Biotech routes for valorisation of residual biomass
HORIZON-JU-CBE-2026 · HORIZON-JU-IA · TRL 5–6 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that use biotechnology to turn leftover biomass—like farm and forestry residues, food waste, algae byproducts, and sludge—into valuable products such as chemicals, materials, polymers, and enzymes. It supports scaling up promising lab processes to demonstration scale, including improving pretreatment, conversion, and purification steps. Winning projects should also work with feedstock suppliers, optimize logistics, and assess safety and environmental risks of the biotech processes.
biotechnology · bioeconomy · waste recycling · circular economy · sustainable materials · agriculture agritech
Who wins this
This call best suits multi-actor consortiums including industrial biotech companies, research organisations, and biomass/feedstock producers working together to scale up biotechnology-based valorisation processes for residual biomass to demonstration scale.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €7M
- Funding model
- Budget-based — reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON JU Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium — a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Also required
- Proposals must follow the multi-actor approach (MAA), ensuring sufficient involvement of feedstock producers/managers for residual feedstock supply; detailed eligibility, financial, and evaluation conditions are set out in the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes and CBE JU Annual Work Programme 2026, which are not detailed in this text.
- 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 Eligibility Conditions 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 described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes 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 section 2.2.3 Calls for proposals in the CBE JU Annual Work Programme 2026
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