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Culture, heritage and creative industries for health and well-being

Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Deepened knowledge of the potential positive effects of cultural experiences on health and well-being [1] is developed and made available to relevant stakeholders, along with validated scalable and replicable practices to reinforce these effects Key industrial, health, cultural, educational and/or civil society actors are aware of validated…

Deadline 23 Sep 2027Opens 13 May 2027Budget €16MIndicative grants 4EU contribution per project €3M–€4MSingle stageHORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

Funding and competition

  • 4grants expected (official)
  • €3M–€4MEU contribution per project
  • €3.4Mmedian EU grant of the most similar funded projects
  • 129projects funded in earlier topics of this programme line

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.

OrganisationCountryTypeSimilar EU projectsAs coordinatorExamples (CORDIS)
Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis
Thermi Thessaloniki
GreeceResearch organisation53i-Game, MEMENTOES, MuseIT
Aarhus Universitet
Aarhus C
DenmarkUniversity42EPIC-WE, COLUMN, CRAFT-IT4SD
Stichting Nederlands Instituut Voorbeeld En Geluid
Hilversum
NetherlandsOther50EPIC-WE, inDICEs, EKIP
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leuven
BelgiumUniversity50i-Game, inDICEs, REEVALUATE
Kea European Affairs
Bruxelles / Brussel
BelgiumCompany · SME40EPIC-WE, EXCENTRIC, ARCHE
Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita Di Bologna
Bologna
ItalyUniversity50Art of Darkness, COLUMN, rurALLURE
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Ntnu
Trondheim
NorwayUniversity41INCLUDE-ID, AMPLIFY, PACESETTERS
Universita Degli Studi Di Roma La Sapienza
Roma
ItalyUniversity32STARTUP, RHEAL, NARRATIA
European Fashion Heritage Association
Firenze
ItalyOther · SME40inDICEs, CULTUR.ACT, RECHARGE
Eit Culture & Creativity Gmbh
Koln
GermanyCompany31EIT CC - BP2024-2025, CRAFT-IT4SD, PACESETTERS
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
Krakow
PolandUniversity41ARCHE, PACESETTERS, IMPULSE
Universita Ta Malta
Msida
MaltaUniversity40STRATEGIES, IMPULSE, SUPPORT-Y
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
Roma
ItalyResearch organisation40EMOTIVE, ARCHE, UNICHE
Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Poznan
PolandResearch organisation31ECHOLOT, NARRATIA, HERIFORGE
Stichting Europeana
Den Haag
NetherlandsOther · SME30inDICEs, EXCENTRIC, ECHOLOT

Spanish organisations with experience in this field

The Spanish organisations that appear most often in the closest funded projects.

OrganisationCountryTypeSimilar EU projectsAs coordinatorExamples (CORDIS)
Asociacion Cultural Open Yourkolektiboa
Bilboa
SpainOther20CULTUR.ACT, T-Factor
Fundacion Tecnalia Research & Innovation
Donostia/San Sebastian
SpainResearch organisation20CULTUR.ACT, T-Factor
Institut D'Arquitectura Avancada De Catalunya
Barcelona
SpainResearch organisation · SME20HERITACT, make-a-thek
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
Madrid
SpainResearch organisation20ARCHE, PULSE-ART
Fundacion Espanola Para La Cienciay La Tecnologia, F.S.P., Fecyt
Alcobendas
SpainOther20ARCHE, Net4SocietyHE
Gvam Guias Interactivas Sl
Madrid
SpainCompany · SME20REEVALUATE, rurALLURE
Cookie Box,Sl
Barcelona
SpainCompany10i-Game
Universitat De Barcelona
Barcelona
SpainUniversity22CULTURALBASE, UNCHARTED

What a typical winning consortium looks like

  • 13partners (median)
  • 7countries (median)
  • 22%of partners are SMEs
University 25%Other 24%Company 23%Research organisation 15%Public body 12%

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.

  • i-Game – Building a community for the co-creation of games with high impact on innovation, sustainability, social cohesion and growth (HORIZON · 2024 · HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-06)
  • EIT CC - BP2024-2025 – EIT Culture & Creativity Business Plan 2024-2025 (HORIZON · 2024 · HORIZON-EIT-2024-2025-KIC-CCSI)
  • EPIC-WE – Empowered Participation through Ideating Cultural Worlds and Environments: youth imagining, creating and exchanging cultural values and heritage through game-making (HORIZON · 2023 · HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01-09)
  • inDICEs – Measuring the impact of DIgital CulturE (H2020 · 2020 · DT-GOVERNANCE-13-2019)
  • GAMEHEARTS – Games, Heritage, Arts, & Sport: the economic, social, and cultural value of the European videogame ecosystem. (HORIZON · 2024 · HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-01-06)
  • CULTUR.ACT – Collaborative Use Case Living Labs Fostering Tools and ResoURces Validation and Adoption in the European Cloud for Next-Gen Digital Heritage Communities Cooperation (HORIZON · 2026 · HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-HERITAGE-03)

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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.