Horizon Europe

Restack Open Call (2026-11R)

Deadline: 3 November 20261 day left · check the hour on the call's page
Amount per project: up to 150,000 EUR

What it funds

Supports developing, maturing and scaling open internet technologies across hardware, infrastructure and applications; applicant eligibility is unspecified.

Open internet infrastructure · Libre chips · Middleware · Local-first computing · Digital sovereignty

Who can apply

Osoby fizyczne oraz organizacje formalne i nieformalne dowolnego typu, samodzielnie lub we współpracy, z projektem o silnym wymiarze europejskim.

Rules of this edition

In Polish, as the source we read gives them.

Pierwszy wniosek: 5–50 tys. EUR; większy grant wymaga wcześniejszego pomyślnego zakończenia projektu Restack lub równoważnego; limit łączny na beneficjenta: 500 tys. EUR.
Wniosek po angielsku; głównym celem muszą być prace B+R na rzecz Open Internet Stack.
Wyniki naukowe w otwartym dostępie, oprogramowanie i sprzęt w całości na uznanej wolnej lub otwartej licencji.
Silny wymiar europejski: standardowo co najmniej 60% środków dla członków zespołu z krajów kwalifikujących się do Horizon Europe; wyjątek dla wybitnych projektów z unikalną wiedzą techniczną.

Rules read on 30 October 2026 from: nlnet.nl Confirm them in the announcement.

Deadline and amount as of 2 November 2026.

Who won before

Projects from the same area of the programme, from earlier calls.

With Polish institutions taking part · 14 projects

Each project names its coordinator, which can be an institution outside Poland.

EURO-3C: EUROpean 3C Networks for Secure Telco-Cloud-EdgeTelefonica Innovacion Digital Sl · 74,999,880 EUR · 2026
CoAgent: Cognitive Computing Continuum for Large-Scale Distributed GenAI AgentsUniversitaet Innsbruck · 7,944,936 EUR · 2026
O-CEI: Open CloudEdgeIoT Platform Uptake in Large Scale Cross-Domain PilotsUniversitat Politecnica de Valencia · 23,140,064 EUR · 2025
ACHILLES: Human-Centred Machine Learning: Lighter, Clearer, SaferAssociacao Fraunhofer Portugal Research · 8,226,276 EUR · 2024
ENACT: Adaptive Scheduling and Deployments of Data Intensive Workloads on Energy Efficient Edge to Cloud ContinuumEthniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis · 5,055,074 EUR · 2024

Sources: RAD-on (OPI-PIB), CORDIS, Baza of Wrocław University of Science and Technology. For the university's projects we give its part of the sum and the award year.

Next steps at Wrocław University of Science and Technology

The Projects Office has no separate procedure for this programme, so these are the general rules.

The PWr dates have passed. Ring the Projects Office (+48 71 320 45 71) and ask what you can still do.

FirstBefore you start work on the application, tell the head of your unit and set out the project's risks. You need written consent to prepare and run the project. The head of the unit also names the project lead on the notice form.
Tell the Projects Office you plan to apply.
By 20 October 2026Hand in the original project notice at the Projects Office secretariat, signed by the project lead and the dean (in another unit: its head), at least 10 working days before the application goes out. Hand in the signed risk analysis with it. When the project spans several units, their heads consent to their own tasks.Documents: annex 1 to ZW 2/2023 (individual project: annex 1a) and annex 1b
In a partner project, the notice starts the check of the cooperation agreement.
Before the application goes out (the rules give no number of days)Hand the original annex on the project's scope to the Bursar's Office (Kwestura) for a VAT opinion, and request the VAT eligibility statement in the form the funder requires. When the statement exists only in the funder's system, attach a printout from it. Send a scan of the opinion to the Projects Office. A copy of the statement later goes with the request to open the project.Documents: annex 2 to ZW 2/2023 (investment project: annex 2a for equipment, annex 2b for construction)
By 23 October 2026Hand in the application documents for the Projects Office to check at least 7 working days before the application goes out, also when PWr is a partner or a consortium member.Documents: application documents
3 November 2026The last moment to file the application with the funder.Check the hour on the call's page.

The dates count statutory holidays, not days off set by the Rector.

The rules on the Projects Office site

Contact

Dział ProjektówMain Building, A-1, room 150AWyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław+48 71 320 45 71 dp@pwr.edu.pl