Fast Track to Research and Innovation for breakthroughs in industrial technologies (Research and Innovation Action)

Applicant types

SME, Large company, Startup, Research org, University

Purpose

Research and innovation

R&D relevance

3 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

—

Region

Any

Consortium

Required

Readiness level (TRL)

up to 4

Topics

• Industrial technologies
• Advanced materials
• Clean steel
• Sustainable process industries
• Textile innovation

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026

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

The following additional eligibility criteria apply: consortia may include a maximum of 6 independent eligible entities as participants.

Consortium members, maximum

6

Maximum of six independent eligible entities as participants, per the topic-specific criterion.

Eligible project scope

This is an open topic, intended to cover breakthrough innovations, up to TRL 4, within the scope of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas (SRIAs) of the partnerships Made in Europe, Process4Planet, Clean Steel, Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU (IAM4EU) and Textiles for the Future.

Other condition

Research and Innovation Actions.

Other condition

To allow a faster access to funds for small collaborative consortia, grants under this topic will be funded under a Fast Track to Research and Innovation Procedure (FTRI).

Other condition

Horizon Europe General Annexes describe personnel as actual costs unless declared as a unit cost; they separately list SME-owner/natural-person personnel unit costs, subcontracting as actual costs, purchases as actual costs unless unit cost, and FSTP only if provided by the specific call. Therefore these personnel categories do not turn an external service purchase or subcontract into a hire, and no specific FSTP entitlement is asserted for this topic.

Other condition

For A.1 employees/equivalent, the HE MGA states annual personnel costs divided by 215 as the daily-rate basis; declared day-equivalents must be identifiable and verifiable. The total declared day-equivalents per person across EU grants in a year cannot exceed 215, minus parental leave time where applicable.

Other condition

2026–2027 Horizon Europe topic HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-61: Fast Track to Research and Innovation for breakthroughs in industrial technologies (Research and Innovation Action).

Indicative budget

€20,000,000

Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.

Eligible cost

Directly contracted natural persons (under a non-employment contract) and paid seconded persons may be personnel costs when assigned to the action and meeting general eligibility conditions; they must work under conditions similar to employees, results belong to the beneficiary unless agreed otherwise, and actual costs must not be significantly different from employees performing similar tasks.

Eligible cost

Employees/equivalent may be charged as personnel costs only if general eligibility conditions are met, the person works for the beneficiary under an employment contract or equivalent appointing act, is assigned to the action, and remuneration-linked amounts arise under national law or the employment terms; this category is based on costs actually incurred.

Eligible cost

The HE MGA allows nonsalaried SME owners and natural-person beneficiaries to claim personnel costs as unit costs under Annex 2a, subject to general eligibility conditions; the AGA gives a daily-rate formula of EUR 8,745.4 divided by 18 days, multiplied by the applicable country-specific correction coefficient for calls opened on or after 30 July 2024. This is a unit-cost calculation, not an employee salary cap or rate guaranteed for every country.

Expected project funding, up to

€2,500,000

The topic table labels this as expected EU contribution per project. Captured as the stated expected maximum, not a separately worded legal maximum.

Topic allocation

€20,000,000

Topic-level indicative allocation; not the per-project expected contribution.

• Other role

  Staff cost the grant can fund

  Potential fundable personnel category only when the grant conditions and Article 6.2.A.2 apply; assigned to the action, work under conditions similar to an employee, result belongs to beneficiary unless agreed otherwise, and actual direct-contract costs are not significantly different from comparable employees. It is a contractor engagement category, not employee payroll; no qualification, headcount, FTE, duration or rate is set by this topic.

• Other role

  Staff cost the grant can fund

  Potential fundable personnel category under the applicable Horizon Europe General MGA, conditional on actual action assignment and all eligibility rules. This is not a call-specific required team, named job, or promise of award. Qualification, headcount, FTE, duration and salary are not stated by the topic. Employee remuneration must be actual and linked to national law/employment terms; daily-rate and reporting rules are described in the cited MGA.

• Other role

  Staff cost the grant can fund

  Potential personnel unit-cost category where the applicable grant agreement includes Article 6.2.A.4. Applies only to an SME owner not receiving a salary or a natural-person beneficiary not receiving a salary, with work assigned to the action and general unit-cost conditions met. The daily unit rate is country-adjusted; it is not a salary and this packet does not assert a per-person EUR rate without the recipient country coefficient. No required headcount, FTE, duration or qualification is named in this topic.

• Other role

  Staff cost the grant can fund

  Potential fundable personnel category only when the grant conditions and Article 6.2.A.3 apply; assigned to the action, works under conditions similar to an employee and actual costs are not significantly different from comparable beneficiary employees. This is a paid secondment, not a new employment contract with the beneficiary. No call-specific qualification, headcount, FTE, duration or pay rate is stated.

• Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026–2027, Part 7: Digital, Industry and Space

  ec.europa.eu

• EU Grants Annotated Grant Agreement, V2.0, 1 April 2025

  ec.europa.eu

• Horizon Europe General Model Grant Agreement, Multi & Mono, V1.2, 1 June 2026

  ec.europa.eu

• Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026–2027 General Annexes, Part 15

  ec.europa.eu

Opens

13 Oct 2026

Deadline model

Single-stage

Programme

Horizon Europe · 2021 - 2027

Call

HORIZON-CL4-2027-06 · INDUSTRY-FTRI

Types of action

HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

Source

ec.europa.eu

Checked

24 Oct 2026

Portal updated

14 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Reviewed

22 Oct 2026