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European Research Executive Agency

Effective Management of EU External Borders

Under Horizon Europe, this destination’s expected impact is to ensure that legitimate passengers and shipments travel more easily into the EU, while illicit trades, trafficking, piracy, terrorist and other criminal acts are prevented, due to improved air, land and sea border management and maritime security.

2024 Call for proposals

Border Management 2024
Applicants will be informed if their proposal has been selected in April 2025.
5 topics
e.g. Integrated risk-based border control, Detection and tracking of illegal and trafficked goods, secure identity and travel document management
29 million
Indicative budget for this call

HORIZON-CL3-2024-BM-01

  1. 6 December 2022
    Publication of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023 – 2024
  2. 22 March 2024
    Pre-Info Day
  3. 20 November 2024
    Deadline for applicants to submit a proposal

    52 proposals submitted

    These proposals are now under evaluation by independent experts.

  4. April 2025
    Applicants informed if their proposal has been selected
  5. June 2025
    Grant agreement signature for successful project
  6. August - September 2025
    Project start research
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All funding information and procedures on how to apply are on the Funding and Tenders portal.

Border Management 2023
Next call for proposals opens in 2024
4 topics
Border Surveillance, Beyond Biometrics, Supply Chains, Interoperability of Systems
23.9 million
Indicative budget for this call

Border Management 2023

  1. 6 December 2022
    Publication of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023 – 2024
  2. 27 June 2023
    Info Days
  3. 28 June 2023
    Brokerage Event
  4. 23 November 2023
    Deadline for applicants to submit a proposal

    247 proposals submitted by call for proposals deadline.

    These proposals are now under evaluation by independent experts.

  5. April 2024
    Applicants informed if their proposal has been selected
  6. June 2024
    Grant agreement signature for successful project
  7. September - October 2024
    Project start research (TBC)
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All funding information and procedures on how to apply are on the Funding and Tenders portal.

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