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01.09.25 Horizon Europe 2026-27 Relevant Calls for OEE Members

This briefing details 7 additional calls in the 2026-2027 Horizon Europe Work Programme relevant for OEE members. The calls below have a wider scope than just one technology. The eligibility of ocean energy-related applications is a result of OEE’s active engagement with EU policymakers.

28.08.25 €44m for Ocean Energy ‘Flagship’ in Horizon Europe 2026-2027

The 2026-27 Work Programme (WP) includes one call specific to ocean energy: HORIZON-CL5-2027-03-D3-10: Innovative technologies and solutions to improve wave and tidal energy systems. This is a pre-publication briefing as some details of the call could still change, but it aims to give OEE members a first insight into this new and possibly complex type of call.

Horizon Europe call: Critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms

Please use the password HEUROPECRITICAL to watch the video.

The Horizon Europe call for critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms opens in September. The call will fund two projects of €4m each.

In this exclusive OEE members-only webinar, European Commission official Matthijs Soede presents the call and answers questions from the sector.

The next Horizon Europe call: Demonstration of sustainable tidal energy farms

Please use the password HEUROPETIDAL22 to watch the video.

Horizon Europe is the EU’s biggest research and innovation programme to date, with a budget of €95.5bn for 2021-2027. It will be a key funding source for ocean energy.

A €40m call for the demonstration of sustainable tidal energy farms – 2 projects of €20m each – opens on the 13th of December.