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Bridging Actions 2027 Call Sets Aside €260 Million Ahead Of FP10

Jakob Santelmann
Regulatory Affairs Reporter, Research and Innovation

Trondheim: The Bridging Actions 2027 call will channel €260 million into advanced technologies with strong commercial potential, after the European Commission added €500 million to Horizon Europe on 29 September 2026. The extra money lifts the programme’s budget for 2026 and 2027 to about €14.8 billion and pays for two new cross-sectoral calls.

The Bridging Actions 2027 call supports sixteen actions that prepare the ground for the next EU research and innovation programme, which will run from 2028 to 2034 and is known as FP10. Example topics include a European AI Media Platform for news and audiovisual media and autonomous driving in cities. Member states and associated countries helped shape the topics, which aim to link Horizon Europe with its successor.

The second new call carries the title Transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society and has a budget of €237 million. It comprises eleven research and innovation actions that develop and apply nature-positive economic models. The call backs the goal of directing 10 percent of Horizon Europe spending to biodiversity, and it asks projects to contribute to economic and societal resilience and strategic autonomy as well.

Together the two calls account for €497 million of the €500 million top-up. The Commission published the amended 2026-2027 work programmes on the same day, after it had released draft texts for the amended thematic areas on the Comitology Register over previous months. That early publication gave research organisations and companies time to plan consortia well before the final texts appeared.

The timing of Bridging Actions 2027 matters. FP10 still depends on the wider negotiations over the 2028-2034 budget, so the closing calls of Horizon Europe offer the only ready channel for projects that cannot wait. A team that wins a Bridging Actions 2027 grant can mature a technology that later FP10 calls may scale up, which gives the bridging logic a practical meaning for start-ups and research labs.

Applicants have a first chance to ask questions at an online info day on horizontal activities, scheduled for 16 October 2026, which covers both the nature and bridging calls. The United Kingdom can take part in both under its association agreement with Horizon Europe. The early announcements did not list opening dates or deadlines, so consortia should check the Funding and Tenders Portal for the exact timetable.

For the research community, the top-up also sends a signal about priorities. Nature-positive economics and near-market technology share one budget increase, which suggests that the Commission wants Horizon Europe to close with both biodiversity results and commercial momentum. Bridging Actions 2027 will show how quickly Europe’s laboratories can turn that signal into projects before the next framework programme begins.

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