Materials Commons for Europe (IA)
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-45
Funding Amount
€28.0M - €28.0M
Deadline
23/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Public Institution
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What is the Materials Commons for Europe (IA) Call?
Grant Description
This call supports the design and implementation of a federated European digital infrastructure for advanced materials research and development. It addresses the need for interoperable, FAIR data sources and computational tools, AI‐enabled and automated workflows, and reliable experimental data management. Funded projects will demonstrate use cases across sectors to accelerate materials design, foster industrial uptake, and establish mechanisms for long-term sustainability.
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
- A pioneering federated digital infrastructure for advanced materials R&I demonstrating at least five industry-led use cases with feedback loops to academic research.
• Seamless access for academic and industry researchers to interoperable, heterogeneous, FAIR data sources, computational tools and HPC facilities supporting advanced materials workflows.
• Tailored solutions addressing experimentalists’ requirements for high-quality, well-structured, documented primary data management.
• A framework enabling state-of-the-art AI technologies and predictive modelling in self-driving labs across Europe.
• Defined governance, trust and semantic interoperability mechanisms (taxonomies, ontologies, APIs) fostering secure data sharing and cross-sector collaboration.
• Viable mechanisms and business models for long-term sustainability, expansion to new use cases and engagement of new stakeholders, supported by an advisory board of ministries/funding bodies.
• Seamless access for academic and industry researchers to interoperable, heterogeneous, FAIR data sources, computational tools and HPC facilities supporting advanced materials workflows.
• Tailored solutions addressing experimentalists’ requirements for high-quality, well-structured, documented primary data management.
• A framework enabling state-of-the-art AI technologies and predictive modelling in self-driving labs across Europe.
• Defined governance, trust and semantic interoperability mechanisms (taxonomies, ontologies, APIs) fostering secure data sharing and cross-sector collaboration.
• Viable mechanisms and business models for long-term sustainability, expansion to new use cases and engagement of new stakeholders, supported by an advisory board of ministries/funding bodies.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
- Establish a pan-European federated digital infrastructure interconnecting existing and new advanced materials design/development platforms under FAIR principles.
• Provide interoperable, heterogeneous data sources, computational tools and HPC resources to researchers in academia and industry.
• Deliver tailored solutions for experimental workflows ensuring high-quality, well-structured, documented primary data.
• Enable virtual design and processing of advanced materials and support integration of AI-based predictive modelling and self-driving laboratory operations.
• Adopt an inclusive, user-centric approach respecting intellectual property, with contributions from national/regional public research organisations mandated by their competent ministries, acting as major hubs and contact points.
• Form an advisory board of relevant ministries or national funding bodies to guide short- and long-term solutions.
• Follow a project duration of approximately four years and implement the three phased roadmap (Planning, Build-Up, Demonstration).
• Seek complementarity and synergy with related national and EU initiatives and coordinate a mutual learning exercise targeting countries at various levels of digital infrastructure maturity.
• Ensure involvement of Social Sciences & Humanities to shape governance, uptake and usability across sectors and communities.
• Provide interoperable, heterogeneous data sources, computational tools and HPC resources to researchers in academia and industry.
• Deliver tailored solutions for experimental workflows ensuring high-quality, well-structured, documented primary data.
• Enable virtual design and processing of advanced materials and support integration of AI-based predictive modelling and self-driving laboratory operations.
• Adopt an inclusive, user-centric approach respecting intellectual property, with contributions from national/regional public research organisations mandated by their competent ministries, acting as major hubs and contact points.
• Form an advisory board of relevant ministries or national funding bodies to guide short- and long-term solutions.
• Follow a project duration of approximately four years and implement the three phased roadmap (Planning, Build-Up, Demonstration).
• Seek complementarity and synergy with related national and EU initiatives and coordinate a mutual learning exercise targeting countries at various levels of digital infrastructure maturity.
• Ensure involvement of Social Sciences & Humanities to shape governance, uptake and usability across sectors and communities.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
- Beneficiaries must be publicly funded organisations mandated by their competent national ministries and capable of acting as national or regional hubs; legal entities established in China are explicitly ineligible.
• Applicants must select and take into account the relevant destination description from the Work Programme (e.g., Destination 2: open strategic autonomy in innovative materials).
• Proposals must adhere to Horizon Europe MGA rules (eligibility, financial/operational capacity, exclusion, page limits, evaluation criteria) and submission deadlines (single-stage, 22 May–23 September 2025).
• An advisory board composed of national ministries or funding bodies must be established within the project.
• Projects should envisage coordination with Joint Research Centre platforms (INCITE, EIGL) and a mutual learning exercise (MLE).
• Social Sciences & Humanities expertise is mandatory for user-centred design and stakeholder engagement.
• Encouraged project duration of around four years.
• Applicants must select and take into account the relevant destination description from the Work Programme (e.g., Destination 2: open strategic autonomy in innovative materials).
• Proposals must adhere to Horizon Europe MGA rules (eligibility, financial/operational capacity, exclusion, page limits, evaluation criteria) and submission deadlines (single-stage, 22 May–23 September 2025).
• An advisory board composed of national ministries or funding bodies must be established within the project.
• Projects should envisage coordination with Joint Research Centre platforms (INCITE, EIGL) and a mutual learning exercise (MLE).
• Social Sciences & Humanities expertise is mandatory for user-centred design and stakeholder engagement.
• Encouraged project duration of around four years.
Important dates
Open from: 22/05/2025
Deadline:23/09/2025
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