Expanding and deepening the EOSC Federation (EOSC Partnership)

Applicant types

Research org, University, Other

Purpose

Research and innovation

R&D relevance

2 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

—

Region

Any

Consortium

Unclear

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Topics

• EOSC Federation
• Scientific digital services
• FAIR data
• Research computing
• Research workflows

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

Participation and funding eligibility are distinct. Eligible participation remains subject to the Horizon Europe Regulation and topic conditions. Beneficiaries and affiliated entities register in the Participant Register before submission to obtain a PIC; legal validation and proof of legal status/origin are completed before grant signature, but a validated PIC is not a submission prerequisite. Associated partners may participate subject to the topic without signing the GA or charging costs/claiming contributions. General funding categories include EU Member States (including outermost regions), Overseas Countries and Territories, Associated Countries, and the listed low-/middle-income countries. Other entities receive funding only where the topic provides or the granting authority finds participation essential. Check applicable country status/list and call-specific exceptions. The general consortium default, unless specific call/topic conditions provide otherwise, is three mutually independent beneficiary legal entities established in three different countries: at least one in a Member State and two others each in different Member States or Associated Countries. Affiliated entities do not count toward this minimum. The JRC, international European research organisations and entities created under EU law are treated as established in a Member State different from those of other participants. Training/mobility and CoFund applications may be submitted by one or more entities if one is established in a Member State or Associated Country. For this source-classified CoFund, one or more legal entities may apply, provided at least one is established in a Member State or Associated Country.

Applicant restriction

For this assigned topic the source-bound action class is CoFund. Apply the general China rule by that class: the IA bar applies to IA; the default RIA bar and its listed exceptions apply only to RIA and only for the matching Work Programme destination. Do not transpose either rule to CSA, PCP or CoFund. The all-action MIIT-supervised Chinese public-university exclusion remains applicable. General Annex B: China-established legal entities are excluded from every IA and, unless stated otherwise, every RIA. The listed RIA destination exceptions are Cluster 2: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance; Innovative research on European cultural heritage and cultural and creative industries; Innovative research on social and economic transformations. Cluster 5: Climate sciences and responses for the transformation towards climate neutrality. Cluster 6: Biodiversity and ecosystem services; Fair, healthy and environment-friendly food systems; Clean environment and zero pollution; Land, ocean and water for climate action; Resilient, inclusive, healthy and green rural/coastal/urban areas; and Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal. Missions: EU Missions’ Joint Calls; Adaptation to Climate Change; Restore our Ocean and Waters; and A Soil Deal for Europe. Widening: Widening participation and spreading excellence; Reforming and enhancing the European research and innovation system. New European Bauhaus Facility: Connecting the green transformation, social inclusion and local democracy; Innovative funding and new business models for neighbourhood transformation. Horizontal Activities: Transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society. The listed destination exceptions are RIA exceptions only: they do not lift the China-established-entity exclusion for an IA. For an RIA, a China-established entity is excluded unless this call’s exact destination is one of the listed RIA exceptions; only when the destination matches may the entity participate in any capacity. A justified case-by-case exception may also be granted under the source rule. For IA and RIA restrictions that apply, exclusion covers participation in any capacity. MIIT-supervised Chinese public universities remain ineligible for any action. Evaluate this packet’s own action and exact destination before applying an exception. Entities subject to EU restrictive measures are not eligible in any capacity, including beneficiaries, affiliated entities, associated partners, third parties giving in-kind contributions, subcontractors or recipients of FSTP. Entities established in Russia, Belarus or non-government-controlled territories of Ukraine are likewise ineligible in any capacity even when not subject to EU restrictive measures; a justified case-by-case exception may be granted. Russian-established persons/entities/bodies whose direct or indirect proprietary rights exceed 50% in an entity established outside Russia make that entity ineligible in any capacity. These rules are distinct from call-specific ownership/control restrictions, which apply only when identified in the relevant Work Programme/topic conditions. Communications-network supplier restrictions and critical-technology/control restrictions apply only when identified in the relevant work-programme/topic conditions; they are not automatic for every call. Russian-established persons/entities/bodies that directly or indirectly hold proprietary rights exceeding 50% in an entity established outside Russia make that entity ineligible in any capacity. Hungarian public-interest trusts established under Act IX of 2021 and entities they maintain may apply, but while Council measures remain in force cannot take any funded role (including beneficiaries, affiliated entities, subcontractors, or recipients of FSTP); in multi-beneficiary calls the applicant is invited to remove/replace them from funded roles or change them to associated-partner status, with tasks and budget redistributed accordingly. Affected entities can participate without EU funding as associated partners if call conditions allow. These conditions do not establish eligibility for any particular participant.

Applicant restriction

Financial capacity is normally checked for the coordinator when requested grant is at least EUR 500,000, with exceptions for public bodies/international organisations and individual requested amounts no more than EUR 60,000. Checks may extend to other applicants, affiliated entities or guarantors; weak capacity can lead to safeguards or rejection. Operational capacity is assessed through the implementation award criterion; the form requests participant/researcher identity, up to five relevant achievements and up to five relevant prior projects/activities per participant, plus significant infrastructure/equipment. Public bodies, Member State organisations and international organisations are exempt from that operational-capacity check. Administrative sanctions and listed exclusion grounds bar participation, including insolvency, tax/social-security breaches, grave professional misconduct, fraud/corruption/criminal and financial-integrity offences, serious prior grant/contract failures, irregularities, circumvention and unremediable procurement-preparation conflicts; misrepresentation/non-supply and irremediable equality-of-treatment distortion are also refusal grounds. These legal/capacity checks are separate from award scores and do not certify a specific participant.

Applicant restriction

This topic is expressly subject to European communication-network protection restrictions. Under General Annex B, entities assessed as high-risk suppliers of mobile network communication equipment, and entities they own or control, are not eligible to participate as beneficiaries, affiliated entities or associated partners. Exceptions may be requested from the granting authority and are assessed case by case under the stated cybersecurity/risk and availability-of-alternatives criteria; this is not a blanket exclusion of all participants or countries.

Applicant restrictionAdopted General Annex B; only if the own-topic action activates this restriction

Where the specific action is expressly identified as subject to restrictions for protection of European communication networks, entities assessed as high-risk suppliers of mobile network communication equipment and entities they own or control are ineligible as beneficiaries, affiliated entities or associated partners. Assessment includes third-country interference/ownership/governance/business/legal context, supply-chain cybersecurity practices and relevant security assessments. Exceptions may be requested from the granting authority, which assesses them case by case using the 5G toolbox criteria, security risks and availability of alternatives in the action. This conditional general clause does not activate the restriction for an unflagged topic or extend the listed participation roles.

Own-topic activation and other separately stated country/control restrictions retain their distinct scope.

Applicant restriction

General AnnexB restrictive measures, source-listed excluded participants and funding-country rules apply. These include sanctioned entities and Chinese public universities administered by or under supervision of MIIT; applicant-specific restrictive measures and exceptions require checking.

Applicant type

A programme of activities implemented by legal entities managing or funding R&I programmes other than EU funding bodies, subject to General AnnexB and the exact topic.

Application restriction

Submit electronically using the forms in the Portal system (topic-page templates are informational), following the form instructions. Applications must include all parts and mandatory annexes/supporting documents and be readable, accessible and printable. Full applications include an exploitation/dissemination/communication plan unless the topic provides otherwise; no such plan is required for stage 1 of a two-stage process. Where relevant, include a commercial exploitation strategy; where exploitation is primarily in non-associated third countries, explain why it is in the EU interest. General Annex A defaults: full application 40 pages, except CSA 25 and Programme Co-fund 65; for lump-sum topics RIA/IA 45 and CSA 28; stage 1 is 10 pages. The specific topic and actual Portal form/template override defaults. Blind first-stage anonymisation applies only when the topic specifies blind evaluation. If an application exceeds the applicable page limits, the submission system gives an automatic warning and invitation to resubmit a conforming version. After the call deadline, excess pages are automatically made invisible and are not considered by evaluators. Actual topic conditions and Portal submission templates govern the applicable limits and sections. This procedure does not promise a post-deadline correction window or say the whole application is automatically rejected.

Application restriction

Because the topic permits/provides for FSTP, its proposal must state objectives and expected results. Any FSTP open calls must be widely published and meet EU transparency, equal-treatment, conflict-of-interest and confidentiality standards; publish on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal and beneficiary websites; stay open at least two months; announce deadline changes and notify registered applicants; publish award outcomes promptly with project description, award date, duration, recipient legal name and country; and have a clear European dimension. Topic-specific extra conditions remain controlling.

Application restriction

Projects must focus exclusively on civil applications and comply with EU policy interests/priorities. Applicants complete an ethics self-assessment; projects raising ethics issues undergo ethics review and may receive ethics deliverables/authorisation requirements. Security appraisal/classified-information conditions apply only when classified or sensitive information is involved. A GEP is an eligibility requirement at grant signature and throughout the grant only for MS/AC public bodies, research organisations and higher-education establishments applying as beneficiaries or affiliated entities. It must be published, top-management-signed/adopted, resourced, monitor sex/gender-disaggregated data with reporting at least every two years, and include staff/decision-maker awareness or training; equivalent strategic documents can satisfy the process requirements. GEP eligibility does not apply to other legal-entity categories. Separately, beneficiaries must take measures to promote equal opportunities and, where applicable, follow the GEP; they should aim, to the extent possible, for gender balance at all personnel levels, including supervisory/managerial levels. This is an implementation aim, not a numerical staffing quota. A self-declaration is requested in the Participant Register. Source-listed GEP content areas are recommendations, not extra mandatory eligibility items.

Application restriction

The Impact award criterion additionally considers the extent to which proposed work incorporates necessary coordination efforts and resources with relevant projects and the EOSC governance structure in the EOSC Partnership; this is an evaluation consideration, not a standalone unconditional applicant eligibility rule.

Application restriction

The activities should comply with and contribute to continued updates/upgrades of EOSC policies and standards, including technical/interoperability/open standards, harmonised access/use policies and cybersecurity. Proposals should implement activities through joint calls awarding grants to third parties; those calls should be open to organisations operating an EOSC Node or onboarding identified resources in line with Federation criteria. Proposals should be driven by current community/infrastructure/provider gaps and demonstrate how needs and researcher uptake will be addressed; include a robust, credible beyond-project service-sustainability plan; and list the digital services supported through joint calls. Funded third parties should identify specific services and access amounts, allocate budgets according to demand through Federation-wide management/accounting, fulfil adopted Virtual Access conditions for publicity, cost determination and user-access criteria, and provide documentation justifying access delivered and costs. Proposals are expected to address compliance with those conditions.

Application restrictionHORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-01; adopted AnnexE, subject to stage-specific templates

Use the electronic Portal system and complete all parts, mandatory annexes and supporting documents. PartA contains organisation/administrative data, summary budget and call questions; PartB is the technical PDF description. Upload supporting documents in system-permitted formats. Design the proposal around the award criteria. Coordinator confirms mandate, correctness/completeness and all participants’ eligibility/capacity/exclusion compliance; each participant reconfirms by declaration of honour before signature. Noncompliance can cause rejection and later legal-entity/financial/bank validation documents may be requested. Actual stage-specific Portal templates and own-topic conditions govern.

Application restrictionEvaluation review; actual/deemed access anchors, not submission or project deadlines

Coordinator may request review of procedural flaws, following evaluation-result-letter procedures/deadlines; merits are not reviewed. Each request concerns one specific proposal, within30days after opening/access of results, maximum7000characters. Notifications unopened for10days after sending are deemed accessed. A review committee may recommend re-evaluation, primarily by experts not involved previously, or confirmation of the initial evaluation.

Application restrictionDefault full-application ranking within one budget envelope; own special arrangements retained

Adopted General Annex F default for proposals with the same score within one budget envelope, excluding stage 1 of two-stage submissions and subject to any specific call/topic special arrangement: first prioritise call aspects not covered by more highly ranked proposals. Those identified proposals are then prioritised by Excellence and then Impact; for Innovation Actions the order is Impact then Excellence. If necessary, use gender balance among named leading researchers; then geographical diversity by MS/AC not otherwise receiving funds from higher-ranked projects (number first, then budget if equal). If still indistinguishable, the panel may use documented call/Horizon-objective factors, for example project-portfolio synergies or relevant feasible SME involvement. This is a priority procedure, not a funding guarantee, staffing quota or first-stage tie rule.

Application restriction

Call2027 adopts General AnnexesA–G for admissibility, eligibility, capacity/exclusion, award criteria, documents, procedure and legal/financial setup, subject to own-topic exceptions.

Application restriction

Implement activities through joint calls awarding grants to organisations operating or intending to operate an EOSCNode or onboard identified resources; follow EOSC policies/standards and supply a credible beyond-project sustainability plan.

Application restriction

Planned opening9March2027, deadline15June2027 at17:00 Brussels local time. The Director-General may shift opening by up to1month and delay deadlines by up to2months. No current application acceptance is asserted.

Eligible project scope

Proposals should cover Activity 2 to support broadening, integration and structuring of research-community participation: develop intra-Node coordination mechanisms and organisational models representing broad communities and multiple organisations; develop digital capabilities and options for harmonised legal arrangements (such as contractual or service-level agreements) for onboarding and sustainable service provision; and broaden engagement including underrepresented thematic communities or geographic areas.

Eligible project scope

The topic aims to establish an EOSC Federation-wide mechanism enabling multiple organisations to offer and sustainably provide digital services to EOSC users, and to enlarge the Federation through Nodes that connect organisations’ resources. Proposals should cover the specific activities described in the topic, including seamless integrated access and broader, structured research-community participation.

Eligible project scope

Proposals should cover Activity 1: provide seamless, user-friendly access to EOSC digital services for typical research workflows through a fully integrated Federation-wide system. This includes gathering researcher/user requirements and demonstrating complementarity/integration with existing EOSC resources; supporting Federation-wide resource management/accounting based on EU Node virtual-credit design; providing access according to user needs through harmonised policies and transnational/virtual-access principles; deep cross-provider integration across the research lifecycle; developing/testing/demonstrating supply-demand and beyond-project sustainable business models; developing secure, sovereign acquisition/provision guidance; and establishing continuous user-feedback and quality/usage-improvement mechanisms. These activities should be fully concerted and aligned with related parallel EOSC Federation activities.

Expected number of grants (planning estimate)Captured SEDIA planning estimate for exact topic HORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-01

1 count

Expected funded-project/grant count in the exact provider topic budgetOverview. Indicative planning metadata, not guaranteed awards, maximum accepted projects, staffing or consortium size. It does not replace any differently expressed work-programme planning range.

Other condition

Programme Co-fund Action

Other condition

Project results are expected to contribute to all three stated outcomes: EOSC users receive state-of-the-art digital services for data storage, processing/sharing, software/models/workflows and collaboration; research/digital infrastructures and scientific-service organisations gain structures and technical, legal and coordination mechanisms to onboard, manage and sustainably operate services in EOSC; and European investments in FAIR scientific data/services within EOSC become more aligned and coordinated, achieving economies of scale and more efficient use of digital resources. These are expected contributions, not achieved results.

Other condition

Funded projects are expected to cooperate with one another and relevant projects contributing to EOSC Federation development, including the specifically named 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 EOSC actions, and to interact closely with Federation organisational setup. Proposals should provide dedicated activities and earmark appropriate resources for this cooperation. Projects are encouraged to explore relevant EU synergies such as EuroHPC.

Other condition

Grant royalty-free results access and relevant monitoring/policy information to the EOSCAssociation; grant identified Member/AssociatedCountry entities royalty-free access to resultIPR necessary for EOSCdevelopment, limited to non-commercial use.

Other conditionHORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-01; CoFund full-application award aspects; not first-stage full-rubric scoring

For CoFund full applications evaluated under adopted AnnexD, assess the action-specific qualitative aspects. Excellence: clarity/pertinence of objectives and ambition beyond the state of the art; sound methodology, including underlying concepts/models/assumptions, interdisciplinary approaches, appropriate research-content gender dimension, and quality of open-science practices including research-output sharing/management and citizen/civil-society/end-user engagement where appropriate. Impact: credible pathways to expected work-programme outcomes/impacts; suitable, high-quality measures to maximise them through the dissemination/exploitation plan, including communication. Implementation: effective, high-quality work plan, risk assessment, appropriate work-package effort and overall resources; each participant’s capacity/role and the consortium’s necessary expertise. Aspects are considered to the extent relevant to the work-programme description; scores are for criteria, not separate scores for each aspect. Own-topic exceptions and the separately recorded stage-specific score rules retain priority. This does not turn an Article24 amendment to an existing partnership into an unrestricted public competition; own-topic consortium/amendment conditions remain.

Other conditionGeneral Annex F default limitations; individual part budget denominator and call-specific procedures

Invitation to grant preparation is no formal funding commitment; legal/capacity/exclusion checks remain. Call/topic budgets are indicative; unless otherwise stated final figures may change up to20% relative to the total budget in each individual work-programme part, not an automatic project or topic increase. Seals of Excellence/STEP seals, joint-call selection, blind first-stage evaluation and partial randomisation depend on explicit own-call conditions; none follows automatically from two-stage status. The tie method in points1–4 is reapplied to remaining equally ranked proposals.

Other conditionDefault indicative evaluation/grant-preparation timetable; own-topic timeline prevails

Absent different own-call conditions, evaluation outcome is around5months after submission deadline and grant signature around8months. Two-stage default: around3months from stage1deadline for its outcome; around5months from stage2deadline for its outcome, and around8months from stage2deadline for grant signature. Indicative planning estimates, not fixed promises or project/employment duration.

Other conditionHORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-01; adopted General Annex G baseline subject to express own-topic grant provisions and actual agreement

Grant preparation with the EU project officer sets deliverables, reporting/payments, grant amount, rate, eligible costs and duration in the agreement. Budget is EUR and award may be below request. Start normally follows signature; retroactive start and month-based duration extensions need exceptional justified granting-authority agreement. Portal manages milestones/deliverables reflected in agreementAnnex1. For ACTUAL-COST grants only eligible incurred costs are reimbursed at the agreed rate; surplus/profit is deducted and noncompliance may reduce grant. This conditional actual-cost description does not reclassify an expressly lump-sum/unit topic: its rate is already applied in amount-setting and does not appear as a separately added reimbursement percentage. Own-topic grant form/rate, PCPprocurement conditions and partnership amendment restrictions remain.

Other conditionHORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-01; adopted General Annex G baseline subject to express own-topic grant provisions and actual agreement

Agreement covers proper implementation, conflicts, confidentiality/security/classified information, ethics/integrity/values/gender, data protection, IPR/background/results/access/use, communication/dissemination/open science/visibility and applicable special action rules. Additional adopted duties: if granting authority requests during a public emergency, grant nonexclusive result licences on fair/reasonable terms for its stated limited period to entities committed to rapid broad exploitation; provision applies up to4years after action end. Unless own-call states otherwise, notify authority for up to4years after end when results could reasonably contribute to European/international standards. Authority may object to ownership transfer/exclusive licensing for up to4years after end ONLY where specific call provides. Give data/result access needed to validate publication conclusions while safeguarding legitimate interests/constraints unless access already given. On authority request in public emergency, immediately deposit research outputs and provide CC BY,CC0 or equivalent open access; where legitimate interests preclude this, provide the stated nonexclusive fair/reasonable licences instead, with that exception limited to4years after end. Breach/other legal violations may trigger agreementChapter5 measures; no unread AGA provisions or executed applicant agreement are asserted.

Other conditionHORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-01; adopted General Annex G baseline subject to express own-topic grant provisions and actual agreement

After signature, normal initial float is160% of average EU funding per reporting period: maximum grant amount divided by number of reporting periods. Exceptionally less or no pre-financing is possible. With ONLY ONE reporting period it will be less, since100% would already equal the whole grant; no fixed single-period percentage is specified. Programme co-fund actions may receive additional pre-financing. At pre-financing,5–8% of maximum grant is deducted into the mutual-insurance mechanism, not added as a benefit or treated as funding intensity. EU debts may offset/reduce payments. Interim payments link to periodic reports; final report determines final grant and overpayment is recovered. Financial-statement certificate thresholds depend on grant size/beneficiary type and the agreement, not an invented universal amount. Recovery liability is individual: beneficiary’s own and affiliated-entity debts. These normal/general arrangements do not guarantee a new payment on an existing partnership amendment or displace express own-topic/agreement provisions.

Other condition

At least20% of total financial support to third parties must be open to entities eligible for funding under General AnnexB without additional geographic restrictions. The denominator is total FSTP, not total proposed project budget.

Other condition

Own-topic overview plans an indicative 1 project(s) expected to be funded. This is planning data, not consortium size or staffing headcount.

Other condition

Project start/duration are fixed in the grant agreement; no numerical project or staff duration is inferred from the allocation.

Partner requirement

One or more legal entities may apply, with at least one established in an EU Member State or Associated Country. The default RIA three-entity rule is not imposed on this co-fund action.

Indicative budget

€40,000,000

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

Funding per beneficiary, maximumFinancial support through the funded joint calls

€2,000,000

Grants only. Financial support to third parties is the action’s primary activity; not a cap on the coordinator/project grant.

Eligible costHORIZON-INFRA-2027-01-EOSC-01; adopted General Annex G baseline subject to express own-topic grant provisions and actual agreement

Agreement fixes cost forms/categories: eligible actual personnel/subcontracting/purchases and FSTP only if call permits; units may cover personnel, SMEowners/naturalpersons without salary, usual-practice average personnel and internally invoiced goods/services, and expressly permitted specific units. The25%indirect-cost base excludes subcontracting,FSTP and units/lump sums already containing indirect costs. Different cost forms can coexist; global/action-category lump sums require call provision. Several EU Synergy grants may declare costs only where cumulative funding does not exceed100% of eligible costs/contributions declared. These are budget/eligibility methods, not personal salary or automatic FSTP/unit-cost permission; separately recorded own-topic costs/forms and rates retain priority.

Eligible cost

Personnel, subcontracting and purchase categories are available under General AnnexG subject to the actual grant and cost-eligibility model. This does not advertise jobs or prescribe salary, FTE or employment contracts.

Eligible cost

For third-party digital-service access, apply the specifically adopted Virtual Access Activities provisions: publicise access, specify units/access costs and user eligibility consistent with RI policies, justify access delivered and assess provision periodically through an external board. Technological/scientific user support is included in access costs; capital/depreciation and internally invoiced services are excluded unless a specific-topic exception applies.

Funding intensity

50 percent of eligible costs

Topic-specific fixed co-fund rate, overriding the general co-fund range. It does not specify that all other costs must be financed from the applicant’s own resources.

Indirect cost flat rateGeneralAnnexG indirect costs for this Horizon action/grant methodology

25 percent of the named eligible-direct-cost base

Base: total eligible direct costs excluding subcontracting, financial support to third parties and any unit costs/lump sums already including indirect costs. Apply only within the relevant grant/budget methodology; for lump sums this contributes to amount-setting, not an extra actual-cost payment or wage rate.

Expected contribution per project

€40,000,000

Indicative contribution around40million, not a fixed award or cap.

Topic allocation

€40,000,000

Indicative total topic budget; not an individual grant cap or remaining balance.

• Horizon Europe General Annexes2026–2027

  ec.europa.eu

• Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026–2027 Part3 Research Infrastructures, official PDF

  ec.europa.eu

Opens

9 Mar 2027

Deadline model

Single-stage

Programme

Horizon Europe · 2021 - 2027

Call

HORIZON-INFRA-2027-01 · Research Infrastructures 2027

Types of action

HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions

Keywords

• European Open Science Cloud
• FAIR data
• Open science

Source

ec.europa.eu

Checked

23 Oct 2026

Portal updated

7 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Reviewed

24 Oct 2026