About
The European Commission invites prospective applicants to an information day dedicated to the Nature and Bridging calls under Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026-2027.
The calls are relevant for all Clusters under pillar II.
The session will provide participants with targeted guidance on the policy context, supporting applicants in understanding the objectives and opportunities of the Nature and Bridging calls.
This info day is intended for:
- potential applicants to the Nature and Bridging calls
- researchers, innovators and project developers
- public and private organisations interested in participating in Horizon Europe proposals
- stakeholders involved in the uptake, scale-up or financing of research and innovation outcomes
- National Contact Points and other research support actors
Details
- Date & Duration
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Agenda
The three topics will be covered at the Research Infrastructures work programme info day in 2027:
HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-04: Supporting the long-term resilience and European sovereignty of critical research data and knowledge repositories and scientific services for the life sciences
HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-06: Access to research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing industry needs in priority areas
HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-07: Europe’s world class research and technology infrastructures as strategic assets for talent to Choose Europe
More: https://research-innovation-community.ec.europa.eu/events/eugq0jjabLAe8efhoXQBd/programme
Organiser
- Name
- European Commission
Programme
- 16 October 2026Policy introduction
- NATURE – Transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society 1Description
About this session
- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-01: Understanding the nature and the extent of the effects of PFAS on biodiversity and ecosystem services
- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-02: Better understanding, anticipating and addressing the biodiversity benefits and impacts of the clean and digital industries
- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-03: Systemic approaches to accelerate transformative change for biodiversity
- Q&A
- NATURE – Transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society 2Description
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- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-01: Assessing direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity decline of invertebrates
- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-02: Living labs co-creating solutions for the restoration of ecosystems addressing implementation bottlenecks and improving resilience to risks
- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-03: Networking to scale up living labs for nature restoration solutions and to address bottlenecks to implementation
- Q&A
- NATURE – Transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society 3Description
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- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-04: Innovative solutions to fight wildlife trafficking and to reduce invasion of invasive alien species
- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-05: Cost-effective biodiversity monitoring for EU policies
- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-03-01: Advancing interdisciplinary, data-driven research at the biodiversity- health interface under a One Health approach
- HORIZON-NATURE-2027-04-01: A stronger Global Ocean Observing System to enhance Europe’s strategic autonomy, climate resilience and biodiversity conservation
- Q&A
- Financial Support to Third PartiesDescription
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- Financial support to third parties
- Q&A
- BRIDGING – Bridging actions 1Description
About this session
- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-09: EU AI Media Platform – modular multilingual public-interest infrastructure for European news and audiovisual media (IA) - Apply AI
- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-10: Autonomous Drive Ambition Cities (IA) - Apply AI
- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-12: Large-Scale piloting of next-generation AI-driven digital platforms for a more affordable, secure and sustainable European energy system (IA) - Apply AI
- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-13: EU Frontier AI Initiative: Advanced Scaling Frameworks for High-Performance AI Models (RIA) - Apply AI
- Q&A
- BRIDGING – Bridging actions 2Description
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- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-04-03: Bringing innovative climate preparedness and resilience solutions closer to the market
- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-04-08: Sustainability and resilience of climate projections and related data records for European and global science and policy
- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-04-11: Detection, monitoring, modelling, and attribution capabilities for Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) activities and assessing their impacts on Earth's climate and ecosystems
- HORIZON-MISS-2026-07-CROSS-04: Demonstrating place-based experimentation and innovation spaces as enabling environments for scaling EU Missions
- Q&A
- BRIDGING – Bridging actions 3Description
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- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-02-05: Advancing promising results from Pillar II collaborative research through the innovation journey
- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-05-01: Skills for innovative SMEs
- HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-06-02: Valorising Horizon project results via innovation ecosystems
- Q&A
- Closing