EU Co-funded Partnership on raw materials for the green and digital transition (Co-funded partnership Raw Materials for the Green and Digital Transition)
HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-64
- Programme
- INDUSTRY
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- May 22, 2025
- Deadline
- September 23, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €15,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- €4,000,000
- Max Grant Amount
- €5,000,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 3
- Keywords
- HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-64HORIZON-CL4-2025-01
Description
Projects outcomes will enable achieving the expected impacts of the destination by increasing supply security and access to primary and secondary raw materials, in particular critical and strategic raw materials[1] for EU industrial value chains and strategic sectors.
Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
- Align national R&I priorities in raw materials with EU policy on raw materials.
- Strengthen EU cooperation with countries the EU established strategic partnerships on Raw Materials[2];
- Improve industrial viability, safety and environmental impacts of the operation in a way that leads to measurable improvements;
- Improve EU sourcing diversification of critical raw materials from third countries;
- Improve responsible supply of raw materials to Europe in line with the EU principles for sustainable raw materials[3], which are a non-regulatory set of principles based on the EU acquis. They set out requirements for sustainable raw materials and extraction and processing in Europe in terms of social, environmental and economic performance.
- Dissemination and exploitation of projects outputs is tailored for organisations and industry dealing with raw materials in the EU and project partner from Strategic partnership countries.
- Promote the utilisation of UNFC (United Nations Framework Classification for Resources) and UNRMS (United Nations Resource Management System) in the raw materials sector.
- Actions are expected to contribute to the implementation of the EU Critical Raw Materials Act[4], particularly to the 2030 benchmarks.
- The objective of the European Partnership on Raw Materials is to strengthen the co-ordination of national and regional research programmes in the field of non-energy and non-agricultural raw materials, ensuring common understanding of R&I challenges to achieve the objectives of the Critical Raw Materials Act[4].
- The Partnership will build on the experience of ERA-NETs: ERA-MIN, ERA-MIN 2 and ERA-MIN 3. The Partnership should cover the whole raw materials value chain including exploration, extraction, processing technologies, and recycling and improve circularity. Sea mining is excluded from this topic.
- Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to implementing joint annual calls for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding in this area. Financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary activities of this action in order to be able to achieve its objectives.
- As specified in the eligibility conditions, the Partnership is open to all EU Member States, associated countries to Horizon Europe, OECD countries, African Union Member States[6], MERCOSUR, CARIFORUM, Andean Community and countries with which the EU has concluded strategic partnerships on raw materials[2] as well as trade (or association/economic partnership or equivalent) agreements containing raw materials cooperation provisions (i.e. Energy and Raw materials chapters)[8]. Participation remains open to those wanting to join during the Partnership’s lifetime.
- Beneficiaries should preferably be national, regional or local institutions responsible for programming research and innovation activities in raw materials. To ensure alignment of R&I activities and raw materials policy participation is also additionally open to relevant Ministries and public institutions responsible for raw materials and R&I policy.
- This Partnership should be implemented through a joint programme of activities ranging from research to coordination and networking activities, including training, demonstration, piloting and dissemination activities, to be structured along the following main building blocks:
- Joint annual calls for R&I activities;
- Facilitating further uptake and commercialisation of developed R&I results;
- Clustering of projects and synthesising of R&I results;
- Coordinating research programmes between EU and its Member States and participating third countries and trigger combined action;
- Serving as a centre for knowledge on partner countries’ R&I programmes and activities in raw materials.
- Actions should also provide measures contributing to the objectives of the Critical Raw Materials Act[9] and of EU raw materials policy.
- Partners are expected to provide financial and/or in-kind contribution, in line with the level of ambition of the proposed measures. The partnership should be open to including new partners over the lifetime of the partnership. Its governance should create a clear and transparent process for engaging with a broad range of stakeholders, together with the full members of the partnership, to ensure that the work strategically covers a wide range of views in the field of biodiversity, nature-based solutions and ecosystem services throughout the lifetime of the partnership. To ensure that all work streams are coherent and complementary, and to leverage knowledge investment potential, the partnership is expected to foster close cooperation and synergies with the projects funded under Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space. It should also develop synergies with other relevant European initiatives, funding programmes and platforms such as EIT Raw Materials.
- Financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary channels under this action to enable the partnership to achieve its objectives. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 2 million. It is expected that the partnership organises joint calls on an annual base from 2026 to 2032 and therefore it should factor ample time to run the co-funded projects.
- The total indicative budget for the partnership is EUR 300 million. The EU contribution will be limited to 30% of the total eligible costs of the action with a maximum of EUR 90 million.
The starting date of grants awarded under this topic may be as of the submission date of the application. Applicants should justify the need for a retroactive starting date in their application. Costs incurred from the starting date of the action may be considered eligible.
[1] Annex 1 and Annex 2, Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1724 and (EU) 2019/1020 (OJ L, 2024/1252, 3.5.2024, ELI:http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1252/oj).
[2] https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/raw-materials/areas-specific-interest/raw-materials-diplomacy_en
[3] COM(2023) 165 - A secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials in support of the twin transition
[4] Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1724 and (EU) 2019/1020 (OJ L, 2024/1252, 3.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1252/oj).
[5] Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1724 and (EU) 2019/1020 (OJ L, 2024/1252, 3.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1252/oj).
[6] African Union member states includes countries whose membership has been temporarily suspended
[7] https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/raw-materials/areas-specific-interest/raw-materials-diplomacy_en
[8] https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/negotiations-and-agreements_en
[9] Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1724 and (EU) 2019/1020 (OJ L, 2024/1252, 3.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1252/oj).
Destination & Scope
The research and innovation under this Destination will contribute to a paradigm shift, as regards the availability, development, use and disposal of chemicals and materials. This is necessary to guarantee Europe’s technological sovereignty and capacity to deliver on the twin green and digital transitions (it is thus strongly linked to the objectives of the Destination ‘Achieving global leadership in climate-neutral, circular and digitised industrial and digital value chains’).
To enable such a shift, an innovative, strong European R&I ecosystem for circular chemicals and materials is needed, working across different technology readiness levels. Bringing knowledge and skills together across the materials’ value chains is key to ensuring that this shift can materialise.
The requirements of the European Green Deal for safety, sustainability and circularity should be considered across the life cycle of a chemical or material. The 2022 Commission Recommendation on ‘Safe and Sustainable by Design’ (SSbD) sets out a new framework on how to achieve these objectives.
R&I activities should contribute to strengthen EU’s critical raw materials capacities along all stages of the value chain, increasing our resilience by reducing dependencies, increasing preparedness and promoting supply chain sustainability and circularity, in line with the Critical Raw Materials Act. It is necessary to improve the energy and process efficiency of extractive and processing activities and minimise their environmental impact, including GHG emissions. Advancements need to be made on finding options for replacing critical raw materials with other (advanced) materials offering at least the same functionality and taking into account the existing environmental concerns.
Advanced materials (including amongst others nano- and 2D materials) and chemicals are designed with functionality in mind. Compared to conventional materials, they have novel properties that significantly step-up performance. New digital tools are needed such as common data spaces, digital twins, industrial virtual worlds, as well as novel (autonomous) design, synthesis, development, characterisation and fabrication tools as well as continuous training of scientists on these new tools.
To secure unimpeded market entry, appropriate test methods are needed. New chemicals and materials should be developed using the SSbD framework and with the efficiency and circularity of materials in mind, also for their inclusion in products. This calls for tools, models and data for robust SSbD, including animal-free new approach methodologies and systematic life-cycle assessments. Bio-based advanced materials/chemicals and the integration and interaction of biological and artificial materials and components offer new opportunities to reduce resource dependencies and maintain sustainability.
Achieving the circularity of both raw materials and advanced materials is a key future challenge. Establishing new material flows, recovery, recycling and upcycling of materials from waste are challenges in themselves, but they also require information sharing along and across value chains and development of new business models allowing to foster innovative solutions related to technological progress, such as in materials design.
Uptake of advanced materials as well as a more efficient use of materials should be fostered in product and materials-based technology developments. This also requires new business models to be developed for the deployment of circular technologies and value chains as well as for providing product-as-a-service models, on-demand manufacturing, take-back-schemes and other service-based businesses. Strong support to SMEs is required so they can thrive in this materials ecosystem.
Business cases and exploitation strategies for industrialisation:
This section applies only to those topics in this Destination, for which proposals should demonstrate the expected outcomes by including a business case and exploitation strategy for industrialisation.
A business case and a credible initial exploitation strategy are essential components in the ultimate success of an industry-based project, as well as its prospects to attract further investments for deployment. They will both be decisive factors under the impact criterion, and proposers are encouraged to use the extended page limit to present a carefully considered business case and exploitation strategy, backed by the management of the companies involved.
The business case should demonstrate the expected impact of the proposal in terms of enhanced market opportunities for the participants and deployment in the EU, in the short to medium term. It should describe the targeted market(s); estimated market size in the EU and globally; user and customer needs; and demonstrate that the solutions will match the market and user needs in a cost-effective manner; and describe the expected market position and competitive advantage.
The exploitation strategy should identify obstacles, requirements and necessary actions involved in reaching higher TRLs (Technology Readiness Levels), for example: securing the required investments, including through possible synergies with other programmes; accessing the required skills; matching value chains; enhancing product robustness; securing industrial integrators; and user acceptance.
For TRLs 6 and 7, a credible strategy to achieve future full-scale deployment in the EU is expected, indicating the intentions of the industrial partners after the end of the project.
Where relevant, in the context of skills, it is recommended to develop training material to endow workers with the right skillset in order to support the uptake and deployment of new innovative products, services, and processes developed in the different projects. This material should be tested and be scalable, and can potentially be up-scaled through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). This will help the European labour force to close the skill gaps in the relevant sectors and occupational groups and improve employment and social levels across the EU and associated countries.
For topics in this destination, consortia (if selected for funding) could consider voluntary contributions in terms of data, indicators and knowledge to relevant Joint Research Centre (JRC) platforms for capitalising the knowledge developed in their projects and become more policy relevant:
- INnovation Centre for Industrial Transformation and Emissions (INCITE) (https://innovation-centre-for-industrial-transformation.ec.europa.eu/).
- The Energy and Industry Geography Lab: EIGL (https://energy-industry-geolab.jrc.ec.europa.eu/).
Innovation Actions — Legal entities established in China are not eligible to participate in Innovation Actions in any capacity. Please refer to the Annex B of the General Annexes of this Work Programme for further details.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
To increase EU resilience in raw materials supply chains and thus reduce the serious risk to the Union's strategic assets, economic and societal interests, autonomy and security associated with the current EU reliance on a few third countries for critical raw materials, by increasing sustainable and responsible sourcing of primary and secondary raw materials necessary to enable the green and digital transition and in alignment with the objectives of the Critical Raw Materials Act[[ https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/raw-materials/areas-specific-interest/raw-materials-diplomacy_en Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1724 and (EU) 2019/1020 (OJ L, 2024/1252, 3.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1252/oj).]], participation in this topic is limited to legal entities established in Member States, associated countries, OECD countries, African Union Member States, MERCOSUR, CARIFORUM, Andean Community and countries with which the EU has concluded strategic partnerships on raw materials[[https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/raw-materials/areas-specific-interest/raw-materials-diplomacy_en]] as well as trade agreements (or association/economic partnership or equivalent agreements, including the new Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships) containing raw materials cooperation provisions (i.e. Energy and Raw materials chapters)[[https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/negotiations-and-agreements_en]]. The choice of these countries was made taking into consideration the development of strategic international partnerships on raw materials and avoidance of reinforcing existing over-dependencies, as well as the importance of involving partners committed to pursuing open trade in such materials.
Proposals including legal entities which are not established in the countries that fall under the criteria above will be ineligible.
The coordinator role of the action is limited to public institutions being R&I programme owners or funders.
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).
Due to the scope of this topic, legal entities established in countries with which the EU has established strategic partnerships for raw materials[[ https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/raw-materials/areas-specific-interest/raw-materials-diplomacy_en Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 establishing a framework for ensuring a secure and sustainable supply of critical raw materials and amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1724 and (EU) 2019/1020 (OJ L, 2024/1252, 3.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1252/oj).]], as well as in countries which were participating in ERAMIN 3[[ https://www.era-min.eu/about-era-min-3]], are exceptionally eligible for Union funding.
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.
5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.
5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. The EUR 60 000 threshold provided for in Article 208(a) of the Financial Regulation No 2024/2509 does not apply, as financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary activities of this action in order to be able to achieve its objectives. The maximum amount of FSTP to be granted to an individual third party is EUR 8 million.
The funding rate is 30% of the eligible costs.
described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.
Specific conditions
described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme]
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HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 14. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
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Latest Updates
CALL UPDATE: PROPOSAL NUMBERS
Call HORIZON-CL4-2025-01 has closed on the 23/09/2025.
639 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
Topic ID | Topic title | Action type | Proposals submitted |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-01 | Integrated approaches for remanufacturing (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA) | IA | 80 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-02 | Physical and cognitive augmentation in advanced manufacturing (Made in Europe Partnership) (RIA) | RIA | 94 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-05 | Advanced manufacturing technologies for leadership of EU manufacturers in products for the net-zero industry (Made in Europe Partnership) (IA) | IA | 64 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-31 | From heat-driven processes to the use of mechanical and electric forces (Processes4Planet Partnership) (IA) | IA | 13 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-32 | Green and resilient flexible production processes (Processes4Planet Partnership) (IA) | IA | 19 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-33 | Integrated use of renewable energy carriers in industrial sites (Processes4Planet Partnership) (RIA) | RIA | 35 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-34 | Smart integration of net zero technologies into Energy Intensive industries (Processes4Planet and Made in Europe Partnerships) (IA) | IA | 12 |
TWIN-TRANSITION-36 | Safe and clean processing technologies and products (Processes4Planet Partnership) (RIA) | RIA | 25 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-37 | Solving issues in carbon-neutral iron and steel making processes with diverse input materials of varying quality (Clean Steel Partnership) (RIA) | RIA | 22 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-38 | Synergies and mutual learning with national and regional initiatives in Europe on Industrial decarbonisation (Processes4Planet and Clean Steel Partnerships) (CSA) | CSA | 1 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-TWIN-TRANSITION-39 | Towards human-centric, sustainable and resilient energy-intensive industries (Processes4Planet and Clean Steel Partnerships) (CSA) | CSA | 3 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-31 | Digitally enabled local-for-local textile and apparel production (Textiles for the Future Partnership) (IA) | IA | 33 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-44 | Innovative Advanced Materials Innovation Procurement (CSA) | CSA | 4 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-45 | Materials Commons for Europe (IA) | IA | 3 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-52 | Accelerate the uptake of life-cycle assessment (LCA) for Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) chemicals and materials and resulting products (RIA) | RIA | 35 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-61 | Technologies for critical raw materials and strategic raw materials from end-of-life products (IA) | IA | 38 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-62 | Strategic Partnerships for Raw Materials: Innovative approaches for sustainable production of Critical Raw Materials (IA) | IA | 31 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-63 | Innovative solutions for the sustainable production for semiconductor raw materials (IA) | IA | 7 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-MATERIALS-64 | EU Co-funded Partnership on raw materials for the green and digital transition (Programme Co-fund action) | COFUND | 1 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-DIGITAL-61 | AI Foundation models in science (GenAI4EU) (RIA) | RIA | 47 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-DIGITAL-62 | Facilitated cooperation for AI in Science (CSA) | CSA | 7 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-60 | Horizon Standardisation Booster (CSA) | CSA | 3 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-61 | Standardisation landscape analyses tool (CSA) | CSA | 3 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-62 | Artificial Intelligence for knowledge valorisation (CSA) | CSA | 15 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-63 | Value creation pilots for scaling up innovative solutions (CSA) | CSA | 10 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-64 | Pilot initiatives on Technology Infrastructures (CSA) | CSA | 20 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-65 | Network of Industry 5.0 system innovation hubs in connected Regional Innovation Valleys (IA) | IA | 8 |
HORIZON-CL4-INDUSTRY-2025-01-HUMAN-66 | Assessment of Technology Infrastructure needs in Ukraine (CSA) | CSA | 6 |
Total: | 639 | ||
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated around mid-January 2026.
A.R.
Reminder on proposal part B page limit and formatting conditions
1. Proposal part B page limit
The title, list of participants and sections 1, 2 and 3, together, should not be longer than page limit, indicated in a proposal part B template inside the Submission System. All tables, figures, references and any other element pertaining to these sections must be included as an integral part of these sections and are thus counted against this page limit.
The page limit will be applied automatically. At the end of a proposal part B template inside the Submission System you can see the structure of the actual proposal that you need to submit, please remove all instruction pages that are watermarked.
If you attempt to upload a proposal longer than the specified limit before the deadline, you will receive an automatic warning and will be advised to shorten and re-upload the proposal. After the deadline, excess pages (in over-long proposals/applications) will be automatically made invisible, and will not be taken into consideration by the experts. The proposal is a self-contained document. Experts will be instructed to ignore hyperlinks to information that is specifically designed to expand the proposal, thus circumventing the page limit.
Please, do not consider the page limit as a target! It is in your interest to keep your text as concise as possible, since experts rarely view unnecessarily long proposals in a positive light.
2.Proposal part B formatting conditions
The following formatting conditions apply (as listed in a proposal part B template inside the Submission System) and will be checked by the Agency during an admissibility check of submitted proposals.
The reference font for the body text of proposals is Times New Roman (Windows platforms), Times/Times New Roman (Apple platforms) or Nimbus Roman No. 9 L (Linux distributions).
The use of a different font for the body text is not advised and is subject to the cumulative conditions that the font is legible and that its use does not significantly shorten the representation of the proposal in number of pages compared to using the reference font (for example with a view to bypass the page limit).
The minimum font size allowed is 11 points. Standard character spacing and a minimum of single line spacing is to be used. This applies to the body text, including text in tables.
Text elements other than the body text, such as headers, foot/end notes, captions, formula's, may deviate, but must be legible.
The page size is A4, and all margins (top, bottom, left, right) should be at least 15 mm (not including any footers or headers).
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Please note that due to a technical issue, during the first days of publication of this call, the topic page did not display the description of the corresponding destination. This problem is now solved. In addition to the information published in the topic page, you can always find a full description of destinations:
* destination 1: Achieving global leadership in climate-neutral, circular and digitised industrial and digital value chains;
* destination 2: Achieving technological leadership for Europe's open strategic autonomy in raw materials, chemicals and innovative materials;
* destination 4: Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies;
* destination 6: Digital and industrial technologies driving human-centric innovation,
that are relevant for the call in the Work Programme 2025 part for “Industry”. Please select from the work programme the destination relevant to your topic and take into account the description and expected impacts of that destination for the preparation of your proposal.