Climate security and civil preparedness – new ways to develop pre- and post-crisis climate-change related scenarios for a more resilient Europe
Develop advanced tools and scenarios for climate security and civil preparedness to enhance Europe's resilience to climate-induced disasters.
This call seeks projects to create new methods and technologies for predicting and managing climate-related crises. It focuses on pre- and post-crisis scenarios like floods, fires, and heat waves. The goal is to improve Europe's ability to respond and adapt to climate security threats.
Likely relevant for
- Climate security researchers
- Disaster risk management authorities
- Civil protection agencies
- Climate adaptation technology developers
- Data scientists in environmental risk
- Policy makers in climate resilience
Project signals
What it funds
- Development of methodologies, tools, and technologies for climate security scenarios
- Advanced data-driven solutions for risk forecasting and crisis management
- Tools for assessing and monitoring climate-induced disasters
- Pre-crisis analysis and post-crisis situational awareness
- Integration of space programme data (Copernicus, Galileo)
- International cooperation and policy integration for climate resilience
Expected outcomes
- Identification and prioritization of climate security scenarios with cascading risks
- Validated advanced tools for risk forecasting and crisis management
- Enhanced stakeholder engagement in solution development
- New risk-management tools focused on local/regional adaptation
- Improved situational awareness before and after climate disasters
- Strengthened international cooperation and policy alignment
Who can apply / participate
- Public bodies with disaster risk management responsibilities
- Research organizations
- Technology developers
- International organizations headquartered in EU/Associated countries
- Must include at least 3 disaster risk authorities from 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries
- Focus on EU Member States and Associated Countries
- Inclusion of European outermost regions encouraged
- Active involvement of disaster risk authorities as beneficiaries is mandatory
- Use of Copernicus and/or Galileo data required if satellite data is used
- Projects expected to reach TRL 7-8 by end
- Specific budget per participant not detailed here
- Exact consortium size limits not specified
Must check before shortlisting
- Eligibility of participants from at least 3 EU/Associated countries with disaster risk authorities
- Requirement to use Copernicus/Galileo data if satellite-based observation is involved
- Compliance with lump sum funding and TRL 7-8 target
Money
The call offers a lump sum funding of approximately EUR 4.5 million for one expected grant in 2026.
- Total lump sum funding — 4500000EUROne grant expected for this topic in 2026
Application notes
- Single-stage submission model.
- Proposal page limits and layout as per Horizon Europe General Annexes and Application Form.
- Eligibility requires at least 3 disaster risk authorities from different EU/Associated countries.
- Use of Copernicus/Galileo data mandatory if satellite data used.
- Projects must aim for TRL 7-8 by project end.
- Lump sum funding applies as per Horizon Europe rules.
- Prepare proposal following Horizon Europe guidelines and templates.
- Ensure consortium includes required disaster risk authorities.
- Fill in 'Information about security practitioners' table in application form.
- Submit proposal via the Funding & Tenders Portal before deadline.
- Engage with European Commission's Joint Research Centre if relevant.
- Some activities may involve classified or sensitive information; refer to General Annexes on security.
- Joint Research Centre may participate with zero funding or as associated partner.
- Compliance with lump sum funding decision is mandatory.
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Topic description
Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following expected outcomes: Identification and prioritization of climate security scenarios, assessing cascading and compounding risks across multiple sectors; Development and validation of advanced tools, technologies, and data-driven solutions for climate - and environmental - risk forecasting, crisis management, and adaptation, including risk analytical and assessment tools, weather alerts and forecasts; Development and validation of advanced tools and technologies to assess and monitor climate-induced disasters, also providing risk information on adaptation and risk reduction measures; Strengthened engagement with stakeholders, ensuring end-user involvement in defining requirements, testing, and validation of climate security solutions; Development and validation of new risk-management tools, technologies and data, closer to operational environment. Focus on local and regional risk-management and climate adaptation work should be prioritized; Pre-crisis analysis and post-crisis situational awareness in case of those disasters related to climate change (floods, fires, landslides, heat waves, etc.); Enhanced international cooperation, policy integration, and public awareness to improve climate security resilience and preparedness. Strengthen networks to exchange best practices and support the international dimension of the Preparedness Union Strategy and the Sendai Disaster Risk Reduction Framework. Scope: Climate change is a global challenge with profound security implications at the global, regional, and local levels. It exacerbates risks across multiple sectors, including agriculture, biodiversity, health, border security, economy, financial stability, transport, telecommunication and human displacement, leading to severe socio-economic consequences and destabilizing communities. The increasing frequency and intensity of climate-related disasters highlight the urgent need for a holistic, long-term strategy to address climate security, integrating risk assessment, crisis management, and adaptation measures, while also leveraging the expertise of the insurance sector. While climate services based on data analysis have reached a high level of trust among users, their application to civil security remains underdeveloped. Proposals should aim to develop methodologies, tools, and technologies that enhance situational awareness both before a crisis (pre-crisis) and after a crisis (post-crisis), enabling decision-makers and populations to respond effectively. Research should focus on defining priority climate security scenarios in the EU, identifying key stakeholders, and establishing essential indicators for informed decision-making. Efforts should be directed toward understanding and mitigating the impacts of floods, landslides, wildfires, and other climate-induced disasters. This includes developing improved methods and models for risk prevention and reduction, early detection, emergency response tactics, and rescue efforts under extreme conditions. The study of cascading effects and compounding disasters is critical, particularly regarding groups in a vulnerable situation such as older people, people with disabilities, and children. In this view, the proposals should build on the European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA [1] ) and consolidated national risk assessments [2] as well as find synergies with project’s chosen for the similar EU Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change topic [3] . Both the European Preparedness Union Strategy, the European Water Resilience Strategy and the upcoming European Climate Adaptation Plan act as policy guidance. Diverse climate and environmental security scenarios should be developed, supported by innovative, reliable tools that leverage multiple data sources, enabling a comprehensive and adaptive response. Proposals should also integrate space programme components such as Copernicus and Galileo to improve data accuracy and crisis response capabilities. A strong emphasis on international cooperation should foster knowledge exchange, enhance policy integration, and share best practices. Proposals should support transnational collaboration within the EU, facilitate improved data-sharing mechanisms, and align with global initiatives such as the Sendai Disaster Risk Reduction Framework. Capacity-building efforts to strengthen resilience to climate-related security threats and ensure a coordinated approach to addressing worst-case climate scenarios, as identified in the Niinistö report [4] . Projects may take into account the assets but also particular challenges faced by the European outermost regions and may include entities from these regions in the consortium’s composition. Where applicable, proposals should leverage the data and services available through European Research Infrastructures federated under the European Open Science Cloud, Copernicus, Destination Earth, as well as data from relevant Data Spaces. Particular efforts should be made to ensure that the data produced in the context of this topic is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable). Where relevant, funded projects are encouraged to liaise with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, for complementary real-scale testing at the Reaction Wall and HopLab of the European Laboratory for Structural Assessment (ELSA). Technology Readiness Level - Technology readiness level expected from completed projects Activities are expected to achieve TRL 7-8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B. [1] https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/european-climate-risk-assessment [2] COM/2024/130 final, Preventing and managing disaster risk in Europe, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52024DC0130 [3] HORIZON-MISS-2026-01-CLIMA-04: Bridging the gap between disaster risk management and climate adaptation [4] https://commission.europa.eu/topics/defence/safer-together-path-towards-fully-prepared-union_en
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
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding as a beneficiary with zero funding, or as an associated partner. The JRC will not participate in the preparation and submission of the proposal - see General Annex B.
Due to the scope of this topic, relevant international organisations with headquarters in a Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country are exceptionally eligible for funding.
The following additional eligibility criteria apply:
This topic requires the active involvement, as beneficiaries, of at least 3 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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