The European Union is investing €411m in 73 new Horizon Europe projects designed to give researchers and innovators better access to technologies, services and research infrastructure.
The projects cover areas including health, climate resilience, agriculture, transport, and manufacturing.
The funding was awarded through a competitive Horizon Europe call that attracted 159 applications between 16 May and 18 September 2025.
The successful proposals received the highest scores following peer evaluation by independent experts selected and coordinated by the European Research Executive Agency (REA).
The investment will strengthen research infrastructure across Europe while supporting training, mobility and new career opportunities for professionals working within the sector.
The projects are expected to contribute to Mission Cancer and Destination Earth, support the green and digital transitions, and strengthen Europe’s research and innovation competitiveness.
Four areas of research infrastructure
The 73 Horizon Europe projects were selected across 18 topics and fall within four main research infrastructure destinations.
The largest allocation, €154m, will support 12 projects under INFRASERV, which focuses on research infrastructure services for health research, the green transition, digital transformation and frontier knowledge.
INFRADEV will receive €109m for 30 projects aimed at developing, consolidating and optimising Europe’s research infrastructure landscape.
A further 13 projects will receive €85m through INFRAEOSC, which focuses on FAIR and open data sharing and services linked to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Partnership.
The remaining €63m will fund 18 INFRATECH projects focused on next-generation scientific instrumentation, tools, methods and advanced digital solutions.
Building stronger research infrastructure
The INFRADEV projects are intended to help consolidate Europe’s research infrastructure landscape, explore future investment frameworks, and provide training and upskilling opportunities.
Among them, MARINERG-i is focused on creating a distributed research infrastructure to accelerate the development of offshore renewable energy technologies, including wind, wave, tidal and hybrid systems.
TALENTUM, meanwhile, will develop training and upskilling programmes covering health and food. Working with CLARIN-ERIC and citizen science experts, it will focus on transversal, human-centred and advanced skills for technical professionals.
Making research data more accessible
The 13 INFRAEOSC projects will focus on improving how research data and digital outputs can be found, accessed, shared, and reused.
Several projects will also address AI-readiness and machine-actionability, alongside skills in data management and interpretation.
FLUID-AI aims to develop the EOSC into an AI-ready and trustworthy ecosystem.
GenAI4Earth will develop generative AI services for research into Earth, climate, environmental and life-system interactions, with pilots covering areas including urban resilience, agricultural and environmental monitoring, and seismology.
STARDAST will establish a Europe-wide ecosystem for professional data stewardship, bringing research institutions, universities and industry together and positioning data stewards as participants in the research process.
AI and digital twins for research
The INFRATECH projects will focus on improving the technological competitiveness of European research infrastructures.
A key area will be AI-powered impact simulations supporting the Destination Earth initiative, alongside AI-generated digital twins addressing challenges in healthcare, transport, agriculture, environment and manufacturing.
CLAIMA will develop an AI-driven European climate digital twin platform designed to provide high-resolution climate simulations for science, industry and policy.
Other projects will focus on sustainability and advanced scientific technologies.
ESG4Stars will seek to reduce the environmental footprint associated with scientific computing and data analysis across European research infrastructures.
EPITA will work with industry to develop 22 new prototypes aimed at advancing technologies for Europe’s particle accelerator community.
Supporting health and pandemic research
The INFRASERV destination includes projects intended to provide research infrastructure services for EU priorities.
One example is ISIDORe II, which builds on the earlier ISIDORe project to provide research infrastructure services supporting pandemic preparedness and response.
With activities now beginning, the 73 Horizon Europe projects will provide new tools, services and infrastructure intended to support research across multiple fields while strengthening the people and capabilities underpinning Europe’s research ecosystem.
