HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-03

Supporting Digital Partnerships in Quantum technologies (RIA) -

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Expected Outcome:

The overall objective of this call is to support the implementation of the EU-Republic of Korea Digital Partnership by strengthening cooperation with the Republic of Korea (ROK) in quantum technologies, in the areas identified in the Partnership.

Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:

  • Strengthening the European quantum ecosystem, enabling stakeholders to enhance quantum technologies' applications in academic, industrial, and relevant cases for the EU and ROK.
  • Improving the exchange of information and expertise between EU and ROK to tackle societal challenges utilizing quantum technologies.
  • Sharing best practices in deploying quantum technologies and integrating them with other technologies.
  • Facilitating researcher and engineer exchanges between the EU and ROK for mutual access to quantum infrastructures.
  • Enhancing international cooperation between the EU and ROK quantum communities, with a roadmap for future collaboration in targeted areas.

Scope:

Proposals are expected to address quantum technology challenges in the fields of quantum communication, computing, simulation, and sensing, identifying the added value and mutual benefits for both EU and Korean partners. This includes integration across various disciplines such as physics, engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, theory, algorithms, software, manufacturing, control, and infrastructures.

Relevant technological and societal challenges to address include:

• Co-design of hardware and software to accelerate quantum computing and simulation applications, ensuring interoperability across platforms and foundational quantum algorithm and architecture theories.

• Development of secure quantum communication protocols, including quantum key distribution and beyond, with a focus on device-independent protocols, quantum network architecture, and certification of quantum states.

• Application-specific quantum sensor development, covering areas like device fabrication, characterization for purposes like navigation, imaging, and biomedical applications, and optimizing sensor control and advanced approaches.

Proposals are recommended to link to the activities of relevant standards development organisations, e.g. via participation of project beneficiaries in the relevant standards technical committees. The Commission encourages the inclusion of partners with direct experience of participation in relevant standards committees at national, European or international level(s) in project consortia.

Proposals should contribute to spreading excellence between the EU and ROK, through the balanced involvement of EU and ROK entities.

Proposals should clearly define the benefit of EU-ROK collaboration, aiming to enhance the technology readiness level (TRL) through comprehensive engineering approaches involving public and/or private partners.

Proposals should also contribute to spreading excellence across Europe; for example, through the involvement of EU Widening Countries.

In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and/or gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement; however, should proposers consider it to be of relevance for their proposal, they are strongly encouraged to integrate it.

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Activities are expected to start at TRL 2-3 and achieve TRL 3-5 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

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2026-10-08

EVALUATION results

Published: 15.05.2025

Deadline: 02.10.2025

Available budget: EUR 359.1 million

The results of the evaluation for each topic are as follows:

DATA-08

DATA-09

DATA-10

DATA-11

DATA-12

DATA-13

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls)

18

3

1

4

3

76

Number of inadmissible proposals

0

0

0

0

0

3

Number of ineligible proposals

14

1

0

0

0

13

Number of above-threshold proposals

3

2

1

3

3

38

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals

225,328,342.50 €

4,997,875.00 €

2,500,000.00 €

29,995,930.85 €

5,838,061.00 €               

310,159,620.22 €

Number of proposals retained for funding

1

1

1

1

1

5

Number of proposals in the reserve list

1

1

0

1

1

1

Funding threshold1

14.5

14.5

11.5

14

12

13.5

Ranking distribution

Number of proposals with scores lower or equal to 15 and higher or equal to 14

1

1

0

1

1

2

Number of proposals with scores lower than 14 and higher or equal to 13

1

1

0

1

1

6

Number of proposals with scores lower than 13 and higher or equal to 10

1

0

1

1

1

30

DIGITAL-EMERGING-01

DIGITAL-EMERGING-02

DIGITAL-EMERGING-03

DIGITAL-EMERGING-04

DIGITAL-EMERGING-07

DIGITAL-EMERGING-08

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls)

4

18

40

4

28

2

Number of inadmissible proposals

1

0

1

0

1

0

Number of ineligible proposals

0

0

0

4

0

1

Number of above-threshold proposals

3

12

30

1

20

1

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals

13,486,849.50 €

59,729,108.00 €

80,814,339.75 €

2,498,857.25 €

804,393,845.50 €

1,000,000.00 €

Number of proposals retained for funding

1

2

3

1

2

1

Number of proposals in the reserve list

1

1

2

0

2

0

Funding threshold1

13.5

14.5

14.5

13.5

15

14

Ranking distribution

Number of proposals with scores lower or equal to 15 and higher or equal to 14

0

6

6

0

5

1

Number of proposals with scores lower than 14 and higher or equal to 13

1

3

11

1

2

0

Number of proposals with scores lower than 13 and higher or equal to 10

2

3

13

0

13

0

HUMAN-14

HUMAN-15

HUMAN-16

HUMAN-17

HUMAN-18

HUMAN-19

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls)

59

46

34

3

4

6

Number of inadmissible proposals

0

0

0

1

0

1

Number of ineligible proposals

0

1

2

0

0

0

Number of above-threshold proposals

44

35

27

1

1

2

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals

256,818,668.15 €

169,733,280.30 €

78,286,154.25 €

2,546,117.50 €

2,998,504.92 €

5,999,006.25 €

Number of proposals retained for funding

8

4

4

1

1

1

Number of proposals in the reserve list

3

4

3

0

0

1

Funding threshold1,2

14.5

14

13.5

12.5

13.5

15

Ranking distribution

Number of proposals with scores lower or equal to 15 and higher or equal to 14

12

5

3

0

0

1

Number of proposals with scores lower than 14 and higher or equal to 13

6

5

7

0

1

1

Number of proposals with scores lower than 13 and higher or equal to 10

26

25

17

1

0

0

MATERIALS-46

MATERIALS-47

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls)

17

70

Number of inadmissible proposals

0

0

Number of ineligible proposals

0

0

Number of above-threshold proposals

9

58

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals

44,109,108.00 €

283,995,317.95 €

Number of proposals retained for funding

2

3

Number of proposals in the reserve list

1

1

Funding threshold1

14.5

14

Ranking distribution

Number of proposals with scores lower or equal to 15 and higher or equal to 14

2

4

Number of proposals with scores lower than 14 and higher or equal to 13

1

14

Number of proposals with scores lower than 13 and higher or equal to 10

6

40

1 Proposals with the same score were ranked according to the priority order procedure set out in the call conditions (for HE, in the General Annexes to the Work Programme or specific arrangements in the specific call/topic conditions). To determine the ranking for ‘Innovation actions’, the score for ‘Impact’ is given a weight of 1.5.

2 According to the specific conditions of HUMAN-14 and HUMAN-16, to ensure a balanced portfolio coverage, grants are awarded to not only in order of ranking [see the specific condition for each topic in the topic page]. Therefore, additional proposals are retained for funding to fulfil this condition.

Summary of observer report:

The efficiency of the procedures in this call is very good. The tools such as IER, CR, ESR and cross- reading are well suited and the usability is very effective. Harmonisation and calibration procedures are excellent. This is thanks to the superior performance of the moderators and co-moderators in panel meetings with sometimes more than 40 experts under nightmarish conditions of unstable meeting connections, failing in access and interoperability of SEP and WebEx platform. Overall, the evaluation was fair and consistent, with full compliance with the applicable rules.

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

2026-10-08

PROPOSAL NUMBERS

Call HORIZON-CL4-2025-03 has closed on 02.10.2025.

440 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-08:        18

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-09:        3

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-10:        1

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-11:        4

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-12:        3

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-13:        76

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01:        4

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02:        18

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-03:        40

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-04:        4

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07:        28

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-08:        2

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-14:    59

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-15:    46

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-16:    34

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-17:    3

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-18:    4

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-19:    6

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-46:          17

HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-47:          70

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in January 2026.

2026-10-08

Please note that due to a technical issue, during the first days of publication of this call, the topic page did not display the description of the corresponding destination. This problem is now solved.

In addition to the information published in the topic page, you can always find a full description of the Destination 4 ("Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies") that are relevant for the call in the Work Programme 2025 part for "Digital, Industry and Space". Please select from the work programme the destination relevant to your topic and take into account the description and expected impacts of that destination for the preparation of your proposal.

2026-10-08
The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-14, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-16, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-09, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-03, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-47, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-08, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-19, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-08, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-12, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-13, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-18, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-15, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-10, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-04, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-09, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-11, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-MATERIALS-46, HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-HUMAN-17
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Call status: Closed
Opening date: 2025-06-10 (1 year ago)
Closing date: 2025-10-02 (1 year ago)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 8,000,000
Expected grants: 3
Contribution: 2,500,000 - 2,700,000
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