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HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-13

Fostering Innovative and Compliant Data Ecosystems (IA) (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) -

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Expected Outcome:

The projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

  • Easing the compliance process of businesses and professionals with the relevant EU legislation, in particular reporting obligations, and alleviating administrative burdens for businesses and professionals.
  • Developing and integrating advanced technologies for data collection, data sharing and data analytics for simplifying and automating compliance.
  • Generating, managing, and leveraging synthetic data to improve fitness for purpose; addressing limitations of real-world data, enhancing data quality, diversity, and representativeness, while mitigating bias and addressing other ethical issues.
  • Ensuring broad user training and support for rolling out and scaling up “compliance and privacy by design” and the FAIR[1] principles in the constantly evolving regulatory landscape.

Scope:

As the European Union (EU) legislation continues to expand, both in the digital (GDPR, Open Data Directive (ODD), Data Governance Act, AI Act, Data Act) and non-digital realm (e.g. green deal, due diligence, healthcare, transport), businesses and professionals face increasing challenges in maintaining compliance. Also, the complexity and volume of reporting obligations are growing, posing difficulties for both regulatory bodies to enforce laws and for entities trying to comply. These challenges underscore the need for innovative solutions to streamline compliance processes and enhance competitiveness within the EU.

Another current challenge are limitations of real-world data such as issues with availability, confidentiality, and bias. Synthetic data is becoming increasingly vital in addressing these problems. By generating and utilizing synthetic data, actions within this framework aim to enhance data quality, diversity, and representativeness, making it a crucial tool for AI-powered innovation and regulatory compliance.

Where relevant, the actions should address cybersecurity, interoperability, reproducibility and standardization, and/or liaise with other actions working on those aspects, in view of facilitating effective data sharing across platforms and sectors, while ensuring an adequate level of security and protection.

Actions should provide necessary comprehensive user training and support, (also involving the users/stakeholders outside the project), ensuring adaptability and scalability to accommodate evolving regulations and diverse organizational needs and to raise awareness and improve understanding of relevant compliance issues. Proposals for all three areas should analyse and address the real needs of real users and stakeholders, and how these will be addressed in the proposed action. The training and user needs should be linked to tangible progress indicators in the proposal.

The proposal should clearly state (in the abstract and in the introduction) which of the following three areas it addresses. A proposal can address more than one area, but it should indicate one of them as the main focus of the proposal, and it will be evaluated accordingly under that area.

  • Area 1: Actions to develop advanced compliance technology integrating AI, cybersecurity, language technologies, and privacy preservation. This framework could include the creation of NLP[2]-driven semantic analysis tools for deciphering complex legal texts and translating them into clear compliance tasks, energy-efficient neuromorphic approaches and mechanisms for optimising massive data operations, or machine learning algorithms trained on historical data to predict and mitigate potential compliance violations. With the capability to detect changes in EU legislation, these advanced AI systems and analytics tools will provide deep insights into compliance performance, risk management, and help forecast upcoming regulatory trends to strategically prepare for future requirements. For usability, it is also important that the tools can be integrated with the organisation’s existing processes and systems.
  • Area 2: Actions to ensure auto-compliance of data transactions and data spaces with applicable regulation (e.g. data and sectoral legislation). Actions in this area should anticipate compliance tasks within the context of Common European Data Spaces and coordinate with them as necessary. Actions in this area are expected to develop automatic or semi-automatic tools that analyse and take into account the specific architecture, governance model, exchange mechanisms, tools, data types, identity management, smart contracting, user policies and other user needs or operational features of the actual data spaces, liaising with and building on other actions working in this area, in particular the Data Spaces Support Centre.
  • Area 3: Actions to generate, manage and leverage synthetic data in order to improve data quality, availability, representativity, fitness for purpose and compliance. The actions should in particular address the inherent shortcomings of real world data that would necessitate synthetic data (e.g. data availability, confidentiality, privacy protection, enhancing quality, diversity, representativeness, bias). Additionally, actions may target generating synthetic data for sparse or unusual domains, integrating synthetic and real data effectively, or advancing technological capabilities in generative models and simulation-based approaches to drive synthetic data generation forward and/or addressing or modelling rare events and complex dynamic systems. All actions under this Area are expected to address the evaluation, validation and benchmarking of synthetic data to ensure fitness for purpose and safe, ethical and compliant use of synthetic data, including the analysis and mitigation of biases inherited from the original data or introduced by the synthetic data generation process. For these purposes, collaboration with simulation/digital twins actions could be explored.

This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership on AI, Data and Robotics.

Projects are expected to develop synergies with Digital Europe programme topics implementing Common European Data Spaces, especially the Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC). Projects are expected to ensure complementarities with projects funded under the following topics:

  • HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01-01 AI-driven data operations and compliance technologies (IA).
  • HORIZON-CL4-2021-DATA-01-01 Technologies and solutions for compliance, privacy preservation, green and responsible data operations (RIA).

In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.

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Activities are expected to start at TRL 6-7 and achieve TRL 8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

[1] FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable data

[2] NLP: Natural Language Processing

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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 3 ("Developing an agile and secure single market and infrastructure for data-services and trustworthy artificial intelligence services") 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: 45,000,000
Expected grants: 6
Contribution: 7,000,000 - 9,000,000
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Eligibility for this topic is restricted under art. 22.5 of the Horizon Europe regulation (see [1]). Specifically, under art. 22.5, participation for projects under this call topic is restricted to legal entities established in EU member states, Iceland, Norway. countries associated to Horizon Europe (see [2]), as well as OECD countries. Entities established in any of these countries, but which are controlled by an entity in a non-eligible country, may not participate in projects under this topic. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/695/oj/eng [2] https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/guidance/list-3rd-country-participation_horizon-euratom_en.pdf

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