Introduction
EMMC FA Community & Policy will host a brokerage event on Monday, 20 October, 2025 | 10:00-13:00 CEST, for the upcoming Work Programme 2026-2027 of Horizon Europe, which is in draft stage. The timescale from publication to proposal submission will be – as always – quite short.
EMMC Organisational members offer competences
In order to support collaborations, EMMC is organising this brokerage event to enable EMMC organisational members to offer their competences in the fields of likely call topics.
All other EMMC members can offer project ideas
The event will also be open to EMMC associated and EMMC full individual members and non-members, but only if offering project ideas and seeking particular competences in the fields of EMMC (modelling and characterisation, digitalisation and interoperability etc).
Event guidelines
In order to prepare the event and facilitate matchmaking, please adhere to the following procedure:
- Please register for the event on this page below
- If you would like to contribute a project idea for presentation, please fill in the attached pptx-template (send to contact@emmc.eu not later than OCT 15, 2025, please)
- If you would like to offer competences regarding a specific call topic, also use the pptx-template, removing not applicable sections blank (send to contact@emmc.eu not later than OCT 15, 2025, please)
- Put a sticky notes with some key points from the offer onto the online MIRO board in the relevant box, which should hopefully be self-evident.
On the day of the event, we will
- provide time for flash presentations for presentations with competences offered, followed by project ideas/competences required.
- This will be followed by a session in breakout rooms (Zoom) for different call topics to enable further discussion and matchmaking.
MiroBoard and link to WP 2026-2027 draft version
The links for the online MiroBoard and for the HE WP 2026-2027 draft versions in cluster 4 & 5 are provided to all EMMC Members below, where they can offer competences or ask for competences required for project ideas relating to a list of calls and topics which we selected as being the most relevant to our stakeholders.
We advise you to ask your respective National Contact Points for a draft of the HE WP 2026-2027 in cluster 4 & 5 since we are not allowed to share draft call texts.
Schedule
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Welcome & Introduction | Gerhard Goldbeck (EMMC) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Overview of relevant calls in HE WP 2026-2027 | Gerhard Goldbeck (EMMC) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Project ideas presentations (max 5 minutes) | All EMMC members |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | EMMC Organisational Members offering competences (max 5 minutes) | EMMC Organisational Members |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Online poll on interest in call topics | Result will define breakout rooms for later discussions |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | Plenary discussion | All participants |
| 12:05 - 12:15 | Short break | |
| 12:15 - 12:35 | Breakout rooms arranged for topics of highest interest | All participants |
| 12:35 - 12:55 | Breakout rooms arranged for next topics | All participants |
| 12:55 - 13:00 | Conclusion | Moderated by Gerhard Goldbeck (EMMC) |
Registration
Template for flash presentations
Please use the template for flash presentations to present your competences and/or project ideas. As Gerhard Goldbeck will set up a schedule for all flash presentations, please send your presentation to contact@emmc.eu not later than OCT 17, 2025 | 1200 CEST.
Contact
Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Online participation link
The online participation link has been sent to all registered participants and is available below for EMMC Organisational Members.
List of relevant calls
HORIZON-CL4-2026-02-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-21: Development of safe and sustainable alternatives to substances of concern (IA)
HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-22: Innovative advanced materials and new production processes – reducing dependencies on Critical and Strategic Raw Materials (IA)
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-23: Accelerating the discovery and development of chemicals and innovative advanced materials through digitalisation and artificial intelligence (IA)
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-24: Cooperation on innovative advanced materials with Japan (CSA)
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-01: Advanced manufacturing for key products (IA)
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-05: Circular innovative advanced materials: facilitating the transition from design to markets (RIA)
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-48: ‘Proof of market’ to improve valorisation and commercialisation of Horizon generated R&I results
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-11: Innovative technologies and tools for exploration and data modelling of raw materials (RIA)
HORIZON-CL4-2026-05-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-01: New or enhanced Innovative Advanced Materials (IAM) enabled sensing functionality (RIA)
HORIZON-CL4-2026-02-DIGITAL-EMERGING-53: Innovative AI methods and technologies for the process industries (RIA)
HORIZON-CL5-2026-09-D2-01: Producing battery-grade materials for electrodes through sustainable processing and refining of raw materials or developing bio-based materials (BATT4EU Partnership)
And the currently open call:
FFplus DIGITAL-EUROHPC-JU-2023-SME-01-01 – Supporting competitiveness and innovation potential of SMEs: Second call for innovation studies for the development of generative AI models
