This funding call, under Horizon Europe’s "INDUSTRY 2025" initiative, focuses on leveraging innovation procurement processes to stimulate the development and adoption of advanced materials. Advanced materials, integral to achieving sustainability and resilience goals, offer potential to improve energy efficiency, substitute critical raw materials (CRMs), enhance circularity, and reduce environmental impacts. The call seeks to build a Europe-wide consortium of public procurers, defining unmet procurement needs for innovative material-based solutions.

Public procurement will act as a key driver for market transformation, aligning purchasing strategies with broader policy objectives such as the Green Deal, Net-Zero Industry Act, and Critical Raw Materials Act. The scope includes fostering collaboration between public procurers, industry, and researchers to overcome barriers to adoption, including market gaps, standardization needs, and regulatory challenges.

The call will also identify innovative functionalities for sectors like construction, energy, mobility, and electronics, where advanced materials can enhance durability, performance, and recyclability. Expected activities include open market consultations, market analysis, and preparing for pre-commercial procurements (PCP) or public procurements of innovative solutions (PPI).

The call aims to align procurement strategies with EU policy objectives, emphasizing resource and energy efficiency gains while promoting the market readiness of advanced materials innovations.

Opening: 22 May 2025

Deadline(s): 23 Sep 2025

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This funding opportunity represents a pre-agreed draft that has not yet been officially approved by the European Commission. The final, approved version is expected to be published in the first quarter of 2025. This draft is provided for informational purposes and may be used to preliminarily form consortia and develop project ideas, but it is offered without any guarantees or warranties.