Strengthening a European user facility for nuclear research

Expected Outcome: the project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes: access to cutting-edge infrastructure for researchers and research teams from Euratom and Associated Countries to EU and international state-of-the-art nuclear research infrastructures; enhancing the network developed under the OFFERR project for optimised use of nuclear research infrastructures identified in the EU, thus supporting the implementation of the Euratom programme’s objectives and the establishment of the European Research Area (ERA) in the nuclear safety and radiation protection field; strengthened cross-border collaboration in nuclear safety and radiation protection research in the EU, a significant increase in transnational nuclear research and the fostering of shared expertise and resources; preservation of critical facilities, possibly increasing their number to ensure the long-term availability of key experimental facilities for research into safety, security, safeguards, radioactive waste management and radiation protection (e.g. materials testing research reactors in operation, irradiation infrastructure, hot cells and laboratories, mechanical and thermal hydraulic test facilities, light water reactor sustainability, fuel cycle research and development, advanced modelling and simulation (including digital twins) and safety of advanced reactor technology programmes) or innovative solutions and research approaches; synergies with ongoing initiatives to compleme…bron

• Proposal maximaal 40 pagina's
• Alleen uit lidstaten en geassocieerde landen (Ukraine, Zwitserland)
• Actieve deelname van grote infrastructuuroperators vereist
• Ondersteunt onderzoek in alle gebieden van Bijlage I van de Euratom-verordening (behalve fusieonderzoek)
• Transnationaal onderzoeksinfrastructuurtoegang voor onderzoekers uit lidstaten en geassocieerde staten
• Open calls voor infrastructuurtoegang met technische expertise en ondersteuning

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• Strengthening a European user facility for nuclear researchEU-portaal (SEDIA) · ec.europa.eu7 jul 2026
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  Strengthening a European user facility for nuclear research
  
  Topic: HORIZON-EURATOM-2026-01-04
  Call: HORIZON-EURATOM-2026-01 — Nuclear research and training
  Programma: Horizon Europe (2021 - 2027)
  
  == Beschrijving ==
  Expected Outcome:
  the project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:
  access to cutting-edge infrastructure for researchers and research teams from Euratom and Associated Countries to EU and international state-of-the-art nuclear research infrastructures;
  enhancing the network developed under the OFFERR project for optimised use of nuclear research infrastructures identified in the EU, thus supporting the implementation of the Euratom programme’s objectives and the establishment of the European Research Area (ERA) in the nuclear safety and radiation protection field;
  strengthened cross-border collaboration in nuclear safety and radiation protection research in the EU, a significant increase in transnational nuclear research and the fostering of shared expertise and resources;
  preservation of critical facilities, possibly increasing their number to ensure the long-term availability of key experimental facilities for research into safety, security, safeguards, radioactive waste management and radiation protection (e.g. materials testing research reactors in operation, irradiation infrastructure, hot cells and laboratories, mechanical and thermal hydraulic test facilities, light water reactor sustainability, fuel cycle research and development, advanced modelling and simulation (including digital twins) and safety of advanced reactor technology programmes) or innovative solutions and research approaches;
  synergies with ongoing initiatives to complement (wherever applicable and beneficial) on-going Euratom projects and European Partnerships (e.g. EURAD-2, CONNECT-NM and PIANOFORTE), providing open access to the most advanced research infrastructures, large-scale and small-scale facilities, and expertise.
  Scope:
  ensuring access to EU and international research infrastructures is key to scientific progress in the nuclear field (including radiation protection, which is one of the foundation blocks of the European Research Area). Euratom support will be provided to cover the costs of transnational access for researchers or research teams from Member States and Associated States to EU and international state-of-the-art nuclear research infrastructures in other countries.
  Users will be provided with access (at no cost to the researcher) to world-class nuclear research facilities; technical expertise from experienced scientists and engineers; and assistance with experiment design, assembly, safety analysis and examination.
  The objective is to promote and enhance access to infrastructures that provide essential and unique services to the EU research community and are typically beyond the reach of individual laboratories. This will advance research in all the areas (except for fusion research, which is undertaken by the European Partnership in fusion research) covered in Annex I of the Council Regulation establishing the Euratom Programme.
  The Commission encourages international cooperation with non-EU countries and international organisations within the scope of this action (partly in order to avoid any duplication with the OECD/NEA’s FIDES initiative), while encouraging investigating their complementarities. Support for researchers from non-EU stakeholders (including academia, research centres and industrial laboratories), non-EU countries and international organisations is envisaged where such access would be part of the promotion of international cooperation with the countries or international organisations concerned and researchers from Euratom Member States would have equivalent access to their infrastructures.
  Based on the lessons learnt from former and current user facility projects, a framework and a set of common rules will be further improved for the future sustainable operation of a network of ‘Euratom User Facilities’. Dedicated support for the mobility of learners and/or linkage with the proposal submitted for topic HORIZON-EURATOM-2026-01-03 could be an advantage.
  The active participation of major infrastructure operators will be required in order to achieve these objectives. The support scheme should operate through open calls and offer infrastructure access; technical expertise from experienced scientists and engineers; and assistance with experiment design, assembly, safety analysis and examination.
  Proposals could pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to implementing transnational proposals that result in grants to third parties to implement activities of this action.
  The proposal should include an option for the JRC to use the future project’s operational environment (as a centralised platform supported by Euratom for facilitating the access to the JRC’s nuclear research infrastructures) for the implementation of the dedicated complementing coordination and support action between DG JRC and DG RTD on open access to the JRC’s nuclear infrastructures.
  
  == Voorwaarden (topic conditions) ==
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  Conditions
  1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
  The page limit of the application is 40 pages.
  Proposal layout: described in Part B of the Application Form.
  Other admissibility conditions are described in General Annexes to the Euratom Work Programme 2026-2027, General Conditions, A - Admissibility.
  2. Eligible Countries
  Described in General Annexes to the Euratom Work Programme 2026-2027, General Conditions, B - Eligibility.
  See the List of Participating Countries in Horizon Europe (including Euratom) for up-to-date information on the current list of and the position for Associated Countries.
  Please note that as of the date of the publication of this call, Ukraine and Switzerland are the only countries associated to the Euratom Programme, therefore eligible for funding.
  3. Other Eligible Conditions
  The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding.
  Other eligible conditions are described in General Annexes to the Euratom Work Programme 2026-2027, General Conditions, B - Eligibility.
  4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
  Described in General Annexes to the Euratom Work Programme 2026-2027, General Conditions, C — Financial and operational capacity and exclusion.
  5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
  Described in General Annexes to the Euratom Work Programme 2026-2027, General Conditions, E — Documents and F — Procedure; and the Online Manual.
  5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
  Described in General Annexes to the Euratom Work Programme 2026-2027, General Conditions, D — Award criteria.
  5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
  Described in General Annexes to the Euratom Work Programme 2026-2027, General Conditions, F — Procedure.
  6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
  Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. Financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary activities of this action in order to be able to achieve its objectives. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 300 000 for actions providing access to and securing availability of research infrastructures. This maximum amount is justified by the significant cost for providing key access to and securing the availability of unique research infrastructures.
  Eligible costs may take form of unit costs for decision authorising the use of unit costs for the costs of providing trans-national and virtual access as defined in the corresponding Decision (unit-cost-decision-research-infrastructures_horizon-euratom_en.pdf (europa.eu)
  General legal and financial set-up is described in General Annexes to the Euratom Work Programme 2026-2027, General Conditions, G — Legal and financial set-up of the grant agreements.
  Euratom WP 2026-2027
  Euratom Work Programme 2026-2027 for nuclear research and training
  Call document and annexes:
  Application form templates
  Standard application form (HE CSA) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
  Calculator (HE UN RI TA)
  Calculator (HE UN RI VA)
  Information on financial support to third parties (HE)
  Evaluation forms
  Standard evaluation form (HE CSA) — will be used with the necessary adaptations
  Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
  Horizon Europe MGA
  Additional documents:
  Euratom Research & Training Programme 2026-2027 (Council Regulation 2025/1304)
  EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
  Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
  EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
  Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
  Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
  Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement