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    HORIZON-CL2-2027-01-HERITAGE-04

    Culture, heritage and creative industries for health and well-being

    Opens 13 May 2027Live official EU data

    Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society - 2027 · HORIZON-RIA · Needs partners

    23 Sep 2027
    Deadline
    13 May 2027
    Opens for applications
    €3M–€4M
    Indicative, per project
    ~4
    Grants expected
    116
    Past winners in this family

    What this call funds

    This call funds research projects that explore how cultural experiences—like museum visits, arts programs, or video games—can improve people's mental and physical health and well-being. Projects should turn scattered evidence into validated, practical methods that cultural institutions, health organizations, and creative industries can actually use. The goal is to make Europe's cultural and creative sectors reliable partners in promoting health.

    digital health · mental health · public health · creative cultural · social innovation

    Who wins this

    A research consortium bringing together cultural heritage institutions, creative industries, health experts and civil society organisations to design and validate evidence-based cultural interventions for health and well-being.

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    The call in detail

    Indicative grant size
    €3M–€4M
    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 Research and Innovation Actions
    Partners
    Required. The call asks for a consortium — a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
    Support to third parties
    Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties in the form of grants, up to a maximum of EUR 60,000 per third party.
    Also required
    The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as a beneficiary with zero funding or as an associated partner, but not in proposal preparation.
    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 As 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 As 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 The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding as a beneficiary with zero funding, or as an associated partner. The JRC will not participate in the preparation and submission of the proposal - see General Annex B. As described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion As described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds As described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes As 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 As described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants The granting authority may, up to 4 years after the end of the action, object to a transfer of ownership or to the exclusive licensing of results, as set out in the specific provision of Annex 5. Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 60 000 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 ]]. In addition, as described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions As described in the specific topic of the Work Programme.

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    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR
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