DFM Funding Monitor
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
2831
Updated
2026-08-01
About the data
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light as a signal for nonchemical cell-to-cell communication in core Lighthouse · 2025-06-01–2030-05-31 |
UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER | ERC-2024-COG | €2,436,875 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Electro-optic frequency comb generation in the mid-infrared.core Electrophot · 2023-10-01–2028-09-30 |
UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY | ERC-2022-ADG | €2,426,034 | 3 | CORDIS → |
| Earth Observation Multi-mission federation layercore DOMINO-E · 2022-11-01–2025-10-31 |
AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS | HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01 | €2,425,270 | 9 | CORDIS → |
| Uncovering molecular and cellular mechanisms of immune cell trafcore CNS Hidden Door · 2023-05-01–2028-04-30 |
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM | ERC-2022-COG | €2,412,448 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| 2PS - Prevent & Protect Through Supportcore 2PS · 2022-10-01–2025-09-30 |
STOWARZYSZENIE POLSKA PLATFORMA BEZPIECZENSTWA WEWNETRZNEGO | HORIZON-CL3-2021-FCT-01 | €2,410,866 | 23 | CORDIS → |
| The Waging of Warcore WOW · 2026-01-01–2030-12-31 |
UNIVERSITETET I OSLO | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,399,126 | 2 | CORDIS → |
| Histories of Asia's Gendered Armed Frontiers, 1780 - 2021core HAGAF · 2025-10-01–2030-09-30 |
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK | ERC-2024-ADG | €2,375,861 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| SEcurity REsearch NCPs network 5core SEREN5 · 2022-09-01–2025-12-31 |
AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA | HORIZON-CL3-2021-SSRI-01 | €2,374,666 | 18 | CORDIS → |
| Systems Analysis of The Physiological Determinants of Phage Infecore PHYSIOPHAGE · 2026-04-01–2031-03-31 |
THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE | ERC-2025-COG | €2,374,178 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Right to Housing: The Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Ycore Housing. Yu · 2025-06-01–2030-05-31 |
INSTITUT ZA POVIJEST UMJETNOSTI INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY | ERC-2024-COG | €2,370,438 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Colonization, Early Institutions and the Origin of State Capacitcore ORIG_STATE · 2022-11-01–2027-10-31 |
UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,370,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Unravelling novel mechanisms of defense gene activation: a gatewcore R-ELEVATION · 2022-05-01–2027-04-30 |
UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN | ERC-2021-STG | €2,364,101 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Safe food in a world of changing climate: The doctoral training core BIOTOXDoc · 2023-09-01–2027-08-31 |
UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN | HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01 | €2,359,908 | 19 | CORDIS → |
| Sensorbees are ENhanced Self-ORganizing Bio-hybrids for Ecologiccore SENSORBEES · 2024-09-01–2029-08-31 |
CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE | HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €2,359,069 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Traitor-virus-guided discovery of antiviral factorscore Traitor-Viruses · 2022-07-01–2027-06-30 |
UNIVERSITAET ULM | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,339,875 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Building a Global Criminal Justice System at the Domestic Levelcore JOINEDUPJUSTICE · 2023-01-01–2027-12-31 |
TILBURG UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,332,184 | 3 | CORDIS → |
| A Quantum System on Chip for equal access to secure communicatiocore NARWHAL · 2022-11-01–2025-08-31 |
Photon Bridge B.V. | HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITION-01 | €2,307,188 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| A new framework to interrogate molecular mechanisms mediating ancore DIACIDAL · 2025-08-01–2030-07-31 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER | ERC-2024-COG | €2,299,893 | 2 | CORDIS → |
| Systematic Investigation of Anti-Defense Function and Regulationcore DEFCONJ · 2026-03-01–2031-02-28 |
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | ERC-2025-COG | €2,275,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Quantum Control of Gravity with Levitated Mechanicscore QuCoM · 2022-10-01–2026-03-31 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRIESTE | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €2,270,150 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| Uncovering the coevolution between microbial predators and preycore CO-PP · 2024-05-01–2029-04-30 |
EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY | ERC-2023-STG | €2,269,196 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Hyper-Spectral Laser Induced Fluorescence LiDAR to detect Submercore OWL · 2024-07-01–2026-06-30 |
OCEAN VISUALS AS | HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01 | €2,212,272 | 2 | CORDIS → |
| Building clarity and preventing bias in digital forensic examinacore CLARUS · 2023-11-01–2026-10-31 |
KENTRO MELETON ASFALEIAS | HORIZON-CL3-2022-FCT-01 | €2,180,564 | 12 | CORDIS → |
| Understanding the molecular principles governing mRNP architectucore GOVERNA · 2022-10-01–2027-09-30 |
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,171,250 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Molecular Mechanisms for Construction of Protective Mucus Hydrogcore MOLECULAR MUCUS · 2023-05-01–2028-04-30 |
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | ERC-2022-ADG | €2,162,383 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Global Resettlement Regimes: Ambivalent Lessons learned from thecore GLORE · 2023-02-01–2028-01-31 |
UNIVERSITAT WIEN | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,159,469 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Collision Avoidance and Space Surveillance Innovations for Orbitcore CASSIOPEE · 2022-02-01–2024-01-31 |
ALDORIA | HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATOROPEN-01 | €2,150,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Monitoring megathrust faults with abyssal distributed acoustic score ABYSS · 2022-10-01–2027-09-30 |
OBSERVATOIRE DE LA COTE D'AZUR (OCA) | ERC-2021-STG | €2,134,970 | 3 | CORDIS → |
| DIgitalisation for biocultural diVERsity and Environmental justcore DIVERSE · 2025-01-01–2029-12-31 |
UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA | ERC-2023-COG | €2,133,101 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Literary Translations at War: Mapping World War 2 in Europe (193core TranslAtWar · 2023-01-01–2027-12-31 |
NANTES UNIVERSITE | ERC-2021-ADG | €2,128,708 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Using super-resolved in situ sequencing to reveal the cellular ecore TouchCancer · 2023-09-01–2028-08-31 |
BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY | ERC-2023-STG | €2,124,896 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Unraveling the Epigenetic Arms Race Between Plants and Pathogenscore EPIPAT · 2025-10-01–2030-09-30 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | ERC-2024-COG | €2,124,895 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| One Health approach to understand, predict and prevent viral emecore OneBAT · 2023-12-01–2026-11-30 |
ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE | HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07 | €2,122,288 | 14 | CORDIS → |
| Unraveling tuft cell receptors and effector biosynthesis throughcore TuftID · 2026-08-01–2031-07-31 |
UNIVERSITAT ZURICH | ERC-2025-COG | €2,109,411 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| 3 InDustrial Ecosystems tAckLing supply chains dISrupTions and bcore IDEALIST · 2023-12-01–2026-11-30 |
CREATING INTEGRATED MECHANICALS SYSTEMS AUVERGNE-RHONE-ALPES | HORIZON-CL4-2023-RESILIENCE-01 | €2,093,512 | 14 | CORDIS → |
| Providing complete subsurface information of the urban areascore WIDMO Cities · 2023-07-01–2025-09-30 |
WIDMO SPECTRAL TECHNOLOGIES SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA | HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01 | €2,065,437 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Arctic Summer Sea Ice in 3Dcore SI3D · 2023-09-01–2028-08-31 |
UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET | ERC-2022-STG | €2,062,021 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Smart on-board processing for earth observation systemscore SOPHOS · 2022-11-01–2026-02-28 |
DSI Aerospace GmbH | HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01 | €2,055,006 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Lysosomal exocytosis of metastable proteins to control synaptic core LEXSYN · 2025-04-01–2030-03-31 |
UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HAMBURG-EPPENDORF | ERC-2024-STG | €2,037,356 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| CoRe Defense: fortifying the resident gut microbiota’s colonizatcore CoRe Defense · 2025-04-01–2030-03-31 |
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL | ERC-2024-STG | €2,035,888 | 2 | CORDIS → |
| Disaster Resilience Knowledge Network promoting innovation, techcore DIREKTION · 2023-10-01–2026-09-30 |
INERIS DEVELOPPEMENT | HORIZON-CL3-2022-SSRI-01 | €2,011,762 | 16 | CORDIS → |
| Artificial intelligence for Real-time Guidance of Onboard SAR apcore ARGOS · 2026-06-01–2029-05-31 |
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV | HORIZON-CL4-2025-02 | €2,000,224 | 9 | CORDIS → |
| Molecular mimicry as a key parameter shaping T cell immunitycore MIMIC · 2022-09-01–2027-08-31 |
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET | ERC-2021-COG | €2,000,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| SYMBIOSIS-Offshore Renewable Energy for Defencecore SYMBIOSIS · 2022-10-01–2025-05-31 |
EUROPEAN DEFENCE AGENCY | HORIZON-CL5-2021-OFFSHORE-IBA | €2,000,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Immune Synapse Engagement as a Novel Approach for Cancer Immunotcore ImmuneSynapsEngagers · 2023-03-01–2028-02-29 |
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | ERC-2022-COG | €2,000,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| 4D Brain-Targeting Nanomedicines for Treating Neurodegenerationcore Smart Nanoparticles · 2023-05-01–2028-04-30 |
TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | ERC-2022-COG | €2,000,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| ENTANGLED FREEDOMS: Decolonial Modernisms as Transnational Relatcore ENTANGLEDFREEDOMS · 2024-09-01–2029-08-31 |
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM | ERC-2023-COG | €2,000,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Understanding Long-term Trends in Multi-pathogen Epidemiology incore ULTIMASero · 2025-12-01–2030-11-30 |
INSTITUT PASTEUR | ERC-2024-COG | €2,000,000 | 4 | CORDIS → |
| Computational Antitrust: Making Technology-Driven Antitrust Accucore ATLANTIS · 2026-06-01–2031-05-31 |
STICHTING VU | ERC-2025-COG | €2,000,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
| Cracking the Host Sugar Code: Insights into H5Nx Influenza A Vicore Sugar-Viro · 2026-11-01–2031-10-31 |
UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT | ERC-2025-COG | €2,000,000 | 1 | CORDIS → |
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