Grants

This grant aims to enhance the knowledge base regarding secondary raw materials in the EU and third countries, accelerating the development of projects that lead to their commercial exploitation. It supports the collection and harmonisation of data on secondary raw materials, with a focus on critical materials such as waste batteries, WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment), mining waste, slags and ashes, and construction and demolition waste. Results are expected to strengthen EU autonomy, support the green and digital transition, improve strategic planning and foresight capacity, and enable better resource classification and market analysis.

This grant aims to strengthen cooperation between Europe and Japan in the field of innovative advanced materials. It supports European researchers from Member States and Associated Countries to undertake research visits to Japanese institutions engaged in advanced materials relevant to mobility, energy, construction, electronics or medical devices. The action helps facilitate travel grants for up to one month to build or reinforce collaborations with Japanese organisations, promoting information sharing and ongoing research activities across Europe and Japan.

This funding opportunity aims to attract management talent to Technology Infrastructures in EU member states, addressing skills gaps and enhancing the capacity of staff to provide sector-agnostic, high-quality services to industry. The scheme seeks to develop and provide training for Technology Infrastructures’ staff, promote knowledge exchange and peer learning, improve collaboration and governance, foster entrepreneurial skills and professionalization, and strengthen technology infrastructures as centers of the deep-tech innovation ecosystem. It also encourages transnational collaboration and sharing of best practices in management and capacity building.

This grant aims to leverage the strengths of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (SSH) to address specific needs of companies by fostering dynamic and productive industry-academia co-creation for knowledge valorisation. Activities include SSH–industry co-creation, such as hackathons, mentorship, and exchange programmes, to tackle industry challenges and SMEs' needs, address socio-technical implications of innovation, broaden strategic perspectives, integrate social and cultural inequality considerations, and contribute to organisational development, sustainability, and profitability. The action seeks to increase innovation capabilities for industry by harnessing SSH, improving collaboration, and creating better strategies for bringing new products and technologies to the market.

This grant aims to support projects enabling significant reduction in production costs of CO2-based products, making them competitive with conventional alternatives. Projects should focus on the integration of CO2 capture, purification, and conversion processes, and demonstrate minimal energy consumption by leveraging advances in process integration, use of renewable electricity, and available heat sources. The scope includes developing new methodologies for the smart integration of CO2 capture, purification, and conversion, reducing energy demand and capital expenditure, and possibly integrating with CCS infrastructures. Projects are expected to address innovative approaches to maximize yield and process efficiency, utilize renewable energy, and conduct comprehensive lifecycle and economic assessments. Demonstrations should be at least at laboratory pilot scale. Proposals must include a business case and exploitation strategy and consider societal, environmental, and workplace impacts. Conversion of CO2 to methanol and fuels is outside the scope of this topic.

The grant aims to accelerate the discovery and development process for innovative advanced materials and chemicals through the development and application of digital tools and artificial intelligence. It expects to deliver innovation workflows, including design of experiments and simulations, to support operationalisation of the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework, and substantially improve risk assessment of chemicals and advanced materials in Europe. The initiative promotes rapid development of substances with marketable and novel functionalities, fostering collaborations, digitalisation, standardisation, high-quality FAIR data practices, and synergies with various EU-wide initiatives.

This grant aims to accelerate the adoption of innovative advanced materials designed for circularity into products, focusing on recyclable polymers, composites, magnets, and metal alloys for additive manufacturing. Projects should develop advanced materials with novel functionalities, integrate new processes and technologies for industrial uptake, and adopt circular business models addressing life-cycle costs. The grant supports the full innovation cycle—from design, development, recovery, recycling, to demonstration and industrial integration. Proposals should showcase demonstrators and industrial use cases for transformative circular solutions, promote data sharing and use of digital tools, support resource efficiency, and follow the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework. Strategic value chains in mobility and medical devices are prioritized, fostering collaboration across sectors and stakeholders.

This grant supports projects aiming to optimise the efficiency of materials, water, and energy use by recycling and upcycling production side streams and end-of-use waste, making industrial processes more competitive, safe, and sustainable. Projects are expected to enhance material recycling and upcycling, reduce greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions, minimise dependency on critical raw material imports, lower resource consumption, and deliver sustainable solutions in line with European environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives.

The aim of this grant is to establish networks of excellent research laboratories across Europe, dedicated to collaborative research using artificial intelligence (AI) in strategic and promising scientific domains. By piloting the RAISE (Resource for AI Science in Europe) initiative, the grant supports the creation of virtual institutes to pool talent and expertise, reinforce the European AI in science community, and attract top-notch talent. Key objectives include drawing ambitious strategic research agendas, identifying scientific grand challenges for AI, fostering research aligned with defined targets, sharing resources among consortium members, exchanging talent, developing standards for AI models, and collaborating with industry for uptake. The funding aims to expand excellence and expertise in the application of AI to key scientific challenges in Europe.