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Cluster 4 - topics with financial support to third countries

25/10/2021

Cascade Funding in Horizon Europe, also known as Financial Support for Third Parties (FSTP), is a European Commission mechanism to distribute funding from project consortia to the third parties, mostly SMEs, in order to uptake or develop innovative digital technologies.

Cluster 4 calls involve 24 topics (see files to download) recommending implementation of FSTP mechanism, in which consortia publish their own calls for proposals /“open calls“/ and provide financial support in the form of grants.

Cascade funding typically occurs mainly in calls of Cluster 4.

Other Clusters also involve topics with FSTP, but to a lesser extent.

An overview of Horizon 2020 "Open calls" is available at https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls

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Digital Europe Calls 2025 -2027 published

31/03/2025

The European Commission published the Work Programme with Calls for the 2025–2027 period under the Digital Europe Programme on 28 March. A budget of €1.3 billion will support projects in several key areas, including the deployment and use of artificial intelligence...

Numbers of project proposals submitted to the Cluster 4 calls closed in April 2023

02/05/2023

The calls in Destination 1 (Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production) and Destination 2 (Increased Autonomy in Key Strategic Value Chains for Resilient Industry) were addressed by 281 project proposals. An overview of breakdown to individual topics...

Brokerage events for 2023 calls in Cluster 4

28/11/2022

The Cluster 4 networks of National Contact Points Ideal-ist, NCP4Industry and Cosmos are organizing three thematic matchmaking opportunities for, respectively, DIGITAL, INDUSTRY and SPACE in close connection with the Cluster 4 Info Days of the European Commission (from...

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