European UnionNon-profit, Public Institution
Open topic on Improving disaster risk management and governance to ensure self-sufficiency and sustainability of operations in support of enhanced resilience
Horizon Europe – Civil Security for Society
Funding Amount
Amount not specified
Deadline
12/11/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Public Institution
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What is the Open topic on Improving disaster risk management and governance to ensure self-sufficiency and sustainability of operations in support of enhanced resilience Call?
Grant Description
This call supports research and innovation actions to enhance understanding of the impacts of natural and human-made disasters, improve early warning and forecasting systems, and strengthen risk governance and resilience of emergency systems for disaster prevention and preparedness. Projects should develop, test and validate innovative tools and solutions, engage practitioners and vulnerable communities, and plan for uptake and upscaling at regional and EU level.
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to deliver:
• A better understanding of the impacts of disasters and crises (natural and human-made, including CBRN) on risk governance frameworks.
• Improved early warning systems and long-term planning tools addressing natural hazards or CBRN-E threats.
• Enhanced risk governance involving emergency services, regional/local authorities and citizen volunteers.
• Increased adaptation and resilience of emergency systems for disaster prevention, preparedness and response in multi-risk environments with potential cascading effects.
• Tangible support for implementing the EU Preparedness Union Strategy and readiness for uptake by disaster risk reduction stakeholders.
• A better understanding of the impacts of disasters and crises (natural and human-made, including CBRN) on risk governance frameworks.
• Improved early warning systems and long-term planning tools addressing natural hazards or CBRN-E threats.
• Enhanced risk governance involving emergency services, regional/local authorities and citizen volunteers.
• Increased adaptation and resilience of emergency systems for disaster prevention, preparedness and response in multi-risk environments with potential cascading effects.
• Tangible support for implementing the EU Preparedness Union Strategy and readiness for uptake by disaster risk reduction stakeholders.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
Proposals must:
• Adopt inclusive, innovative risk and resilience management approaches combining pre-defined plans with flexible capabilities across prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and learning phases.
• Implement policies and strategies at international, regional and local levels co-developed through whole-of-society engagement (authorities, private/ intermediary actors, volunteers, citizens and the most vulnerable).
• Directly support the EU Preparedness Union Strategy and follow DG ECHO recommendations to ensure end-user uptake.
• Address exactly one of the following options:
• Option a: forecasting and early warning for climate/weather extremes and geohazards with emergency system adaptation; or
• Option b: forecasting and understanding of CBRN-E threats with emergency system adaptation (including medical countermeasures).
• Provide a convincing plan for demonstration, testing or validation of tools/solutions within the project scope.
• Detail plans for future uptake and upscaling at national and EU level post-project.
• Build on, and not duplicate, prior research (including previous Framework Programme projects).
• Coordinate with other successful proposals to exploit complementarities and avoid overlap.
• Engage and secure timely feedback from relevant practitioners via a mid-term practitioner-led assessment deliverable.
• Involve Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines meaningfully throughout.
• Adopt inclusive, innovative risk and resilience management approaches combining pre-defined plans with flexible capabilities across prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and learning phases.
• Implement policies and strategies at international, regional and local levels co-developed through whole-of-society engagement (authorities, private/ intermediary actors, volunteers, citizens and the most vulnerable).
• Directly support the EU Preparedness Union Strategy and follow DG ECHO recommendations to ensure end-user uptake.
• Address exactly one of the following options:
• Option a: forecasting and early warning for climate/weather extremes and geohazards with emergency system adaptation; or
• Option b: forecasting and understanding of CBRN-E threats with emergency system adaptation (including medical countermeasures).
• Provide a convincing plan for demonstration, testing or validation of tools/solutions within the project scope.
• Detail plans for future uptake and upscaling at national and EU level post-project.
• Build on, and not duplicate, prior research (including previous Framework Programme projects).
• Coordinate with other successful proposals to exploit complementarities and avoid overlap.
• Engage and secure timely feedback from relevant practitioners via a mid-term practitioner-led assessment deliverable.
• Involve Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines meaningfully throughout.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
To be eligible, proposals must:
• Be submitted as a Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Action (RIA) under a lump-sum grant (HORIZON-AG-LS).
• Include as beneficiaries at least:
• 2 regional and/or local authorities,
• 1 disaster management authority,
• 1 volunteer organisation,
across a minimum of 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries, documented via the “Information about security practitioners” annex.
• Ensure legal entities from Latin America and Caribbean, African and Central Asian countries participate (exceptional eligibility for Union funding).
• If using satellite-based Earth observation or positioning/timing services, employ Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS data.
• Complete and attach the template Annex “Information about security practitioners” in the application form.
• Comply with all admissibility, eligibility and award criteria, page limits, country eligibility and financial/operational capacity requirements outlined in the Work Programme General Annexes.
• Use the prescribed application, evaluation forms and Model Grant Agreement, and adhere to lump-sum funding rules.
• Be submitted as a Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Action (RIA) under a lump-sum grant (HORIZON-AG-LS).
• Include as beneficiaries at least:
• 2 regional and/or local authorities,
• 1 disaster management authority,
• 1 volunteer organisation,
across a minimum of 3 different EU Member States or Associated Countries, documented via the “Information about security practitioners” annex.
• Ensure legal entities from Latin America and Caribbean, African and Central Asian countries participate (exceptional eligibility for Union funding).
• If using satellite-based Earth observation or positioning/timing services, employ Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS data.
• Complete and attach the template Annex “Information about security practitioners” in the application form.
• Comply with all admissibility, eligibility and award criteria, page limits, country eligibility and financial/operational capacity requirements outlined in the Work Programme General Annexes.
• Use the prescribed application, evaluation forms and Model Grant Agreement, and adhere to lump-sum funding rules.
Important dates
Open from: 12/06/2025
Deadline:12/11/2025
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