Advanced Materials for Miniaturised Energy Harvesting Systems
eu HORIZON-EIC-2026-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 · Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
| Status | open |
|---|---|
| Opens | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Deadline | 28 Oct 2026 — 45 days |
| Action | HORIZON EIC Grants |
| Official page | https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunit… |
| Fetched | 2026-09-13 04:00:37+00:00 |
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Expected Impact: The main impacts of this Challenge will be: A new generation of energetically autonomous systems enabling new services that will improve the life of European citizens through applications in areas such as point of care diagnostics, smart sustainable cities etc. Supporting sustainability in energy consumption and production in keeping with the ambitions of RePowerEU [1] and the Green Deal [2] , and Enhancement of the sustainability of IoTs and energetically autonomous systems in general. Expected Outcome: Ambitious proposals put forward under this call will: identify a new generation of advanced materials for miniaturised energy harvesting modules, and achieve TRL 4 for the resulting energetically autonomous systems. Portfolio Approach The portfolio of selected projects should lead to the development of a variety of advanced materials applied to a range of miniaturised energy harvesting modules and final integrated systems. To achieve this objective, the following factors will inform the choice of projects in the portfolio: Phenomena exploited to harvest energy from the environment (e.g. solar, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, nanotribological etc.) Composition of the proposed advanced materials, and Field of application (e.g. agriculture, automotive, health monitoring, wearables, smart city management, energy management, industrial monitoring etc.). The selected projects will be assigned to lead and/or engage in portfolio activities centred on the following priorities: benchmarking to compare proposed technologies, phenomena exploited, advanced materials used and approaches sharing scientific considerations, results on the different physical/chemical phenomena studied to advance the knowledge and foster new disclosures in the field with potential shifts in the paradigm sharing insights on integration of the modules to solve potential issues and help advance towards delivering effective operational energetically autonomous systems developing an integrated approach with different complimentary energy harvesting modules for specific use-cases and to enhance the final energy harvested, and communicating to target audiences such as corporates, investors, alongside the broader public to raise awareness on the topic with a view to accelerating the adoption of these radical innovations. Objective: Applicants to this Challenge must address all of the following objectives: The identification and development of innovative advanced materials for energy harvesting, harnessing new physical/ chemical phenomena, leading to a radical shift in application r…
What consortia for this call have looked like
39 projects
have been funded under this line
(HORIZON-EIC-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01) in Horizon Europe and H2020. This is what they
were made of — not a recommendation, just what the Commission signed.
range 1–12
27 seen across all of them
across those projects
The mix of organisations
Who coordinated them
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