EU - Horizon Europe - Digital, Industry and Space

INTRODUCTION AND WORK PROGRAMME

The overarching vision behind the proposed investments under Cluster 4 is that of Europe shaping competitive and trusted technologies for a European industry with global leadership in key areas, enabling production and consumption to respect the boundaries of our planet, and maximising the benefits for all parts of society in the variety of social, economic and territorial contexts in Europe.

This will build a competitive, digital, low-carbon and circular industry, ensure sustainable supply of raw materials, develop advanced materials and provide the basis for advances and innovation in global challenges to society.

Digital, Industry and Space - Work Programme 2026-2027

CALLS FOR PROPOSALS

Click on a call title below to view the group of topics associated with it on the Portal, the EU funding and tenders website. On the Portal, click on a topic title to access the ‘Topic page’ where you can read the topic description and conditions, download templates and other relevant documents, and start the submission process.

  • Destination 1: Leadership in materials and production for Europe
    • Leadership in materials and production for Europe (Single stage 2026) - HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MAT-PROD: Deadline 21 April 2026
      Related areas:
      • Sustainable Advanced Materials, Raw Materials and Chemicals
      • Fast-tracking Circularity
      • Disruptive technologies for carbon capture and clean energy use
      • Technology infrastructure, knowledge valorisation and support for scaleups and startups
      • Raw Materials
    • Leadership in materials and production for Europe (Two stage - 2026) - HORIZON-CL4-2026-02-MAT-PROD: Deadline 17 March 2026 (First Stage), 13 October 2026 (Second Stage)
      Related areas:
      • Sustainable Advanced Materials, Raw Materials and Chemicals
      • Disruptive technologies for carbon capture and clean energy use
    • Leadership in materials and production for Europe (Single stage 2026) - HORIZON-CL4-2026-05-MAT-PROD: Deadline 15 April 2026
      Related areas:
      • Innovative Advanced Materials-based Technologies
  • Destination 2: Developing an agile and secure single market and infrastructure for data-services and trustworthy artificial intelligence services
    • Developing an agile and secure single market and infrastructure for data-services and trustworthy artificial intelligence services (Single stage - 2026) - HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DATA: Deadline 15 April 2026
      Related areas:
      • Telco-Edge-Cloud continuum/ 3C Network (Connected Collaborative Computing) and Open Internet Stack
      • Achieving the end-to-end AI compute continuum
      • Data (under AI, Data and Robotics partnership)
  • Destination 3: Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies
    • Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies (Two stage - 2026) - HORIZON-CL4-2026-02-DIGITAL-EMERGING-two-stage: Deadline 17 March 2026 (First Stage), 13 October 2026 (Second Stage)
      Related areas:
      • Semiconductors
      • AI for manufacturing and energy-intensive industries
    • Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies (Single stage - 2026) - HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING: Deadline 15 April 2026
      Related areas:
      • AI Continent
      • Quantum
      • Photonics
      • Semiconductors
      • Other emerging technologies
    • Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies (Single stage - 2026) - HORIZON-CL4-2026-05-DIGITAL-EMERGING: Deadline 15 April 2026
      Related areas:
      • AI Continent
      • Photonics
  • Destination 4: Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructure, Services, Applications and Data
    • Open Strategic Autonomy in Developing, Deploying and Using Global Space-Based Infrastructure, Services, Applications and Data (Single stage - 2026) - HORIZON-CL4-2026-SPACE-03: 3 September 2026
      Related areas:
      • Accessing Space
      • Acting in Space
      • Using Space on Earth – Telecommunications and Earth Observation
      • Using Space on Earth – Satellite navigation
      • Space sciences and exploration
      • Monitoring Space
      • Boosting Space through non-dependence of the EU for key critical space technologies
  • Destination 5: Digital and industrial technologies driving human-centric innovation
    • Digital and industrial technologies driving human-centric innovation (Single stage - 2026) - HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-HUMAN: Deadline 15 April 2026
      Related areas:
      • Virtual Worlds – Web 4.0 (Partnership)
      • Standardisation International 

MODE OF APPLICATION

For information on call search options, the submission process, WIS internal procedures and consortium composition, see the RGP’s Horizon Europe General Information page.