Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2024 (HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-02)

Topic updates

21 November 2024

Call HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01 has closed on the 20 November 2024.

126 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-02: 23 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in mid-April 2025.

Open topic

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-02

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2024 (HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01)
Type of action: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned opening date: 27 June 2024
Deadline date: 20 November 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time

ExpectedOutcome:
Projects’ results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

Improved European common forensics investigation capabilities, evidence collection and cross-border exchanges in the domain under consideration;
Police Authorities and forensic institutes are provided with innovative, harmonised and modern tools and procedures for forensic applications in the investigation of the crime under consideration, in full compliance with applicable legislation on protection of personal data;
Forensic practitioners and Police Authorities active in crime scene investigations are provided with modern and innovative training curricula in the forensic domain under consideration.
Scope:
In the Open topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive forensic solutions for fighting crime and terrorism, that are not covered by the other topics of Calls Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2021-2022, Call Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2023 and Call Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2024.

Adapted to the nature, scope and type of proposed projects, proposals should convincingly explain how they will plan and/or carry out demonstration, testing and validation of developed tools and solutions. Proposals should be convincing in explaining the methods they intend to use for demonstrating, testing and validating the proposed tools and solutions. Proposals should also delineate the plans to develop possible future uptake and upscaling at national and EU level for possible next steps after the research project.

In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content should be addressed only if the consortium deems it relevant in relation to the objectives of the research effort.

Research proposals should consider, build on if appropriate and not duplicate previous research, including but not limited to research by other Framework Programmes’ projects. When applicable, the successful proposal should build on the publicly available achievements and findings of related previous national or EU-funded projects.

Specific Topic Conditions:
Activities are expected to achieve TRL 5-7 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.