Open topic on driving innovation uptake of disaster risk solutions
Drives the uptake of innovative disaster-risk-management solutions through demonstrations and market analysis.
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 ri
What this means for cities and regions
Open topic on driving innovation uptake of disaster-risk solutions — supports the transfer of research outputs from previous Horizon and FP7 projects into deployment in city and regional administrations. Civil-protection authorities are typical end-users. Project size around €3 million per grant; close 5 November 2026.
Key facts
Submission deadline
5 November 2026, 17:00 (Brussels time)
Published
Opens
Programme
Total envelope
Per project
Expected grants
Co-funding rate
Eligibility
Eligible countries
Eligible NUTS regions
—Eligible organisation types
Min. consortium size
—Min. partner countries
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Who can apply
- Any legal entity (public body, private body, NGO, university, research organisation, SME, large company) established in an EU Member State (including Overseas Countries and Territories), or in a Horizon Europe Associated Country.
- The list of Horizon Europe Associated Countries is maintained on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
Consortium rule for this topic
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 3 independent legal entities, each established in a different EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country, of which at least one must be established in an EU Member State.
Co-financing rate
- Research and Innovation Actions (RIA): 100% of eligible direct costs + 25% flat-rate indirect costs.
- Innovation Actions (IA): 70% of eligible direct costs (100% for non-profit legal entities) + 25% flat-rate indirect costs.
- Coordination and Support Actions (CSA): 100%.
The applicable Type of Action is indicated on the topic record in the Funding & Tenders Portal.
Restrictions and special cases
- Natural persons not eligible except sole traders.
- International organisations and the JRC are eligible.
- Other EU bodies cannot participate.
- Financial support to third parties is allowed where the topic explicitly provides for it.
EU restrictive measures (TEU Article 29 / TFEU Article 215) and EU conditionality measures (Regulation 2020/2092) apply. Currently this excludes Hungarian public-interest trusts established under Hungarian Act IX of 2021 (Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506).
Space data condition
If the project uses satellite-based Earth observation, positioning, navigation or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS. Other data and services may be used in addition.
Participants this topic requires
This topic requires the active involvement, as beneficiaries, of at least 3 first responders or authorities in charge of disaster risk from at least 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries.
For this purpose, "authorities in charge of disaster risk" are public bodies operating at national level with a legally defined responsibility for disaster risk management (the Commission confirmed this on 30 July 2026). A city or region does not count as such an authority, so the consortium needs a national civil protection authority or equivalent. Where the topic separately asks for local or regional authorities, as quoted above, that is where a city or region fits.
Classification
Thematic domains
Activity types
Space relevance
Tier B — space tools are implicitly needed to deliver the call's outcomes.
Space services
Sources
HORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-04
Ingested May 20th, 2026
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