Demonstrating place-based experimentation and innovation spaces as enabling environments for scaling EU Missions
Horizon Europe · Grant topic
Summary
Not an R&D call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Funds local authority-led consortia demonstrating governance, regulatory and financing models that enable wider deployment of tested EU Mission solutions.
- Who can apply
- Companies as partners only: public body, municipality.
- Amount
- €1M – €1.5M per projectTotal budget €3,620,000
- Deadline
- 13 Jan 2027 01:00 CETin 81 days
- Status
- Openopened 6 Oct 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Expected Outcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
• The territorial anchoring of the EU Mission(s) is strengthened through multi-layered governance
• Enabling environments for the scaling of novel solutions contributing to the EU Missions are established
• Analytical insights are turned into territorial experimentation and best practices for replication in a wide array of EU funding instruments
Scope:
This topic is a strategic instrument to support the transition to the second phase of the EU Missions’ lifecycle (2026–2030), focused on scaling up and wider deployment of novel mission-relevant solutions.
To this end, territories (countries, regions and interregional partnerships) in EU Member States and Associated countries are called upon to design and demonstrate governance, regulatory experimentation, innovative public-public and public-private financing solutions, and procurement strategies that enable scaling. Consortia should be led by local authorities established in countries, regions and interregional partnerships.
Proposals submitted to this topic should:
• Address barriers at territorial level and build on them to demonstrate concrete governance, finance, and policy models that foster scaling and deployment of EU Missions across diverse territories.
• Provide operational support for the transition to the next MFF by delivering tested, replicable models suitable for multi-level governance and place-based implementation.
• Co-develop and demonstrate innovative governance, policy, and finance models that enable scaling and wider deployment of tested solutions on the ground.
• Support the co-creation of place-based and pathways allowing for scaling and wider take up of EU Missions across EU and associated country territories, integrating multi-level governance, regulatory experimentation, innovative public-public and public-private financing solutions and procurement strategies.
• Test innovative policy, governance and finance models that favour scaling EU Missions by creating enabling conditions allowing to overcome identified systemic constraints such as fragmented regulation, limited risk appetite, lack of blended financing, or insufficient cross-sector coordination. The models should demonstrate innovation impact pathways that facilitate wider deployment of solutions that are already proven but underutilised.
• Ensure continuous stakeholder engagement throughout the process of developing and testing new models. The focus on co-creation and participatory approaches will ensure credibility and legitimacy of the tested models and will build on the strong EU Missions community developed during the first phase of the EU Missions.
Rather than funding individual technologies, the topic should fund place-based models creating enabling conditions for scaling these technologies, combining policy, regulatory, financial and governance innovation.
The projects activities should cover one or several EU Missions of choice of the local authorities involved in the actions.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- Public body, Municipality
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 1 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- Consortium leaders must be local authorities established in EU Member States or associated countries.
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Required
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- EU Missions scaling
- Regulatory experimentation
- Territorial innovation governance
- Innovative public-private financing
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.
- Applicant restriction
- Consortia must be led by local authorities established in EU Member States or Associated countries; the wording also mentions countries, regions and interregional partnerships.
- Eligible project scope
- Fund place-based governance, regulatory, financial and policy models to enable scaling and wider deployment of tested solutions contributing to EU Missions, rather than funding individual technologies.
- Other condition
- Where satellite Earth observation, positioning, navigation or related timing services/data are used, beneficiaries must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS; other data/services may additionally be used.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €3,620,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Funding intensity, maximum
- 70
General Annex maximum for Horizon Europe Innovation Actions. The grant agreement and specific call/topic conditions fix the applicable rate; this is a ceiling, not a guaranteed rate.
- Funding intensity, maximum
- 100
Exception to the 70% Innovation Action maximum: applies only to non-profit legal entities, and remains subject to the specific call/topic conditions and grant agreement. This is an eligible maximum, not a guaranteed rate.
- Expected project funding, up to
- €1,500,000
Expected contribution range per project, not guaranteed; different requested amounts may be submitted and selected.
- Expected project funding, from
- €1,000,000
Expected contribution range per project, not guaranteed; different requested amounts may be submitted and selected.
- Topic allocation
- €3,620,000
Topic-level indicative allocation, distinct from the expected per-project contribution.
Personnel and services
Other role
Staff cost the grant can fund
Potential fundable personnel category only when the grant conditions and Article 6.2.A.2 apply; assigned to the action, work under conditions similar to an employee, result belongs to beneficiary unless agreed otherwise, and actual direct-contract costs are not significantly different from comparable employees. It is a contractor engagement category, not employee payroll; no qualification, headcount, FTE, duration or rate is set by this topic.
Other role
Staff cost the grant can fund
Potential fundable personnel category under the applicable Horizon Europe General MGA, conditional on actual action assignment and all eligibility rules. This is not a call-specific required team, named job, or promise of award. Qualification, headcount, FTE, duration and salary are not stated by the topic. Employee remuneration must be actual and linked to national law/employment terms; daily-rate and reporting rules are described in the cited MGA.
Other role
Staff cost the grant can fund
Potential personnel unit-cost category where the applicable grant agreement includes Article 6.2.A.4. Applies only to an SME owner not receiving a salary or a natural-person beneficiary not receiving a salary, with work assigned to the action and general unit-cost conditions met. The daily unit rate is country-adjusted; it is not a salary and this packet does not assert a per-person EUR rate without the recipient country coefficient. No required headcount, FTE, duration or qualification is named in this topic.
Other role
Staff cost the grant can fund
Potential fundable personnel category only when the grant conditions and Article 6.2.A.3 apply; assigned to the action, works under conditions similar to an employee and actual costs are not significantly different from comparable beneficiary employees. This is a paid secondment, not a new employment contract with the beneficiary. No call-specific qualification, headcount, FTE, duration or pay rate is stated.
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 6 Oct 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Horizon Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- HORIZON-MISS-2026-07 · Cross-cutting activities
- Types of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Keywords
- EU Missions
- Innovation
- Missions
- Regional
- implementation
- innovation spaces
- place-based
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 23 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 6 Oct 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 23 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.