EU Co-funded Partnership on raw materials for the green and digital transition (Co-funded partnership Raw Materials for the Green and Digital Transition)
European Partnership on Raw Materials
Funding Amount
Up to €2.0M
Deadline
23/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the EU Co-funded Partnership on raw materials for the green and digital transition (Co-funded partnership Raw Materials for the Green and Digital Transition) Call?
Grant Description
The call establishes the European Partnership on Raw Materials to coordinate national and regional research and innovation programmes across the non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials value chain. It addresses EU supply security and access to critical and strategic raw materials by pooling financial resources for joint annual calls to third parties, co-funded by the EU. It aims to align national priorities with EU raw materials policy, strengthen cooperation with strategic partners, impro...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
Funded projects will:
• Increase security of supply and access to primary and secondary raw materials, especially critical and strategic raw materials for EU industrial value chains.
• Align national and regional R&I priorities with EU raw materials policy and the Critical Raw Materials Act, contributing to its 2030 benchmarks.
• Strengthen EU cooperation with strategic raw materials partner countries.
• Improve industrial viability, safety and environmental performance in raw materials operations, yielding measurable improvements.
• Diversify EU sourcing of critical raw materials from third countries.
• Advance responsible and sustainable supply chains in line with the EU Principles for Sustainable Raw Materials.
• Promote use of UNFC and UNRMS resource classification and management systems.
• Tailor dissemination and exploitation strategies to EU raw materials stakeholders and strategic partners.
• Generate clustered knowledge and synergies to inform policy and future R&I investments.
• Increase security of supply and access to primary and secondary raw materials, especially critical and strategic raw materials for EU industrial value chains.
• Align national and regional R&I priorities with EU raw materials policy and the Critical Raw Materials Act, contributing to its 2030 benchmarks.
• Strengthen EU cooperation with strategic raw materials partner countries.
• Improve industrial viability, safety and environmental performance in raw materials operations, yielding measurable improvements.
• Diversify EU sourcing of critical raw materials from third countries.
• Advance responsible and sustainable supply chains in line with the EU Principles for Sustainable Raw Materials.
• Promote use of UNFC and UNRMS resource classification and management systems.
• Tailor dissemination and exploitation strategies to EU raw materials stakeholders and strategic partners.
• Generate clustered knowledge and synergies to inform policy and future R&I investments.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
Proposals must:
• Cover the full non-energy, non-agricultural raw materials value chain (exploration, extraction, processing, recycling, circularity); sea mining is excluded.
• Pool funding from participating programmes (EU Member States, Horizon Europe associated countries, OECD, African Union, MERCOSUR, CARIFORUM, Andean Community, strategic partnership and trade-agreement countries with raw materials cooperation).
• Be coordinated by a public institution owning or funding R&I programmes; beneficiaries can include regional/national programming bodies, ministries or public institutions responsible for raw materials/R&I policy.
• Structure activities around five building blocks: joint calls, uptake/commercialisation, clustering/synthesis, programme coordination, and knowledge centre functions.
• Provide financial and/or in-kind contributions in line with the partnership’s ambition.
• Maintain an open governance model allowing new partners and broad stakeholder engagement (including biodiversity, nature-based solutions, ecosystem services perspectives).
• Plan annual joint calls from 2026 to 2032, ensuring adequate lead time for co-funded projects.
• Foster synergies with Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space, EIT Raw Materials and other relevant European funding programmes/platforms.
• Cover the full non-energy, non-agricultural raw materials value chain (exploration, extraction, processing, recycling, circularity); sea mining is excluded.
• Pool funding from participating programmes (EU Member States, Horizon Europe associated countries, OECD, African Union, MERCOSUR, CARIFORUM, Andean Community, strategic partnership and trade-agreement countries with raw materials cooperation).
• Be coordinated by a public institution owning or funding R&I programmes; beneficiaries can include regional/national programming bodies, ministries or public institutions responsible for raw materials/R&I policy.
• Structure activities around five building blocks: joint calls, uptake/commercialisation, clustering/synthesis, programme coordination, and knowledge centre functions.
• Provide financial and/or in-kind contributions in line with the partnership’s ambition.
• Maintain an open governance model allowing new partners and broad stakeholder engagement (including biodiversity, nature-based solutions, ecosystem services perspectives).
• Plan annual joint calls from 2026 to 2032, ensuring adequate lead time for co-funded projects.
• Foster synergies with Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space, EIT Raw Materials and other relevant European funding programmes/platforms.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
- Total indicative budget: EUR 300 million; EU contribution up to 30% of eligible costs (max EUR 90 million).
• Grants to third parties capped at EUR 2 million each (financial support to third parties is a primary activity).
• Maximum individual FSTP may not exceed EUR 8 million under Financial Regulation derogation.
• Eligible participants: legal entities established in EU Member States, associated countries, OECD, African Union, MERCOSUR, CARIFORUM, Andean Community, strategic partnership and trade-agreement countries with raw materials provisions; partners may join during the partnership’s lifetime.
• Coordinator must be a public R&I programme owner/funder; innovation actions exclude entities established in China.
• Use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS data/services when employing satellite-based Earth observation or positioning/navigation timing.
• Starting date of grants may be the submission date; retroactive start must be justified; costs from that date may be eligible.
• Sea mining activities are explicitly excluded.
• Grants to third parties capped at EUR 2 million each (financial support to third parties is a primary activity).
• Maximum individual FSTP may not exceed EUR 8 million under Financial Regulation derogation.
• Eligible participants: legal entities established in EU Member States, associated countries, OECD, African Union, MERCOSUR, CARIFORUM, Andean Community, strategic partnership and trade-agreement countries with raw materials provisions; partners may join during the partnership’s lifetime.
• Coordinator must be a public R&I programme owner/funder; innovation actions exclude entities established in China.
• Use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS data/services when employing satellite-based Earth observation or positioning/navigation timing.
• Starting date of grants may be the submission date; retroactive start must be justified; costs from that date may be eligible.
• Sea mining activities are explicitly excluded.
Important dates
Open from: 22/05/2025
Deadline:23/09/2025
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