HERIFORGE 2nd Open Call
Horizon Europe · Cascade funding
Summary
A Polish company can use this call for R&D.
Funds prototype development addressing cultural heritage technology challenges, with grants and technical mentoring; applicant eligibility is unspecified.
- Who can apply
- Unclear from the source.
- Amount
- €50K per projectTotal budget €300,000
- Deadline
- 27 Oct 2026 18:00 CETin 3 days
- Status
- Openopened 25 Aug 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
HERIFORGE seeks to harness the expertise of three excellence hubs in Cyprus, Poland and Türkiye on XR technologies, advanced IT and digital humanities infrastructures as well as cultural heritage resources to provide an interregional ecosystem of innovation.
The HERIFORGE 2nd Open Call will finance up to 6 Proposals to address specific Challenges defined by the HERIFORGE Hubs. Successful applicants will receive financial support of up to €50,000, along with technical mentoring for a maximum duration of up to 6 months, which is divided into 3 stages:
Stage 1: Plan Phase, during which the beneficiary should deliver an Individual Mentoring Plan (including a design, challenges and activities planned, and a budget), the duration of this stage is up to 1 month and, after completing it, the beneficiary will receive the 20% of the requested grant (up to 15.000€).
Stage 2: Development Phase, which should lead to a Technical Report of the Prototype Release (minimal requirement). The duration of this stage is 3 months and, after completing it, the beneficiary will receive the 50% of the requested grant (up to 25.000€).
Stage 3: Release Phase, which should lead to a Technical Report on the Conducted Demonstration (minimal requirement). The duration of this stage is 2 months and, after completing it, the beneficiary will receive the 30% of the requested grant (up to 15.000€).
HERIFORGE 2nd Open Call is looking for innovative projects developing technical solutions in the use of immersive technologies for cultural heritage.
Applicants can be individual SMEs (including startups), NGOs or Natural persons, located in:
• Cyprus, Poland or Türkiye or
• The Member States of the European Union and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) or
• Associated Countries (AC) to Horizon Europe.
The entities have to be established in one of the countries of the national Hubs ecosystem: Cyprus, Poland or Türkiye. Applicants from any other EU Member State and its Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) and Horizon Europe Associated Countries will be eligible if they demonstrate, in the application, local footprint in those regions (i.e. local staff, business record).
OC application form: available on the FundingBox Platform
OC helpdesk email: heriforge.help@fundingbox.com
Project website: https://heriforge.eu/
Who can apply, in detail
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 2 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- —
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Unclear
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Per project
- €50K
- Topics
- Extended reality
- Advanced information technology
- Digital humanities
- Cultural heritage
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Other condition
- The draft template states that the same costs for the same activity cannot be funded twice with public money.
- Other condition
- The draft agreement template describes a lump-sum grant paid in tranches subject to Article 4 conditions: Stage 1 up to EUR 10,000 after acceptance of the Project Plan and Project Design Report; Stage 2 up to EUR 25,000 for development of the solution (prototype); Stage 3 up to EUR 15,000 for release and testing (integration and demonstration with hubs).
- Project duration, maximum
- 6 month
The reviewed draft agreement template states six months.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €300,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Eligible cost
- The draft agreement template lists personnel costs, purchases (including travel, equipment, goods and services), and overheads up to 25% as possible eligible costs for properly implemented tasks accepted by the Selection Committee and incurred during the Programme Period.
- Project funding, maximum
- €50,000
The draft template says this is a maximum and cannot exceed the amount budgeted in the application form.
Call facts
- Opens
- 25 Aug 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Horizon Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- HERIFORGE 2nd Open Call
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 23 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 17 Aug 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.