Call analysis
Excellence Hubs 2027: more money, harder terms
Published on 7 August 2026
The Commission has put €100 million behind the next Excellence Hubs call, up from €60 million. For the first time since the scheme started, it will not pay the whole bill.
The 2027 conditions set the funding rate at 70% of eligible costs. The proposal has to say where the other 30% comes from and how it is split between the partners. Neither of the two closed rounds said anything about a funding rate, because a Coordination and Support Action is funded at 100% by default.
The analysis benchmarks the call against the 2022 and 2024 Excellence Hubs rounds.
Call
HORIZON-WIDERA-2027-04-WIDENING-01
Opens
2 September 2026
Closes
4 March 2027
Document
PDF, 9 pages
First published on LinkedIn on 7 August 2026.