EU dual-use research funding — who's getting it
Horizon Europe dual-use & security-relevant research grants — EC contribution, coordinator and beneficiaries.
Updated monthly from CORDIS open data · last refresh 2026-08-01.
Research grants
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Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe civil R&I — the dual-use / security-relevant subset (Cluster 3 Civil Security, defence-relevant keywords, plus EIC deep-tech and space). EDF military R&D is a separate instrument and is not included. Monetary figures are the EC contribution in EUR as published by the Commission.
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| Project | Coordinator | Programme | EC contribution | Benef. | CORDIS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Understanding immune signaling in bacteria and beyondcore ImmuneTIRs · 2027-01-01–2031-12-31 |
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | ERC-2025-ADG | €2,500,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Clinical validation of the First Implantable Sensor System for Wcore StentGuard · 2022-10-01–2025-07-31 |
VESSELSENS GMBH | HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01 | €2,500,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| High-Reliability European Semiconductor Chips for Next-Gen Intelcore HEROS · 2026-06-01–2028-05-31 |
MAGICS TECHNOLOGIES | HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-02 | €2,499,999 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| On the edge AI-driven Autonomous Inspection Robotscore edge air · 2023-04-01–2025-03-31 |
ENERGY ROBOTICS GMBH | HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01 | €2,499,999 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Deciphering Split Monopoiesis Impact on Tissue Macrophagescore MONOSPLIT · 2025-12-01–2030-11-30 |
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,499,990 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Loneliness, Emotions, and Regulation: Understanding Institutionscore LONERS · 2026-06-01–2031-05-31 |
UNIVERSITAT WIEN | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,499,987 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914-1949core CivilWars · 2022-09-01–2027-08-31 |
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,499,940 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Unraveling the Supramolecular Architecture of Molecular Machinercore ImmunoMachines · 2025-01-01–2029-12-31 |
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN | ERC-2023-ADG | €2,499,938 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Random Copolymers Enabling Nonimmunogenic PEGylation for Medicacore RandoPEGMed · 2022-10-01–2027-09-30 |
JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,499,933 | 2 | CORDIS → |
| Global Cleavages: The Shape of Political Conflict across World Rcore GLOBAL · 2023-07-01–2028-06-30 |
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE | ERC-2022-ADG | €2,499,931 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Surveillance of Translation: From Molecular Mechanisms to Roles core SuTra · 2026-01-01–2030-12-31 |
RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,499,925 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Real time Liver disease early diagnosis through exhaled Volatilecore ReLiV · 2024-05-01–2027-04-30 |
NANOSE MEDICAL LTD | HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITION-01 | €2,499,875 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| REVOLUTIONISING CYBERSECURITY WITH THE NEXT GENERATION AI-POWEREcore RIS · 2024-07-01–2027-06-30 |
ALIAS ROBOTICS S.L. | HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01 | €2,499,875 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| (Re-)Writing the Ubiquitin Code – Manipulating Polyubiquitin Chacore UBICODEWRITERS · 2025-01-01–2029-12-31 |
INSTITUT FUR MOLEKULARE BIOLOGIE GGMBH | ERC-2023-ADG | €2,499,799 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Unravelling bacterial immunity against predatory bacteria: the lcore BAC-MUNITY · 2026-04-01–2031-03-31 |
UNIVERSITAET BERN | ERC-2025-STG | €2,499,744 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Life and Death, War and Peace, c.1550-c.1700 Voices of Women incore VOICES · 2023-09-01–2028-08-31 |
THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN | ERC-2022-ADG | €2,499,663 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| A new research methodology for complex ethical-technical securitcore EthicoTech · 2027-01-01–2031-12-31 |
RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN | ERC-2025-ADG | €2,499,381 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| HOst-Transposon Interactions in the MAle GErmlinecore HOTIMAGE · 2023-06-01–2028-05-31 |
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE | ERC-2022-ADG | €2,499,276 | 2 | CORDIS → |
| Deciphering the newly discovered branchial cavity immune surveilcore Fish-S.H.I.E.L.D. · 2025-04-01–2030-03-31 |
UNIVERSITETET I OSLO | ERC-2024-STG | €2,499,205 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Trading Truths: Missionaries, Diplomats, and Spies in the South core TRASUS · 2026-01-01–2030-12-31 |
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,499,037 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| The Inner Galapagos – Molecular Ecology of the Retroviral-piRNAcore ERVolution · 2024-11-01–2029-10-31 |
INSTITUT FUER MOLEKULARE BIOTECHNOLOGIE GMBH | ERC-2023-ADG | €2,498,943 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Numerical Analysis for Stable AIcore NumAStAI · 2026-01-01–2030-12-31 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,498,941 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| The first European cargo drone airlinecore Dronamics · 2022-06-01–2025-07-31 |
DRONAMICS LTD | HORIZON-EIC-2022-ACCELERATOR-01 | €2,498,825 | 2 | CORDIS → |
| Understanding the molecular basis of protein folding disorders acore MUSCLE-QC · 2025-01-01–2029-12-31 |
FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR MOLEKULARE PATHOLOGIE GESELLSCHAFT MBH | ERC-2023-ADG | €2,498,824 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Ideology in Context: An Agential Approach to the Study of Houthicore IDEO-YEMEN · 2026-05-01–2031-04-30 |
OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,498,641 | 3 | CORDIS → |
| The INscribed city: urban structures and interaction in ROMEcore IN-ROME · 2022-12-01–2027-11-30 |
SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,498,457 | 3 | CORDIS → |
| Decoding the Internal and External Drivers of Plant Defence Memocore PlantMemo · 2026-01-01–2030-12-31 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,498,283 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Integrated femtosecond laser based frequency comb and photonic mcore femto-iCOMB · 2024-05-01–2027-04-30 |
CYCLE GMBH | HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITION-01 | €2,498,245 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945core WAR-ON-CIVILIANS · 2025-01-01–2029-12-31 |
FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES | ERC-2023-ADG | €2,495,750 | 2 | CORDIS → |
| Shining a light on molecular mechanisms that potentiate phagocytcore ImmunoSynergy · 2026-01-01–2030-12-31 |
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | ERC-2025-STG | €2,495,392 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Transnational histories of 'corruption' in Central-South-East Eucore TransCorr · 2023-10-01–2028-09-30 |
FUNDATIA NOUA EUROPA | ERC-2022-ADG | €2,494,813 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Truly portable MRI for extremity and brain imaging anywhere & evcore NextMRI · 2023-10-01–2026-09-30 |
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS | HORIZON-EIC-2023-TRANSITION-01 | €2,494,415 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Advancing orbitronics by pushing electron orbital angular momentcore ORBITERA · 2025-01-01–2029-12-31 |
FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN | ERC-2023-ADG | €2,494,296 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Multi4 - the first surgical instrument for bladder cancer treatmcore Multi4 · 2024-09-01–2026-08-31 |
MULTI4 MEDICAL AB | HORIZON-EIC-2024-ACCELERATOR-02 | €2,493,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Agents of Cohesion in the Governance of an Empire: the Anthropogcore Byz-GOVAG · 2026-05-01–2031-04-30 |
ACADEMY OF ATHENS | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,492,721 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Towards a more equal and fair society: Nova SBE as an internatiocore EQUALNovaERA · 2023-03-01–2028-09-30 |
UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA | HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-01 | €2,492,434 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Evolutionary plasticity of vertebrate immune systemscore ImmunoPlast · 2027-01-01–2031-12-31 |
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV | ERC-2025-ADG | €2,492,118 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Migration and Mobilcore MIGMOBS · 2024-01-01–2028-12-31 |
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK | ERC-2022-ADG | €2,491,015 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Understanding outer membrane protein biogenesis in Bacteroidota core BactOMPbuild · 2026-03-01–2031-02-28 |
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,490,792 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Bioengineering gene-silencing-based plant defense for broad-speccore sRNA-Defense · 2026-08-01–2031-07-31 |
THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY | ERC-2025-ADG | €2,489,980 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Digitally enabled social district renovation processes for age-fcore drOp · 2022-10-01–2025-12-31 |
AYUNTAMIENTO DE ERMUA | HORIZON-CL4-2021-RESILIENCE-02 | €2,486,150 | 10 | CORDIS → |
| The Geopoliticization of Trade Policycore GEOTRADE · 2024-10-01–2029-09-30 |
PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG | ERC-2023-ADG | €2,485,639 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Using cosmic rays for better, more portable and efficient analyscore CosmoPort · 2023-10-01–2026-12-31 |
GSCAN OU | HORIZON-CL3-2022-BM-01 | €2,480,336 | 10 | CORDIS → |
| Zoonosis Before Bacteriologycore ZooB4B · 2026-10-01–2031-09-30 |
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | ERC-2025-ADG | €2,476,823 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Cold War Europe Beyond Borders. A Transnational History of Crosscore OPEN BORDERS · 2023-01-01–2027-12-31 |
ZNANSTVENO-RAZISKOVALNO SREDISCE KOPER | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,474,330 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Orchestration of Reliable Computing on Heterogeneous Infrastructcore ORCHIDE · 2023-12-01–2026-05-31 |
THALES ALENIA SPACE FRANCE SAS | HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01 | €2,468,191 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Facial Recognition Technologies. Etho-Assemblages and Alternativcore fAIces · 2025-03-01–2030-02-28 |
ASSOCIACAO ISCTE CONHECIMENTO E INOVACAO - CENTRO DE VALORIZACAO E TRANSFERENCIA DE TECNOLOGIAS | ERC-2023-ADG | €2,467,635 | 3 | CORDIS → |
| Lights in the nightsky and Ozone loss: Unravelling Atmosphere focore LOUARN · 2025-04-01–2030-03-31 |
ILMATIETEEN LAITOS | ERC-2024-STG | €2,459,229 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Biocompatible Polymer Virucides for a One Health Worldcore POLYVIR · 2025-09-01–2030-08-31 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM | ERC-2024-COG | €2,458,551 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Nano meta components for electronic smart wireless systemscore SMARTWAY · 2023-05-01–2026-08-31 |
THALES | HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITION-01 | €2,457,765 | 5 | CORDIS → |
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