UNITE Open Call 2 for Joint Interregional Projects
Horizon Europe · Cascade funding
Summary
Not an R&D or investment call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Funds interregional projects involving solution providers, research entities and end users established in specified participating European regions.
- Who can apply
- Companies can lead: SME, large company, startup, research org, university, other.
- Amount
- €1M per projectTotal budget €6,000,000
- Deadline
- 10 Dec 2026 18:00 CETin 47 days
- Status
- Openopened 10 Sept 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Further information about this call can be found on the UNITE website.
Stay up to date and actively participate in matchmaking sessions, thematic workshops, and other events offering opportunities for knowledge exchange, partnership development, and interregional value chain building on the UNITE Matchmaking Platform.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- SME, Large company, Startup, Research org, University, Other
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 2 of 3
- Poland eligible
- No
- Country limit
- Central Macedonia, Lombardy, Extremadura, Aragón, Scotland, Wales, or Romania; consortia must span the specified innovation-region groups.
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Required
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Per project
- €1M
- Topics
- Interregional innovation
- Value chain development
- Research collaboration
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Applicant restriction
- Consortium must represent at least one strong-innovation region (Scotland or Wales) and at least one moderate/emerging region (Central Macedonia, Romania, Lombardy, Extremadura or Aragón).
- Application restriction
- UNITE JIP Call 2 submission deadline is 10 Dec 2026 at 17:00 CET.
- Consortium required
- Yes
- Eligible geography
- Applicants must be legally established in a participating region that provides funding: Central Macedonia, Lombardy, Extremadura, Aragón, Scotland, Wales, or Romania (national scope).
- Eligible project scope
- Each consortium must include at least one solution provider, one research entity and one end-user organisation.
- Other condition
- Award amount depends on justified eligible costs and the applicable region/partner-type funding rate in Annex G; there is no single universal rate across all consortium members.
- Other condition
- Subcontracting is discouraged, limited to specified situations and cannot perform significant proposed activities; confirm partner-specific Annex G rules.
- Expected project duration
- 18
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €6,000,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Funding per beneficiary, maximum
- €600,000
Maximum stated for an organisation across calls; regional and partner-type funding rules still apply.
- Call allocation
- €6,000,000
- Eligible cost
- General eligible categories include personnel employed on the project; prorated depreciation of project-used equipment/buildings/land; arm’s-length contractual research, knowledge/patent purchases or licenses and exclusively used consultancy/equivalent services; and directly incurred overhead/operating materials and supplies. Annex G regional rules still control.
- Project funding, maximum
- €1,000,000
Per project maximum; regional rules and eligible-cost rates determine the amount actually requested/awarded.
Personnel and services
Other role
Staff cost the grant can fund
Call document identifies these as eligible personnel-cost categories only to the extent employed on the project. Does not state a mandatory hire, named job, headcount, FTE or salary scale. Regional Annex G funding conditions apply.
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 10 Sept 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Horizon Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- UNITE Open Call 2 for Joint Interregional Projects
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 10 Sept 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 23 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.