into 7 Locations. Single-stage calls in cluster 6 have varied time limits in September 2025. For all two-stage calls, the primary stage deadline is 4 Sep 2025 and the second stage deadline is eighteen Feb 2026. Full info on eligibility and shutting dates could be discovered on the Innovate UK Enterprise Join web site within the first occasion.

Theme and Locations

This cluster goals at lowering environmental degradation, halting and reversing the decline of biodiversity on land, inland waters and sea and higher managing pure sources by way of transformative modifications of the economic system and society in each city and rural areas.

It should guarantee meals and vitamin safety for all inside planetary boundaries by way of information, innovation and digitalisation in agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture and meals programs and steer and speed up the transition to a low carbon, useful resource environment friendly round economic system and sustainable bioeconomy, together with forestry.

Analysis and innovation actions underneath cluster 6 will contribute to the targets of the European Inexperienced Deal associated to the Biodiversity Technique to 2030, the Farm to Fork technique, the European Local weather Pact and initiatives underneath sustainable trade and eliminating air pollution, in addition to the long-term imaginative and prescient for rural areas, and the Sustainable Improvement Targets.

The anticipated impacts of this cluster are contained within the Horizon Europe strategic plan.

Areas of intervention:

  • environmental statement
  • biodiversity and pure sources
  • agriculture, forestry and rural areas
  • seas, oceans and inland waters
  • meals programs
  • bio-based innovation programs within the EU’s bioeconomy
  • round programs

There are 7 particular Locations for Horizon Europe’s Cluster 6 programme, every with their very own particular calls and deadlines. The indicative quantity of EU funding contributions for many initiatives on this cluster ranges from €3m to €12m. This may cowl as much as 100% of prices relying on the decision.

For extra infomation on every vacation spot and the calls inside them, please go to the Innovate UK Enterprise Join web site.

Horizon Europe Pump Priming collaboration alternatives 2025

Innovate UK and British Academy are happy to announce funding schemes for Horizon Europe Pump Priming Grants, open to all disciplines.

The Horizon Europe Pump Priming funding schemes are geared toward enabling companies, analysis organisations and different organisations to construct partnerships and develop concepts that may have the potential important market impression by going ahead as a proposal to Horizon Europe.

Functions for the Innovate UK Horizon Europe Pump Priming 2025 alternative are open from 29 Might 2025 and shut 15 July 2025.

Functions can be processed upon receipt and within the order that they’re obtained, and the award of any grant is made topic to out there funding.

Innovate UK are main a scheme targeted on supporting UK SMEs to develop proposals throughout a variety of sectors underneath Pillar 2 and Pillar 3 of Horizon Europe (see beneath for particulars). Profitable candidates may have entry to grant funding of as much as £5,000 (excluding VAT) and are suggested to work with a UK Nationwide Contact Level in help of their venture. Candidates are additionally given entry to a extremely skilled Innovate UK Enterprise Progress Innovation and Progress Specialist (IGS) if they aren’t already a shopper, to additional help their innovation and progress journey.

With the goal of creating a consortium and making use of to Horizon Europe, Pump Priming may help with:

  • Entry to alternatives for collaborative analysis and innovation
  • Discover networking and partnership alternatives
  • Help with journey prices to fulfill with potential consortia and companions
  • Develop your Horizon Europe proposal
  • Fund consortium companions to journey to UK

Discover out extra in regards to the alternatives, eligibility and the way to apply, please go to the Innovate UK Enterprise Join web site.

You’ll be able to see different open funding calls in our Funding Finder.