Joint Call 2026
The Call 2026 aims to fund ambitious transnational research and innovation on advanced materials and contribute to Europe’s scientific excellence, technology leadership and global competitiveness.
The M-ERA.NET Call 2026 is launched on 4 March 2026. 35 funding agencies participate with an indicative budget of about 40 million €.
The pre-proposal phase is closed. 514 pre-proposals have been submitted by 2465 research groups. This is the highest number of pre-proposals within a call in the history of M-ERA.NET.
Feedback to applicants will be provided in late September 2026.
Call Schedule:
- Pre-Proposal Deadline is 12 May 2026, 12:00 noon, Brussels time.
- Full-Proposal Deadline is 18 November 2026, 12:00 noon, Brussels time
The Call 2026 includes the following thematic areas:
- Materials for energy storage and distribution systems
- Materials for energy conversion
- Innovative surfaces, coatings and interfaces
- Innovative functional materials with defined architectures
- Materials addressing environmental challenges
- Next generation materials for electronics
Materials for energy storage and distribution systems
The scope covers innovative materials, devices and systems that store and distribute any kind of energy (electrical, chemical, mechanical, thermal energy, among others).
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Materials for energy conversion
This topic supports the development and deployment of advanced materials and processes that accelerate the energy transition across generation, conversion and mobility.
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Innovative surfaces, coatings and interfaces
Surface and coating technologies are key enablers for new solutions across numerous industrial sectors worldwide.
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Innovative functional materials with defined architectures
The scope of topic 4 covers the development of materials and material systems with defined architectures that provide specific properties and desired functionalities.
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Materials addressing environmental challenges
The reduction of resources and waste and increased materials recyclability, in accordance with a sustainable development, is becoming a necessity related to decarbonization and circular economy.
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Next Generation Materials for Electronics
The topic supports proposals on materials research and its application, with special focus on specific properties for electronics.
topic descriptionProposal Submission
Pre-proposals phase is closed.
Link to the submission tool (for read-only purposes)
Call documents for download:
- Guide for proposers V1.3 (30 April 2026)
- FAQs - version 2.0 (12 March 2026)
- Mandatory Pre-Proposal form (content table revised; updated 17 March 2026)
- Mandatory Full-Proposal form and mandatory Annex 1 to Full-Proposal form
- Final reporting template (available March 2027)
- Please direct questions during the project duration to the monitoring team
Call webinars
Announcement:
- M-ERA.NET Call 2026 webinar on 18th March 2026, 12:00 (CET)
More information: Presentation slides and webinar recording
- M-ERA.NET Joint Call 2026 - Spanish Infoday on 24th March 2026, 11:00 (CET)
More information: Presentation slides and webinar recording
- Quebec M-ERA.NET 2026 Call for Projects Webinar on 24th March 2026, 03:00 (PM)
More information: registration
- Xjenza Malta’s M-ERA.NET Online Information Session on 26th March 2026, 11:00 (CET)
More information: registration
- TÜBİTAK National Info Day on 7th April 2026, 14:00 (Turkiye time)
More information: registration
Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI) in M-ERA.NET
webinar video for applicants and evaluators (on YouTube)
Partner search:
M-ERA.NET provides a Partner Search Facility.
The EEN (Enterprise Europe Network) offers a general partner search tool.