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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tribo-Reactor for fluorine circularity by urban miningbroad TriFluorium · 2025-02-01–2029-01-31 |
AC2T RESEARCH GMBH | HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,355,039 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| Intelligent Radiation Sensor Readout Systembroad i-RASE · 2024-03-01–2028-02-29 |
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET | HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,342,834 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Supervised morphogenesis in gastruloidsbroad SUMO · 2022-11-01–2027-10-31 |
OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,337,725 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| ULTRA-LIGHT, SELF-CORRECTING, “LIVE” MIRRORS: Lowering the arealbroad Live-Mirror · 2023-02-01–2028-01-31 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,334,518 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| Neuromorphic Quantum-Inspired Optimization and Simulationbroad NEQIOS · 2026-03-01–2031-02-28 |
UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE | HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | €3,333,894 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| Improving social competences of virtual agents through artificiabroad ASTOUND · 2022-12-01–2025-11-30 |
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,330,898 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Accelerated Discovery Nanobody Platformbroad ALADDIN · 2024-01-01–2027-12-31 |
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS | HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,315,441 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| ANion Exchange Membrane Electrolysis from Low-grade water sourcebroad ANEMEL · 2022-09-01–2026-12-31 |
UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,314,384 | 11 | CORDIS → |
| Phase-sensitive Alteration of Light colorAtioN in quadri-parTItebroad PALANTIRI · 2022-10-01–2026-03-31 |
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,303,534 | 9 | CORDIS → |
| A metapredictive model of synthetic awareness for enabling tool broad METATOOL · 2022-10-01–2027-03-31 |
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,298,844 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| breakthrough technologies for an implantable artificial kidneybroad KIDNEW · 2023-05-01–2027-04-30 |
UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,293,228 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| BiObased theRmal-resistaNt food packagingbroad BORN · 2025-10-01–2028-09-30 |
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE | HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,291,847 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| A paradigm shift for the future's thermal management devices thrbroad ThermoDust · 2022-11-01–2026-10-31 |
THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,275,986 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| ROBOtic stereoTOMYbroad ROBOTOMY · 2026-09-01–2029-08-31 |
POLITECNICO DI BARI | HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,275,445 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| Van der Waals materials for integrated nanophotonicsbroad VALERIA · 2025-05-01–2029-04-30 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA | HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,270,984 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| Protein-based next generation electronicsbroad PRINGLE · 2022-05-01–2026-04-30 |
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,267,128 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| Smart Electronic Olfaction for Body Odor Diagnosticsbroad SMELLODI · 2022-04-01–2025-09-30 |
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,263,781 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| Chiral separation of molecules enabled by enantioselective opticbroad CHIRALFORCE · 2022-12-01–2026-05-31 |
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,263,726 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| Computational design, fabrication and engineering methods for unbroad UniversalTimberSlab · 2024-10-01–2027-09-30 |
UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART | HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,262,112 | 2 | CORDIS → |
| Spatial Quantum Optical Annealer for Spin Hamiltoniansbroad HEISINGBERG · 2023-11-01–2027-10-31 |
UBITECH LIMITED | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,260,250 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| BABOTS: The design and control of small swarming biological animbroad BABOTS · 2023-10-01–2027-09-30 |
UNIVERSITE DE NAMUR | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,251,081 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| moleculAR maTerials for on-chip intEgrated quantuM lIght sourceSbroad ARTEMIS · 2023-10-01–2027-09-30 |
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,247,100 | 10 | CORDIS → |
| Multi-Process Strategy To Embed Optical Fibers In 3D-Printed Metbroad Fiber3D · 2026-09-01–2030-08-31 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | €3,235,254 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| Optimised Halide Perovskite nanocrystalline based Electrolyser fbroad OHPERA · 2022-10-01–2026-03-31 |
UNIVERSITAT JAUME I DE CASTELLON | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,229,932 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| Insect-Brain inspired Neuromorphic Nanophotonicsbroad InsectNeuroNano · 2022-04-01–2026-09-30 |
LUNDS UNIVERSITET | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,229,534 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| PELVIc Floor Evaluation live TRACKing – Real-time prediction of broad PELVITRACK · 2025-04-01–2029-03-31 |
INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM | HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,209,102 | 14 | CORDIS → |
| NExt level Quantum information processing for Science and Technobroad NeQST · 2022-11-01–2026-02-28 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO | HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02 | €3,207,671 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| BAYesian Inference with FLEXible electronics for biomedical Applbroad BAYFLEX · 2023-04-01–2026-09-30 |
— | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,204,942 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| FLow detection of virUses by graphene Field Effect Transistor mibroad FLUFET · 2024-03-01–2027-08-31 |
UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA | HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,200,092 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| THz Wave Accelerating Cavity for ultrafast sciencebroad TWAC · 2022-04-01–2027-03-31 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,198,152 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| Pharmaco-modulation of epithelia for induction of antimicrobial broad MaxImmun · 2024-01-01–2027-12-31 |
ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE | HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,194,450 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| INTELLIGENT ENCAPSULATION AND SCREENING PLATFORM FOR PRECISION Dbroad iNSIGHT · 2025-02-01–2029-01-31 |
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY | HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,194,344 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks with phoTonic Integratedbroad QuGANTIC · 2023-02-01–2027-01-31 |
AARHUS UNIVERSITET | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,194,262 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| MHz rate mulTiple prOjection X-ray MicrOSCOPYbroad MHz-TOMOSCOPY · 2022-06-01–2025-11-30 |
DEUTSCHES ELEKTRONEN-SYNCHROTRON DESY | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,154,350 | 9 | CORDIS → |
| Medium to long term thermal energy storage system with embedded broad Muspell · 2023-10-01–2027-09-30 |
ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,145,242 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| n-ary spintronics-based edge computing co-processor for artificibroad MultiSpin.AI · 2024-02-01–2027-01-31 |
BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY | HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,143,276 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| Retrograde atrophy induction: a paradigm shift in prostate and broad PROPANTHERA · 2026-03-01–2029-02-28 |
FUNDACION SECTOR PUBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACIONAL INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS CARLOS III | HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | €3,140,625 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| MULTIMODE NONLINEAR FIBER BASED ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING AND TREATMENTbroad MULTISCOPE · 2024-12-01–2027-11-30 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA | HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,135,565 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| CARBON-EFFICIENT BIOPRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS FROM METHANOLbroad CarboNcare · 2026-05-01–2030-04-30 |
CHARITE - UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN | HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | €3,135,362 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| Counterfactual Assessment and Valuation for Awareness Architectubroad CAVAA · 2022-10-01–2026-09-30 |
UNIVERSIDAD MIGUEL HERNANDEZ DE ELCHE | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,132,460 | 12 | CORDIS → |
| Picosecond-scale Photonic Heterogeneous Integrated Neuromorphic broad PHINDER · 2026-04-01–2030-03-31 |
LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET | HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | €3,129,504 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| REAL TIME MOLECULAR IMAGER WITH UNSURPASSED RESOLUTIONbroad RETIMAGER · 2023-09-01–2027-02-28 |
UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,126,348 | 6 | CORDIS → |
| Holographic surface Morphing for ready-to-use planar Photonic cobroad HoloMorPh · 2026-04-01–2030-03-31 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II | HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | €3,120,568 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| ColteraTREC: a highly efficient and lightweight electrochemical broad ColteraTREC · 2025-05-01–2028-04-30 |
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER | HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,102,855 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Green SELf-Powered NEuromorphic Processing EnGines with Integratbroad ELEGANCE · 2024-11-01–2028-10-31 |
ELLINIKO MESOGEIAKO PANEPISTIMIO | HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,100,934 | 11 | CORDIS → |
| Dynamic Regulation of photosynthEsis in light-Acclimated organisbroad DREAM · 2022-04-01–2026-03-31 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,090,026 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| Wireless deep BRAIN STimulation thrOugh engineeRed Multifunctinabroad BRAINSTORM · 2023-04-01–2027-03-31 |
FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,083,850 | 8 | CORDIS → |
| Kidney Disease Sweat sensor patch for Early diagnosis and Remotebroad KERMIT · 2023-07-01–2026-10-31 |
SILICON AUSTRIA LABS GMBH | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01 | €3,080,624 | 7 | CORDIS → |
| Synthetic proteins for sustainable animal feedingbroad SYNFEED · 2025-02-01–2029-01-31 |
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA | HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,079,962 | 5 | CORDIS → |
| Yeast cell factory for mRNA bioproductionbroad Yscript · 2022-04-01–2025-09-30 |
— | HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN-01 | €3,078,250 | 10 | CORDIS → |
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