The call HORIZON-CL4-2025-04, part of Horizon Europe Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space, closed on 2 October 2025.
A total of 503 proposals have been submitted in response to this call.
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in January 2026.
The breakdown per topic can be seen below:
- HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DATA-02: Empowering AI/generative AI along the Cognitive Computing continuum (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership).
74 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget EUR 30 million). - HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DATA-03: Software Engineering for AI and generative AI (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership).
56 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget EUR 15 million). - HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01: Advanced sensor technologies and multimodal sensor integration for multiple application domains (IA) (Photonics Partnership).
89 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget EUR 25 million). - HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-04: Assessment methodologies for General Purpose AI capabilities and risks (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership).
28 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget EUR 7 million). - HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-05: Soft Robotics for Advanced physical capabilities (IA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership).
19 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget EUR 20 million). - HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07: Enhanced Learning Strategies for General Purpose AI: Advancing GenAI4EU (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership).
22 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget EUR 30 million). - HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-HUMAN-08: GenAI for Africa.
215 proposals submitted (indicative topic budget EUR 5 million).
Background
Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Digital covers the development of key digital technologies, supporting a green and digital transformation as well as a human-centred ethical development of emerging digital technologies for competitiveness and the European Green Deal.
HaDEA supports digital research by managing the Digital part of Cluster 4 ‘Digital, Industry and Space’ of the Horizon Europe programme and the legacy programme Horizon 2020.
Further details on call HORIZON-CL4-2025-04 can be found in the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025.
More information about the Horizon Europe strategic plan for 2025-2027, which sets out the strategic orientations for the final years of the EU’s largest research and innovation (R&I) programme to date, can be found here.