ERC Public Engagement with Research Award

Code: 38385 | Identifier Code: ERC-2026-PERA | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 14/10/2025 | End submission calls: 15/01/2026

The Public Engagement with Research Award is established to recognise and reward those Principal Investigators who successfully engage audiences outside their domain with ERC-funded research. The purpose of this award is also to recognise good practice and to encourage more ERC grantees to develop public engagement activities. For this award, public engagement is defined as the involvement of the public in the design, conduct or dissemination of activities funded by the ERC. Engagement is a two way process, involving interaction and mutual understanding for mutual benefit.

Circulation of European literary works

Code: 38383 | Identifier Code: CREA-CULT-2026-LIT | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: Culture | Start submission calls: 15/10/2025 | End submission calls: 29/01/2026

6th REINFORCING Open Call (Incubators Call) on “Responsible Innovation”

Code: 38371 | Identifier Code: REINFORCING | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 02/12/2025

REINFORCING supports organisations and institutions in Europe to transition to a new paradigm where responsibility and openness drive research and innovation (R&I) processes. This call is open to public and private organisations of all sizes, including startups and SMEs. Proposals applying for the REINFORCING 6th Open Call must revolve around practices of Responsible Innovation.

FERRO Open Call for Associated Regions

Code: 38369 | Identifier Code: FERRO | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 01/09/2025 | End submission calls: 30/11/2025

The FERRO project explores practical, innovative and sustainable approaches to improving lake water quality and recovering nutrients for agricultural use. The project develops and implements sustainable, nature-based solutions that trap nutrients in catchments and remove phosphorus directly from lakes. These nutrients are then safely reused as fertiliser, supporting both ecological restoration and a circular, resilient agricultural system.

Registration as a Spoke – Provision of Knowledge Transfer Support Services to Spokes by the Central Office of Knowledge Transfer

Code: 38367 | Identifier Code: RIF-CKTO/SPOKES/0424 | Programme name: 2941 | Start submission calls: 25/04/2024 | End submission calls: 31/12/2025

The provision of CKTO Support for Spokes is provided by the CKTO. Support is offered through training seminars, webinars, on-site programs at Spokes, in-person meetings (faceto-face or virtual), email, and dissemination of Guides, disclosure templates, model agreements, training material for researchers, and other documents.

TV and online content

Code: 38365 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2026-TVONLINE | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 03/12/2025

Within the specific objective of promoting competitiveness, scalability, cooperation, innovation and sustainability, including through mobility in the European audiovisual sector, one of the priorities of the MEDIA Strand is to nurture talents, competence and skills and to stimulate cross-border cooperation, mobility and innovation in the creation and production of European audiovisual works, encouraging collaboration across Member States with different audiovisual capacities.

The MEDIA Strand shall provide support for the following measures:

• Production of innovative and quality TV content and serial storytelling, addressing diverse audiences, by European independent production companies.

The 3 topics that opened for the submission of proposals, under the present call, are the following: 

• TV and online content Animation projects – CREA-MEDIA-2026-TVONLINE-1
• TV and online content Documentary projects – CREA-MEDIA-2026-TVONLINE-2
• TV and online content Fiction projects – CREA-MEDIA-2026-TVONLINE-3

MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2025

Code: 38363 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-COFUND-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/10/2025 | End submission calls: 03/12/2025

Building a trustworthy social media sphere: countering disinformation on social media for young Europeans

Code: 38360 | Identifier Code: PPPA-2025-DISINFORMATION-YOUNG | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 02/12/2025

Water4All 2025 Joint Transnational Call “Water and health”

Code: 38358 | Identifier Code: Water4All | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 12/09/2025 | End submission calls: 13/11/2025

Restoration of ecosystem functioning, integrity and connectivity

Code: 38355 | Identifier Code: Biodiversa-plus | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 09/09/2025 | End submission calls: 07/11/2025

The European Biodiversity Partnership Biodiversa+, co-funded by the European Commission, aims to produce actionable knowledge to halt and reverse biodiversity loss in line with its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. As part of its Flagship Programme “Supporting protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems across land and sea”, Biodiversa+ has launched the BiodivConnect joint call for research proposals on the “Restoration of ecosystem functioning, integrity and connectivity.”

This call supports innovative and interdisciplinary research that can be directly integrated into nature restoration practices, promoting well-connected and resilient ecosystems and habitats. It places emphasis on long-term sustainability, future-proofing restoration efforts, and ensuring cross-scale relevance — from local and regional to cross-border and global levels — including the evaluation of restoration outcomes.

The scope of the call is broad, encompassing the restoration of biodiversity in all types of ecosystems and habitats (terrestrial, marine, coastal, and freshwater) and in all world regions. It supports high-quality research and innovation projects adopting holistic, systemic, and integrated approaches that combine ecological, social, economic, and policy dimensions.

Projects may focus on a wide array of aspects such as development of indicators, restoration scaling methods, socio-ecological interactions, or alignment of environmental policies and regulations. Ultimately, they are expected to demonstrate academic excellence while having a strong societal and policy impact, bridging the gap between science, policy, and practice to achieve effective, sustainable, and inclusive biodiversity restoration.

Resilmesh Open Call 2

Code: 38353 | Identifier Code: ResilMesh | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 03/09/2025 | End submission calls: 05/11/2025

Resilmesh aims at addressing major challenges for security teams, namely an increase in digital infrastructure attack surfaces and their complexity and sophistication, combined with a slow adaptation of organisations’ security systems regarding their security architectures, practices and infrastructure. To this end, Resilmesh will help organisations achieve higher levels of security and resilience by providing them with methods and tools to better manage the complexity of their digital infrastructures and services, combat advanced persistent threats.

Support the roll-out of EU Mobile Driving Licences

Code: 38350 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-TECH-09-MDL | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 09/10/2025 | End submission calls: 09/12/2025

The call focuses on supporting the roll-out of EU Mobile Driving Licences by issuers and verifiers of mobile driving licences.

Support to the development and certification of EU Digital Identity Wallets

Code: 38348 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-TECH-09-WALLET | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 09/10/2025 | End submission calls: 09/12/2025

The call focus on Supporting the development and certification of EU Digital Identity Wallets that includes support to the development, conformance testing of wallets and to the preparation of national certification schemes.

Icing in the context of sustainable aviation

Code: 38340 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-15 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

The field of aircraft icing is of particular importance because it relates to the safety of flight facing adverse weather conditions, which became increasingly extreme during the last decade.

The aviation industry is working to develop clean and sustainable aviation. There is the need to innovate while maintaining safety.

Predicting and avoiding road crashes based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data

Code: 38337 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-14 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

One of the principles of the Safe System Approach is to turn from mainly re-active to pro-active management of road safety, i.e. not to derive needs for intervention primarily from crash investigations, but to intervene before serious crashes happen.

The ubiquitous gathering of ever-growing amounts of data and their processing in the digital transport system support this idea providing valuable information on traffic situations and events. Potential data sources include amongst others: smart phones, wearables, connected vehicles, drones, road-side sensors (e.g. camera, radar), etc.

Progress in computing power, in the accuracy of location services and in video analytics are further enablers in the processing and analysis of such data in order to identify safety-critical situations or conflicts based on surrogate safety metrics.

Safety of Cyclists, Pedestrians and Users of Micromobility Devices

Code: 38334 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-13 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

The share of trips made by active modes is increasing, which is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This increase is linked to cities actively placing more focus on the mobility and safety needs of pedestrians, cyclists, e-cyclists and users of other micro-mobility device, which materialises in new regulations, and in new or improved infrastructure. However, pedestrians and cyclists remain heavily affected by crashes.

Concurrently, the use of electrically assisted devices (such as e-bikes, e-scooters, e-cargo bikes, mobility systems used by people with disabilities, etc.) – to be referred to as micromobility modes – is increasing exponentially because these modes represent an efficient means of personal mobility, as well as a new and effective mode for the last-mile delivery of goods within the city area. Micromobility modes, shared and owned, have been adopted by commuters, tourists, the elderly, food and goods delivery companies, and come in varying sizes and operating speeds.

When their use emerged, micromobility modes were associated with high hospitalisation rates, mainly for the micromobility users themselves, but also pedestrians and cyclists. While efforts have been made to regularise and standardise these vehicles, especially in the case of shared e-scooters, there is still a significant knowledge gap related to the operational safety of these vehicles in cities.

Integrating inland waterway transport in smart shipping and multimodal logistics chains

Code: 38331 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

While the increased use of sustainable transport modes and multimodal solutions are critical levers for transport, logistics and supply chain decarbonisation, and despite obvious environmental advantages, the modal share of the EU IWT sector has remained below expectations over the last decades.

The seamless integration of inland waterway transport in multimodal supply chains requires the physical and digital connection to other land transport modes and maritime transport. Digitalisation is not a goal in itself but an important supporting development required to remain competitive and to improve the connectivity to ports, other transport modes and the clients (e.g. to keep the direct costs low and to allow synchromodal solutions).

Digital interconnectivity (with logistics systems and other digital platforms for transport) is crucial to increase the modal share of IWT in multimodal logistics chains and to be able to significantly contribute to the modal shift goals as presented in the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy.

Reliable data and practices to measure and calculate transport emissions in multimodal transport chains

Code: 38328 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transport represent around 25% of total man-made GHG emissions and continue to grow.

The negative impact of these is further strengthened by the existence of other external costs of transport, including air pollution, noise, congestion and accidents.

The EU, Member States and industry have made considerable efforts to reduce transport-related GHG emissions and associated external costs.

Accurate and reliable information on emissions is an important tool to increase effectiveness of specific emission reduction measures undertaken by public authorities and businesses.

Accelerating freight transport and logistics digital innovation

Code: 38326 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

Electronic Freight Transport Information (eFTI) platforms established in line with Regulation 2020/1056 will play a central role in facilitating the implementation of business-to-authority (B2A) information exchange processes related to multimodal transport of goods.

In line with the Regulation’s requirements, common specifications for a single comprehensive data set and harmonised protocols for data sharing will ensure interoperability of the information shared electronically between actors, and the requirements for rights-based access-control system will establish safeguards for cybersecurity and trust.

The use of electronic means to exchange regulatory information is also expected to reduce administrative costs for economic operators, to enhance the efficiency of freight transport services and to facilitate green transformation of the logistics sector.

Innovative construction and maintenance, with the use of new materials and techniques, for resilient and sustainable transport infrastructure

Code: 38323 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2026-01-D6-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 25/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

The overarching policy background is the European Grean Deal, which aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

In the transport area, this translates into a 90% reduction of transport-related greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

To deliver the European Green Deal, there is a need to revise and upgrade numerous policies, including those for transport and large-scale infrastructures.