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    HORIZON-CL5-2027-01-D1-10

    Understanding and avoiding maladaptation to climate change

    Opens 17 Nov 2026Live official EU data

    CLIMATE · HORIZON-RIA · Needs partners

    4 Mar 2027
    Deadline
    17 Nov 2026
    Opens for applications
    €5M–€6M
    Indicative, per project
    ~3
    Grants expected
    87
    Past winners in this family

    What this call funds

    This call funds research projects to better understand 'maladaptation' - when climate adaptation actions backfire and create new risks or harms. Projects should gather evidence, improve risk assessment tools, and produce practical guidelines to help policymakers and practitioners avoid poorly designed adaptation measures. The goal is to feed this knowledge into EU adaptation strategies and repositories like Climate-ADAPT.

    climate adaptation · environmental monitoring · public health · biodiversity · regional development

    Who wins this

    This call best suits research consortia with expertise in climate science, social sciences, and policy analysis who can study real-world adaptation case studies across sectors and regions to identify and prevent maladaptation.

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    The call in detail

    Indicative grant size
    €5M–€6M
    Funding model
    Budget-based — reimbursement of actual eligible costs
    Submission
    Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
    Type of action
    HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
    Partners
    Required. The call asks for a consortium — a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
    Also required
    If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS.
    Sectors
    CleanTech · Energy · Mobility
    Eligible countries (45)
    Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
    Read the full conditions from the official call ›

    General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligible Conditions If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used). described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions

    Who has won calls like this

    Organisations that most often win this call family · 87 past winners

    FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI · IT
    25 wins
    led 5
    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR
    22 wins
    led 1
    POTSDAM-INSTITUT FUR KLIMAFOLGENFORSCHUNG EV · DE
    18 wins
    led 1
    INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE · AT
    17 wins
    led 2
    MET OFFICE · UK
    16 wins
    led 1
    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH
    16 wins

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