Supporting the long-term resilience and European sovereignty of critical research data and knowledge repositories and scientific services for the life sciences
Proposals are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes: Increased resilience and sovereignty of critical European research data and knowledge repositories and scientific services used in the life sciences [1] , including in particular biomedical and biomolecular related disciplines. Further integration of trusted, FAIR data [2] and research infrastructures in the European Open Science Cloud…
Funding and competition
- 1grant expected (official)
- €8MEU contribution per project
- €8Mmedian EU grant of the most similar funded projects
Very few grants: expect strong competition. Only proposals well above threshold are funded, so a clearly differentiated idea and a complete consortium are essential.
Success rates vary widely between topics (often from below 5% to above 30%). Ask us for the success-rate history of this topic before you commit to a proposal.
Organisations with a track record in this topic
Organisations that took part in the EU-funded projects most similar to this call (Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020), ranked by how close those projects are to the call, how recent they are and whether the organisation coordinated them. Being listed does not mean an organisation is looking for partners: use the list to target your outreach.
Spanish organisations with experience in this field
The Spanish organisations that appear most often in the closest funded projects.
What a typical winning consortium looks like
- 24partners (median)
- 13countries (median)
- 11%of partners are SMEs
Based on the 25 funded projects closest to this call. Use it as a benchmark, not a rule: always check the call conditions for the minimum consortium.
Most similar funded projects
Read their CORDIS pages to see the full consortium, results and deliverables.
- EOSC United – Coordination and Support Action for the Future engagement model for the EOSC Federation (HORIZON · 2025 · HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-02-01)
- EOSC Mesh – EOSC Mesh: Connecting Nodes to Advance the EOSC Federation (HORIZON · 2026 · HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-01)
- FIDELIS – FIDELIS: Establishing A European Network of Trustworthy Digital Repositories (HORIZON · 2025 · HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01-03)
- EOSC Data Commons – Services for inter- and cross-disciplinary data discovery, access, sharing and reuse in the EOSC Federation (HORIZON · 2025 · HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01-05)
- CDIF4EOSC – Developing and implementing the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework for EOSC (HORIZON · 2026 · HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-02)
- NI4OS-Europe – National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe (H2020 · 2019 · INFRAEOSC-05-2018-2019)
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- 10 Nov 2026 · European Research and Innovation Days 2026 (Brussels and online)
- 1 Dec 2026 · Interdisciplinary Pathways towards Green and Resilient Societies (Online)
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Track-record data: CORDIS open data (European Commission), organisation level only, refreshed weekly. Rankings are calculated automatically by Ullswater Investments from text similarity between the call and funded projects; they are indicative.