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    HORIZON-WIDERA-2027-05-ERA-01

    Pillar I: Facilitating development of institutional open access policies through the retention of intellectual property rights

    Opens 8 Dec 2026Live official EU data

    Enhancing the European R&I system · HORIZON-CSA · Needs partners

    11 Mar 2027
    Deadline
    8 Dec 2026
    Opens for applications
    €2M
    Indicative, per project
    ~1
    Grants expected
    111
    Past winners in this family

    What this call funds

    This call funds projects that help research institutions across Europe build or improve policies that let researchers and their institutions keep enough rights over their published papers to make them freely available immediately, regardless of publisher restrictions. It supports networks, guidance, tools and training to help institutions design and roll out these 'rights retention' open access policies, tailored to their national legal contexts.

    research excellence · civil society democracy · education skills

    Who wins this

    A consortium of research institutions, libraries, funders and policy-makers from at least three different European countries that wants to develop and spread institutional open access and rights-retention policies.

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    The call in detail

    Indicative grant size
    €2M
    Funding model
    Lump sum — paid per completed work package, no financial reporting of actual costs
    Submission
    Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
    Type of action
    HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
    Partners
    Required. The call asks for a consortium — at least 3 partners, from 2 countries.
    Eligible applicants
    research organisation, public body, non-profit
    Also required
    Costs are funded as a lump sum; consortium must include at least three independent legal entities from different countries, at least two from an EU Member State.
    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 Applications must be submitted by a consortium including participation, as beneficiaries, of at least three independent legal entities: Each established in a different Member State or Associated Country; and two of which are established in a Member State. 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 Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf ]]. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the specific topic of the Work Programme.

    Who has won calls like this

    Organisations that most often win this call family · 111 past winners

    UNITATEA EXECUTIVA PENTRU FINANTAREA INVATAMANTULUI SUPERIOR A CERCETARII DEZVOLTARII SI INOVARII · RO
    12 wins
    led 1
    STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL
    10 wins
    led 1
    FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV · DE
    8 wins
    FUNDACION ESPANOLA PARA LA CIENCIAY LA TECNOLOGIA, F.S.P., FECYT · ES
    8 wins
    FONDATION EUROPEENNE DE LA SCIENCE · FR
    8 wins
    led 5
    AARHUS UNIVERSITET · DK
    8 wins
    led 1

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