RIA Global Call According To Sria 2026
HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-1-RIA
- Programme
- HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-1-RIA
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Open (31094502)
- Opening Date
- February 3, 2026
- Deadline
- May 7, 2026
- Deadline Model
- two-stage
- Budget
- €50,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- €1,000,000
- Max Grant Amount
- €12,000,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 8
- Keywords
- HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-1-RIAHORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2026-1-RIA
Description
Expected Outcome:
Chips JU Research and Innovation Action (RIA) primarily consists of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service, method, tool or solution. For this purpose, they may include applied research, technology development and/or method/tool and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.
The activities have their centre of gravity at TRL 3-4.A RIA proposal is characterised by:
•Execution by a consortium that may consist of SMEs, large enterprises, universities, institutes, public organizations;•Developing innovative technologies and/or using them in innovative ways;
•Targeting demonstration of the innovative approach in a relevant product, service or capability, clearly addressing the applications relevant for societal challenges;
•Demonstrating value and potential in a realistic lab environment reproducing the targeted application;
•Having a deployment plan showing the valorisation for the Chips JU ecosystem and the contribution to the Chips JU goals and objectives.
In order to maximize effective implementation of the Chips JU top-level objectives, the list of RIA proposals to be retained for public funding shall constitute a balanced portfolio of projects developing innovative technologies (as defined in the SRIA in the functional technology layers and cross-sectional technologies sections) and applying them in different domains (as defined in the SRIA in key application areas section). The domains represent the demand side of technologies, and the development of new technologies represents the supply side of technologies.
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
Proposal page limits and layout: detailed in Part B of the Application Form, which you can access from the Call documents section on the Chips JU website's Call page
The following information are all described in the Appendix 7 of the Chips JU Workprogramme
2. Eligible Countries
3. Other Eligible Conditions
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Specific conditions
Please visit the Call page of the Chips JU Website
Call document and annexes:
Call document
The Call Documents Section contains all the call documents, which are listed here:
Reference documents
Guide for Applicants
Evaluation form
Call submission documents and annexes
Application form template Part B
National funding table template
Ownership declaration template
Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
Guidance
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Call-specific instructions
Information on financial support to third parties (HE)
Information on clinical studies (HE)
Additional documents:
Frequently Asked Questions About RIA Global Call According To Sria 2026
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