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Horizon Europe: Digital — 2025 call results: 20 proposals funded

  • News announcement
  • 20 February 2026
  • European Health and Digital Executive Agency
  • 2 min read

The call HORIZON-CL4-2025-04, part of Horizon Europe Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space, closed on 2 October 2025. HaDEA has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted under this call.

HaDEA has started grant agreement preparations with the successful consortia of 20 proposals, which will receive a total EU contribution of €132.7 million.

The breakdown of the project funded 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)
4 proposals funded.
HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DATA-03
Software Engineering for AI and generative AI (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)
3  proposals funded.
HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01
Advanced sensor technologies and multimodal sensor integration for multiple application domains (IA) (Photonics Partnership)
4 proposals funded.
HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-04
Assessment methodologies for General Purpose AI capabilities and risks (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)
2 proposals funded.
HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-05
Soft Robotics for Advanced physical capabilities (IA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)
2 proposals funded. 
HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07
Enhanced Learning Strategies for General Purpose AI: Advancing GenAI4EU (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)
2  proposals funded.
HORIZON-CL4-2025-04-HUMAN-08
GenAI for Africa
3 proposals funded. 

For further information, the results of the evaluation for each topic can be found in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal topic page.

 

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 calls HORIZON-CL4-2025-03 and 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.

Details

Publication date
20 February 2026
Author
European Health and Digital Executive Agency
Programme Sector
  • Digital
Programme
  • Horizon Europe Cluster 4: Digital