Foundations for climate-resilient cultural heritage: Assessing and managing impact and risk, dealing with damage and loss (RCH)

General conditions for application

Only transnational projects will be funded.

The following conditions must apply:

• Project duration: 24 to 36 months
• Joint research proposals may be submitted by applicants belonging to one of the following categories (according to national/regional regulations): 
  • Non-profit organisations and entities which have public research mission (research organisations, higher education institutions, scientific cooperation foundations),
  • Other non-profit entities (public bodies, NGOs, other non-profit privat associations),
  • Private companies
• The consortium must include at least three (3) partners from three (3) different countries, requesting funding from three (3) different Funding Partner Organisations (FPO). Each of these partners must be eligible for the FPO from which it seeks funding. All three (3) legal entities requesting funding from three (3) different FPOs must be independent of each other.
• Maximum of seven (7) eligible partners.
• Maximum of two (2) eligible partners requesting funding from the same country.
• Self-funded partners: Partners that do not request funds from one of the participating FPO’s (including partners who would be eligible per se but choose to participate with own funding, partners from non-funding countries or partners who are not eligible according to national/regional regulations of participating funding organisations). There is no limit on the number of self-funded partners. Self-funded partners do not count towards the maximum number of partners.
• Legal entities from Member States and Associated Countries that are public bodies, research organisations or higher education establishments (including private research organisations and private higher education establishments) and that participate in a project as beneficiaries or affiliated entities must have, at the time of the grant signature and for the duration of the grant, a Gender Equality Plan (GEP) in place that meets the requirements set out in the general annexes of the Horizon Europe work programmes1.

The ANR will exclusively fund French partners of selected projects, up to a maximum of €250,000 per partner [€350,000 maximum if the partner is the Lead Project Investigator (LPI)].

Pre-proposals and full-proposals must be written in English.  

A two-step submission and evaluation procedure has been established for joint applications: pre-proposals and full-proposals stages. In both stages, one (1) joint proposal document shall be prepared by the partners of a joint transnational project. Full-proposals will only be accepted from applicants explicitly invited by the Joint Call Secretariat to submit to participate in stage 2.  

Proposals must be submitted through the EPSS submission platform (proposals submitted directly to the ANR will not be eligible).

On stage 2, full proposals where the consortium includes at least one (1) partner applying for funding from ANR – must follow a parallel submission procedure via the ANR’s IRIS platform. To do so, the partner applying for ANR funding, or the ‘lead’ partner if more than one (1) partners would apply for ANR funding – will be asked to notify ANR of the submission of their full proposal on stage 2 by completing a registration form on the IRIS platform.

Please note that the national/regional funding organizations may require additional documentation from applicants according to national/regional regulations. It is the responsibility of each project partner to ensure that all the necessary documents are submitted on time to the appropriate recipient.

Participating countries:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, United Kingdom

An information webinar will be held online on November 17th, 2026 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET).

Information webinar registration form

RCH Call Secretariat

France: Eléonore Muhidine, Maria Tsilioni, Mélanie Fernandez, Maria Chronopoulou rch(at)anr.fr

Spain: Jessica Illera Clavijo jpich(at)aei.gob.es  

RCH partnership website: European Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage | Heritage Research Hub