Budget
Funding rate: 100% of eligible costs. Budget conditions / limitations: Up to €60,000 per project. Payments: Funds are provided as a lump sum.
Key dates and deadline
Applicants can submit their proposal by 2nd December 2025 at 17:00 (Brussels time). On October 10th from 10:30 to 12:00 CET, REINFORCING will host a webinar to present call’s details and guide applicants through the application process. All the funded projects will start on 15th January 2026 and end on 14th January 2027. No change in these dates can be negotiated.
Details
The call supports large-scale projects that implement Open and Responsible Research and Innovation (ORRI) activities. The Open and Responsible Research and Innovation (ORRI) approach promotes collaborative efforts, sharing research outputs as early as possible for engaging citizens in co-creation processes and opening R&I to the whole society. These projects are expected to initiate institutional change and promote responsible research and innovation practices. Projects applying for the REINFORCING 6th Open Call should consist of several activities, examples of which could be proposed are listed below. Potential activities: - Designing and/or implementing co-creation processes with citizens at large (or specific categories of citizens, e.g., patients) to develop innovative products, processes, and services for grand societal challenges and missions 2 or in co-valorisation processes - Designing and/or implementing ORRI journeys (e.g., training anddialogue workshops) for innovators developing cutting-edge technological products and services - Implementing citizen engagement models (such as citizen juries or scenario workshops) to co-design strategic innovation plans and key innovation policies in collaboration with societal actors and citizens, at local, regional, or national level. - Designing and implementing responsible processes to manage innovations in research centers and universities (e.g., introducing and adopting Socially Responsible Licensing mechanisms and instruments) - Implementing the Societal Readiness approach to better align innovation trajectories with societally desired and needed goals and adapt to overcome undesired aspects of the proposed innovation
Eligibility
This call is aimed at consortia, requiring at least two beneficiaries per consortium. The consortia must include at least one newcomer to ORRI, who should lead the project. Applicants have to be established in an EU country (Member State or associated country), including their outermost regions or associated countries eligible to receive Horizon Europe grants, provided that the applicants are not covered by the Council sanctions in force Applicants have to be legal entities already established at the moment of submission, such as, but not limited to, Civil Society Organizations (CSO), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), Higher Education Institutions, Research Centres, and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Applicants have to declare their financial stability
Additional information
While designing your proposal, please bear in mind that REINFORCING does not fund: - Training or consulting activities for institutions, organizations, and territories that are not part of the consortium, since institutional changes are requested to be visible and measurable in the funded entities (grantees), at least in the Coordinator (main beneficiary) of the project. - Activities related to technological developments and/or proof of concepts, while REINFORCING could support co-creation and/or visioning workshops linked to those activities - if coherent with the scope and the requirements of the Call. - Marketing and consumer studies that do not foresee a meaningful engagement of citizens or other societal actors that goes beyond providing feedback on already existing innovations. - Activities of any kind in which artificial intelligence-based systems or techniques are used or developed. Reflection on AI ethics and responsibility can instead be part of the funded actions - if coherent with the scope and the requirements of the Call. - Projects mainly revolving around the design of a new Code of Practices on Citizen Engagement for Knowledge Valorisation in a specific innovation field. - Projects just exploring Responsible Innovation, RRI, or ORRI theory.
How to apply?
https://reinforcing.eu/open-calls/current-calls/