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Open topic on driving innovation uptake of disaster risk solutions

European Commission·Multilateral

This Horizon Europe Innovation Action funds the uptake and integration of high-TRL disaster risk solutions across sectors, with an emphasis on disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience. It is aimed at public and private sector organizations involved in disaster risk management and requires active involvement from at least three first responders or disaster-risk authorities from three different EU Member States or Associated Countries. Projects are expected to demonstrate and validate solutions in real-world settings and reach TRL 8 by the end of the project.

Go / No-Go Memo

This opportunity looks relevant, but the strongest path is likely through a partner or consortium.

Partner

The topic is strongly aligned with disaster risk reduction and resilience, but eligibility is constrained to consortia with at least three first responders or disaster-risk authorities from three EU Member States or Associated Countries. IFRC and National Societies are not explicitly eligible and, based on the source, their fit is only moderate at best.

Strategic fit

strong

Government is the strongest profile match at 75/100; relevance is 40/100.

Eligibility risk

moderate

Eligible applicant types include Government, Private Sector.

Deadline feasibility

moderate

The call closes in 15 days, so proposal capacity is the main constraint.

Funding attractiveness

strong

The tracked ceiling is €6M across 2 awards.

Partnership need

moderate

This may be stronger with a Government lead or co-applicant based on fit scores.

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Expected Outcome

Project results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following expected outcomes:

Accelerated adoption of high-TRL (Technology Readiness Level) disaster risk solutions across diverse sectors;
Facilitated integration of innovative technologies into existing disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery frameworks;
Promoted collaboration among stakeholders to scale proven solutions and enhance resilience;
Addressed barriers to deployment, ensuring accessibility and usability of advanced DRS technologies;
Strengthened evidence-based decision-making through demonstration and validation of high-TRL solutions in real-world scenarios;
Promoted visibility of civil security research results.

Scope

This topic aims to foster the widespread adoption and integration of high-TRL (Technology Readiness Level) disaster risk solutions (DRS) across multiple sectors, enhancing societal resilience to various hazards, including climate. The focus is on overcoming barriers to deployment, ensuring accessibility, and strengthening collaboration among stakeholders to drive innovation uptake. Projects should promote the adoption of high-TRL solutions by public and private sector organizations involved in disaster risk management, developing strategies for scaling and commercializing innovative DRS technologies to ensure they reach end-users efficiently.

They should also demonstrate how these technologies can complement or replace existing disaster preparedness, response, and recovery frameworks by developing integrated governance and coordination models across sectors and levels for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in multi-hazard and cascading risk scenario interoperability standards, and guidelines for integrating new solutions into national and European civil protection systems. The project should especially liaise and support other disaster resilience projects in driving their uptake as well as examine how to build synergy pathways with other preparedness grants, such as Knowledge for Action in Prevention & Preparedness (KAPP) funding call of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM). Addressing deployment barriers is crucial, including identifying and mitigating technical, regulatory, financial, and social obstacles hindering the uptake of advanced solutions, while ensuring accessibility and usability for diverse stakeholders such as first responders, local authorities, and communities and individuals in a vulnerable situation.

Projects should also demonstrate the real-world effectiveness of high-TRL solutions through large-scale pilot projects and demonstrations, generating robust evidence to support data-driven decision-making and optimize disaster risk reduction strategies. Initiatives should consider the capacity gaps of the UCPM [1] , align with EU disaster resilience objectives and build on existing programs, ensuring synergies with relevant policies, funding mechanisms, and technological ecosystems. The private-public cooperation chapter of the Preparedness Union Strategy should especially be a guiding document.

Proposals are encouraged to incorporate digital tools, AI-driven analytics, digital twins such as Destination Earth, IoT applications, and other emerging technologies to enhance disaster preparedness and response. Proposals should have a strategy to promote the visibility of the project and the results to the broader public in order to show the potential of European civil security research (political sphere, private sector, citizens). This could entail the European Civil Protection Forum and the European Commission Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre platform as examples.

In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content should be addressed only if relevant in relation to the objectives of the research effort. Technology Readiness Level - Technology readiness level expected from completed projects Activities are expected to achieve TRL 8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B. [1] eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0286

PreparednessRecoveryUrban ResilienceSDG 11SDG 13Scale-upHORIZON-CL3-2026-01-DRS-04EU Funding & Tenders

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