Harness the power of the arts
The topic examines how artistic research and practice can address complex challenges and create new routes to innovation.
Horizon Europe · Cluster 2
EURAN-HCL2261 — ARTISTIC INTELLIGENCE
Call closure date · 2026-09-23, 17:00 CETCOUNTDOWN
01 · What the call wants
The opportunity in brief
Choose a defined research direction
Proposals focus on either strengthening soft skills through creative practices or demonstrating artists' engagement through pilot demonstrators involving emerging technologies.
Produce evidence and transferable knowledge
The project should generate methodologies, evidence, guidance and results useful beyond the individual pilot environments, with artists and creative professionals effectively involved.
02 · What EURAN proposes
ARTISTIC INTELLIGENCE AS A CROSS-INDUSTRY OPERATING CAPABILITY
EURAN proposes to investigate Artistic Intelligence as a structured capability for addressing complex challenges through art, design, emerging technologies and real-world environments. EURAN-HCL2261 can build on COS™, Constellation research, existing project concepts and defined pilot propositions, while a research-led consortium determines the precise research questions, methodology, demonstrators, evaluation framework and scientific work packages. One possible route is a portfolio of at least three small-scale demonstrators in different operational environments.
03 · Why EURAN
Relevant foundations already exist
160+ original propositions
The Constellation body provides an unusually broad authored source of research questions, hypotheses, use cases and project concepts.
COS™ / cultural instruments
EURAN has developed proprietary conceptual instruments for examining cultural value, organisational environments and cross-industry activation.
Defined pilot concepts
Existing project and prototype work gives the consortium a starting landscape of concrete environments rather than a purely theoretical proposition.
Cross-industry access
EURAN can help open pathways toward relevant artistic, cultural and industrial environments for research and demonstration.
04 · Who EURAN is seeking
Defined capabilities — not symbolic association
Research coordinator / university
A strong Horizon Europe research organisation able to lead scientific methodology, proposal architecture, ethics and evaluation.
Artists and creative practitioners
Artists able to participate as genuine research and innovation actors, not merely as dissemination contributors.
Emerging-technology partners
Organisations capable of supplying appropriate technologies and technical expertise for demonstrators where that route is selected.
Pilot hosts
Eligible organisations able to provide real environments in which artistic-intelligence methods can be tested and evaluated.
Impact / SSH expertise
Researchers able to address social, organisational, human-factor, policy and impact dimensions.
05 · Why this is interesting
A concrete opportunity for participants
For research organisations, this is an opportunity to work with an unusually developed artistic proposition base and access real-world cultural and cross-industry environments. For artists and technology partners, it offers a route into a serious European R&I framework where artistic practice is treated as a source of knowledge and innovation.
Express interest → discuss relevance, eligibility and role → form the appropriate team.
06 · Participation
Start with a conversation
Expression of interest does not constitute partnership. No organisation is presented as a partner until eligibility, role and participation have been discussed and agreed.