GRAIL Open Call — Genesis (1st Open Call)

Identifier: HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DIGITAL-EMERGING-07 Status: Forthcoming Submission procedure: single-stage Opening date: 2026-11-09 Deadline: 2027-02-10 Budget: €1,000,000 The exact amount of financial support granted to each selected entity under the GRAIL Genesis Open Call is a fixed lump sum of up to €100,000 per project, distributed across three stages over a maximum of 8 months. The Genesis Open Call will select at least 10 projects. Beneficiaries must be individual entities — SMEs, startups, mid-caps, large companies, or Research and Technology Organisations — acting as data providers and/or data-collection-tool developers. GRAIL aims to deliver the first European general-purpose Foundational Robotics Model (GFRM). The project's results will be validated across five industrial Use Cases — automotive, aerospace, intralogistics, steel and electronics, and scaled through more than 40 third-party projects funded across three sequential Open Calls (Genesis, Ascent, Summit) to accelerate data generation, model fine-tuning and industrial adoption. Open Call Application Platform GRAIL Project website