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Open topic on reinvigorating and shielding European democracy

Announced, not yet open · HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions · two-stage · HORIZON-CL2-2027-02-DEMOCRACY-09-two-stage

Next cut-off
04 May '27
in 195 days
Per grant
€3.7M
the call's own average
Grants expected
6
projects that will be funded
Funding rate
100%
the full cost of the action

In context of Horizon Europe

This grant€3.7M
The track runs to the largest grant in Horizon Europe (€63M). The median across the 359 calls we publish is €5.5M, this one is below it.

What this call funds

Expected Outcome:

Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • EU institutions and national decision-makers, civil society organisations and other societal actors and citizens at large are better equipped, with new data, knowledge and methods, to confront threats and challenges of democracies as well as to enhance their inclusiveness and participatory elan.
  • Strengthened citizens’ long-lasting engagement in the democratic life, including but going beyond electoral processes, and increased trust in democratic institutions.

Scope:

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.

Cut-offs

Later cut-off30 Sept 2027

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort8–10 weeksshort proposal, then a full one
Partner search4–8 weeksruns in parallel, and it is the part that slips
Time to first payment9–12 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

Where these conditions come from

Two kinds of row. Most are the sentence we read the condition from, quoted out of the call itself. Some say plainly that they are not a quotation but the programme's own rule for this type of action, the EU portal publishes a table of contents where the conditions should be, so for a Research and Innovation Action the rate comes from the rulebook rather than from the fiche.

ConditionQuoted from the call, or the rule behind it
Consortium sizeNot quoted from this call — Research and Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are at least three independent legal entities from three different Member States or Associated Countries, at least one established in a Member State.
Funding rateNot quoted from this call — Research and Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are funded at 100% of eligible costs for every participant.

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