The European Commission is set to publish the Horizon Europe 2025 work programmes in April and May 2025. Including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) activities in project proposals offers a tangible demonstration of the project’s commitment to understanding the environmental impacts of the proposed innovations. Doing this displays alignment with EU’s overarching climate and sustainability objectives and strengthens the credibility of a proposal. The current call covers 6 clusters, with a broad range of topics that benefit from incorporating an LCA.
Horizon Europe 2025 call topics
- Cluster 1: Health: Promoting a healthy, inclusive society through innovative healthcare, disease prevention, and sustainable health environments and industries.
- Cluster 2: Culture, creativity and inclusive society: Supporting the green and digital transitions and a more inclusive, resilient, and democratic Europe by leveraging social sciences and humanities to address societal transformations and promote cultural heritage.
- Cluster 3: Civil security for society: Enhancing EU security and resilience by tackling crime and terrorism, strengthening border management, protecting infrastructure, boosting cybersecurity, improving disaster preparedness, and advancing security research and innovation.
- Cluster 4: Digital, industry and space: Driving climate-neutral and digitalised production, boosting autonomy in key value chains, leading in data and computing, supporting emerging green technologies, ensuring strategic space capabilities, and promoting ethical, human-centred tech development.
- Cluster 5: Climate, energy and mobility: Boosting the EU’s strategic autonomy and sustainability in the battery value chain by advancing next-generation battery technologies, improving recycling and processing, and enhancing energy storage for resilient and renewable energy integration.
- Cluster 6: Food, bioeconomy, natural Resources, agriculture and environment: Promoting climate action, biodiversity recovery, sustainable resource use, healthy food systems, bio-economy development, and resilient communities through integrated environmental governance.
Information and brokerage days are organised for learning more about the topics and for building consortiums. Find out more about them here.
Ecomatters’ expertise in LCA within Horizon Europe
Ecomatters has a proven track record of integrating LCA into Horizon Europe projects. Notably, our involvement in the Laserway and Decoat projects illustrates our ability to navigate the complexities of LCA within the framework of EU-funded initiatives. We are ready to support organisations with embedding robust LCA methodologies into their Horizon Europe proposals, ensuring that sustainability considerations are at the forefront of innovation.
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