The Horizon Europe 2027 Work Programme establishes one call under the Digital pillar in one destination: HORIZON-CL4-2027-05 (25 million EUR one topic). Annex XIV (Horizontal Activities) establishes the call HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01 (55 million EUR, 4 topics).
Learn more about the calls and topics:
- Call reference: HORIZON-CL4-2027-05-DIGITALEMERGING-03
Opening date: 17/11/2026 Deadline: 18/03/2027
Destination: Achieving open strategic autonomy in digital and emerging enabling technologies
Topics:
- HORIZON-CL4-2027-05-DIGITALEMERGING-03: Advanced integrated photonic devices for extended features and ultra-low power consumption (RIA)
- Call reference: HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01
Opening date: 20/10/2026 Deadline: 16/02/2027
Topics:
- 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
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 and HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01 can be found in the amended Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026-2027 and Annex XIV Horizontal Activities
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 .
Publication date: 5 October 2026
Author: European Health and Digital Executive Agency
Programme Sector: Digital
Programme: Horizon Europe Cluster 4: Digital