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Call for disaster resilience, response, and recovery projects
Call for disaster resilience, response, and recovery projects
Scope
This project call is for disaster resilience, response, and recovery research and development projects.
This call will support R&D projects that target the following fields:
- Sustainability
- Medical devices
- Artificial intelligence
- Advanced manufacturing
- New materials
- Other areas
Examples of projects within the scope of this call include:
- Innovative and resilient construction
- Digital technologies
- Search and rescue
- Resilient communications
- Health
- Post-disaster waste management
Collaborative international research and development, and technology development, projects can help society prepare for, respond to, and recover from different kinds of disasters. Research and development products and solutions can save life, prevent or limit environmental catastrophes, and help society prepare for a future where climate change is expected to increase the frequency and scale of many kinds of disasters.
Disaster types covered:
- ‘Human-caused’, including widespread destruction resulting from conflict and war, urban fires, and industrial accidents of various kinds.
- ‘Natural’, including avalanche, flooding, extreme cold and hot weather, drought, earthquake, storms, volcanic activity, and wildfire.
Projects should address one of the application areas that follow, or any other that has clear links to disaster resilience, response and recovery:
- Innovative and resilient construction. Such as: building behaviour modelling during and after disaster situations; seismic isolation/damper technologies; disaster-resilient architectural designs; advanced building materials and technologies (e.g. fire resistance, water resistance, shock resistance, non-toxic); durability-increasing adaptations e.g. for buildings on weak soils or floodplains.
- Digital technologies. Such as: damage prediction and early-warning systems; advanced geographic information and remote sensing systems; artificial intelligence-based sensing algorithms; sensor technologies.
- Search and rescue. Such as: automated and intelligent drone systems; rapid and effective search and rescue; portable equipment and devices capable of imaging and detection.
- Resilient communications. Such as: non-interruptible communications systems; portable communications devices; battery technologies and alternative energy sources; resilient infrastructures and systems.
- Such as: disinfection, filtration and storage solutions; autonomous environmental disinfection and sterilisation; mobile medical devices; resilient health services and infrastructures; nutrient-enriched and functional foods and drinks.
- Post-disaster waste management. Such as: safe demolition technologies; separation/classification and management solutions for construction and demolition waste (CDW); transformation of CDW into building materials and other secondary raw materials in line with circular economy principles.
Relevant industry sectors include:
- Materials
- Construction
- Health – services, public health, medical devices
- Water – public and private utilities, tech developers
- Energy – utilities, tech developers
- Information Communication Technologies
- Electronic components and systems
- Software
- Agrifood
Projects must target at least one type of disaster and have at least one clear and specific disaster-related application.
Projects should aim to develop a product, process or service for commercialisation and the implementation of project results (such as market launch) should aim to occur no later than 24 months after project completion.
Projects may develop fundamentally new innovations, or adapt, re-engineer and re-purpose existing innovations currently used or envisaged for different application areas. While the Technology Readiness Level starting point will vary from one project to another, it is expected that projects will start no lower than TRL level 4.
Project size is envisaged in the order of 500,000 euro to 5 million euro, but this does not preclude proposals requesting different amounts.
Timeframe
- 10 June 2025: Call opens
- 31 October 2025, 23:59 CEST: National submission deadline
- May 2026: Projects can begin (expected)
Eligibility
Eureka has limited eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Network Projects consortium:
- Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
- The project must be directed at researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialisation.
- The project must have a civilian purpose.
- Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities from a minimum of two Eureka countries.
- No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
- The duration of your project may not exceed 36 months.
- Your project consortium must have at least one company.
- Your project must benefit all partners and all partners must participate.
This call for projects has one additional eligibility criteria that must be considered:
- Projects must target at least one type of disaster and have at least one clear and specific disaster-related application.
Additional national eligibility requirements
Each participating national funding body may apply additional eligibility criteria based on their national regulations. Applicants are strongly advised, prior to submitting the application, to contact their national funding body (see below) to discuss their project idea and verify their and their project’s eligibility.
National funding
The countries/regions supporting this call are listed here.
You are strongly advised to consult the national funding details and eligibility criteria for specific information on partners. Further details can be found in the call text PDF, and via the Eureka website.
