HORIZON EUROPE – EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2026 – 2026

Horizon Europe - Pillar 3 - Innovative Europe - 2021-2027

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96 millions of euros

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• Total call budget: 96 million euros
• Grant amount: between 500,000 euros and 4 million euros
• Co-financing rate: up to 100% of total eligible costs

The grant takes the form of a lump-sum grant.

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Certain financings under the Horizon Europe program are structured in response to political ambitions ("destinations") and deployed through calls for proposals ("Calls for proposals") targeting more precise themes or sectors ("Topics"). Thus, your application must be directly linked to a topic of a call for proposals.

Different categories of projects are eligible:

• RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Development and adoption of technologies / Testing and validation of a prototype in a laboratory;
• IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include a component limited to R&D activities;
• CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking…