Consortium Studio
Live matches across European and US funding landscapes, focused on the calls that actually fit trustworthy AI and modular robotics. EU calls below come with verified deadlines; US federal calls vary in tempo, so we map the fit and let you bring the solicitation. Always verify on the relevant funding portal before submitting.
Source: European Commission Funding and Tenders portal. We check this list against the portal at the start of every month.
Horizon Europe funds the large consortia where MediSea typically takes a work-package lead on governance, orchestration, or monitoring evidence. Most calls below target Technology Readiness Level 4 to 6 and use lump-sum funding to keep the financial reporting tractable.
| Topic | Focus | Deadlines |
|---|---|---|
| HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-01 | Large-scale demonstration for mapping marine habitats under the Nature Restoration Regulation. Heavy on observation robotics. | Opens 4 Feb 2026. Closes 23 Sept 2026. |
| HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-04 | European network of ocean technology testing sites. Direct fit for hardware-agnostic robotics validation. | Opens 4 Feb 2026. Closes 23 Sept 2026. |
| HORIZON-CL5-2026-06-Two-Stage-D5-10 | Disruptive technologies for energy-saving on long-distance ships, ZEWT Partnership. | Stage 1: 14 Apr 2026. Stage 2: 8 Oct 2026. |
| HORIZON-CL5-2027-03-D5-16 | Autonomous vessels in short sea shipping and inland waterways. Essential for scalable blue-economy transport. | Opens 15 Dec 2026. Closes 14 Apr 2027. |
| HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-01 | Zero-pollution solutions, source-to-sea, multi-agent monitoring networks for biodiversity loss. | Stage 1: 12 Feb 2026. Stage 2: 29 Sept 2026. |
| HORIZON-CID-2026-01-01 / 02 | Clean Industrial Deal: competitive decarbonisation and production of clean technologies in Europe. | Opens 18 Dec 2025. Closes 15 Sept 2026. |
Eurostars, run by the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs under EUREKAEUREKAPan-European intergovernmental network for market-driven research and innovation, launched in 1985. Parent programme of Eurostars., is the right vehicle when an innovative SME wants to lead a small, focused consortium that ships to market inside 36 months. Faster than Horizon, looser than national grants.
Competition is intensifying; start preparation at least three months before the cut-off you target.
For academic-led consortia and public-sector deployments. Two very different instruments that share a single trait: they build the human capacity layer that any robotics rollout needs later.
Train highly skilled researchers through international, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral mobility. Themes in 2026 increasingly tilt toward AI governance, regulatory learning, and embedded artificial intelligence.
Anticipated 2026 deadline: 24 November 2026.
Reference projects: RAISE (AI in science), SWEET (social awareness for service robots).
Deploys real-world digital solutions, primarily through the European Digital Innovation Hubs network. Hubs give SMEs supervised access to AI testing, supercomputing, and digital capacity building before any capital commitment.
Maritime hubs to know: Oceanopolis (Norway), DMH (Italy).
Match an EDIH first; many calls require an EDIH letter of support.
For startups and smaller technology developers who lack the resources to lead a Horizon consortium. Large EU projects redistribute portions of their grants through fast, low-administrative open calls. Typical grant sizes sit between EUR 55,000 and EUR 200,000.
We track the active cascade calls weekly. If your capability fits one, ping us and we can fast-track a single-page intake.
For US-based partners and international consortia targeting US federal calls. We help structure proposals to agency rules, broker the international partner side, and keep the governance story consistent across the EU-US boundary. We do not lobby on your behalf and we do not file on your behalf; we structure the proposal team and the narrative.
Best fit when the consortium has a research-driven centre of gravity. We help with International Research Collaboration plans, broader-impacts narratives, and cross-directorate Convergence Accelerator framings.
Typical instruments: CISE, ENG, GEO, OISE international supplements.
Best fit for offshore wind, ocean-energy, and clean- industrial pilots. We map your idea to the right programme office and the prevailing topic notice structure.
Typical instruments: WPTO, EERE, FECM, ARPA-E.
Best fit when robotics and AI meet biomedical instrumentation or population-health monitoring. We work alongside US PIs on the architecture and partner side; we do not act as PI on NIH grants.
Typical instruments: R01, R21, U01, SBIR/STTR.
Best fit for high-risk, high-payoff autonomy and assured-AI ideas. We help you read a Broad Agency Announcement, scope the proposal to the programme manager's vision, and assemble a credible team quickly.
Typical instruments: I2O, DSO, MTO BAAs and seedling contracts.
Note: US federal calls vary in tempo and most do not publish a fixed annual calendar. If you have a specific solicitation in mind, share the URL in the intake form and we will read it before the scoping call.
Tell us the topic, the partners you already have, and your GEPGEPGender Equality Plan: an institutional document mandated for Horizon Europe eligibility on public bodies, higher-education establishments and research organisations. Covers targets, dedicated resources, data collection, and training. status. We reply within three working days with a shortlist and a preliminary partner-fit read.