Water4All 2026 Joint Transnational Call “Sustainable water management”

Applicants should refer to the details of the Call Announcement, which can be downloaded from the 2026 JTC webpage on the Water4All Partnership website . The Call Announcement highlights the aim, expected approach and topics of the call. It also details the countries participating in funding the call, the eligibility criteria, submission, evaluation and selection procedures, and modalities for projects funding and reporting. Specific funding regulations apply depending on the FPOs: each partner applying to the call must ensure that its contribution to the overall project conforms to these regulations, as reported in the document “National/regional regulations” available for download from the Water4All Partnership website .

Submission and evaluation procedures are detailed in the Call Announcement available on the Water4All Partnership website. Submission Procedures A two-step application procedure will apply equally for the Joint Transnational Call (JTC) and its modalities (the Regular and the Early Career Researcher (ECR)). Pre-proposals and full proposals must be submitted electronically via a specifically designed web platform, the Electronic Proposal Submission System , using the templates provided and in line with the Guidelines for Proposal Submission. Applicants should note that the online system may experience high traffic volumes in the last hours before the submission deadline and it is therefore highly recommended to submit the final version of the pre / full-proposal well in advance of the deadline to avoid any last-minute technical problems. Requests for extensions of the deadline due to last minute technical problems will not be considered. Evaluation Procedures A two-step evaluation procedure will apply, for the pre-proposals (step 1) and the full proposals (step 2) respectively. The evaluation procedure will be common for all proposals submitted under the JTC and Early Career Researcher (ECR) modality. The Call Secretariat (CS) will check that no Conflict of Interest exists concerning the proposals evaluated. All proposals, either submitted under the Regular or the ECR modality, will be evaluated by the same Evaluation Panel (EP) and in accordance with the same evaluation criteria defined in chapter 5 of the Call Announcement, and ranked in the same ranking list. An independent observer will be invited as external observer to the EP meetings to assess the conformity of the general procedure with the EU regulation. Step 1 (Pre-proposal stage) Pre-proposals submitted correctly and within the deadline will be checked for eligibility by the Call Secretariat against criteria defined in chapter 4 of the Call Announcement and by the Funding Partner Organisations (FPOs) according to their national/regional criteria. All eligible pre-proposals should be subject to a scientific evaluation by three EP members, as far as possible, based on two criteria - ‘Excellence’ and ‘Impact’. One of the evaluators will act as the rapporteur during the EP meeting. During the EP meeting, the evaluation results of each pre-proposal will be presented by the rapporteur. The EP will discuss the pre-proposals and agree on the final scores for each criterion. All applicants will receive a consensus report from the EP. A ranking list of pre-proposals will be produced, including only those pre-proposals that meet the minimum threshold, i.e., 3 out of 5 in each criterion. The final score will be agreed by the EP for each criterion, and afterwards, the two criteria will be summed up to produce the final score. The objective of this first step is to identify the best proposals to proceed to Step 2 and to ensure balance between requested and available funds at the national/regional leve

Apply through the EU Funding & Tenders portal. UK organisations can take part in Horizon Europe on the same terms as EU members. Many calls need a group of partners from different countries.