European Excellence Initiative (EEI)

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Code: 36435 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-01-ACCESS-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/05/2025 | End submission calls: 20/11/2025

The European Excellence Initiative in its widening dimension aims to raise excellence in science and in knowledge valorisation of Europe’s universities through cooperation. The action will engage with universities and empower them further to be actors of change in R&I. Cooperation of universities will be supported to create critical R&I mass and pursue specific objectives that contribute to accelerating key R&I areas of own choice with strategic relevance for the European Union.

Implementing co-funded action plans for connected regional innovation valleys in widening countries

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Code: 36432 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-05-ACCESS-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 14/05/2025 | End submission calls: 15/10/2025

The aim of this topic is to foster the creation of efficient, open, inclusive and interconnected European innovation ecosystems in line with the New European Innovation Agenda, notably in thematic/technological areas (including deep tech) that will be critical for EU value chains. It will also contribute to the twin green and digital transition and a resilient society, and to the net-zero objective, particularly in the areas of reducing reliance on the fossil fuels, increasing global food security, mastering the digital transformation (including cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence), improving healthcare, and achieving circularity.

Preparatory Actions – European Narratives Observatory to fight Disinformation – Detecting influence campaigns and boosting societal resilience

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Code: 36430 | Identifier Code: Call CNECT/2024/1917891 | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 30/04/2025 | End submission calls: 16/06/2025

The aim of this Call for Proposals is to further build on the results of successful EU projects in the field of narrative analysis and monitoring, notably on the Narratives Observatory Combatting Disinformation in Europe Systemically (NODES), the Predictive Research On Misinformation & Propagation Trajectories (PROMPT) project, as well as the Vera.AI and AI4Trust projects. To further advance the state of the art in the understanding of the impact of narratives on society, as well as the development of concrete methodologies, tools and approaches to monitor and engage with them, this call for proposals will fund two projects.

1. The first one will focus on the monitoring of narratives and the detection of malicious campaigns in the EU’s information space.
2. The second will focus on assessing the concrete impact that online disinformation has on citizens and propose and implement meaningful strategies to reduce societal polarisation.

Preparatory Action – Network of European fact-checkers to fight disinformation – Boosting the visibility of fact-checking content in Europe

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Code: 36426 | Identifier Code: Call CNECT/2024/1910855 | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 30/04/2025 | End submission calls: 16/06/2025

The general objective of this preparatory action is to increase the reach and impact of professional content produced by independent fact-checking organisations in the EU which helps citizens to critically assess the veracity of information they encounter online and offline, better understand the phenomenon of disinformation and the strategies behind it and develop media literacy skills to effectively identify and resist disinformation. The projects should focus in particular on reaching audiences and territories targeted by and exposed to disinformation, with a specific emphasis on pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda in order to increase societal resilience.

P2R Second Call for Regions and Communities

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Code: 36424 | Identifier Code: P2R | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 20/08/2025

The Pathways2Resilience (P2R) project aims to increase the resilience of European regions and communities in the face of climate change. P2R is a five-year project implemented by a consortium of 14 organisations, coordinated by EIT Climate-KIC. As part of its work, P2R will support at least 100 regions/communities within EU Member States or Associated Countries that are within Europe’s biogeographical regions, over the course of two calls, to co-design visions of a climate resilient future and corresponding transformative adaptation pathways and innovation agendas that ensure long-term impact. Particular attention is needed for less developed regions/communities that are vulnerable to climate impacts and have low adaptive capacity. As such the selection process will prioritise regions/communities with heightened vulnerability.

P2R’s goal is to put together a diverse and inclusive portfolio of regions, ensuring a comprehensive validation of the Regional Resilience Journey (RRJ) and Adaptation Investment Cycle (AIC) frameworks.

Call for proposals for action grants to support transnational projects in the fields of e-Justice, victims’ rights and procedural rights

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Code: 36422 | Identifier Code: JUST-2025-JACC-EJUSTICE | Programme name: 2915 | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/10/2025

This call aims to facilitate effective and non-discriminatory access to justice for all, and effective redress, including by electronic means (e-Justice), by promoting efficient civil, and criminal procedures, and by promoting and supporting the rights of all victims of crime as well as the procedural rights of suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings.

Climate Change Mitigation

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Code: 36415 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-CCM | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Projects under the Climate Change Mitigation Priority Area will support the implementation of the European Green Deal by contributing to the objectives and targets set out in the EU Climate Law and to the intermediate Union climate target to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% compared to 1990 levels by 2030.

Technical Assistance – Replication – Nature & Biodiversity and Circular Economy & Quality of Life

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Code: 36413 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-TA-R-NAT-ENV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The topics under this call for proposals concern LIFE Technical Assistance for Replication Projects (TA-R). TA-R projects should provide technical assistance to prepare for and/or facilitate the up-scaling and replication of results from other projects funded by the LIFE Programme, its predecessor programmes or other EU funding programmes.

LIFE-2025-TA-R — Technical Assistance for Replication:
The objectives of Technical Assistance – Replication (TA-R) projects are to facilitate and enable the upscaling or replication of results achieved by projects funded under the LIFE programme or, funded under another EU programme provided that these results fulfil the objectives of the LIFE programme. Only proposals responding to the priorities of the sub-programmes ‘Nature and Biodiversity’ and/or ‘Circular Economy and Quality of Life’ as described above will be eligible for this call.

Strategic Integrated Projects – Climate Action

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Code: 36410 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-STRAT-CLIMA-SIP-two-stage | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

Climate change adaptation SIPs should help achieve the objectives of Article 5 of the European Climate Law or the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, contributing to address the climate-risks identified in the Communication on Managing Climate Risks.

In order to do so, SIPs should support the implementation of national climate change adaptation strategies or plans, as required under the European Climate Law, or comparable regional, multi-regional or transnational strategies and plans. More specifically, they are expected to select and implement a clearly defined set of actions in the corresponding adaptation strategy or plan, which are to be financed by LIFE. Applicants should explain how and to what extent this set of actions will help to implement the overall strategy or plan.

Strategic Integrated Projects – Environment

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Code: 36405 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-STRAT-ENV-SIP-two-stage | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

The aim is to support the full implementation of the following plans and strategies:

• Circular Economy
• Waste
• Water
• Air
• Noise

SIPs (‘Strategic Integrated Projects’) should aim to fully implement the above strategies. This may not mean that the SIPs will cover all the actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SIPs. However, the SIPs should include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise additional commitments and funding that will lead, in due course, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy.

SIPs should promote the coordination and mobilisation of other relevant EU, national or private funding sources for the implementation of complementary measures or actions outside the SIPs within the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving priority to EU funding.

Strategic Nature Projects

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Code: 36403 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-STRAT-NAT-SNAP-two-stage | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

SNaPs target the implementation of the following types of plans, strategies or action plans required by specific EU environmental legislation or policy:

• the Prioritised Action Frameworks (PAF) pursuant to Article 8 of Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna and flora (the Habitats Directive) and;
• National restoration plans pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 of the European Parliament and the Council on Nature Restoration and;
• other plans or strategies adopted at international, national, regional or multiregional level by nature and biodiversity authorities, that implement EU nature and/or biodiversity policy or legislation (e.g. EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, Nature Restauration Regulation, EU Pollinators Initiative, Invasive Alien Species Regulation) which foresee specific and measurable actions, or targets, with a clear timeline and budget.

SNaPs should aim at the full implementation of the targeted plan/strategy/action plan and, together with the complementary measures needed to achieve full implementation, remove all remaining administrative, financial, structural and other barriers for its implementation.

They should support the plan/strategy/action plan on a large territorial scale, meaning regional, multi-regional, national or transnational.

They should typically be coordinated by the authority responsible for the implementation of the plan/strategy/action plan (see consortium composition requirements in section 6) and must involve the stakeholders that are instrumental for its successful implementation.

SNaPs should also include a mobilisation and coordination mechanism for additional funding sources for the complementary measures (EU, national, private, etc.).

The objective of a SNaP project is to support the achievement of EU nature and biodiversity objectives by implementing coherent programmes of action in Member States in order to mainstream those objectives and priorities into other policies and financing instruments.

Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities (PLP) for the green transition in Urban spaces

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Code: 36400 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-PLP-URBAN | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The proposed projects under the topic shall aim to address the following specific priority identified by the Member States: Accelerating the green transition in urban spaces by testing integrated innovative solutions addressing energy, nature and climate.

Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the fields of Nature & Biodiversity and Circular Economy & Quality of Life

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Code: 36398 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-PLP-NAT-ENV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The proposed seven (7) specific priorities under this topic shall aim to address the following specific needs identified by the Member States in the sub-programme Circular Economy and Quality of Life and in the sub-programme Nature and Biodiversity.

Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the field of Clean Energy Transition

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Code: 36395 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-PLP-ENER | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The proposed projects under this topic shall aim to address the following specific needs identified by the Member States in the sub-programme ‘Clean Energy Transition‘: Real world energy consumption of energy-related products.

Nature and Biodiversity

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Code: 36393 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-SAP-NAT-NATURE | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Under this topic, projects shall lead to a smart and outcome-based implementation of the EU nature and biodiversity legislation14 and the EU biodiversity strategy for 203015. Only wild flora and fauna and natural and semi-natural habitats may be targeted.
They shall fall under at least one of the two following areas of intervention:

• Intervention area: “Space for Nature”
  Any project aimed at improving the condition of species or habitats through areabased conservation or restoration measures falls within the eligible scope of the intervention area “Space for Nature”.
• Intervention area: “Safeguarding our species”
  Any project aimed at improving the condition of species (or, in the case of invasive alien species, reducing their impact) through any relevant activities other than area based conservation or restoration measures falls within the scope of the intervention area “Safeguarding our species”.

Nature Governance and Information

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Code: 36390 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-SAP-NAT-GOV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The present Call topic targets Standard Action Projects (SAP) aimed at achieving the objectives of the LIFE Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme by improving governance and information at all levels (as defined in sections 1 and 2 of the Call document).

This call topic focuses exclusively on governance and information projects.

Under this topic, projects shall lead to a smart and outcome-based implementation of the EU nature and biodiversity legislation.

Projects should cover one or more of the following general objectives:

• Behavioural change and awareness-raising initiatives
• Compliance assurance, as well as public participation and access to justice

Promoting complementary pathways linked to education

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Code: 36388 | Identifier Code: AMIF-2025-TF2-AG-INTE-04-PATHWAYS | Programme name: 18714 | Start submission calls: 03/04/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

The general objective of the topic is to increase the impact and the sustainability of complementary pathways linked to education by increasing the number of admission places offered to refugees and the quality of the programmes.

This should be achieved via one or more of the following specific objectives:

• Facilitated enrolment of persons in need of protection displaced in a non-EU country in European higher education institutions or recognised institutions offering vocational education and training, with a particular focus on areas of studies linked to the needs of the EU labour market;
• Creation of the necessary (facilitated) procedures and support structures to enable admission of skilled persons in need of international protection through complementary education pathway programmes. The procedures and structures developed should match the needs of the specific refugees to be admitted in education programmes and, at the same time, be replicable and serve as a footprint for admissions in the future.
• Promotion of new initiatives or improvement of existing ones led by local actors in the receiving country, e.g., civil society organisations, diaspora communities, local authorities, etc.
• Increased sustainability of programmes for pathways linked to education by leveraging funding tools during and post implementation of projects.
• Increased direct involvement of relevant Member States’ authorities in legal pathways programmes.

European Initiatives – National Development (PRIMA)

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Code: 36382 | Identifier Code: P2P/PRIMA/0525 | Programme name: 2941 | Start submission calls: 09/05/2025 | End submission calls: 15/07/2025

Participation in the European PRIMA Partnership aims to encourage Cypriot organisations to participate in international research and development projects related to water management, agroecology and food systems. In addition, it aims at networking and cooperation of Cypriot organisations with foreign organisations through their participation in international research and development projects.

Closing date of call:

• 08/07/2025 (PRIMA)
• 15/7/2025 (IRIS)

Vision ERC

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Code: 36373 | Identifier Code: VISION ERC/0525 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 09/05/2025 | End submission calls: 17/12/2025

The VISION ERC Programme aims to promote scientific excellence, which constitutes a fundamental basis for the sustainable development of the RTDI System, through the funding of pioneering research projects in cutting-edge areas. The Program must contribute to creating growth prospects for the local economy and addressing contemporary social and other challenges.

Submission Deadline: Open Call until 17 December 2025 13:00 or the exhaustion of the available budget.

Measures to support Member States in the field of protection of children in migration

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Code: 36369 | Identifier Code: AMIF-2025-TF2-AG-INTE-05-CHILDREN | Programme name: 18714 | Start submission calls: 03/04/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

The objective of the topic is to stimulate and support capacity building and the sharing of experience among national authorities and other stakeholders on how to conduct age assessment in line with the multi-disciplinary approach required by Article 25 of the Asylum Procedures Regulation (2024/1348). (’APR’).

The number of migrant children arriving to the EU unaccompanied or separated from their parents has been again on the rise over the last years. Upon arrival on EU territory, it is important to promptly identify among the migrants the children who are travelling unaccompanied or separated from their families. When unaccompanied children are not identified promptly after arrival, they may face inadequate reception conditions, not receive the specific representation and support that they need, or they may even face administrative detention in relation to their migration status, along with adults. They will also be at greater risk of falling into the hands of traffickers or becoming victims of crime or exploitation.
The identity and age of migrant children is often unclear, as many arrive without documentation. Determining the age of the person is essential in order to be able to channel the person to the appropriate procedure and reception. When there are substantiated doubts about an applicant’s age, the authorities may carry out a so-called “age assessment” – defined as “the process by which authorities seek to establish the chronological age, or range of age, of a person in order to determine whether an individual is a child or not”. The surge in the arrival of unaccompanied migrant children in the last few years also had an impact on the way in which age assessments were carried out in the Member States.  Α sufficient coordination mechanism on national level for taking into account the input from different experts should be in place while implementing the multidisciplinary approach.

Despite the existing guidance on age assessment, it is clear from the Member States feedback that for a more harmonised approach across the EU and for getting Pact-ready, further support for building capacity and enhancing knowledge about multidisciplinary age assessment is needed.