Open topic on driving innovation uptake of disaster risk solutions
Drive innovation uptake of high-TRL disaster risk solutions to enhance resilience across sectors with integrated governance and stakeholder collaboration.
This call supports projects that accelerate the adoption of advanced disaster risk solutions. It focuses on overcoming deployment barriers and integrating new technologies into existing disaster management frameworks. Projects should demonstrate real-world effectiveness and promote collaboration among public and private stakeholders.
Likely relevant for
- Disaster risk management organizations
- First responders
- Public authorities in disaster preparedness
- Technology developers in civil security
- Innovation managers in disaster resilience
Project signals
What it funds
- Projects promoting adoption and integration of high-TRL disaster risk solutions across sectors
- Development of governance and coordination models for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery
- Addressing technical, regulatory, financial, and social barriers to deployment
- Large-scale pilots and demonstrations validating solution effectiveness
- Synergies with other EU disaster resilience programs and funding mechanisms
- Use of digital technologies like AI, digital twins, and IoT to enhance disaster management
Expected outcomes
- Accelerated adoption of advanced disaster risk solutions
- Improved integration of innovative technologies into disaster frameworks
- Enhanced collaboration among stakeholders for scaling solutions
- Removal of barriers ensuring accessibility and usability
- Strengthened evidence-based decision-making through real-world validation
- Increased visibility of European civil security research results
Who can apply / participate
- Public bodies
- Research organizations
- Private companies
- First responder organizations
- Authorities in charge of disaster risk management
- At least 3 first responders or disaster risk authorities from 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries must be beneficiaries
- Applicants must provide detailed information about security practitioners involved
- Participants must be from EU Member States or Associated Countries
- Non-EU/non-Associated countries may participate if specific funding provisions exist
- Entities controlled by China or Chinese legal entities are not eligible
- Use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS data mandatory if satellite-based services are used
- Compliance with security and classified information provisions required
- Specific funding rates and maximum grant amounts per participant
- Exact consortium size limits
Must check before shortlisting
- Eligibility of participants from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries
- Compliance with security and classified information provisions
- Use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS data if satellite-based services are involved
Money
Estimated EU contribution around 6 million EUR per grant under this Innovation Actions call. Funding is provided as lump sums.
- Maximum EU contribution per grant — 6000000EURLump sum funding under Horizon Europe Innovation Actions
Application notes
- Single-stage submission model. Proposals must comply with page limits and layout as per Horizon Europe General Annexes.
- Proposal page limits and layout as per Annex A and E of Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes
- Applicants must fill in 'Information about security practitioners' table in application form
- Use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS data mandatory if satellite-based services are used
- Compliance with security provisions for classified information (EUCI and SEN)
- Prepare proposal following Horizon Europe guidelines and templates
- Ensure consortium includes required first responders or disaster risk authorities from 3 different countries
- Submit proposal via Funding & Tenders Portal before deadline
- Include strategy for visibility and dissemination of results
- Entities controlled by China or Chinese legal entities are ineligible
- Security sensitive results may require special handling
- Check eligibility of participants carefully before submission
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Topic description
Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following expected outcomes: Accelerated adoption of high-TRL (Technology Readiness Level) disaster risk solutions across diverse sectors; Facilitated integration of innovative technologies into existing disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery frameworks; Promoted collaboration among stakeholders to scale proven solutions and enhance resilience; Addressed barriers to deployment, ensuring accessibility and usability of advanced DRS technologies; Strengthened evidence-based decision-making through demonstration and validation of high-TRL solutions in real-world scenarios; Promoted visibility of civil security research results. Scope: This topic aims to foster the widespread adoption and integration of high-TRL (Technology Readiness Level) disaster risk solutions (DRS) across multiple sectors, enhancing societal resilience to various hazards, including climate. The focus is on overcoming barriers to deployment, ensuring accessibility, and strengthening collaboration among stakeholders to drive innovation uptake. Projects should promote the adoption of high-TRL solutions by public and private sector organizations involved in disaster risk management, developing strategies for scaling and commercializing innovative DRS technologies to ensure they reach end-users efficiently. They should also demonstrate how these technologies can complement or replace existing disaster preparedness, response, and recovery frameworks by developing integrated governance and coordination models across sectors and levels for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in multi-hazard and cascading risk scenario interoperability standards, and guidelines for integrating new solutions into national and European civil protection systems. The project should especially liaise and support other disaster resilience projects in driving their uptake as well as examine how to build synergy pathways with other preparedness grants, such as Knowledge for Action in Prevention & Preparedness (KAPP) funding call of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM). Addressing deployment barriers is crucial, including identifying and mitigating technical, regulatory, financial, and social obstacles hindering the uptake of advanced solutions, while ensuring accessibility and usability for diverse stakeholders such as first responders, local authorities, and communities and individuals in a vulnerable situation. Projects should also demonstrate the real-world effectiveness of high-TRL solutions through large-scale pilot projects and demonstrations, generating robust evidence to support data-driven decision-making and optimize disaster risk reduction strategies. Initiatives should consider the capacity gaps of the UCPM [1] , align with EU disaster resilience objectives and build on existing programs, ensuring synergies with relevant policies, funding mechanisms, and technological ecosystems. The private-public cooperation chapter of the Preparedness Union Strategy should especially be a guiding document. Proposals are encouraged to incorporate digital tools, AI-driven analytics, digital twins such as Destination Earth, IoT applications, and other emerging technologies to enhance disaster preparedness and response. Proposals should have a strategy to promote the visibility of the project and the results to the broader public in order to show the potential of European civil security research (political sphere, private sector, citizens). This could entail the European Civil Protection Forum and the European Commission Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre platform as examples. In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content should be addressed only if relevant in relation to the objectives of the research effort. Technology Readiness Level - Technology readiness level expected from completed projects Activities are expected to achieve TRL 8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B. [1] eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0286
Conditions and documents
General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
In line with the “restriction on control in innovation actions in critical technology areas” delineated in General Annex B of the General Annexes, entities established in an eligible country but which are directly or indirectly controlled by China or by a legal entity established in China are not eligible to participate in the action.
Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.
The following additional eligibility criteria apply:
This topic requires the active involvement, as beneficiaries, of at least 3 first responders or authorities in charge of disaster risk[[Authorities in charge of disaster risk entail public bodies operating at the national level that hold legally defined responsibilities in the area of disaster risk management. This includes national civil protection authorities as well as other institutions that can demonstrate, through appropriate legal or administrative acts, a formal mandate to design, coordinate, or implement disaster risk prevention, preparedness, or response, measures.]] from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries.
For these participants, applicants must fill in the table “Information about security practitioners” in the application form with all the requested information, following the template provided in the submission IT tool.
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.
5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.
5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
The granting authority may, up to 4 years after the end of the action, object to a transfer of ownership or to the exclusive licensing of results, as set out in the specific provision of Annex 5.
Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]].
described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.
Specific conditions
described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme]
Some activities resulting from this topic may involve using classified background and/or producing of security sensitive results (EUCI and SEN). Please refer to the related provisions in section B Security — EU classified and sensitive information of the General Annexes.
Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
Application form templates — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (HE RIA, IA)
Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA)
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Call-specific instructions
Additional documents:
HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 6. Civil Security for Society
HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 15. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Support information
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