Open EU Funding Opportunities
MARKETS AND NETWORKING
Deadline: 20th of January 2026
Budget: €16,500,000
The objective of the Markets & Networking call is to enhance the promotion of European content in the global market and to foster cooperation among all parts of the audiovisual value chain for the co-creation and promotion of European audiovisual works.
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Expected impact is:
· To improve the innovative aspect of existing European industry markets, and to increase their systemic impact;
· To encourage the creation of networks of markets;
· To encourage the development of networks among European professionals with the aim to co-create series;
· To promote sustainability and the greening process of the markets;
· To improve the competitiveness, circulation and promotion of European audiovisual works on international markets
· To enhance diversity and inclusion in the markets and networks
· To ensure that Europe’s audiovisual industry is taking full advantage of technological and business innovation.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus listed EEA countries.
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In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies) and be established in one of the eligible countries.
APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR TUI FORESTS PROGRAMME
Deadline: 1st of November 2025
Budget: €500,000
The TUI Care Foundation’s TUI Forests programme places forests at the heart of thriving communities and sustainable tourism destinations while supporting local livelihoods through initiatives like community-run tree nurseries and forest-based tourism.
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Between tree planting and community action, the programme has reached impressive milestones up to 2025. More than five million trees were planted in just two years, with over two thousand jobs supported, endangered species protected, thirty community-managed nurseries established, and six immersive tourism experiences developed.
Now the Foundation aims to double its impact by 2030 by funding both large and small-scale tree planting projects in tourism-rich locations. If your organization contributes to forest conservation, envisions tourism as a tool for sustainable development, and wants to broaden its impact, this opportunity could be a great fit.
Grants range from €10,000 to €150,000 per year and support projects that run for at least 24 months. Funding can cover activities that expand forest cover, boost environmental and social benefits along the tourism value chain, communications, visibility, consultancy or staff costs up to 30 percent of the budget, modest overhead, and related project expenses. However, land acquisition, property leasing, and high-value tangible assets are generally excluded unless the context allows otherwise.
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Eligible destinations span across continents and include countries where tourism and forest conservation need coincide. Locations range widely, from Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Vietnam, South Africa, Portugal, Türkiye, and Greece, to Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Jamaica, Egypt, Mauritius, and beyond.
Applications are welcomed throughout the year, although priority will be given to proposals received in 2025. Applications proceed through an initial proposal submission, followed by an introduction meeting, and, if selected, a full project proposal submitted via Optimy. Final decisions require approval from the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
ICPO RESEARCH CALL FOR “AI-DRIVEN ADVANCEMENTS IN PRECISION ONCOLOGY”
Deadline: 1st of November
Budget: €500,000
The International Centers for Precision Oncology Foundation has launched a new research call to advance precision oncology by integrating artificial intelligence. The objective is to support the development of methodologies for curating and standardizing theranostics datasets, both imaging and non-imaging, by producing a structured database framework and annotation approach.
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This call focuses on the creation of data models, curation standards, and maintenance methods, without the collection or sharing of data at this stage. Any indication relevant to theranostics can be included.
High-quality, standardized dataset frameworks are essential for training and testing AI-based prediction models. The ICPO’s role in this process is to orchestrate it, providing funding and Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) guidance without owning or holding any data. Data and rights remain with the grant recipients' centers. This initiative addresses current funding gaps around annotation methodologies and reference standards.
The expected outcomes are methodologies that enable automated structuring and annotation of unstructured theranostics data, including provisions for maintenance. Additionally, a theranostics-specific structured format or framework that is fully annotated, standardized, and transferable between centers is expected, with transparent access for ICPO partners and collaborators. Grant recipients in the first year must deliver such a structured format.
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Applications are invited exclusively from academic institutions. The maximum funding available per project is €100,000. The Principal Investigator must hold a relevant PhD degree or be an MD. The application requires a detailed research proposal, a letter of intent or cover letter, and a current Curriculum Vitae of the PI. The deadline for applications is November 1st, 2025. Note that no hardware may be funded under this call.
ARTISTIC RESIDENCY FOR EUROPEAN COOPERATION PROJECT
Deadline: 2nd of November
Budget: €10,000
The ACCESS is inviting applications for its Artistic Residency to support project aiming for musical experiences that can be enhanced by new forms of listening, creating and engaging audiences and artists, in places not dedicated to music. The selected artists will take part of an artistic residency, with a duration of seven days (8 days for Prague), where a group of seven European artists will work collectively under several work strategies, from open and graphic scores, soundscape composition, sonic ecology or collective improvisation to create, record and present publicly the output of their work. Each residency has a specific theme, directly related with the space where it will take place.
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During its two-year duration, six artistic residencies aggregated in two different cycles will take place in France, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. Following the first cycle (September 2024 – May 2025), this call announces three new residencies forming the second cycle. These residencies invite artists from various Creative Europe countries to engage collaboratively in site-specific contexts.
This residency will focus on developing a series of small actions—performances and recordings—within the local community surrounding Sonoscopia’s neighbourhood. In response to Porto’s changing urban dynamics due to tourism, artists will rethink and activate spaces outside the city centre, working closely with residents to create and present works in everyday settings or Sonoscopia’s facilities. Six improvisational musicians and one creative video artist will be selected for this project.
In Prague, participating artists will collaborate with teenagers in a secondary school setting to develop a site-specific performance that moves through the school’s architecture. Preparation will occur both during a school expedition in the Karlovy Vary region and at the school itself, culminating in a final presentation. Musicians and sound artists with experience working with teenagers are encouraged to apply, alongside one dancer or performer and one visual artist specializing in video art, light design, or stage design. A tutor with experience in working with teenagers will support the group during the residency.
This residency aims to immerse sound artists in the natural environment of the French Pyrenees, encouraging them to make nature a driving force of the creative process. Participants will explore sound in relation to the landscape, history, and local community through daily sound explorations and public gatherings. Due to the mountainous terrain, artists must be in good physical condition and equipped with portable instruments and mountain gear, as they may need to walk 2–4 hours daily carrying their equipment.
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Eligible applicants must hold nationality or a residence permit from one of the participating Creative Europe countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine, including EU member states and several neighbouring nations. The consortium team will make final selections, ensuring diversity and collective compatibility among participants.
SMART ERA 1ST OPEN CALL FOR PILOTS ADD-ONS FOR RURAL INNOVATION
Deadline: 4th of November
Budget: €100,000
The SMART ERA project is launching its 1st Open Call for Pilots Add-ons to select up to 11 Technology/Solution Providers to develop innovative solutions addressing the socio-economic and environmental challenges in six designated rural pilot regions.
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The focus areas include transforming rural areas through advanced technology and innovative solutions, enhancing sustainable development and growth in technology, governance, business, society, and policymaking, and revitalizing rural communities by combating depopulation and creating resilient, vibrant societies. The objectives primarily revolve around deploying innovative solutions aligned with the identified regional challenges, including developing smart innovation packages, supporting the socio-economic fabric with technology-driven applications, and fostering ecological, economic, and social sustainability within the pilot regions.
Each selected technology provider will receive up to €60,000 and participate in a nine-month support program that includes mentoring and stages focused on onboarding and deploying their solutions in the pilot areas. The program is designed to ensure technological advancement from an initial TRL of 4 to at least 6 upon completion. The six pilot regions span Italy, Spain, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bulgaria, each with unique challenges ranging from agrifood production tracing, pasture ecosystem monitoring, AI-based tourism and micro-farming management, smart economy service platforms, rural entrepreneurial support with AI tools, agro-tourism sector digital platforms, personalized tourism experience platforms, mobility on demand applications, digital health support systems for rural GPs, and map-based tourism information platforms.
Proposals must demonstrate alignment with the SMART ERA goals, including the use of robust security and data privacy measures compliant with GDPR, the adoption of open-source and OpenAPI standards where applicable, and the potential for replication across other European regions. Multilingual interfaces, user-friendly designs for local stakeholders and end-users, and sustainable post-project maintenance plans are mandatory. The evaluation process is rigorous, involving eligibility checks, scoring based on excellence, impact, and implementation, and final selection through pitching and consensus meetings.
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The SMART ERA project emphasizes collaboration with local stakeholders, integration with existing data sources, and compliance with European Union policies such as the Green Deal and Europe’s Digital Decade. The selected projects are expected to contribute to regional and EU standards for social innovation, environmental impact, and economic resilience in rural areas. The total duration of the support program is approximately nine months starting from March 2026, with milestone-based payments structured to incentivize timely and high-quality deliverables.
ERC SYNERGY GRANT
Deadline: 5th of November
Budget: €10,000,000
The aim is to provide support for a small group of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone. Synergy projects should enable substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, stemming, for example, from the cross-fertilization of scientific fields, from new productive lines of enquiry, or new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines. The transformative research funded by Synergy Grants should have the potential of becoming a benchmark on a global scale.
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Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. Principal Investigators must also demonstrate that their group can successfully bring together the scientific elements necessary to address the scope and complexity of the proposed research question. One of the Principal Investigators must be designated as the Corresponding Principal Investigator. At any one time, one Principal Investigator per Synergy Grant Group except the Corresponding one can be hosted or engaged by an institution outside of the EU or Associated Countries.
Actions must take place in EU member states or Associated Country.
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The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State or Horizon Associated Country. Principal Investigators may be of any age and nationality and may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application. The host institution must engage and host the Principal Investigator for at least the
duration of the project, as defined in the grant agreement.
ENTRIES OPEN FOR CIFAR AZRIELI GLOBAL SCHOLARS PROGRAM
Deadline: 5th of November
Budget: €100,000
The CIFAR Global Scholars Program offers early-career researchers the opportunity to develop and lead high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary research, expand their professional networks and receive focused leadership training in their pivotal first years as independent investigators.
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Focus: Fostering Novel Interdisciplinary Research, Developing and Broadening Networks, Strengthening Leadership Skills, Child & Brain Development, CIFAR MacMillan Multiscale Human, Future Flourishing, Humanity’s Urban Future, Learning in Machines & Brains, Quantum Materials.
The program offers an opportunity for early-career researchers from the natural, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as the humanities, to join one of CIFAR’s interdisciplinary research programs and collaborate with leading global researchers on questions of critical importance to science and humanity.
Scholars will become integral members of a CIFAR research program for two years, taking part in international meetings, sharing work-in-progress, and building collaborations that inspire innovative ideas and transform research directions. They will also gain access to a supportive community of peers and senior researchers, expanding their professional networks while engaging with leaders in government, industry, business, and civil society.
The program is designed to strengthen essential leadership skills for early-career researchers who often begin independent roles without formal training in areas such as team leadership, trainee mentorship, science communication, and science advocacy. Scholars will have opportunities to put these skills into practice by organizing academic events, co-planning symposia, delivering public talks, and publishing thought pieces.
Successful applicants will receive $100,000 CAD in unrestricted research support, with flexibility to use the funds for research, teaching release, trainee support, travel, and other professional needs. They will also have the chance to apply for additional CIFAR seed funding to pursue high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary collaborations.
During the two-year term, Global Scholars are expected to attend program meetings twice a year, participate in the CIFAR Global Scholars Annual Meeting scheduled for June 9–11, 2026, join virtual leadership workshops, and engage with stakeholders to share the impact of their work.
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Eligibility requires applicants to hold a PhD or equivalent, a full-time faculty or research position with principal investigator responsibilities, and to have started their first such position after July 1, 2021 but no later than December 31, 2025. The position must be secure through the full program term, April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2028. Applicants must also engage in research aligned with the themes of the recruiting CIFAR programs, be available for a virtual interview between March 24–26, 2026, and be able to attend international meetings.
The selection process involves eligibility screening, program-level review based on inclusive research excellence, contribution to the program, and leadership potential, followed by virtual interviews with an independent selection committee. Applications for the 2026–2028 cohort of CIFAR Global Scholars are now open until November 5, 2025.
ResilMesh Project
Deadline: 5th of November
Budget: €360,000
The ResilMesh project has opened its second open call, inviting innovators, researchers, and technology developers to collaborate in strengthening cybersecurity and resilience across Europe’s critical infrastructures.
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This opportunity is designed for organizations aiming to contribute innovative solutions, tools, or methodologies that enhance the ResilMesh Security Orchestration and Analytics Platform Architecture (SOAPA). The initiative focuses on developing and validating technologies that improve the detection, analysis, and response to cyber threats in complex digital ecosystems, such as energy networks, industrial systems, transportation, and manufacturing environments.
The programme will select five applications—two focusing on extensions to new domains and systems, and three centred on the development of new analytic algorithms and architectures. Each selected proposal will receive funding of up to €72,000, distributed in lump sums of 25%, 45%, and 30% at the completion of each stage. This milestone-based funding structure ensures that participants are supported throughout the project lifecycle, from concept to implementation and validation.
Participants will benefit not only from financial support but also from technical mentorship, collaboration opportunities with the ResilMesh consortium, and real-world validation of their innovations within critical infrastructure contexts. The selected projects will directly contribute to improving situational awareness, predictive analytics, AI-driven security orchestration, and proactive defense mechanisms—core goals of the ResilMesh platform.
By engaging in this initiative, participants will become part of a forward-thinking European collaboration aimed at redefining cybersecurity practices through innovation, awareness, and cross-sectoral partnerships. The open call offers a valuable opportunity for organizations to contribute meaningfully to Europe’s digital resilience strategy while advancing their own technologies and expanding their networks within the cybersecurity and research ecosystem.
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Eligibility for this open call is extended to legal entities or consortia of legal entities, including mid-cap companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and research organizations such as RTOs and academic institutions. In consortium applications, the lead partner must be responsible for the technical development, while the other member will serve as an end user responsible for validating the developed technologies. All applicants must be established and based in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe Associated Country. However, as ResilMesh was funded before 1 January 2024, entities based in the United Kingdom are not eligible for funding under this call.
ENDANGERED ARCHIVES PROGRAMME
Deadline: 7th of November
Budget: €500,000
The British Library is requesting applications for its Endangered Archives Programme to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible.
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Before applying, applicants must ensure that all stakeholders, including Archival Partners, archive owners or custodians, and other institutions, are aware of the application. A senior representative from the Host Institution must be familiar with the Grant Agreement and authorised to sign it without alteration. Applicants are encouraged to discuss their applications with the EAP team or attend a webinar.
Applications are evaluated against three broad criteria: the Content of the archive, the Project team, and the Project plan. Under Content of archive, applicants must demonstrate endangerment, research value, appropriate location and age of material, and adherence to legal and ethical rights.
Under Project team, applicants must show relevant experience, skills, and knowledge within the team. Under Project plan, they must present a feasible and well-structured proposal addressing logistics, local capacity building, and budget justification. The plan should also outline post-project activities, including equipment usage and training application for future initiatives.
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Before applying, applicants must ensure that all stakeholders, including Archival Partners, archive owners or custodians, and other institutions, are aware of the application. A senior representative from the Host Institution must be familiar with the Grant Agreement and authorised to sign it without alteration. Applicants are encouraged to discuss their applications with the EAP team or attend a webinar.
Applications are evaluated against three broad criteria: the Content of the archive, the Project team, and the Project plan. Under Content of archive, applicants must demonstrate endangerment, research value, appropriate location and age of material, and adherence to legal and ethical rights.
Under Project team, applicants must show relevant experience, skills, and knowledge within the team. Under Project plan, they must present a feasible and well-structured proposal addressing logistics, local capacity building, and budget justification. The plan should also outline post-project activities, including equipment usage and training application for future initiatives.
BLOCK71 AND MICROSOFT LAUNCHES AI ACCELERATE PROGRAMME WINTER 2026 COHORT
Deadline: 7th of November
Budget: €1,200,000
The AI Accelerate programme by BLOCK71 Singapore and Microsoft, supported by Digital Industry Singapore (DISG), is a 10-week initiative designed to help AI-driven startups refine products, scale globally, and unlock funding opportunities.
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The focus areas of the programme include tailored support to work on product–market fit, localising for Asia, or speeding up go-to-market; expert mentorship with Microsoft specialists and BLOCK71 mentors who have scaled products and raised capital across the world; access to a global network of founders, corporates, and investors across the BLOCK71 and Microsoft ecosystems; and access to funding through up to S$1.2 million Proof of Concept (PoC) and Proof of Value (PoV) grants under Startup SG, enabling pilot projects with enterprise clients.
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Startups eligible for this programme must be post-MVP with traction, oriented towards B2B or scalable B2C models, have Artificial Intelligence at the core of their product, and be rooted in Asia with a global ambition. They must also be privately held, with the exclusion of entities such as educational institutions, government organisations, personal blogs, and crypto mining operations.
MOBILITY GRANTS: MEDIA 4
Deadline: 7th of November
Budget: €100,000
House of Europe is a programme funded by the European Union and implemented by Goethe-Institut Ukraine fostering professional and creative exchange between Ukrainians and their colleagues in EU countries and the UK. The programme focuses on different professional fields: culture and creative industries, education and youth work, social entrepreneurship, and media. An additional priority is put on supporting the national minorities of Ukraine.
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The International Mobility Grant is your ticket to a professional event you desire to attend in the EU or the UK. They will support any idea fostering your professional development. You can go to festivals and traineeships, meet leading experts and fellow colleagues, do research and present ideas, and even work on individual and cooperative projects. You do not have to worry about money as they will take care of the costs.
Actions must take place in Ukraine and EU.
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They invite managers, curators, experts, researchers, cultural entrepreneurs, artists, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and representatives of creative disciplines. If you work in the fields of music, literature, theatre, dance, cinema, design, fashion, museum, art market, cultural heritage, archives, restoration and conservation, visual arts and photography, audiovisual arts, crafts, sculpture, media arts, and conceptual art, feel free to apply.
MOBILITY GRANTS: CULTURE AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES 4
Deadline: 7th of November
Budget: €100,000
Goethe-Institut Ukraine fostering professional and creative exchange between Ukrainians and their colleagues in EU countries and the UK. The programme focuses on different professional fields: culture and creative industries, education and youth work, social entrepreneurship, and media. An additional priority is put on supporting the national minorities of Ukraine.
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The International Mobility Grant is your ticket to a professional event you desire to attend in the EU or the UK. They will support any idea fostering your professional development. You can go to festivals and traineeships, meet leading experts and fellow colleagues, do research and present ideas, and even work on individual and cooperative projects. You do not have to worry about money as they will take care of the costs.
Actions must take place in Ukraine and EU.
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They invite managers, curators, experts, researchers, cultural entrepreneurs, artists, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and representatives of creative disciplines. If you work in the fields of music, literature, theatre, dance, cinema, design, fashion, museum, art market, cultural heritage, archives, restoration and conservation, visual arts and photography, audiovisual arts, crafts, sculpture, media arts, and conceptual art, feel free to apply.
MOBILITY GRANTS: EDUCATION AND YOUTH WORK 4
Deadline: 7th of November
Budget: €100,000
House of Europe is a programme funded by the European Union and implemented by Goethe-Institut Ukraine fostering professional and creative exchange between Ukrainians and their colleagues in EU countries and the UK. The programme focuses on different professional fields: culture and creative industries, education and youth work, social entrepreneurship, and media. An additional priority is put on supporting the national minorities of Ukraine.
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The International Mobility Grant is your ticket to a professional event you desire to attend in the EU or the UK. They will support any idea fostering your professional development. You can go to festivals and traineeships, meet leading experts and fellow colleagues, do research and present ideas, and even work on individual and cooperative projects. You do not have to worry about money as they will take care of the costs.
Actions must take place in Ukraine and EU.
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They invite managers, curators, experts, researchers, cultural entrepreneurs, artists, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and representatives of creative disciplines. If you work in the fields of music, literature, theatre, dance, cinema, design, fashion, museum, art market, cultural heritage, archives, restoration and conservation, visual arts and photography, audiovisual arts, crafts, sculpture, media arts, and conceptual art, feel free to apply.
WYDE| WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
Deadline: 10th of November
Budget: €900,000
UN Women plans to provide funding to civil society and women’s rights organizations working towards achieving the goals of the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Feminist Movements and Leadership as defined in accordance with these documents. UN Women now invites proposals from qualified proponents to provide the requirements for the submission as defined in the UN Women Terms of Reference.
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This funding will enable UN Women to directly support civil society and women’s rights organizations, including young women’s organizations, in the context of increasingly shrinking spaces for women’s rights and civil society organizations. Civil society organizations and women’s rights organizations are on the forefront of shifting and redefining social norms to promote gender equality. Specifically, organizations funded through WYDE | Women’s Leadership focus on creating space and consultations to empower feminist networks, build capacity, provide networking spaces towards creating lasting and transformative social norms change over the next two years. Further, implementation of funded projects will directly work to strengthen the leadership of women in public life through dialogue mechanisms at global, regional and local levels.
Actions can take place worldwide.
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The lead organization must by a legally registered non-governmental organization with a proven track record in promoting women’s political participation, transforming social norms and leadership, enhancing in advocacy and movement building, or similar criteria.
APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR 100X IMPACT ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME 2026/27
Deadline: 10th of November
Budget: €500,000
The 100x Impact Accelerator is inviting applications for its 2026/27 cohort, seeking visionary ventures committed to creating transformative social and environmental change on a global scale.
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The focus areas for this programme are Climate and Environment, Democracy, Happiness and Wellbeing, Education, Equitable Economies, Health and Social Care, New Frontiers, and Refugees and Cohesion.
100x aims to identify and support the next generation of social unicorns—impact-first ventures with the ambition to reach hundreds of millions of lives. Eligible ventures can be structured as either non-profit or for-profit organisations, provided they are driven primarily by social or environmental outcomes.
While the accelerator values early achievements, it also prioritises ventures with significant traction. Preference will be given to organisations that have already reached at least 50,000 direct users or indirectly impacted 500,000 individuals, raised a minimum of USD 250,000 in capital, built teams of four or more full-time employees, and established partnerships with governments, NGOs, or private sector actors.
Selected participants will receive £150,000 in catalytic funding, personalised mentorship from global experts, access to data-driven insights through LSE, and connections with international philanthropists, business leaders, and policymakers. The accelerator also emphasises diversity by targeting 70% of its portfolio from emerging markets and prioritising female-led ventures, as well as those embedded in the regions they serve.
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Applicants must demonstrate a clear vision for scaling their model, with strong potential for systems-level transformation through approaches such as government integration, partnerships, market transformation, open infrastructure, or digitisation.
RFPS: NEW ADVANCED TOOLS AND PROCESSES FOR OPERATIONAL CYBERSECURITY
Deadline: 12th of November 2025
Budget: €23,550,000
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GENERATIVE AI FOR CYBERSECURITY APPLICATIONS
Deadline: 12th of November 2025
Budget: €40,000,000
The European Commission is inviting applications for the New Advanced Tools and Processes for Operational Cybersecurity topic.
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The use of and dependence on information and communication technologies have become fundamental aspects in all sectors of the economy. Public administrations, companies and citizens are more interconnected and interdependent across sectors and borders than ever before. This higher uptake of digital technologies increases exposure to cyber security incidents, vulnerabilities and their potential impacts. At the same time, Member States are facing growing cybersecurity risks and an overall complex threat landscape, with a clear risk of rapid spill-over of cyber incidents from one Member State to others.
Moreover, cyber operations are increasingly integrated in hybrid and warfare strategies, with significant effects on the target. In particular, the current geopolitical context is being accompanied by a strategy of hostile cyber operations, which is a game changer for the perception and assessment of the EU’s collective cybersecurity crisis management preparedness and a call for urgent action. The threat of a possible large-scale incident causing significant disruption and damage to critical infrastructure and data spaces demands heightened preparedness at all levels of the EU’s cybersecurity ecosystem. In recent years, the number of cyberattacks has increased dramatically, including supply chain attacks aiming at cyberespionage, ransomware, or disruption. The vulnerability landscape is also threatening. The ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2024 counts a total of 19,754 vulnerabilities. This amount of vulnerabilities can’t be manually managed by humans. There is a need for automated management of vulnerabilities based on established standards like the Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF).
As regards detection of cyber threats and incidents, there is an urgent need to increase the exchange of information and improve their collective capabilities in order to reduce drastically the time needed to detect cyber threats and mitigate, before they can cause large-scale damage and costs. While many cybersecurity threats and incidents have a potential cross-border dimension, due to the interconnection of digital infrastructures, the sharing of relevant information among Member States remains limited. Proposals are expected to address this emerging threat landscape with the development of advanced frameworks, services tools, and processes, in line with relevant EU legislation (NIS2, Cyber Resilience Act, Cyber Solidarity Act).
Lastly, focus should be given to developing innovative frameworks, technologies, tools, processes, and services that reinforce cybersecurity capabilities for operational and technical cybersecurity cooperation, in line with relevant EU policy, with particular focus on NIS2, Cyber Solidarity Act and the EU Cybersecurity Strategy, as well as legal and ethical requirements.
Proposals should address at least two of the following expected outcomes:
Enhanced Situational Awareness through advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence frameworks, tools, and services as well as cybersecurity risk assessments of critical supply chains made in the EU,
Frameworks, tools, and services for preparedness against Cyber and Hybrid Threats in information and communication technology (ICT) and operational technology (OT), including cybersecurity exercises,
Expanded Security Operations Centre/Computer Security Incident Response Teams (SOC/CSIRT) functionality through advanced tools and services for detection, analysis, incident handling including response and reporting as well as remediation,
Development of testing and experimentation facilities for advanced tools and processes for operational cybersecurity, including the creation of digital twins for critical infrastructures and essential and important entities as defined in NIS2,
Development and pilot implementation of cross-sector and/or cross-border cyber crisis management frameworks, services, and tools,
Frameworks, services, and tools aimed at mechanisms and processes for enhanced operational cooperation between public sector entities (CSIRT network, EU-CyCLONe). Extension of the above to essential and important entities as defined in NIS2, would be an advantage.
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Entities eligible to participate:
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from nonassociated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
The European Commission is seeking proposals for the Generative AI for Cybersecurity Applications topic.
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Support the EU’s technological capabilities by investing in cybersecurity research and innovation to further strengthen its leadership, strategic autonomy, digital sovereignty and resilience;
Help protect its infrastructures and improve its ability to prevent, protect against, respond to, resist, mitigate, absorb, accommodate and recover from cyber and hybrid incidents, especially given the current context of geopolitical change;
Support European competitiveness in cybersecurity and European strategic autonomy, by protecting EU products and digital supply chains, as well as critical EU services and infrastructures (both physical and digital) to ensure their robustness and continuity in the face of severe disruptions;
Encourage the development of the European Cybersecurity Competence Community;
Particular attention will be given to SMEs, who play a crucial role in the cybersecurity ecosystem and in overall EU digital single market competitiveness, by promoting security and privacy ‘by design’ in existing and emerging technologies.
Expected Outcomes
Projects will develop technologies, tools, processes that reinforce cybersecurity using AI technological components, in particular Generative AI, in line with relevant EU policy, legal and ethical requirements.
Proposals should address at least one of the following expected outcomes:
Developing, training and testing of Generative AI models for monitoring, detection, response and self-healing capabilities in digital processes, and systems against cyberattacks, including adversarial AI attacks.
Development of Generative AI tools and technologies for continuous monitoring, compliance and automated remediation. These should consider legal aspects of EU and national regulation as well as ethical and privacy aspects.
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Entities eligible to participate:
Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from nonassociated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe;
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
CLIMATE SKILLS GLOBAL COLLABORATION GRANTS 2025
Deadline: 14th of November
Budget: €100,000
In October, the British Council will be launching the Climate Skills Global Collaboration Grants 2025. Part of the Climate Skills programme, the call will offer grants up to £85,000 for partnerships between the UK and Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Viet Nam. The grants will support the delivery of youth green entrepreneurship training and capacity strengthening activities developing international connections between the UK and Brazil, Mexico, India, Indonesia and Viet Nam.
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Funding can be used to establish new collaborations, or develop existing links, between higher education institutions, TVET institutions, training providers and non-governmental organisations, with the potential for longer-term sustainability. The grants should enable young people both in the UK and the partner country to undertake green entrepreneurship and green work training. Organisations from the UK and one other Climate Skills delivery country will be required to submit a joint application. Each collaboration should support capacity strengthening of each partner organisation, while stimulating longer-term interactions between the two countries.
Actions must take place in UK and Brazil, Mexico, India, Indonesia and Viet Nam.
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The call will accept joint proposals from one lead UK institution and one lead partner country institution.
ICREATE DRONE CHALLENGE 2025 (INDIA)
Deadline: 15th of November
Budget: €500,000
The iCreate Drone Challenge 2025 is a national initiative designed to unleash the innovative potential of India’s brightest minds in drone technology, aiming to identify, nurture, and accelerate groundbreaking drone innovations that push the boundaries of performance, efficiency, and affordability while also fostering component indigenisation.
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Drone type: Micro/Small/Medium/Large. Fuel type: Electric/Non-electric.
Track 1: Aerial Excellence. Theme 1: Speed Challenge – The Velocity Sprint. Objective: To design, build, and demonstrate the fastest drone possible. Focus areas: Aerodynamics, propulsion efficiency, material science, and controller stability at high velocity. Theme 2: Payload Challenge – The Power Lift. Objective: To create a drone capable of achieving the highest possible payload-to-weight ratio. Focus areas: Powertrain efficiency, structural strength, load distribution, lightweight composites. Theme 3: Endurance Challenge – The Aether Marathon. Objective: To create a drone capable of achieving the longest possible flight time on a single charge or refuel. Focus areas: Energy density (batteries/fuel cells), powertrain efficiency, lightweight structures, energy management systems.
Track 2: Component Indigenisation. Theme 1: Propulsion & Power Systems. Problem: Limited availability of efficient, lightweight, high-torque motors, ESCs, and propellers. Focus Areas: Indigenous motors, ESCs, propeller systems. Example: High-performance motor with optimised torque-to-weight ratio and custom ESC firmware. Theme 2: Energy Systems. Problem: Short flight endurance and safety risks in conventional battery packs. Focus Areas: Next-gen batteries (solid-state, LTO), hydrogen fuel cells, smart BMS. Example: Solid-state battery, Smart Battery Management System; hydrogen fuel cell with lightweight storage and efficient power management. Theme 3: Avionics & Autonomy. Problem: Dependence on non-customisable controllers and lack of secure, AI-driven autonomy. Focus Areas: Indigenous flight controllers, communication systems, navigation, AI/ML autonomy. Example: Flight controller with AI-based obstacle avoidance and secure navigation module. Theme 4: Sensors & Payloads. Problem: High cost and limited access to modular, mission-specific sensors. Focus Areas: Affordable, modular payloads – imaging, LIDAR, thermal, multispectral. Example: Affordable multispectral sensor with plug-and-play payload interface. Theme 5: Materials & Structures. Problem: Heavy, costly, non-modular airframes limit scalability and resilience. Focus Areas: Crash-resistant, lightweight composites, modular frames. Example: Modular composite frame with high strength-to-weight ratio. Theme 6: Agility Challenge (Thrust Vectoring). Problem: Limited agility and stability in extreme conditions due to reliance on propeller speed alone. Focus Areas: Thrust-vectoring systems for advanced manoeuvrability and stability. Example: Tilt-rotor multirotor enabling inverted flight, wall-contact manoeuvres, and precise orientation control.
This challenge goes beyond competition, serving as a launchpad for innovators, engineering students, startups, and R&D teams across India who want to redefine drone possibilities. By focusing on speed, payload capacity, and endurance, it accelerates India’s vision of becoming a global drone hub by 2030.
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Participants will gain extensive benefits including the opportunity to pitch for a funding pool of Rs 2 crore from iCreate, free access to a fully residential prototype acceleration programme, state-of-the-art lab facilities, rapid prototyping resources, software credits for design and simulation, and expert guidance in business modelling and IP strategy. Additional support includes mentorship, industry connections, sourcing assistance, paid pilots with industry and government, incubation opportunities, and exposure to investors and corporate partners.
Applications require a team profile, technical details, and a pitch deck, with a preliminary prototype or concept video strongly recommended. Eligibility is open to startups, innovators, student teams, and R&D groups registered in India who can demonstrate their prototypes at zonal qualifier rounds.
NEXUS BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
Deadline: 15th of November
Budget: €Not mentioned
The Climate Change And Health Innovation Hub For West And Central Africa (CHINNOVA) is led by the Association of African Universities (AAU) in Partnership with the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), Institut Pasteur de la Cote d’Ivoire (IPCI) and the Omar Bongo University (UOB). CHINNOVA seeks to establish, manage and support a cohort of networked researchers in West and Central Africa.
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unded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) of the United Kingdom, CHINNOVA aims to foster collaboration among African researchers, policymakers, and communities to co-develop solutions that advance climate-resilient health systems.
Responses are invited from: Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Applicants are encouraged to work across borders and incorporate comparative, multi-country components wherever feasible.
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The CHINNOVA project invites applications from eligible research teams and institutions to undertake innovative, interdisciplinary research on the nexus between climate change and health. The call seeks to generate robust evidence and strengthen research capacity to inform policies and interventions addressing the health impacts of climate change in Africa.
CYBER RESILIENCE BOOST: SUPPORTING CAPACITY BUILDING FOR CYBER RESILIENCE OF PRODUCTS TEST-CERT-CZ
Deadline: 18th of November
Budget: €320,000
The European Commission invites proposals to support capacity building in cybersecurity in line with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The focus areas of this call include supporting the establishment and development of conformity assessment bodies (CABs); developing support tools and documentation for CRA self-assessment; increasing preparedness and awareness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and promoting cooperation, standardization, and sharing of best practices in the cybersecurity field. This call aims to enhance cyber resilience of ICT products and services in the Czech Republic and across the EU by providing practical tools, educational activities, and fostering collaboration.
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This funding opportunity is part of the Digital Europe Framework Programme project “Building Testing and Certification Capabilities in the Czech Republic” (TEST-CERT-CZ). It emphasizes strengthening professional infrastructure, tools, and knowledge capacities so organizations can comply with CRA requirements as manufacturers, importers, certification, and assessment bodies. Projects should focus on developing laboratories and certification bodies ready for accreditation, creating practical self-assessment documentation and tools, providing CRA-focused training for SMEs, and facilitating knowledge-sharing initiatives. The call supports measurable activities including training personnel, developing templates, pilot self-assessments for SMEs, and establishing community platforms.
Eligible applicants include SMEs engaged or interested in cybersecurity services, entities developing conformity assessment bodies, training providers for certification processes, and consortia combining these actors. Projects must align with EU and national priorities, demonstrate feasibility, have clear implementation plans, and show potential for practical application and scalability. Funding is allocated up to approximately 2.5 million CZK per project, covering up to 50% of eligible costs, with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and transparency.
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Eligible applicants include:
SMEs
Small and Medium‑sized Enterprises, especially those engaged (or interested) in cybersecurity services, or developing products with digital elements that will need to comply with CRA.
Also SMEs who may be doing self‑assessments or needing training/tools/documentation to comply.
Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) or entities developing such bodies
Bodies or organisations that perform or intend to perform conformity assessment (either in hardware/software) under CRA.
Training Providers
Organisations that provide or will provide training for certification, conformity assessment, self‑assessment under the CRA, or for SMEs or other stakeholders.
Research/Academic / Public interest organisations?
Where / Geographical and Legal eligibility
Must be established in or legally based in eligible countries. Since this is under the Czech “national cascade node” (TEST‑CERT‑CZ), there is likely a requirement that the lead or at least the implementing entity is based in the Czech Republic or is recognised by national authorities.
Legal entity status is required. Individuals (unless self‑employed in certain cases) usually not eligible.
CALL FROM UN TRUST FUND TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Deadline: 19th of November
Budget: €800,000
The UN Trust Fund is inviting civil society organizations with proven expertise in ending violence against women and girls to submit project concepts to end violence against marginalized women and girls. Applications from women’s rights, women-led, constituent-led and small organizations are strongly encouraged and will be prioritized. Partnerships with smaller, local and grassroot women’s and girls’ rights organizations are also encouraged, with up to 4 implementing partners.
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This Call aims to support Civil society organizations on the frontlines of ending violence against women and girls who are facing intensive pressure: shrinking civil space, rising resistance and widening funding gaps. The Call responds to the urgent need for long-term, flexible funding and wraparound support that enables those organizations to remain resilient and lead change.
Actions can take place worldwide.
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In this call for Proposals, the UN Trust Fund will prioritize applications from women’s rights, women-led, and small women’s organizations, in recognition of them being the driving force of the ending violence against women and girls agenda, as well as being at the forefront of reaching at-risk women and girls and survivors at the grassroots level.
ENTRIES OPEN FOR WELLCOME CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
Deadline: 20th of November 2025
Budget: €500,000
Applications are now open for the Wellcome Career Development Awards to provide funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders.
They will develop their research capabilities, drive innovative programmes of work and deliver significant shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing.
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Funding Information
The annual expenditure for a Career Development Award is usually below £250,000 excluding the applicant’s salary.
Usually 8 years, but may be less for some disciplines and may only be longer if held on a part-time basis.
Eligible Costs
A basic salary (determined by your administering organisation)
Staff
Continuing professional development and training
Materials and consumables
Animals
Equipment
Access charges
Overheads
Travel and subsistence
Overseas allowances
Fieldwork expenses
Inflation allowance
Open access charges
Clinical research costs
Public engagement and patient involvement costs
Contract research organisations
Other costs
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Eligibility Criteria
You can apply for a Wellcome Career Development Award if you are a mid-career researcher and you are ready to lead a substantial and innovative research programme. You must aim to make a key contribution to your field by:
Generating significant shifts in understanding
Developing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques that could benefit health-related research
During the award, they expect you to:
Develop your research capabilities and leadership skills
Support others to undertake research responsibly and promote a positive and inclusive culture
Start training the next generation of researchers and develop their research skills and careers
By the end of the award, you should have achieved international standing in your area of research
You should also have the skills and experience to apply for permanent positions at research organisations
Lead applicant career stage and experience:
To be eligible, you will already be driving your own research.
You must have:
Completed one or two substantial periods of research after your initial research training
Made important contributions to your area of research.
You will probably have experience of working collaboratively. You may have directed, or closely guided, the work of others.
At the point of application, you may also have been appointed to:
Your first permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract, or to a tenure track contract. If this applies to you, you cannot ask for your own salary with this award unless you are based in a low- or middle-income country and have to get your salary from external grant funding.
A fixed term position with four years or less remaining on your contract at the point of application. If this applies to you, you can ask for your own salary with this award.
A fixed term position with more than four years left on your contract at the point of application. If this applies to you, you cannot ask for your salary with this award and your host organisation must underwrite your salary costs for the duration of the award.
For permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contracts, you must have been appointed within the last three years unless, during this time, you:
Spent time away from research due to personal circumstances (for example, for a career break, parental leave, long-term sick leave or a chronic illness)
Worked part-time and research was not part of the role, for example, if you have been employed as a healthcare professional
Have worked part-time and your cumulative research time is less than three years
Changed research discipline, for example, moving from astrophysics to computational neuroscience, or environmental chemistry to social anthropology. There may be some crossover, such as in research sites or techniques, but the shift should still be a significant change.
Were based in a low- or middle-income country where it is normal to be appointed to a permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract early in your research career
Ineligibility Criteria
You are not eligible to apply if:
You hold, have held, or have accepted an offer for an equivalent award at this career stage (an exception to this is that their current Wellcome grantholders at an equivalent stage can apply to this scheme)
You have made an application to this scheme and you are waiting for a decision
You cannot apply to carry out activities that involve the transfer of grant funds into mainland China
Assessment Criteria
To be competitive, your research proposal will be:
Bold: It aims to deliver a significant shift in understanding and/or it provides a significant advance over existing methodologies, conceptual frameworks, tools or techniques. It has the potential to stimulate new and innovative research.
Creative: Your proposed approach is novel – it develops and tests new concepts, methods or technologies, or combines existing ideas and approaches in a new way.
High quality: It is well-designed, clear, supported by evidence and the proposed outcomes/outputs are feasible
DIGITAL-JU-CHIPS-2025-SG-SSOI
Deadline: 20th of November
Budget: €30,000,000
Create a sustainable accelerator open to all European stakeholders, providing access to state-of-the-art sSOI technology and manufacturing capabilities.
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Scope:
The proposed accelerator should address all levels of the key technological steps required to bring sSOI substrates to industrial scale:
• Development of industrial-grade sSOI substrates will focus on achieving low defect density, crucial for enhancing electron mobility and ensuring high-performance FD-SOI devices at the 7 nm node. This will involve refining strain engineering techniques, particularly to introduce a uniform global strain that can balance the performance for strained NMOS and relaxed PMOS transistors.
• Ensure compatibility with existing semiconductor manufacturing, the accelerator will refine process integration and optimisation. This includes improving epitaxial growth, wafer bonding, and defect reduction techniques to meet the requirements of advanced FD-SOI production processes.
Finally, the accelerator will promote collaboration across the semiconductor ecosystem, working with other pilot lines, as well as connecting to the design platform and competence centres, among others.
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What Entities are Eligible
From various country‐level summaries and the call documentation:
Types of entities:
Businesses / companies (including large enterprises)
SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises)
Research centres / Research institutions / Universities
NGOs, non‑profit organisations
Semi‑governmental organisations, state‑owned enterprises in some Member States context
Legal status: Must be a legal entity; public or private. Entities must have the capacity (financial, operational) to perform the proposed tasks.
Geographic / National / Country Eligibility
Entities must be established in eligible countries under the Chips JU Work Programme. Typically this includes the EU Member States, associated countries,
Specific “national funding” or co‑funding rules may apply depending on the participating State. For example, in Denmark, there are rules for national co‑funding, and for Denmark, the funding to Danish partners has upper limits.
NEXUS FUNDING FACILITY
Deadline: 23rd of November
Budget: €5,800,000
The Nexus Funding Facility (NFF) is a regional, multi-donor mechanism administered by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to operationalize the Humanitarian–Development–Peace (HDP) Nexus in the Lake Chad Basin. It provides catalytic financing for area-based and cross-border initiatives that both address urgent humanitarian needs and tackle the underlying drivers of vulnerability, conflict, and underdevelopment.
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The NFF provides catalytic, flexible, and multi-year financing to initiatives that:
• Address urgent humanitarian needs while tackling the root causes of vulnerability and conflict;
• Strengthen community resilience, peace, and inclusive governance;
• Foster collaboration among humanitarian, development, and peace actors under nationally validated priorities.
Actions must take place in Chad and Cameroon.
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In line with UNSDG guidance applications are open to organizations across the Humanitarian–Development–Peace (HDP) spectrum, including UN agencies, international NGOs, and National NGOs/ Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).
MSCA DOCTORAL NETWORKS PROGRAM 2025
Deadline: 25th of November 2025
Budget: €597803810
MSCA Doctoral Networks will implement doctoral programmes, by partnerships of universities, research institutions and research infrastructures, businesses including SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from different countries across Europe and beyond. MSCA Doctoral Networks are indeed open to the participation of organisations from third countries, in view of fostering strategic international partnerships for the training and exchange of researchers.
These doctoral programmes will respond to well-identified needs in various R&I areas, expose the researchers to the academic and non-academic sectors, and offer training in research-related, as well as transferable skills and competences relevant for innovation and long-term employability (e.g. entrepreneurship, commercialisation of results, Intellectual Property Rights, communication). Proposals for doctoral networks can reflect existing or planned research partnerships among the participating organisations.
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The following activities are generally eligible for grants under Horizon Europe:
Research and innovation actions (RIA): Activities that aim primarily to establish new knowledge or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. This may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing, demonstration and validation of a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.
Innovation actions (IA): Activities that aim directly to produce plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services. These activities may include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication.
Coordination and support actions (CSA): Activities that contribute to the objectives of Horizon Europe. This excludes research and innovation (R&I) activities, except those carried out under the ‘Widening participation and spreading excellence’ component of the programme (part of ‘Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area’).
Programme co-fund actions (CoFund): A programme of activities established or implemented by legal entities managing or funding R&I programmes, other than EU funding bodies.
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:
For supported doctoral candidates
New research and transferable skills and competences, leading to improved employability and career prospects within and outside academia;
New knowledge allowing the conversion of ideas into products and services, where relevant;
Enhanced networking and communication capacities with scientific peers, as well as with the general public that will increase and broaden the research and innovation impact.
For participating organisations
Improved quality, relevance and sustainability of doctoral training programmes and supervision arrangements;
Enhanced cooperation and transfer of knowledge between sectors and disciplines;
Increased integration of training and research activities between participating organisations;
Boosted R&I capacity;
Increased internationalisation and attractiveness;
Regular feedback of research results into teaching and education at participating organisations.
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Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
Specific cases:
Affiliated entities: Affiliated entities (i.e. entities with a legal or capital link to a beneficiary which participate in the action with similar rights and obligations to the beneficiaries, but which do not sign the grant agreement and therefore do not become beneficiaries themselves) are allowed, if they are eligible for participation and funding.
Associated partners: Associated partners (i.e. entities which participate in the action without signing the grant agreement, and without the right to charge costs or claim contributions) are allowed, subject to any specific call/topic conditions. Entities without legal personality
Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees to protect the EU’s financial interests equivalent to those offered by legal persons.
EU bodies: Legal entities created under EU law including decentralised agencies may be part of the consortium, unless provided for otherwise in their basic act.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe:
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN TECH SMES AND STARTUPS
Deadline: 26th of November 2025
Budget: €20,000,000
The program focuses on deep-tech innovative solutions, services, and products, especially in prominent priority areas for Ukraine such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, robotics and autonomous systems, satellite, space and maritime technologies, advanced materials, biotechnology, semiconductors, as well as deep-tech solutions for rebuilding and recovery efforts in Ukraine.
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This initiative is part of Horizon Europe’s continued commitment to Ukraine’s research and innovation ecosystem following Russia’s invasion in 2022. It builds on previous measures such as the Seeds of Bravery project, designed to integrate Ukrainian tech SMEs and startups into European ecosystems while strengthening operations in Ukraine. Recognising the significant potential of Ukrainian companies to deliver scalable, global breakthroughs, the program offers targeted support to help these businesses attract investment, deploy innovations, and achieve market readiness.
Grants will range from EUR 300,000 to EUR 500,000 per project, with up to 100% funding of eligible costs. Funded activities may include market research, investor engagement, technology validation, regulatory and certification work, and development of demonstrators. Beneficiaries will gain free access to EIC Business Acceleration Services and be eligible for the Fast Track to the EIC Accelerator for further funding opportunities.
The program will fund around 40 projects, with an indicative budget of EUR 20 million and a project duration of up to 24 months. The application deadline is 26 November 2025.
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Eligible participants include single SMEs or startups established in Ukraine, as well as those previously based in Ukraine but relocated to an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country after 24 February 2022, provided they have Ukrainian leadership. Women-led companies are encouraged to apply. Applicants must demonstrate that their technology is validated to at least TRL 4, can reach the market within two to three years, has secured intellectual property protection, and follows a clear market entry plan with measurable milestones and KPIs
GRANTS FROM MINOR FOUNDATION FOR MAJOR CHALLENGES
Deadline: 27th of November 2025
Budget: €220,000
The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges is a Norwegian trust that funds communication projects which mitigate anthropogenic climate change. The board grants support to the projects they believe have the greatest impact on influencing public opinion and increasing political support for cutting green house gas emissions. The Foundation’s work focuses on providing inspiration, changing attitudes, spreading information, etc., all meant to have an impact on decision-makers in society.
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Their ultimate goal is to reach as many people as possible in the hope of limiting and helping to prevent global climate changes. Most of their funding goes to Europe. So far they have supported around 30 projects. Innovative and experimental projects with high impact are particularly encouraged. The thematic areas of eligible for funding are (1) climate change and (2) environment and natural resources. The foundation’s priorities are to:
– encourage and support innovation in climate communication
– increase the number of voices and narratives in climate advocacy
– help strengthen social and political movements that open up for radical change
– concentrate on supporting European proposals
They have funded projects in Asia (China) and Europe but welcome applications from all over the world.
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Eligible for funding are non-profit organisations with a mission to combat climate change and environmental concerns.
OPEN CALL FOR CLIMATE DEMOCRACY ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
Deadline: 30th of November
Budget: €100,000
The Climate Democracy Accelerator (CDA) by People Powered offers a unique opportunity for governments and civil society organizations to design inclusive and participatory climate action programs.
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The effort centres on regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and just transition policies that engage affected communities in shaping sustainable climate decisions.
Over six months, program participants will receive hands-on training, mentorship, and resources including the innovative Participation Playbook, which helps guide the design of participatory processes. They will also join peer groups, access country-level support, and engage in live sessions and workshops aligned to their local contexts.
In addition to capacity building, each participant is eligible for a USD 10,000 implementation grant, providing seed funding to launch their climate democracy project. Among these, the top five action plans in each cohort may receive an extra award of USD 15,000 to further amplify their work.
Selected teams will dedicate roughly two to three hours per week from March to August 2026 to work through program modules and collaborative development. After completing the training phase, they will have 12 months to implement their action plan using the grant funding.
This initiative is a chance for changemakers to pilot participatory models that elevate marginalized voices in climate policy, build legitimacy around climate decisions, and strengthen the accountability and responsiveness of climate action in their communities.
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The CDA particularly prioritizes applicants from Brazil, Indonesia, India, Mexico, and South Africa, though organizations from other countries may also apply. Eligible applicants include government institutions (in partnership with civil society) and NGOs focused on climate policy, participatory governance, and community-led solutions.
GRANTS FROM HOROWITZ FOUNDATION
Deadline: 1st of December
Budget: €100,000
The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy was established in 1997 by Irving Louis Horowitz and Mary E. Curtis as a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Its general purpose is to support the advancement of research and understanding in the major fields of the social sciences. Its specific purpose is to provide small grants to aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project.
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Their aim is to:
To support emerging scholars through small grants;
To promote scholarship with a social policy application; and
To encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences.
Actions must take place in the US or worldwide.
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Applicants must be current PhD (or DrPH) candidates who are working on their dissertation; Applicants must not have a PhD; those who do, are ineligible; Applicants must have defended their dissertation proposal or had their topic approved by their department; Applicants can be from any country and any university in the world. US citizenship or residency is not required. Awards are made to individuals, not institutions. If processed through an institution, a waiver for overhead is required.
NGI MOBIFREE PILOT PROGRAM
Deadline: 1st of December
Budget: €667,000
The NGI Mobifree program by NLnet Foundation is currently offering R&D grants between €5,000 and €50,000 to independent developers, organizations, and researchers who want to push mobile technology toward more open, ethical, and human-centered designs.
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Mobifree aims to challenge the dominance of closed, proprietary mobile ecosystems by supporting work in open source software, libre hardware, open standards, and interoperable protocols. Grant recipients are encouraged to propose projects that disrupt existing gatekeepers, enhance security and privacy, improve usability, or build community-owned infrastructure. All resulting code and research must be published under open licenses and shared openly for reuse, scrutiny, and collaboration.
This call offers a rare chance for innovators to make breakthroughs in how mobile technologies are built and experienced. Whether through new operating systems, application frameworks, alternative app stores, or privacy-enhancing tools, supported projects will help steer the future of mobile computing toward greater transparency, choice, and user sovereignty.
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Applicants will compete for a share of €670,000 allocated specifically for these grants. Projects are evaluated based on technical merit, relevance to the Next Generation Internet vision, strategic impact, and value for money. During the evaluation process, successful applicants may receive feedback or be asked to refine their proposals before final selection.
KEIDANREN NATURE CONSERVATION FUND 2026
Deadline: 1st of December
Budget: €1,000,000
Projects meeting all of the following four conditions can be submitted to Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund 2025:
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· Projects carried out for the purpose of nature conservation in developing countries, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. Priority is given to projects for preserving biodiversity.
· Projects expected to receive appropriate levels of cooperation from the host governmental agencies, related international organizations, non governmental organizations, and the local residents.
· Projects that do not serve the special interests of any specific groups or individuals.
· Projects carried out by persons with sufficient scientific expertise, or with the advice and cooperation of persons having such expertise
Actions must take place in developing countries, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
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A group or organization meeting all of the following three conditions can apply: (1) A group capable of making appropriate reports, as requested by the Fund, regarding progress of the funded project and its financial status including budgetary and results; (2) A group with a legal personality or with a similar level of public trust; (3) A group with a record of at least three years of carrying out nature conservation projects.
EMPOWHER FUND
Deadline: 1st of December
Budget: €4,000,000
The EmpowHER Fund aims to accelerate the rollout of current and new HIV prevention options and increase access to them for (young) women and girls in all their diversity.
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The fund will support by funding organisations to carry out activities in three key areas:
1. Advocacy for improved accessibility and availability of HIV-prevention options
2. Raise awareness, create demand and promote the use of HIV- prevention options
3. Build collective leadership to help reach the Fund’s goals
Actions must take place in South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique.
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Eligible are registered local community organisations, movements or networks led by women-, girls or gender non-conforming individuals, with proven substantial experience in national or regional (health/ HIV) advocacy, engaging with governments and health systems, and able to strengthen the (co-)leadership of girls and young women in these processes.
EUROPEAN SLATE DEVELOPMENT
Deadline: 3rd of December
Budget: €21,000,000
The objective of the European slate development support is to foster the competitiveness of European independent production companies and to increase their economic weight on the market. The aim is also to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop projects with the potential to circulate throughout Europe and beyond, and to facilitate European and international coproduction.
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The support will also provide an entry point for emerging talent, giving them the opportunity to direct a short film supported by the strong foundation provided by experienced companies.
Expected results are:
· A stronger position on European and international markets for companies selected under European slate development.
· Increased quality, feasibility, cross-border potential and market value of European works supported.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES FOR CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL AND NUCLEAR THREATS (HERA) – MEDICINAL PRODUCTS
Deadline: 4th of December
Budget: €18,000,000
This action is expected to increase the preparedness of the Union to respond to CBRN threats and improve the availability of medical countermeasures against these threats. It should advance one or more medical countermeasures against CBRN threats along the steps towards regulatory approval and market readiness.
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In particular:
For detection and diagnostics, a special focus is on tests that can rapidly detect individual or broad range of chemical and biological agents, including biotoxins. The range of activities include an end-to-end approach to bridge the gap between advanced research, innovation, market access and deployment by supporting:
Advanced research and development (‘R&D’) to support the development of medical countermeasures;
Involving end users and security practitioners to bring the research products closer to market readiness; and
Support research into market readiness or facilitate tech and entrepreneurial skills development.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES FOR CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL AND NUCLEAR THREATS (HERA) – DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS
Deadline: 4th of December
Budget: €1,000,000
This action is expected to increase the preparedness of the Union to respond to CBRN threats and improve the availability of medical countermeasures against these threats. It should advance one or more medical countermeasures against CBRN threats along the steps towards regulatory approval and market readiness.
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In particular:
For detection and diagnostics, a special focus is on tests that can rapidly detect individual or broad range of chemical and biological agents, including biotoxins. The range of activities include an end-to-end approach to bridge the gap between advanced research, innovation, market access and deployment by supporting:
Advanced research and development (‘R&D’) to support the development of medical countermeasures;
Involving end users and security practitioners to bring the research products closer to market readiness; and
Support research into market readiness or facilitate tech and entrepreneurial skills development.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW DIAGNOSTIC TESTS FOR VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES (HERA) EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-2
Deadline: 4th of December
Budget: €10,000,000
The activities conducted under this action will focus on supporting late-stage development of medical devices, bringing them to (near-) market; improvement of existing products in terms of accessibility, affordability, or accuracy; or, in case of unmet needs, aid the creation of innovative solutions.
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Supported actions will need to advance beyond the current R&I status and, where applicable, must also take into account ongoing Union projects, such as under Horizon Europe, guaranteeing complementary. This will expand diagnostic capabilities to address emerging and re-emerging pathogens in the Union, by providing advanced tools to monitor and respond to outbreaks.
Updating diagnostic technologies to improve accuracy, speed, and accessibility and theoptimisation of diagnostic technologies such as molecular assays and serological tests, shouldbe supported by evidence on novel antigens or genetic sequences, including clinical testing.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES FOR CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL, RADIOLOGICAL AND NUCLEAR THREATS (HERA)
Deadline: 4th of December
Budget: €1,000,000
This action is expected to increase the preparedness of the Union to respond to CBRN threats and improve the availability of medical countermeasures against these threats. It should advance one or more medical countermeasures against CBRN threats along the steps towards regulatory approval and market readiness. For Personal Protective Equipment (‘PPE’), the focus is on reusable respiratory PPE and protection suits.
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The range of activities include an end-to-end approach to bridge the gap between advanced research, innovation, market access and deployment by supporting:
Advanced research and development (‘R&D’) to support the development of medical countermeasures;
Involving end users and security practitioners to bring the research products closer to market readiness; and
Support research into market readiness or facilitate tech and entrepreneurial skills development.
The objective is to improve the Union’s readiness to respond to intentional health threats, including cross-border ones, by supporting the development of medical countermeasures to biological, chemical and radio-nuclear agents for which there currently are no or only limited treatment options.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Ukraine, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries.
JAPAN WATER FORUM FUND 2025 (JWF)
Deadline: 5th of December 2025
Budget: €100,000
The Japan Water Forum Fund (JWF Fund) was founded in 2005 and is solely operated by JWF. The JWF Fund aims to contribute to solving local water-related issues in developing countries by assisting the implementation of sustainable solutions led by grass-roots organizations. Every year, the JWF publicly seeks out projects to assist and provides grants up to 1,500USD per project adopted after due assessment. They value the projects which utilize local resources, knowledge and technologies, and establish a sustainable operation and maintenance scheme.
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A project which is planned and will faithfully be implemented along the following themes will be considered: (1) construction of the rainwater harvesting tank, well, and water reservoir; (2) installation of the small scale type water supply system; (3) construction and repair of the sanitation facility; (4) implementation of the water-related disaster risk reduction/mitigation program; (5) maintenance and improvement of the water resources environment; and (6) installation and promotion of the water efficiency irrigation system.
The JWF Fund operates in the following selected territories: (1) Least Developed Countries; (2) other Low-income Countries; and (3) lower Middle-income Countries/Territories.
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Local grassroots organizations that work in countries/territories can apply for the JWF Fund. National governments, local governments and private companies cannot apply for the fund.
GEF BAHAMAS
Deadline: 9th of December
Budget: €100,000
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), within The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), provides civil society organizations with technical and financial support. Under its new funding cycle, the SGP is inviting interested NGOs, CBOs, and academic institutions, from The Bahamas only, to complete a project proposal form for consideration for funding.
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Funding within the following thematic areas:
· Community-based conservation of threatened ecosystems and species
· Sustainable agriculture and fisheries, and food security
· Low-carbon energy access co-benefits
· Local to global coalitions for chemicals and waste management
· Water Conservation
Actions must take place in Bahamas.
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Eligible applicants must be NGOs, CBOs, and academic institutions from The Bahamas only.
COLLABORATIVE MISSIONS PROGRAMMES IN FOOD INNOVATION
Deadline: 11th of December
Budget: €30,000,000
EIT Food, the world’s largest food innovation community, is offering funding to support collaborative missions programmes aimed at addressing major societal challenges within the food system through systemic, impactful, and partnership-driven initiatives.
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The focus areas of this funding opportunity are meeting societal challenges within the food system by delivering one or more Mission Targets, being problem-led with a clearly defined pathway to impact, building a portfolio of connected activities across relevant economic, industry, and social value chains, forging synergies between academia, vocational education and training, industry, NGOs, associations, and policy stakeholders, leading by organisations with the capability to scale and drive adoption of programme results, connecting to EIT Food infrastructure programmes and assets to scale impact, reducing skills gaps and cultivating workforce development in Agricultural Transitions, Food Biotechnology and Food Security, Risk and Resilience, building on a portfolio of previously funded innovations and supporting start-up community capabilities, creating and supporting platforms to address major barriers and opportunities related to Strategic Levers for food systems change, and producing and communicating insights to inform public affairs, fundraising, and strategic decision-making.
The total funding allocated to this scheme from 2023 to 2025 is €30 million, with applicants able to request up to €1,000,000 per year for up to two years, covering no more than 70% of total programme costs, requiring a minimum co-funding of 30%. Funding durations of up to 24 months are encouraged, with the possibility of a 12-month performance-based extension. Eligible applicants include organisations from European Union Member States and Horizon Europe Associate Countries, and proposals must demonstrate pan-European impact and strategic fit.
Applications are assessed through a multi-stage evaluation process, including eligibility checks, strategic alignment, technical evaluation by internal and external evaluators, and may include clarification panels for borderline scores. A quality threshold score of 3.5 out of 5 is required for selection. Selected projects enter an onboarding process before contracting and funding disbursal.
Funding is released in instalments tied to deliverables and milestones, with ongoing monitoring to ensure progress, impact achievement, and appropriate use of funds. EIT Food also requires impact measurement, communication plans, and may apply a Success Sharing Mechanism for commercial outcomes.
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This funding opportunity invites proposals from consortia led by organisations capable of delivering high-impact outcomes through connected activities and workstreams across economic, industry, and social value chains. The programme types supported include co-funding open competitions, jointly funding programmes with other funders and NGOs, coordinating consortia across value chains to accelerate innovation impact, supporting knowledge exchange clusters, exploring innovative workforce development approaches, and addressing strategic sectoral issues.
INNOVATIVE TOOLS AND BUSINESS MODELS
Deadline: 15th of January 2026
Budget: €10,500,000
The Innovative tools and business models action is aimed at encouraging the development and/or the spread of innovative tools and business models to improve the visibility, availability, audience and diversity of European works in the digital age and/or the competitiveness and/or the greening process of the European audiovisual industry.
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Expected results are:
· Improve the competitiveness of the European audiovisual industry and seize the benefits of the innovative developments in technology and business models;
· Improve the adaptation of the European audiovisual industry to the opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence and the development of virtual worlds (also called Metaverse(s));
· Improve the greening process of the European audiovisual industry;
· Improve the production and circulation of European audiovisual works in the digital era;
· Increase the number and diversity of European works available online and increase their visibility in order to allow them to reach more audiences.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
SCREENPLAY DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT FOR FEATURE AND ANIMATED FILMS
Deadline: 31st of December
Budget: €100,000
The Netherlands Film Fund is offering opportunities for screenplay development of majority Dutch feature films and long animated films intended for cinema release. After a positive outcome from Pitch Filmidee, you can apply to the Netherlands Film Fund for the script development of a majority Dutch feature film or feature-length animated film, intended for cinema release.
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With this program, the Fund contributes to a varied and distinctive film offering for a diverse audience, with room for diverse narrative perspectives and genres, created by a balanced mix of experienced and emerging filmmakers. The contribution is intended for the development of the film idea into a screenplay at an advanced stage, in which the foundations of the screenplay – including the theme, structure of the narrative, internal consistency and the (main) characters – have been laid and the project is ready for a final in-depth phase. If, after this phase, the script is at an advanced stage and ready for final creative, technical, production, and business development, the producer can submit an application for the project development phase. The scheme focuses on the creative team, which consists of a producer, director and screenwriter. Applications for scenario development will be assessed according to the general assessment framework of Article 5 of the General Regulations. The following points will be taken into account: Has the vision regarding the film's target audience and positioning been sufficiently developed? Is it an original and distinctive film with courage and idiosyncrasy, that stimulates the imagination and tells relevant stories for the Dutch audience? Is the submitted film plan of substantive and cinematographic quality and does it contribute to a diverse, daring and relevant offering?
Applications are accepted throughout the year and require projects to have received a positive outcome from Pitch Filmidee. In the case of adaptations, applicants must possess valid rights to the original material. Additionally, projects must concern a majority Dutch production to qualify.
The scheme encourages diverse and innovative storytelling, balancing the contributions of new and established filmmakers to ensure that Dutch cinema continues to resonate with audiences through original, high-quality narratives.
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This scheme is open to both producers and screenwriters under certain eligibility conditions. Independent production companies with at least two years of establishment in the Netherlands, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, and with prior experience in producing a feature-length film, can apply as producers. Screenwriters with a previously released Dutch feature film or long animated film are also eligible to apply independently.
GRANT ASSISTANCE FOR GRASSROOTS AND HUMAN SECURITY PROJECTS (GGP)- MYANMAR
Deadline: 31st of December
Budget: €100,000
Embassy of Japan in Myanmar is inviting applications for the Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects (GGP) to assist Non-Profit Organisations (NPO’s) by supporting small scale community development projects which have a direct and immediate impact on the well-being of disadvantaged communities at the grass-roots level.
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As one of the ODA (Official Development Assistance) schemes of the Japanese Government, GGP supports small-scale projects directly benefiting the grassroots level as well as contributing to the socio-economic development of developing countries. In Myanmar, GGP was launched in 1993 and as of April 2022, 952 projects have been implemented by non-government organizations (NGOs), educational institutions, and other non-profit organizations.
Actions must take place in Myanmar.
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Non-profit organisations, which have implemented economic and social development projects, e.g. local NGOs, international NGOs, educational institutions, medical institutions, etc are eligible to apply.
CALL FOR PROPOSAL FOR SUPPORT TO SLOVENIAN AND CROATIAN SCOS
Deadline: 1st of January 2026
Budget: €120,000
Purpose of the call: to provide support to Go out and vote! Campaigns that motivate people to vote for defence of EU values (in Slovenia and Croatia)
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Expected results (apply to both countries):
· Strengthened civil society watchdog/advocacy role (Increased involvement of CSOs in monitoring of political promises; increased number of CSOs mobilizing citizens in civic activities; increased number of CSOs engaged in civic education; increased number of monitoring tools)
· Increased promotion and public awareness of EU rights and values (increased number of awareness raising actions/campaigns)
· Increased civic engagement in environmental protection/climate change (support to innovative methods for the protection of the environment; support for the awareness raising actions/campaigns.)
Actions must take place in Slovenia and Croatia.
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Eligible organisations should be established in Slovenia or Croatia.
D-PRIZE COMPETITION
Deadline: 1st of January 2026
Budget: €100,000
D-Prize funds new entrepreneurs who increase access to proven poverty interventions. The world has already invented ways to end poverty, yet the best interventions are not being distributed at mass-scale. D-Prize expands access to poverty-alleviation interventions in the developing world. Many solutions to poverty already exist.
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The specific goals of D-Prize is to: (1) significantly increase access to life-enhancing technologies in the developing world – and prove an impact in a measurable way; (2) encourage young entrepreneurs to focus their talent on the developing world, pilot new solutions to distribution problems, and launch new social ventures; (3) encourage a global dialogue on the importance of leveraging distribution solutions for development. The believe the path to development is through solving distribution. Applicants can design a business or NGO that solves one of the Distribution Challenges: girl’s education, agriculture, energy, education, global health, governance and infrastructure and custom.
D-Prize is for aspiring entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world, of any age, and any background.
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-Prize is open to any business model (for profit, non-profit, and everything in between). They will consider funding existing organisations only if: they are piloting a new distribution-focused initiative, and need high risk capital.
FEMFOCUS 2026–2030
Deadline: 7th of January 2026
Budget: €114,955,000
The instruments under the grant policy framework FemFocus aim to advance women’s economic participation as entrepreneurs, combat violence against women and girls, and strengthen women’s leadership in conflict prevention, mediation, and peacebuilding.
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What FemFocus supports:
· Financing for in-country partners to carry out: (1) Service provision (e.g. healthcare, education and training, psychosocial support, protection, information). At least 30% of financing must be spent on service provision; (2) Dialogue with authorities, multilateral institutions, informal and religious leaders, and the private sector to promote policy change. Activities aimed at influencing policy within the Netherlands are not funded.
· Capacity strengthening for in-country partners that is demand-driven and context-appropriate, reinforcing organisational, financial and programme management, thematic expertise, and the ability to engage in critical dialogue.
The grant policy framework FemFocus contains 3 grant instruments, each tailored to a specific policy objective, with its own thematic focus, target group and geographical scope. The 3 instruments are: (1) Encouraging women’s entrepreneurship (with available funding of €54,835,000); (2) Combating violence against women and supporting women human rights defenders, (with available funding of €114,655,000); (3) Women, peace and security (with available funding of €39,880,000).
Actions must take place in: (1) Encouraging women’s entrepreneurship: selected African countries where the Netherlands has trade and economic interests (applications should therefore target at least two of the following countries: Egypt, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Benin, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda, Tunisia, Democratic Republic of Congo); (2) Combating violence against women & WHRDs and Women, peace and security: West Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East and North Africa. Each application may cover one or two regions, with a minimum of two implementation countries per region.
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The applicant is a civil society organization submitting a grant application independently.
MELVIN YAHR PARKINSON’S DISEASE CLINICAL RESEARCH AWARD
Deadline: 12th of January 2026
Budget: €100,000
Entries are now open for the Melvin Yahr Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Research Award to foster clinical research into any aspect of Parkinson’s disease conducted by young investigators who are under-represented in current research. By recognising and honouring the exceptional contributions of young talented individuals, the award seeks to break down barriers and create a more inclusive and diverse healthcare community. It is expected that this initiative will spur innovation and promote the translation of cutting-edge scientific discoveries into efficient and practical health measures that will benefit people with Parkinson’s disease.
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The goal of the award is to prepare young neurologists specializing in Parkinson’s disease for a career in clinical research. Clinician scientists are uniquely positioned to be experts in both Parkinson’s disease research and care.
The level of support for this opportunity is a 1-year award for a total of $50,000. These funds may be used to support research expenses such as salary support for additional trained personnel including research assistants or study coordinators, as well as equipment or consumables required for the research plan. Indirect costs are not permitted.
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Eligibility extends to early-stage investigators based at universities, research hospitals, or non-profit research institutions worldwide. Applicants should hold an MD degree and be specialized in neurology, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, or related fields. Candidates must be either less than 35 years old or within 5 years of completing their residency program, whichever applies. Investigators from under-represented countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are particularly encouraged to apply.
The application requirements include a Research Plan of up to six pages describing specific aims, background or rationale, preliminary data if available, experimental design with a data analysis plan, and a discussion of potential pitfalls with mitigation approaches. Applicants must also provide a budget and justification, a biosketch in the NIH format, a Letter of Support from the Department Chair or Division Head outlining resources and facilities, and a Letter of Motivation describing how the award will support their practice or research career. Application closes on 12 January 2026.
ENTRIES OPEN FOR MAITRI SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAM (AUSTRALIA AND INDIA)
Deadline: 14th of January 2026
Budget: €500,000
The Centre for Australia-India Relations is calling for proposals from Australian universities to bring postgraduate Indian students to Australia through Scholarships.
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The Maitri Scholarships Program will support high-performing Indian scholars to complete Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) studies in STEM-related fields that align to priorities outlined in A New Roadmap for Australia’s Economic Engagement with India, which include Clean Energy, Agribusiness, Technology and IT, Resources and METS, Defence Industries, Space, and Health. These scholarships are designed to deepen educational links between the two nations and build stronger economic connections.
The minimum grant amount for scholars undertaking a PhD is $220,000 and the maximum is $439,000. It is anticipated that most grants will fall between $115,000 and $380,000, though exceptions may apply. A separate range is also indicated, with the minimum being $40,000 and the maximum $300,000, with most expected to be between $100,000 and $200,000. The Centre does not cover costs such as salaries, capital expenditure, equipment purchases, or expenses related to commercially viable activities or completed projects.
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Applications can only be submitted by Australian universities that hold active registration with the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency and the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students. Universities will nominate potential scholars who meet the eligibility criteria, which include being an Indian citizen, a new enrolment at an Australian university, and holding a valid Student (subclass 500) visa for the scholarship duration. Applicants must also commit to events and activities organised by the Centre, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, or their university.
Applications require supporting documents including an indicative budget with a timeline of expenditure, a project management plan, a risk management plan, the resume of the nominated scholar, letters of support from all partner organisations, and evidence of Vice Chancellor support where applicable. The deadline for submission of applications is 14 January 2026 at 5:00pm AEDT.
INFORMATION MEASURES FOR THE EU COHESION POLICY 2025
Deadline: 15th of January 2026
Budget: €3,500,000
The European Commission has opened the 2025 call for proposals under the Information Measures for the EU Cohesion Policy (IMREG-2025-INFOME), inviting applications to support projects that communicate the results and impact of EU Cohesion policy across Member States through information and outreach activities.
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The main aim of the call is to provide support for the production and dissemination of information and content linked to EU Cohesion policy, including inter alia the Just Transition Fund, or relevant support from the Technical Support Instrument. The proposals should provide coherent, objective and comprehensive information, in order to give an accurate overall picture of the EU Cohesion policy. The proposals should illustrate and assess the role of Cohesion policy in delivering the EU’s political priorities, such as the transition to a greener, more digital economy, development of strategic technologies, housing or the demographic transition and the right to stay, and in addressing current and future challenges for the EU, its Member States, its regions and the local level.
The 2025 call for proposals under the Information Measures for the EU Cohesion Policy (IMREG-2025-INFOME) aims to strengthen awareness and understanding of how the EU’s Cohesion policy supports growth, job creation, and regional development across Europe. It focuses on showcasing how EU funds contribute to reducing disparities among Member States and regions, while also helping citizens connect EU actions to tangible improvements in their lives.
The expected impact for the general public is to raise awareness of the results of Cohesion policy and its effects on citizens’ lives, particularly among Europeans who may be unaware of EU actions in their region.
The expected outcomes include increasing media coverage on Cohesion policy, particularly at regional and local levels, enhancing people’s awareness of its results and impact, and achieving concrete outputs such as television or radio broadcasts, online or print coverage, or other dissemination measures that ensure wide outreach and multilingual inclusion.
The scope of eligible activities includes production and distribution of print, multimedia, or audiovisual material, web and social media outreach activities, media events, and organization of conferences, seminars, or workshops. The total indicative budget available for this call is EUR 3.5 million, with grants awarded under the IMREG Project Grants (IMREG-PJG) action type.
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For stakeholders such as national, regional, and local authorities, businesses, academia, and beneficiaries, the initiative seeks to encourage engagement and communication about the impact of Cohesion policy on their regions, while contributing to discussions on the policy’s future direction and the broader future of Europe.
INFORMATION MEASURES FOR THE EU COHESION POLICY 2025
Deadline: 15th of January 2026
Budget: €3,500,000
The European Commission has opened the 2025 call for proposals under the Information Measures for the EU Cohesion Policy (IMREG-2025-INFOME), inviting applications to support projects that communicate the results and impact of EU Cohesion policy across Member States through information and outreach activities.
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The main aim of the call is to provide support for the production and dissemination of information and content linked to EU Cohesion policy, including inter alia the Just Transition Fund, or relevant support from the Technical Support Instrument. The proposals should provide coherent, objective and comprehensive information, in order to give an accurate overall picture of the EU Cohesion policy. The proposals should illustrate and assess the role of Cohesion policy in delivering the EU’s political priorities, such as the transition to a greener, more digital economy, development of strategic technologies, housing or the demographic transition and the right to stay, and in addressing current and future challenges for the EU, its Member States, its regions and the local level.
The 2025 call for proposals under the Information Measures for the EU Cohesion Policy (IMREG-2025-INFOME) aims to strengthen awareness and understanding of how the EU’s Cohesion policy supports growth, job creation, and regional development across Europe. It focuses on showcasing how EU funds contribute to reducing disparities among Member States and regions, while also helping citizens connect EU actions to tangible improvements in their lives.
The expected impact for the general public is to raise awareness of the results of Cohesion policy and its effects on citizens’ lives, particularly among Europeans who may be unaware of EU actions in their region.
The expected outcomes include increasing media coverage on Cohesion policy, particularly at regional and local levels, enhancing people’s awareness of its results and impact, and achieving concrete outputs such as television or radio broadcasts, online or print coverage, or other dissemination measures that ensure wide outreach and multilingual inclusion.
The scope of eligible activities includes production and distribution of print, multimedia, or audiovisual material, web and social media outreach activities, media events, and organization of conferences, seminars, or workshops. The total indicative budget available for this call is EUR 3.5 million, with grants awarded under the IMREG Project Grants (IMREG-PJG) action type.
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For stakeholders such as national, regional, and local authorities, businesses, academia, and beneficiaries, the initiative seeks to encourage engagement and communication about the impact of Cohesion policy on their regions, while contributing to discussions on the policy’s future direction and the broader future of Europe.
GLOBALSTARS
Deadline: 21st of January 2026
Budget: €varies
Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in research and development (R&D) and innovation, present in over 45 countries. It is a decentralised intergovernmental organisation aiming to boost the productivity and competitiveness of industries by funding and supporting international collaborative market-driven R&D projects. This call for projects has been launched by Japan and the United Kingdom national funding bodies following Eureka’s Globalstars framework.
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Globalstars is a programme for organisations to connect with partners outside the Eureka network. The programme supports projects between companies in Eureka countries or regions and in leading and emerging markets around the world.
How Globalstars supports you
Globalstars provides access to funding for research and development projects in a range of areas. As well as funding, Globalstars gives you a unique opportunity to work with organisations in countries and regions like Japan, Uruguay, India, and Taiwan.
How Globalstars works
Globalstars provides funding to international research and development (R&D) projects. Projects must include at least one organisation from a Eureka country or region participating in the call, and the project consortium must also include at least one other independent organisation from the Globalstars country. Partners in the consortium can include other SMEs, large companies, universities, research institutions, and non-profits.
Funding for Globalstars comes from National Funding Bodies in each country or region that is participating in a call. National Funding Bodies decide which organisations can receive funding, which activities can be funded, and how much funding is available.
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Countries
Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Funding information
This call is open for all R&D projects, excluding technologies associated with nuclear power and drug discovery. Examples of scope include, but are not limited to: quantum technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, semiconductors, electronics, energy and environment, biotechnology, new materials, medical devices, aerospace, mining, and other industrial technologies.
Eligibility criteria
Eureka has eligibility criteria for organisations participating in a Globalstars consortium:
• Your project idea must represent international cooperation in the form of a specific project.
• You must direct your project towards researching or developing an innovative product, process or service with the goal of commercialising your project results.
• Your project must have a civilian purpose.
• Your consortium must include at least two independent legal entities, from Japan and a minimum of one other Eureka country listed in this call.
• No single organisation or country can be responsible for more than 70% of the project budget.
• The duration of a project must be between 12 to 36 months.
• Prior to the start of the project, participants are required to have signed a project consortium agreement on the execution of the project and commercialisation of the project’s results. This must be sent to the relevant national funding agencies after the results of the evaluation have been communicated and before project activities are conducted.
GRANTS FROM MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION
Deadline: 22nd of January 2026
Budget: €100,000
The Motorola Solutions Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Solutions, focuses its funding on public safety, disaster relief, employee volunteerism and education, especially engineering and information technology programming. The Motorola Solutions Foundation will focus its giving in three key areas: (1) STEM education, specifically focused on technology and engineering; (2) Public safety education; and (3) Blended public safety and technology, and engineering education programs.
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The Motorola Solutions Foundation, which has donated more than $100 million in the last 10 years, aims to partner with organizations that are creating safer cities and thriving communities, and prioritizes underrepresented and/or underserved populations, including people of colour and women, within the three focus areas below:
• Technology and engineering education
• First responder programming
• Blended first responder programming and technology/engineering education programs
Actions can take place worldwide. With employees located around the globe, Motorola Solutions seeks to benefit the communities where it operates, and the Motorola Solutions Foundation prioritizes programs in these communities as well. The Foundation also prioritizes giving to universities from which Motorola Solutions recruits.
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The organization applying for grant funding must be registered as a 501(c)3 organization, NCES school or school district in the United States, or be able to provide completed charitable equivalency forms if an organization or institution is outside the United States. On average they support 200 organisations per year.
CIRCULATION OF EUROPEAN LITERARY WORKS
Deadline: 29th of January 2026
Budget: €5,000,000
The action is expected to support around 40 projects, implemented either by a single entity (mono-beneficiary) or by a consortium of organisations (multi-beneficiary).
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Each project will:
· promote the diversity of literature in the target country (or countries) by including works of fiction, with particular emphasis on those written in less widely translated languages;
· support the profession of literary translator and respect the principle of fair remuneration;
· propose the most effective distribution and promotion strategies, and the most appropriate book format, in order to ensure wide and easy access to European literary works and to contribute to the development of the readership of European literature;
· encourage collaboration between different actors of the book value chain: authors, translators, publishers, distributors, booksellers, libraries, literary events or festivals;
· contribute to the EU overarching priorities.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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ligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
NEWS – JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS – COLLABORATIONS
Deadline: 4th of February 2026
Budget: €6,900,000
Expected results of this call are:
· Increased innovation and creativity in business models, journalistic production processes and distribution processes;
· Increased viability of professionally produced journalistic content.
· Increased interest in professionally produced journalistic content, among various social groups, language groups and age groups;
· Increased media collaboration.
· Sector-wide networks for the exchange of best practices among news media organisations and professionals;
· Knowledge-hubs for sub-sectors around technical formats (written/online press, radio/podcasts, TV, etc.) and/or journalistic genres (data journalism, general topics, specialised journalism, etc.);
· Acquisition and improvement of professional skills by journalists as well as media business professionals.
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Activities that can be funded
This topic seeks to help the wider European news media sector become more sustainable and resilient, including small media. Support is foreseen for collaborative projects in and between any news media (sub)sector and/or genre that aim to enhance cooperation, help media adapt to new economic and consumption realities and instil systemic change across that (sub)sector.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
NEWS – JOURNALISM PARTNERSHIPS – PLURALISM
Deadline: 4th of February 2026
Budget: €6,900,000
Expected results are:
· Increased innovation and creativity in business models, journalistic production processes and distribution processes;
· Increased viability of professionally produced journalistic content.
· Increased interest in professionally produced journalistic content, among various social groups, language groups and age groups;
· Increased resilience, pluralism and editorial independence at EU level of sectors such as local, regional and community media, investigative media or media specialised in public interest topics.
· Increased resilience of organisations active in the targeted news media sectors and protection of the news media landscape.
· Improved uptake of new technologies across the targeted media sectors in as much this contributes to media pluralism and a diverse media landscape.
· Fostering repositories of knowledge about media sectors delivering public interest news (e.g. by detecting areas with low provision of high-quality content and/or in which media pluralism is strained).
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This topic covers media sectors that are particularly relevant for democracy. Certain sectors having an important role for democratic debate lack the means to adapt to the digital environment, and phenomena such as shrinking newsrooms or media deserts can lead to a deterioration of pluralism. Support is thus needed for them to improve their position, adapt their methods, continue providing a first-hand source of original reporting to citizens, help keep decision-makers accountable and ultimately contribute to a more diverse and independent sector.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR THE EARTH PRIZE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY COMPETITION
Deadline: 31st of January 2026
Budget: €100,000
Applications are now open for the Earth Prize Environmental Sustainability Competition for students between the ages of 13 and 19, which rewards the teams whose projects have the most potential to address environmental issues. The Earth Prize, the world's largest environmental competition for young people, has seen participation from teams in over 160 countries and territories during its first four annual editions. It aims to inspire and empower the next generation of environmental leaders and innovators, creating a global platform for sharing and scaling their solutions.
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Participants and Educators must register on the online platform and join The Earth Prize Discord Community. They provide details such as name, email, date of birth, gender, and school or organization details. Upon registration, they gain access to the global network of mentors, educators, experts, and alumni, where they can seek advice and access educational content to improve their projects.
Projects submitted to The Earth Prize in a prior year which have been selected as The Earth Prize Winners or Runners-up will not be accepted. Submissions to The Earth Prize are expected to propose solutions aimed at accelerating positive change towards environmental sustainability. The Earth Prize will consider a wide range of solutions: local, national as well as global ones; new ideas with implementation potential as well as existing student projects; products, organisations, enterprises, as well as campaigns.
During this period, Participants and Educators must sign up individually on The Earth Prize website. Once registered, Participants gain access to online mentoring and learning materials, including one-to-one mentoring from The Earth Prize Mentors. Team Leads create teams and invite participants to collaborate. Access to the Submission Portal begins mid-October, and teams are expected to submit their Fresh Ideas by the end of January.
Registration for The Earth Prize is free of charge. No purchase is necessary to enter or win, and participants will never be asked to make any payment at any stage of the competition. Withdrawal from the competition is permitted at any time, whether by individuals or entire teams, without consequences. However, withdrawn participants lose access to the online platform. Those who already earned The Earth Prize Scholars distinction may retain it and remain part of The Earth Prize Alumni. Educators are not considered part of the team but serve as facilitators. Their duties include guiding participants in navigating the online platform and providing further academic support. Teachers are encouraged, though not required, to integrate the online material into their classes. Work submitted must be original, and plagiarism results in automatic disqualification. Educators of Scholar and Regional Winning teams may take on additional responsibilities during advanced phases of the competition.
Each team must have a Team Lead. The Team Lead is responsible for forming the team, coordinating mentoring sessions, nominating account holders for prize distribution, and acting as the main point of contact with The Earth Prize team. To avoid conflicts of interest, employees, contractors, or affiliates of The Earth Foundation and their relatives or close friends are not eligible to participate. Participants and Educators must register on the online platform and join The Earth Prize Discord Community. They provide details such as name, email, date of birth, gender, and school or organization details. Upon registration, they gain access to the global network of mentors, educators, experts, and alumni, where they can seek advice and access educational content to improve their projects.
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Eligibility: The Earth Prize is open to all students in the secondary education level and is not open to tertiary education students. Eligible institutions are schools or educational programs. The Earth Prize now recognizes seven Regional Winners across Southeast Asia and Oceania, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America, and Central & South America. All registration and submission information must be in English. Each Participant can be an individual student or a team of up to five (5) students collaborating on a submission. Participants from different classes and grades are welcome to form a team. Teams can also consist of students from different institutions. Participants are strongly encouraged to have an assigned adult Educator for their team. Valid Educator include, but are not limited to, teachers or school administrators. If Participants have been signed up through an educational program, valid Educator can include program coordinators or educators. For individual participants or groups of homeschooled students, a parent may serve as the Educator. In either case, an official document certifying the Educator status or the student’s authorised homeschooling status will be requested during registration. Past Participants are welcome to register for The Earth Prize again, as long as they meet the eligibility criteria.
VIDEO GAME AND IMMERSIVE CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Deadline: 11th of February 2026
Budget: €10,000,000
The objective of the support to Video games and immersive content development is to increase the capacity of European video game producers, XR studios and audiovisual production companies to develop video games and interactive immersive experiences with the potential to reach global audiences. The support also aims to improve the competiveness of the European video games industry and other companies producing interactive immersive content in European and international markets by enabling the retention of intellectual property by European developers.
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Expected results
· Increased quality, appeal, feasibility and cross-border potential for selected projects.
· A stronger position on the European and international market for video games developers and companies producing interactive immersive experiences.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
INTERREG VI-A NEXT HUNGARY-SLOVAKIA-ROMANIA-UKRAINE PROGRAMME
Deadline: 15th of February 2026
Budget: €28,500,000
The 2nd Call for Proposals for the Interreg VI-A NEXT Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine Programme has been officially launched.
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The following Priorities and Objectives are opened under the 2nd CfP:
Priority 1: A resilient and green border region
Objective 1.1: Climate change adaptation, risk prevention (SO 2.4)
Objective 1.2: Biodiversity and reduced pollution (SO 2.7)
Priority 2: A healthy and attractive border region
Objective 2.1: Equal access to health care (SO 4.5)
Objective 2.2: Culture and tourism (SO 4.6)
Priority 3: A cooperating border region
Objective 3.1: Harmonious neighbourly relations through cooperation (ISO1 b)
Actions must take place in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine.
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Eligible are legal persons and non-profit making.
INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF POSITIVE ENERGY DISTRICTS HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D4-04
Deadline: 17th of February 2026
Budget: €15,000,000
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
Increased number of approaches and solutions enabling a net positive yearly energy balance at district level and the export of excess renewable energy to the grid outside its geographical boundaries, with enhanced replicability on a larger scale in other positive energy districts (PEDs) in different contexts;
Measurable increase in inclusiveness and public acceptance of the implementation of PEDs;
Improved user-friendliness and user-awareness of guidelines, tools, and training materials targeting key professionals for overcoming the different types of barriers towards the realisation of PEDs.
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Recent projects have demonstrated the feasibility of PEDs, but there is a need to further demonstrate climate-neutral impact, while developing and demonstrating innovative approaches and solutions for overcoming technical, business, social and organisational constraints in several domains. Such domains include, for example, climate mitigation, integration of renewable energy sources and energy storage in buildings, grid connections, accommodation of distributed energy generation and storage at district level, permitting, data privacy and security and the application of new technologies such as artificial intelligence. Presently, these constraints, which inhibit the demonstration of complete and qualified PEDs, require the cooperation of key professionals from the public and private sector, such as municipal and regional authorities and those from the energy and construction sectors, in complex implementation processes.
Proposals are expected to address all of the following:
Demonstrate innovative approaches and solutions for overcoming constraints which prevent the successful implementation of PEDs;
Develop supportive local planning frameworks for the design and realisation of PEDs;
Demonstrate the proposed approaches, solutions, and supportive local planning frameworks in at least three districts in diverse geographical areas that implement energy efficiency measures alongside renewable energy installations, storage solutions, digital and smart technologies, and local energy communities;
Develop and/or update existing guidelines, tools, and training materials for key professionals that will enable other cities to successfully replicate these innovative approaches, solutions and supportive local planning frameworks in their district/cities;
Ensure the active involvement of all relevant public and private stakeholders, including citizens, through co-creation processes and community engagement activities.
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise (including social innovation), in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.
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To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
International organisations — International European research organisations are eligible to receive funding.
EUROPEAN CO-DEVELOPMENT
Deadline: 25th of February 2026
Budget: €9,000,000
The objective of the support to European co-development is to support the cooperation among European production companies that are developing works with a strong international audience potential.
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Expected results are:
· Increased collaboration at development stage between European production companies from different countries and from different markets and consequently an increased number of co-productions.
· Increased quality, feasibility, cross-border potential and market value of selected projects.
· A stronger position on European and international markets for companies selected under European co-development.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS FROM UNVFVT
Deadline: 1st of March 2026
Budget: €100,000
The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (UNVFVT) offers grants to civil society actors providing medical, psychological, social, economic, legal, humanitarian or other forms of assistance to victims of torture and members of their families. Eligible civil society actors include NGOs, specialised rehabilitation centres, associations of victims, foundations, and hospitals.
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The Fund is the largest Fund managed by OHCHR, contributing to projects implemented by civil society actors in more than 60 countries. It is administered by the United Nations Secretary-General on the advice of a Board of Trustees. The Board meets twice a year, in February on policy issues and October to award grants.
Subject to availability of funds and on a competitive basis, the Fund also awards grants for projects seeking to organize training or capacity building activities for Organizations and other professionals that provide direct assistance to victims of torture. These projects may take the form of trainings, workshops, seminars and conferences, peer to peer training or staff exchanges. They are to be conducted primarily for the benefit of the professional staff of the applicant Organization.
The Fund’s global priority regions are Africa, Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
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Eligible are only nongovernmental entities with at least 2 years of experience in providing redress and rehabilitation to victims of torture and their family members, including NGOs, rehabilitation centres, foundations, association of victims, private and public hospitals, and legal clinics.
SOFT Innovation Prize 2026 EURATOM-2026-SOFT-PRIZE
Deadline: 3rd of March 2026
Budget: €100,000
Fusion research encompasses innovation in the domains of physics and technology over a wide range of specialisations. Fusion researchers are constantly challenging the scientific state-of-the-art and improving the technology thereby creating the conditions for innovation, much of which can be exploited in other science and industrial sectors for the benefit of society. The fundamental basis of the Euratom Programme is the drive and support for innovation across the product development chain from research to market. In this context the researcher plays a critical role.
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The complete application for the 'SOFT Innovation Prize' should include:
a technical description of the innovation
a state-of-the-art assessment of the innovation
an account, in general terms, of the market potential for the exploitation of the innovation
For the Model Rules of Contest for Prizes please see the Funding and Tenders Portal.
Essential award criteria: The prize will be awarded, after closure of the contest, to the applicant(s) who in the opinion of the jury best addresses the following cumulative criteria[3]:
Originality and replicability: The extent to which the idea is innovative, original and a first-of-a-kind use of the technology in industry or in the domain of application. The description should be clear, logically presented and well-illustrated.
Technical excellence: The extent to which the innovation is demonstrably state-of-the-art and based on excellent science and engineering.
Economic impact and exploitation of the innovation: The extent to which the submission demonstrates understanding and awareness of the relevant innovation aspects, including market potential, needs and business opportunities.
Eligibility criteria:
Expected results:
By awarding the ‘SOFT Innovation Prize’, the Commission will showcase innovations in fusion research sector giving visibility to the most dynamic, forward-looking and innovative researchers, research teams or industrial contestants. This visibility will provide greater potential for valorisation of the fusion research. Furthermore, the contest will stimulate the EU and international partners to develop a stronger innovation and entrepreneurial culture in fusion research.
The Commission applies an equal opportunities policy. With a view to promoting gender balance in nuclear field, the Commission would particularly welcome applications from women.
Prize amounts: 1st Prize: EUR 50 000, 2nd Prize: 30 000, 3rd Prize: EUR 20 000.
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. The contest is open to researchers, research teams, or industrial participants eligible for funding under the Euratom Research and Training Programme 2021-2025, to researchers or research teams working for a national programme in an ITER partner country[4] or in any third country that has a bilateral fusion cooperation agreement with Euratom in force and to industrial participants participating in the ITER[4]. Example of proof: the Commission may request substantiating document such as contracts, etc.
2. The researcher, research team or industrial participant must obtain permission from the owner of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to submit an application and provide supporting documentation.
EUROPEAN DIGITAL MEDIA OBSERVATORY HUBS DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-TECH-EDMO-09-HUBS
Deadline: 3rd of March 2026
Budget: €6,000,000
The funding will support further consolidation of EDMO’s role as a key player in the fight against disinformation in Europe
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Expected Outcome:
Deliverables
EDMO will continue to maintain and further support a platform for joint activities to analyse and respond to the phenomenon of disinformation. EDMO will be carrying out and coordinating various activities in this field, including investigations, targeted research, monitoring as well as media literacy and communication activities throughout Europe and across the national/multinational research hubs.
Objective:
The EU supports the capacity of a multidisciplinary community to understand, monitor and counter disinformation.
The objective of this topic is to maintain and further develop a platform supporting the operations of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), as well as deepening the language coverage and operational capacity of fact-checking in Europe.
In particular, the topic will support the operational cooperation between fact-checkers, researchers and media literacy practitioners across the EU through EDMO and support fact-checkers, with the aim to contribute to the fight against disinformation, to gain further insight on disinformation, monitoring of the disinformation space, debunking disinformation through the network of fact-checkers, and increasing the resilience of media professionals and citizens to disinformation.
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n order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
− be legal entities (public or private bodies)
− be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
− EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
− non-EU countries:
− listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe
Programme (list of participating countries)
Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before
submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation
Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents
showing legal status and origin.
Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners,
subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc
COMPLETION OF THE INITIAL NETWORK OF EUROPEAN DIGITAL INNOVATION HUBS DIGITAL-2026-EDIH-AC-09-COMPLETION-STEP
Deadline: 3rd of March 2026
Budget: €8,000,000
The objective is to complete the existing network of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) with entities from countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme that have not yet participated in any previous EDIH call. These entities will provide the complete set of services of an EDIH, including the necessary infrastructure, focusing primarily on a specific geographical area and covering the digital transformation needs of the local SMEs, mid-caps and/or public sector organisations with a reinforced AI focus for EDIH operations.
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The new EDIHs will support the digital transformation of SMEs, mid-caps, and public sector organizations within its geographical area and area of expertise, while also aiming to extend its impact beyond its immediate region. An EDIH can select to focus on specific group(s) of clients (e.g. mainly SMEs or mainly public sector).
The performance of the hub will be evaluated based on their key performance indicators (KPIs); proposals should define their indicators as well as the targets related to each of them:
Number of entities which have used the European Digital Innovation Hubs’ services, by user category (businesses of different sizes, public sector entities, etc.), sector, location, by technology and type of service received. Specific sub-indicators must be proposed when the services are related to develop and uptake AI solutions, and will include a description of which European AI Innovation Infrastructures have been used (such as the AI-on-Demand platform) or referred to (such as the AI Factories).
Number of entity referral to European AI Innovation Infrastructures
For access to finance: amount of additional investments successfully triggered (e.g. through venture capital, bank loan, etc.).
Number of collaborations foreseen with other EDIHs and stakeholders outside the region at EU level, and description of jointly shared infrastructures / joint investments with other EDIHs.
A set of additional impact indicators will be collected and analysed with the support of the Digital Transformation Accelerator:
Increase in digital maturity of organizations that have used the services of the EDIH network. Digital maturity will be defined based on a questionnaire assessing the categories of digital strategy and readiness, intelligence and automation, data and connectedness, sustainable and human-centric digitalisation. EDIHs will administer the questionnaire at the start of the engagement with a client, and later after having delivered services, and report without delay the results to the DTA repository.
Increase in number of companies benefiting from the use of European AI technology.
Cross-border trans-national hubs are possible with several countries jointly proposing and co-funding cross-border trans-national hubs, serving neighbouring regions in different countries, tackling shared challenges identified in the border regions and exploiting the untapped growth potential in border areas. In this case, only the share of the funding of each country involved in the cross-border trans-national will be considered for the total amount of funding for that country.
Scope:
Each new EDIH will provide services based on a specific focus/expertise, which will support the local private and public sector with their digital transformation and the integration of AI technologies. This specialisation can be strengthened over time and should make use of existing local competencies in this area.
The EDIH network is dedicated to promoting and facilitating the digital transformation of SMEs and public services through four types of services:
Test before invest: providing access to technical expertise and experimentation, in particular to AI-related services.
Training and skill development: offering training sessions to SMEs and public services for upskilling and reskilling of the workforce.
Support to identify and get access to potential financing sources to support digital transformation.
Foster an innovation ecosystem and networking opportunities, including building links to AI factories and TEFs where relevant for associated countries.
Each EDIH is expected to provide all four types of services. They can however have different weights in the overall services portfolio. The services will be provided on an open, transparent and non-discriminatory basis and will be targeted mainly to (1) SMEs and midcaps and/or (2) public sector organisations conducting non-economic activities.
Each EDIH will act as an access point to the European network of EDIHs, helping local companies and/or public actors to get support from other EDIHs in case the needed competences fall outside their competence, ensuring that every stakeholder gets the needed support wherever it is available in Europe. Reversely, each EDIH will support the companies and public actors from other regions and countries presented by other EDIHs that need their expertise.
The EDIHs will also serve as contact point for the AI innovation infrastructures as described above, notably the AI factories, the AI-on-demand platform and TEFs. They will provide a first-line AI help desk for businesses and public sector organisations, offering basic information on compliance with the AI Act and relevant sources for further guidance. This will help ensure the broad adoption of strategic technologies, supporting the development of an AI continent.
Each EDIH will make available the relevant experimentation facilities and demonstrators related to its specialisation. SMEs, mid-caps and the public sector will be able to test the technologies proposed, including where relevant their environmental impact, and the feasibility of applying these technologies to their business before investing in them Likewise, EDIHs will leverage green digital technologies to advance Europe’s collective climate and environmental goals.
EDIHs will also provide access to finance services, including information on and facilitation of access to public and private funding sources, as well as connections to public and private investors.
The EDIHs will actively network with other hubs, share best practices and specialist knowledge, connect companies within their value chain, and seek synergies with innovators and early adopters who test solutions in novel experiments. These efforts will foster the adoption of digital technologies, particularly AI, in work and business environments in a more human-centric manner. Additionally, EDIHs will serve as brokers between public administration and companies providing e-government technologies.
In all the networking activities, EDIHs will be supported by the Digital Transformation Accelerator (DTA). Therefore, it is compulsory that EDIHs participate actively in the relevant support activities of the DTA, such as matchmaking, training and capacity building events.
The DTA, in cooperation with the Commission, will also host tools such as the Digital Maturity Assessment Tool and will centralise the overall Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the network. As a result, each EDIH must report the necessary information to the DTA. While EDIHs are encouraged to make use of the digital tools provided, they are also free to use their own tools. However, interoperability with the EDIH network tools is a requirement, to ensure a seamless experience for users.
DTA will organize events and activities for the network of EDIH, to share information and experiences, train, build cohesion. EDIHs should foresee active participation in those events and activities.
The EDIHs should closely collaborate with the AI Factories as well as with the High-Performance Computing competence centres, the Cybersecurity centres, the AI-on-demand platform, AI Testing and Experimentation Facilities and other EDIHs seeking complementarities in view of supporting companies and public sector organisations with their digital transformation.
Where relevant, the EDIHs will facilitate access for their customers to the EuroHPC AI-optimised supercomputers. They will also help SMEs fine-tune available AI solutions to their business needs and use cases by providing, wherever needed, also access to AI training.
EDIHs will maintain structured long-term relationships with the relevant local actors like regional authorities, industrial clusters, SME associations, business development agencies, incubators, accelerators, chambers of commerce, and partners of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) and Startup Europe by offering joint investor-related events, organising common trainings, workshops or info days, directing SMEs from EEN to EDIHs and from EDIHs to EEN as needed. It is expected that local actors planning mutual support with a local EDIH will sign a Memorandum of Understanding for a proper governance of their collaboration.
Finally, EDIHs will serve as an interface for the European Commission to support the implementation of specific sectorial policies, SME policies and eGovernment policies. This will imply that EDIHs specialised in a specific sector could be consulted on policies related to their sector of competence and could participate in specific actions.
EDIHs will design their operations to ensure sustainability beyond the implementation phase. They will indicate how they plan to build local capacity, foster community ownership, and integrate the initiative into their ecosystems.
The total public funding for this action is 100% of eligible costs (50% coming from the Digital Europe Programme and up to 50% coming from the Member States). In line with Appendix 6 on State Aid, the countries must ensure that State aid is granted in line with the applicable State aid rules, such as de minimis or GBER (ensuring compliance with GBER compatibility, including on aid intensities and notification thresholds set out in Article 4 GBER) or whatever the state aid rules stipulate in the associated country.
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In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
− be legal entities (public or private bodies)
− be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
− EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
− non-EU countries:
− listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe
Programme (list of participating countries)
Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before
submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation
Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents
showing legal status and origin.
Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners,
subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc
DATA SPACE FOR MANUFACTURING DIGITAL-2026-DSM-AI-09-DS-MANUFACTUR-STEP
Deadline: 3rd of March 2026
Budget: €9,000,000
Aligned with the previous WP, this action aims to support the continued uptake and further expansion of the data space for manufacturing. The primary objective is to develop legal, technical and business solutions to pool sufficient data and enable authorized AI developers to have direct or indirect data access to train generative AI models specifically for the manufacturing sector. This initiative seeks to reinforce the role of the data space for manufacturing as a major productivity enhancement and collaboration mechanism within the EU.
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Deliverables
The awarded proposals are expected to deliver:
Solutions that allow the collection of large, high-quality data from real industrial environments, from different manufacturing systems/sectors.
Solutions that allow access to these large datasets to train Generative AI models that respond to real-world industrial needs and challenges, preferably relying on trusted third parties hosting data and training compute on behalf of authorized AI developers.
Agreements with specific AI factories providing information on the data sets available and the conditions for using them for training AI models.
Interoperability and governance framework of manufacturing data spaces including from national industrial data spaces to ensure that mechanisms to aggregate data for training AI could be taken up at EU level.
Scope:
This initiative will support up to three data-collection projects, with around EUR 3 million co-funding from Digital Europe each, focused on manufacturing use cases to unlock advanced AI models, for example, predictive maintenance, process automation, supply chain management, product design and development and sustainability in production, and increase productivity in industrial environments such as purchases, logistics, resource planning and production halls. These projects aim to collect massive, high-quality data from real industrial environments, ensuring proper labelling where relevant, that could be used to train or finetune generative AI models for the manufacturing sector. The data collection has to be relevant for developing AI applications that can significantly benefit major EU manufacturing sectors (such as automotive, chemical, aeronautics and energy-intensive industries). The project proposal has to clearly identify the target sectors, the stakeholders, and have preliminary agreements about the intended data exchange.
The data-collection projects will develop both technical and business solutions to enable authorized AI developers to have direct or indirect data access and utilize these large datasets while fully respecting the data holders' control over their data.
Each data-collection project should propose clear use cases to ensure alignment with real-world needs and challenges. Ideally, the AI developers interested in using such data should be already identified in the proposal.
The proposal will also ensure technical and legal solutions to make the generated datasets available to users of AI Factories. This will also enable AI Factories to leverage these datasets for the development of AI applications. To this extent, the inclusion of AI Factories in the project will be considered an advantage.
Consortia are encouraged to use data intermediaries, as outlined in Chapter III of the Data Governance Act, or other appropriate mechanisms to manage the secure access to and processing of these datasets.
The initiative must also work in close partnership with the Data Spaces Support Centre to ensure alignment and interoperability with the broader ecosystem of data spaces implemented with the support of the Digital Europe Programme. Additionally, the action must coordinate with AI Factories to ensure that the datasets generated can be effectively used in conjunction with data already available facilitating in this way collaborative approaches for the development of advanced AI models.
Considering financial sustainability from the outset is crucial in the development of Common European Data Spaces to ensure their long-term viability and effectiveness. By establishing a sound financial model, developers can secure the resources necessary to adapt to evolving technological landscapes and user needs, ensuring that data spaces remain robust and beneficial over time.
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In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
− be legal entities (public or private bodies)
− be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
− EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
− non-EU countries:
− listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe
Programme (list of participating countries)
Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before
submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation
Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents
showing legal status and origin.
Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners,
subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc
NEWS – MEDIA LITERACY
Deadline: 11th of March 2026
Budget: €3,000,000
The Call for Proposals will result in:
· pan-European consortia, scaling up best practices across national, cultural and linguistic borders, and developing and upscaling media literacy tools and actions to ensure the transfer of such practices to the widest possible audience, covering different types of media delivery modalities;
· forums for exchange of best practices around specific age groups, groups with limited media literacy skills or access, or those at risk of social exclusion;
· support for media literacy professionals to adapt their practices to fast developing media formats and changing media consumption patterns.
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Support is foreseen for collaborative projects with clearly defined objective(s) to advance/target specific area(s)/goal(s) within the field of media literacy, addressing at least two of the following areas of activities:
· Activities building on, sharing and scaling up best practices from innovative media literacy projects that take into account a changing media ecosystem, especially by crossing cultural, country or linguistic borders and strengthening collaboration between different regions of Europe.
· Developing innovative, interactive online toolkits to provide solutions to existing and future challenges in the online environment, including disinformation.
· Developing materials and toolkits to enable citizens to develop a critical approach to the media, and to recognise and appropriately react to disinformation.
· Develop media literacy practices adapted to the changing media environment including manipulative techniques and AI-based media production.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
FILMS ON THE MOVE PROGRAMME: PAN-EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT FOR NON-NATIONAL EUROPEAN FILMS
Deadline: 19th of March 2026
Budget: €10,000,000
The Films on the Move action under the Creative Europe Programme encourages and supports the wider distribution of recent non-national European films by promoting investment in sales agents and theatrical distributors for film promotion and adequate distribution.
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The Films on the Move action supports campaigns coordinated by the film’s sales agent for pan-European theatrical and online distribution of eligible European films. It seeks to boost the visibility and market reach of these films across Europe through enhanced promotional activities and distribution efforts. The call encourages the strengthening of partnerships between the film production and distribution sectors, fostering industry collaboration that enhances global competitiveness for European cinema. The submission deadline offers two cut-off dates in 2026, with evaluated proposals potentially awarded funding from a total budget of 21 million euros. Applicants are required to provide evidence of chosen promotional and advertisement costs backed by letters of intent from theatrical distributors. The proposal process demands clear presentation of sustainable and inclusive industry practices, promoting gender balance, diversity, and environmental responsibility throughout the funded activities. For applicants aiming to participate, extensive guidance, application form templates, and legal documentation are available through the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
EUROPEAN VOD NETWORKS AND OPERATORS
Deadline: 8th of April 2026
Budget: €8,000,000
The objective is to support European Video on Demand (VOD) networks and operators, screening a significant proportion of non-national European works, with the aim to improve their competitiveness and attractiveness.
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Expected results are:
· Strengthen the cross-border collaboration among European Video On Demand (VOD) platforms through joint/collaborative activities to increase the online audience of European audiovisual content;
· Strengthen attractiveness of eligible European Video On Demand (VOD) platforms for cross-border audiences and online consumption at a larger scale;
· Improve the digital circulation and consumption of European content by boosting its visibility, discoverability and prominence;
· Develop new business models and achieve cross-border economies of scope and scale.
Description of the activities to be funded under the call for proposals:
· Joint/collaborative actions across borders with the aim to improve the competitiveness and attractiveness of European VOD platforms offering a significant proportion of non-national European audiovisual works as well as to increase the accessibility, visibility, discoverability and prominence of European content for a wider global audience (European and international).
· Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus listed EEA countries.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-21: Development of safe and sustainable alternatives to substances of concern (IA)
Deadline: 8th of April 2026
Budget: €7,500,000
Make safer and more sustainable alternatives to substances of concern available to the industries offering products with targeted performances and supporting their competitiveness,
• Speeding up the innovation cycle within a value chain important for European industry;
• Enhancing competitiveness of the industries by reducing regulatory and operational costs, while making supply chains more secure;
• Production processes, chemicals, materials and products that are inherently safer and more sustainable for a clean and autonomous economy; and
• Demonstrating how the safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) chemicals cand materials framework can guide innovation.
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Scope:
The focus of this topic is on alternatives for the substitution of substances of concern (SoCs) as defined in the Ecodesign for Sustainable Product regulation19. The design and development of these alternatives should lead to an innovation cycle covering their (re)design, development, production processes, and integration into products in manufacturing.
The scope includes necessary developments of related processes and technologies to ensure alignment with and integration in industrial manufacturing facilitating uptake of the develop alternatives. If relevant, challenges for the adaption of existing production lines should be identified and solutions proposed.
Proposals should develop new chemical substances, advanced materials or technologies to replace existing SoC in one of the following areas: energy, mobility, construction, electronics, [technical textiles as well as health/medical devices]
Proposals should demonstrate that the proposed alternative has a clear use case, market and potential to grow. The substitution barriers for the selected applications should be identified and a driving mechanism for a maximal substitution in the targeted value chains proposed.
The SSbD framework should guide the innovation process towards safer and more sustainable chemicals and advanced materials. The new alternatives to be developed should meet the technical functions required in the specific applications while aligning their innovation process decision making with such framework.
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Entities eligible for funding
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
International organisations — International European research organisations are eligible to receive funding.
HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-22: NEW ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PRODUCTION PROCESSES – REDUCING DEPENDENCIES ON CRITICAL AND STRATEGIC RAW MATERIALS(IA) (INNOVATIVE ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR THE EU, PROCESSES4PLANET PARTNERSHIPS)
Deadline: 8th of April 2026
Budget: €7,500,000
Reducing dependencies of critical and strategic raw materials through partial or total substitution by safe and sustainable advanced materials and/or via more efficient use of critical and strategic raw materials in production processes;
• Speeding up the innovation cycle within a value chain important for European industry;
• Enhancing competitiveness of the industries and operational costs, while making supply chains more secure;
• New or improved production processes, advanced materials and products that are inherently safer and more sustainable, supporting a clean and autonomous economy; and
• Demonstrating how the safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) chemicals and materials framework can guide innovation.
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Scope:
The focus of this topic is on alternatives for the substitution or more efficient use of critical and strategic raw materials20. The design and development of advanced materials and processes should lead to an innovation cycle covering the (re)design of materials and production processes, and the integration of innovative advanced materials into products.
Proposals should develop advanced materials or process technologies to replace or reduce the use of critical and strategic raw materials in one of the following areas: energy, mobility, construction, electronics, as well as health/medical devices
Proposals should address one or several of the following approaches:
▪ Design, development and production with targets on performance, safety and sustainability of innovative advanced materials substituting or making a more efficient use of critical and strategic raw materials.
▪ Innovative industrial processes for the reduction of the use of critical and strategic raw materials focussed on optimizing process safety, sustainability, flexibility, scalability, cost-efficiency.
▪ Co-development strategies for innovative advanced materials and industrial processes. These strategies should demonstrate the value of co-development through specific use cases while maintaining broad relevance across various materials and process types.
Proposals should demonstrate a clear use case, market and potential to grow. The substitution barriers for the selected applications should be identified and a driving mechanism for a maximal substitution in the targeted value chains proposed.
The scope includes necessary adaptations of related processes and technologies to ensure alignment with and integration in industrial manufacturing facilitating uptake of the developed solutions. If relevant, challenges for the adaption of existing production lines should be identified and solutions proposed.
The SSbD framework should be used to guide the innovation process towards safer and more sustainable s advanced materials and processes. The new alternatives to be developed should meet the technical functions required in the specific applications while aligning their innovation process decision making with such framework. 20 https://rmis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/eu-critical-raw-materials; as well as Annex I and II of the Critical Raw Material Act.
This topic implements the co-programmed European partnerships Processes4Planet and Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU (IAM4EU).
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Entities eligible for funding
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
International organisations — International European research organisations are eligible to receive funding.
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-23-two-stage: Accelerating the discovery of chemicals and advanced materials through artificial intelligence and digitalisation (IA) (Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU partnership)
Deadline: 8th of April 2026
Budget: €20,000,000
Expected Outcome:
• Accelerating the discovery process for advanced materials and chemicals through digital tools developed in Europe;
• Supporting the operationalisation of the SSbD framework;
• Making a step change in the risk assessment of chemicals and advanced materials in Europe.
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Scope: Proposals should accelerate the pathway to market of new substances (chemicals or advanced materials) with superior or novel functionalities. This can be achieved with novel tools or proofs of concept using digital methods to accelerate development of new materials and demonstration of their properties. Where possible this should be in collaboration with the Materials Commons for Europe, contributing data and (where possible newly developed) digital tools applicable to the design, development, production, manufacturing, use and end of life phases, which connect to workflows. Additionally where appropriate collaboration with the DIGIPASS project should be considered. These workflows and tools may include the use of artificial intelligence as well as self-driving labs and their interconnection. They should also drive innovation in risk assessment, new test methods and support and facilitate the operationalisation and use of the SSbD framework. Projects should include demonstrators.
By doing so, new cutting-edge advanced materials with superior or novel functionalities and alternatives to substances of concern should be developed more rapidly in Europe. In addition, digital feedback loops ranging from requirements and information from production processes and scale-up, to manufacturing and integration into products, should be developed to accelerate market uptake. Innovative digital tools to speed up risk assessment and thereby market access of chemicals and advanced materials may also be addressed.
Interoperable workflows (in particular through collaboration with the Materials Commons for Europe) should help to reduce the cost of the digital transition for industry with respect to circularity and safe and sustainable by design, e.g. by reducing the risk for adopters and vendors, and through modular tools that can be extended to new application domains without a major redesign. Tools should foster workflows in that ensure high-quality, well-structured and documented primary FAIR data, enabling the re-use and/or streamlining of large data sets, facilitating academic and industrial collaborations and integrating AI and other digital technologies. Synergies with the SSbD toolboxes can also be foreseen.
This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership Innovative Advanced Materials for the EU (IAM4EU)
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Entities eligible for funding
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
International organisations — International European research organisations are eligible to receive funding.
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-24: Cooperation on innovative advanced materials with Japan (CSA)
Deadline: 8th of April 2026
Budget: €800,000
Expected Outcome:
• European-Japanese cooperation in the filed of innovative advanced materials is strengthened.
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Scope: In the context of the Communication ‘Advanced Materials for Industrial Leadership’ and the recent cooperation with Japan in this area, the purpose of this action is to enable researchers in innovative advanced materials from Member States and Associated Countries to make research visits to related Japanese institutions.
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Entities eligible for funding
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
International organisations — International European research organisations are eligible to receive funding.
HORIZON-CL4-2026-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-01: Advanced manufacturing for key products (including use of advanced or secondary raw materials) (IA) (Made in Europe partnership)
Deadline: 8th of April 2026
Budget: €7,000,000
Expected Outcome:
• Advanced manufacturing technology and machinery becomes available in Europe for the manufacturing of key and high-performance products;
• Where relevant, production becomes increasingly circular through the reuse of secondary raw materials; and/or advanced materials are incorporated in manufactured products, leading to better performance and quality;
• Resource efficiency in terms of materials and energy is increased significantly; and
• Circularity, productivity and competitiveness are increased and hence resilience of European industry is enhanced.
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Scope: This topic addresses technologies and machinery for advanced manufacturing, focusing on manufacturing excellence and on increasing circularity, including through the better use of advanced and secondary raw materials. The focus is on key components and products that are competitive and have enhanced performance, and contribute to Europe’s technological leadership in manufacturing, but which are at risk of being lost to Europe or rely on raw materials or parts whose supply is mostly coming from outside Europe.
Proposals should develop technologies and machinery to enable the manufacturing of these components with a minimal use of critical raw materials [reference to overall targets] or imported materials. This includes an increased use of secondary raw materials or biobased materials or revalorised components.
Where appropriate to enhance performance and quality, proposals should target the use of advanced materials (such as lightweight, functionalised or self-healing materials). In this case, the development of the advanced materials should not be the main focus of proposals, nevertheless the necessary steps to adapt such advanced materials to the needs of the manufacturing application should be included.
Examples of advanced manufacturing technologies and machinery include, but are not restricted to:
• Innovative additive manufacturing;
• Hybrid manufacturing (additive, subtractive);
• Photonics;
• Advanced joining technologies;
• Polymer composite manufacturing;
• Advanced technologies for surface treatment and structuring, to tailor surface properties for specific applications; and
• Manufacturing of components with lightweight materials; and
• In-line testing.
The portfolio approach will be used, to ensure that at least one proposal focusing on the automotive industry, excluding the production of batteries, is funded.
International cooperation is encouraged, especially with Japan or Taiwan.
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Entities eligible for funding
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
International organisations — International European research organisations are eligible to receive funding.
HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-02: Advanced manufacturing for key products (including use of advanced or secondary raw materials) (IA) (Made in Europe partnership)
Deadline: 8th of April 2026
Budget: €7,000,000
Expected Outcome:
• Advanced manufacturing technology and machinery becomes available in Europe for the manufacturing of key and high-performance products;
• Where relevant, production becomes increasingly circular through the reuse of secondary raw materials; and/or advanced materials are incorporated in manufactured products, leading to better performance and quality;
• Resource efficiency in terms of materials and energy is increased significantly; and
• Circularity, productivity and competitiveness are increased and hence resilience of European industry is enhanced.
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Scope: This topic addresses technologies and machinery for advanced manufacturing, focusing on manufacturing excellence and on increasing circularity, including through the better use of advanced and secondary raw materials. The focus is on key components and products that are competitive and have enhanced performance, and contribute to Europe’s technological leadership in manufacturing, but which are at risk of being lost to Europe or rely on raw materials or parts whose supply is mostly coming from outside Europe.
Proposals should develop technologies and machinery to enable the manufacturing of these components with a minimal use of critical raw materials [reference to overall targets] or imported materials. This includes an increased use of secondary raw materials or biobased materials or revalorised components.
Where appropriate to enhance performance and quality, proposals should target the use of advanced materials (such as lightweight, functionalised or self-healing materials). In this case, the development of the advanced materials should not be the main focus of proposals, nevertheless the necessary steps to adapt such advanced materials to the needs of the manufacturing application should be included.
Examples of advanced manufacturing technologies and machinery include, but are not restricted to:
• Innovative additive manufacturing;
• Hybrid manufacturing (additive, subtractive);
• Photonics;
• Advanced joining technologies;
• Polymer composite manufacturing;
• Advanced technologies for surface treatment and structuring, to tailor surface properties for specific applications; and
• Manufacturing of components with lightweight materials; and
• In-line testing.
International cooperation is encouraged, especially with Japan or Taiwan.
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Entities eligible for funding
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
International organisations — International European research organisations are eligible to receive funding.
HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-08: Advanced processing and manufacturing technologies, business models and system approaches for competitive textile circularity (IA) (Textiles for the Future partnership)
Deadline: 8th of April 2026
Budget: €6,000,000
Expected Outcome:
• Increased economically viable and functionally equivalent renewable material and sustainable chemical solutions used in large scale textile applications, including apparel, home and technical textiles;
• A realistic pathway for an absolute reduction of virgin fossil-based materials and chemicals used to produce textile products for the EU market by 2035;
• Business models and system approaches that allow sustainable textile material and chemical alternatives to be scaled up, despite initial cost disadvantages, against conventional solutions
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Scope: Innovative renewable textile fibres and sustainable chemical solutions today face almost insurmountable cost disadvantages compared to extremely cost-competitive and industrially entrenched conventional fibres and chemicals based on virgin fossil resources. This problem creates a massive bottleneck for true textile circularity. To allow renewable materials and sustainable chemicals to scale up, improved processability, suitable processing technology, deeper technical knowledge and smart phase-in approaches such as material blending or drop-in solutions are required. Specific emphasis must be placed on resulting final product quality and functionality to avoid negative user/consumer perception of products made with renewable materials and sustainable chemicals. As not all cost and quality challenges may be immediately overcome by technological innovation, accompanying business models and systems approaches are needed to enable equitable cost and risk sharing among all involved stakeholders in the textile value chain.
Attributes such as recyclability, recycled material content, and renewability are expected to be part of the textile-specific requirements under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. T
Proposals should specifically address:
· Innovative processing technologies to facilitate the efficient utilisation of recycled, regenerated and bio-based fibres as well as sustainable processing and functionalising sustainable chemicals across all major stages of the textile manufacturing value chain, such as spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing or finishing;
· Characterisation, quality assurance and mitigation strategies for the most common processing and functionality challenges and limitations of the sustainable materials and chemicals targeted;
· Development of best practices and training materials targeted at manufacturers, brands and end users, working with the targeted materials and chemicals;
· Strategies and tools to practically implement collective risk sharing and smart scaling approaches.
Proposals should actively involve suppliers of renewable materials and sustainable chemicals, brands, commercial end users and developers/manufacturers of relevant processing technology and industrial partners with the capacity to commercially scale up production with the targeted materials and chemicals. The involvement of partners beyond the manufacturing supply chain, such as product designers, brands, commercial end users and end of life managers including recyclers and remanufacturers is particularly encouraged. Proposals should carry out research and innovation to develop missing elements and achieve the necessary integration, including economic viability. Hence, synergies with, or using results from, other projects may be appropriate. The mere integration of existing technologies or processes is outside the scope of this topic.
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Entities eligible for funding
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
International organisations — International European research organisations are eligible to receive funding.
HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MATERIALS-PRODUCTION-08: Advanced processing and manufacturing technologies, business models and system approaches for competitive textile circularity (IA) (Textiles for the Future partnership)
Deadline: 8th of April 2026
Budget: €6,500,000
Expected Outcome:
• An industrial ecosystem for circularity in manufacturing industries emerges, enhancing both circularity and resilience;
• De-manufacturing technologies and practices become available, making decisive contributions to a European remanufacturing industry and market;
• Functions of products are retained, reused, upgraded or adapted through de-manufacturing and re-manufacturing; and
• Skills, standards and safety measures relevant to remanufacturing are developed.
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Scope: Proposals should focus on developing de-manufacturing and re-manufacturing technologies at the factory level, addressing at least three of the following:
• Technologies to efficiently analyse part condition, including for components of lower value, e.g. combining sensor data and AI with human inputs;
• AI and robotic-assisted technologies to de-manufacture products and components, including handling, sorting and extended logistics;
• Model-based systems, to allow de-manufacturing and re-manufacturing operators to use CAD data and digital twins related to the original parts;
• Solutions allowing local (on-site) repair or re-manufacturing of high-added value components (applied to e.g. wind turbines, aircraft and vessels); and
• Solutions to plan the sequence of operations based on the characteristics of the incoming products to be re-manufactured.
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Entities eligible for funding
To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
countries associated to Horizon Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
the following low- and middle-income countries
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Republic), Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt (Arab Republic), El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic), Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (Democratic People's Republic), Kyrgyz Republic, Lao (People’s Democratic Republic), Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated States), Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic), Vietnam, Yemen Republic, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
International organisations — International European research organisations are eligible to receive funding.
TV AND ONLINE CONTENT FICTION PROJECTS
Deadline: 7th of May 2026
Budget: €22,000,000
The objective of the support to TV and online content is to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop and produce strong projects with significant potential to circulate throughout Europe and beyond, and to facilitate European and international co-productions within the television and online sector.
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The action aims to strengthen the independence of producers in relation to broadcasters and digital platforms, to enhance collaboration between operators, including independent producers, broadcasters, digital platforms and sales agents, from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, in order to produce high quality programming aimed at wide international distribution and promoted to a wide audience including commercial exploitation in the multi-platform environment. Particular attention will be given to projects presenting innovative aspects in the content and in the financing that show a clear link with the envisaged distribution strategies.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
TV AND ONLINE CONTENT DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS
Deadline: 7th of May 2026
Budget: €22,000,000
The objective of the support to European co-development is to support the cooperation among European production companies that are developing works with a strong international audience potential.
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EExpected results are:
· Increased collaboration at development stage between European production companies from different countries and from different markets and consequently an increased number of co-productions.
· Increased quality, feasibility, cross-border potential and market value of selected projects.
· A stronger position on European and international markets for companies selected under European co-development.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
TV AND ONLINE CONTENT ANIMATION PROJECTS
Deadline: 7th of May 2026
Budget: €22,000,000
The objective of the support to TV and online content is to increase the capacity of audiovisual producers to develop and produce strong projects with significant potential to circulate throughout Europe and beyond, and to facilitate European and international co-productions within the television and online sector.
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The action aims to strengthen the independence of producers in relation to broadcasters and digital platforms, to enhance collaboration between operators, including independent producers, broadcasters, digital platforms and sales agents, from different countries participating in the MEDIA Strand, in order to produce high quality programming aimed at wide international distribution and promoted to a wide audience including commercial exploitation in the multi-platform environment. Particular attention will be given to projects presenting innovative aspects in the content and in the financing that show a clear link with the envisaged distribution strategies.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
CREATIVE INNOVATION LAB
Deadline: 23rd of April 2026
Budget: €7,000,000
The objectives of the scheme is to encourage cooperation between the audiovisual sector and the music, book or museum sectors to accompany their environmental transition and/or to improve their competitiveness and/or the circulation, visibility, discoverability, availability, diversity and the audience of European content across borders. The support also aims to enable the European audiovisual sector and these three sectors (music, books and museums) to better adapt to the opportunities offered by the development of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Worlds.
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Expected results are:
· Improve the competitiveness of the European audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors: transparency, data collection and the appropriate use of artificial intelligence/big data, adaptation to the challenges and opportunities driven by the ongoing changes in those sectors;
· Improve the adaptation of the European audiovisual and other cultural and creative sectors to the opportunities offered by the development of virtual worlds (also called metaverse(s)).
· Improve the production/financing and circulation of European audiovisual and cultural content in the digital age;
· Increase the visibility, discoverability, availability and diversity of European audiovisual and cultural content in the digital age;
· Increase the potential audience of European audiovisual and cultural content in the digital age.
· Accelerate the environmental transition of the European audiovisual, cultural and other creative sectors, in line with the priorities of the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus.
Actions must take place in EU member states plus Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia and Ukraine.
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Eligibility is limited to legal entities (public or private bodies).
OPEC FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM 2025
Deadline: ongoing
Budget: € Not available
The OPEC Fund for International Development is accepting applications for its grant program to provide financial assistance to developing countries, particularly low-income countries, in support of their economic and social development efforts.
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Under its grant program, OPEC Fund could extend three types of grants:
Grants for country-specific activities and projects:
This type of grant could cover any of the following activities:
Technical assistance grants for project preparation, including prefeasibility and feasibility studies, and final design of projects where there is potential for OPEC Fund’s participation;
Grant components of a larger project and program financed by the OPEC Fund through its public sector (sovereign loans) and/or private sector and trade finance facilities;
Institutional capacity building of relevant government agencies of partner countries (training of staff in project design, preparation, monitoring and evaluation) with the aim of facilitating the implementation of OPEC Fund operations and helping these agencies better prepare future projects;
Stand-alone projects or activities that are not directly linked to a specific OPEC Fund project
Grants for special development initiatives of global or regional scope:
This type of grant supports selected initiatives and programs aimed at addressing development challenges faced by OPEC Fund’s partner countries and which require a high level of cross-border cooperation.
Emergency aid grants:
OPEC Fund provides this type of grant in support of humanitarian relief operations, including material or logistical assistance delivered for humanitarian purposes. This aid also supports interventions aimed at rehabilitating basic infrastructure and restoring access to basic services in partner countries in the aftermath of conflicts or natural disasters.
Priority Sectors and Areas
While the OPEC Fund has financed projects in agriculture, energy, health, transportation and water and sanitation sectors, it aims to be a demand-driven organization responsive to the needs of its partner countries.
In addition, and as noted earlier, it provides emergency aid assistance and supports selected regional and global initiatives, especially those addressing priority issues in the sustainable development agenda.
Funding Information
The amount of OPEC Fund contribution will vary according to the scope and the nature of the proposed grant activity or project. However, and with the exception of emergency aid and small grants in amounts of up to US$100,000, OPEC Fund’s contribution to a stand-alone project should not exceed 50% of the total cost of the said project.
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In line with the Agreement establishing the OPEC Fund, developing countries other than OPEC Member Countries are eligible for OPEC Fund’s grant assistance, with special consideration to the needs of LDCs.
While the main criteria for extending a grant will be the developmental impact of the activity or project concerned, for country-specific grants, particularly those linked to OPEC Fund’s sovereign operations, other criteria will be also considered. These include countries’ capacities as well as special circumstances. In this regard, and in recognition of their special circumstances and specific development challenges, the OPEC Fund will extend grants in support of selected initiatives targeting small island development states (SIDS), and conflict-affected and fragile states, especially SIDS that are also categorized by the United Nations as LDCs.
Eligible Partners
Eligible partners are any government or non-government entity, including cofinancing partners, private sector entities, research entities, UN agencies and international NGOs.
All grantees, should meet the following eligibility criteria:
Provide evidence of currently valid legal registration under the laws of the country in which they operate, as well as evidence of a certificate to do business in the country in which they intend to carry out the relevant activity, if different from the place of legal registration.
Have a good track record in the implementation of OPEC Fund projects and activities, and in the case of new partners, a good track record in executing/implementing similar donor Funded projects in the targeted region and country;
Have proven technical expertise in the area/sector covered;
Have appropriate organizational and management capacity, and show the existence of a sound financial system, including clear accounting and budgeting standards, audited financial statements that are audited by a registered auditor, a transparent budgeting process, and other indicators that confirm their capacity to assume fiduciary (supervision and implementation) responsibility for OPEC Fund.
GENDER EQUALITY GRANTS
Deadline: ongoing
Budget: €100,000
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting partners with individual journalists and news organizations to support in-depth, high-impact reporting on topics of global importance, including investigations of systemic problems that are often overlooked by mainstream U.S. media. They accept applications to fund reporting projects from freelance and staff journalists as well as assignment editors at news outlets.
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Women and girls are disproportionately affected by global crises and face discrimination and violence worldwide. In the fight against the disparities they endure, they show resilience, strength, and leadership. The Gender Equality Grant is designed to help journalists take to a new level the reporting on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. They value stories that elevate the voices of communities not often represented in the media, stories of resilience, and projects that tackle systemic issues of gender equality using data and investigative reporting.
Actions can take place worldwide.
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Grants are open to U.S. residents and journalists around the world. They are open to proposals from freelance journalists, staff journalists, or groups of newsrooms working in collaboration with a project idea. They want to make sure that people from many backgrounds and perspectives are empowered to produce journalism. They strongly encourage proposals from journalists and newsrooms who represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds.
AI REPORTING GRANTS
Deadline: ongoing
Budget: €100,000
The Pulitzer Center seeks applications for the reporting initiative focused on AI and surveillance technologies and their impact on communities around the world. They value accountability and data reporting, collaborations, and cross-discipline approaches. Staff and freelance journalists are eligible. They welcome in-depth stories that explore with nuance how AI systems are designed, sold and deployed in communities around the world.
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They encourage applications for all formats of reporting and also on lesser reported topics, including:
AI industry supply chains
Procurement processes for algorithmic and surveillance systems
Environmental impacts of AI
AI & disinformation networks
AI warfare
AI regulation and governance
Actions can take place worldwide.
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Grants are open to all journalists: writers, photographers, radio producers, and filmmakers; staff journalists as well as freelancers.
UNSOLICITED CONCEPT NOTES WITH IDRC
Deadline: ongoing
Budget: €400,000 up to 120m
The IDRC’s mandate is to conduct research into the problems of the developing regions of the world and into the means for applying and adapting scientific, technical, and other knowledge to the economic and social advancement of those regions. In doing so, they make an important contribution to Canada’s foreign policy.
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They fund research in the areas of:
· Climate-Resilient Food Systems: they fund research that helps build inclusive and sustainable food systems. Their work helps develop resilience among communities severely affected by climate change and address emerging health threats that arise from food systems.
· Health: they strengthen health systems and policies so they can deliver better maternal and child health, improved sexual and reproductive health and rights for women and girls, and more effective and equitable preparedness and responses to epidemics.
· Education and Science: they support research to ensure children and youth from vulnerable populations are in school and benefit from high-quality education. They also support women’s leadership in strong science systems that produce knowledge and innovation and improve lives.
· Democratic and Inclusive Governance: they invest in research and innovation so that people around the world can enjoy the benefits that democracy and inclusive governance bring to everyday life. Their work on democracy and how countries are governed supports tangible improvements for everyone, especially women, minorities, refugees, and other groups that are denied their rightful place in civic life.
· Sustainable Inclusive Economies: they build the evidence base to support sustainable development that reduces greenhouse gas emissions. They enhance climate resiliency, foster shared prosperity, and expand economic opportunities for women and youth.
They are working in selected countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
Developing-country researchers, institutions, and Canadian researchers are eligible.
P4G CALL FOR PARTNERSHIPS APPLICATION
Deadline: ongoing
Budget: €350,000
P4G is now accepting applications for partnerships working on climate mitigation or adaptation solutions in the areas of food, energy and water. Partnerships must comprise at least one early-stage business and one nonprofit organization implementing in one of P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa and Vietnam. Applicants must provide services or products that contribute to poverty alleviation, gender equity and economic growth in one of the following sub-sectors: climate-smart agriculture, food loss and waste, water resilience, zero emission mobility and renewable energy.
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P4G will provide grant funding and technical assistance to help the early-stage business in the partnership become investment ready. To be considered for the next funding round, partnerships should submit their proposal by March 7, 2025. All applications must be submitted in English.
The program is open to partnerships operating in P4G’s ODA-eligible partner countries, which include Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
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The eligibility criteria require partnerships to comprise at least one early-stage climate business and one NGO administrative partner. Applicants must demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the sectoral, policy, and regulatory environment in their country, along with skills in business, financial, social, environmental development, and grant management. The proposed climate business solution should be innovative and at a seed or post-seed financing stage with a clear path to commercialization or capital raising. Additionally, applicants must show their project’s potential for climate, economic growth, poverty reduction, gender, and development impact, and adhere to responsible business conduct, including having an ESG plan or developing one.
GRANTS FROM CRAIGSLIST CHARITABLE FUND (CCF)
Deadline: ongoing
Budget: €1,000,000
The craigslist Charitable Fund (CCF) supports organizations working to improve planetary health and well-being for all of Earth’s inhabitants, including humans, by ending factory farming and all other forms of animal exploitation.
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Specific areas of interest include: animal suffering; antibiotic resistance; biodiversity loss; cancer; cardiovascular disease; climate change; coastal dead zones; deforestation; dementia; diabetes; food insecurity; land misuse; ocean degradation; pandemic risk;
soil erosion; social injustices; toxic waste; violence; and, zoonotic diseases.
Actions can take place worldwide.
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They are open to a variety of approaches to ending animal exploitation, particularly ones that promise an efficient, scalable and long-lasting impact. They are open to applications from organizations around the world, regardless of 501(c)3 status.
GRANT ASSISTANCE FOR GRASSROOTS AND HUMAN SECURITY PROJECTS (GGP) – RWANDA
Deadline: ongoing
Budget: 10m YEN
In 1989, the Government of Japan introduced Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP/kusanone) in order to respond to the diverse development needs in developing countries. The aim of GGP is to provide financial assistance to non- profit development organizations for implementation of projects at community level. In Rwanda, 2 projects are selected per year.
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The following areas are considered as deserving priority:
Education
Water and Sanitation
Health
Agriculture Development
Poverty Reduction
Actions must be implemented in Rwanda.
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Support is provided to Community-Based Organizations; Local or International Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); Local authority (Ex. City Council, District); Educational Institutions (Ex. School Management Committee, schools); Medical or Health Institutions (Ex. Hospital Management Committee); Research Institutions.