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This Horizon Europe Innovation Action topic funds consortia that build data-sharing frameworks and train AI foundation models for energy-system use cases such as grid planning and operation, forecasting, congestion management, anomaly detection, fault diagnosis, predictive maintenance and flexibility management.
Projects must develop effective, secure and transparent data-sharing strategies with governance that stays operational after the project ends, follow open-source practices where feasible, reach TRL 7-8, and join the BRIDGE initiative. Consortia should include data owners such as utilities, grid operators and asset owners. The topic has a EUR 30 million budget for about 3 projects of roughly EUR 10 million each at a 70% funding rate.
It opened August 4, 2026, and the single-stage deadline is December 1, 2026.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Consortia of legal entities eligible under Horizon Europe (EU member states and associated countries; others per general rules), typically at least three independent entities from three different eligible countries, including energy data owners such as utilities and grid operators. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows EUR 30 million total budget (approx. $34.8 million); expected EU contribution about EUR 10 million (approx. $11.6 million) per project, about 3 projects; Innovation Action at 70% funding rate. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2026-11-D3-23 Data Sharing to Support the Training and Development of AI Foundation Models in the Energy Sector are due December 1, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL5-2026-11-D3-23 Data Sharing to Support the Training and Development of AI Foundation Models in the Energy Sector is funded by European Commission (Horizon Europe Cluster 5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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This Horizon Europe Cluster 5 Research and Innovation Action funds improved understanding, seamless prediction, projection and attribution of climate-driven extreme events and their compound and cascading effects, supporting early warning and EU adaptation and preparedness strategies. Projects should use a hierarchy of models, including high-resolution Earth system models and digital twins, and the topic explicitly welcomes innovative AI-based approaches to predict, emulate and reveal unprecedented high-impact events. The single-stage topic opens November 17, 2026 and closes March 4, 2027, with EUR 18 million for about three projects.
This Horizon Europe Innovation Action under Cluster 5 funds large-scale operational validation and upscaling of state-of-the-art generative AI tools and models for a next-generation digital energy system. Projects should validate and scale secure, open-source (generative) AI for real-time grid monitoring, balancing, forecasting and consumer empowerment in distributed energy systems. They must demonstrate an AI development environment within the energy system's digital spine, including a digital twin, and prototype edge-level machine learning and federated learning in an agent-based architecture. Work should align with the Common European Energy Data Space and EU AI policy, use European AI Factories where relevant, contribute to the BRIDGE initiative and reach TRL 7-8. The topic has a €20 million budget for about two grants of €10 million each (about USD 11.6 million). Submission is single-stage, opening 3 December 2026 and closing 31 March 2027. Entities controlled by China or Chinese legal entities cannot participate. The call suits consortia of grid operators, utilities, AI developers and research organisations.
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