InnoNext – Next Generation Innovation Talents’ Initiative

Opened

Code: 36160 | Identifier Code: InnoNext | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 17/03/2025 | End submission calls: 31/07/2026

The purpose of InnoNext is to connect bright deep-tech talents and aspiring innovators with entrepreneurs, startups and SMEs collaborating through Innovation Internships. The InnoNext initiative promotes knowledge exchange and collaboration between top European academic talents, aspiring innovators and startups through fully funded innovation internships.

Budget and Duration:

• EIC Pathfinders: €2.300 for a maximum of 3 months – Total funding: €6.900
• ERC Postdoctoral: €5.300 for a maximum of 3 months – Total funding: €15.900
• ERC PhD students: €4.300 for a maximum of 3 months – Total funding: €12.900

Funding covers a maximum of 3 months even if the placement lasts longer.

MSCA Staff Exchanges 2025

Opened

Code: 36157 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-SE-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 27/03/2025 | End submission calls: 08/10/2025

MSCA Staff Exchanges promote innovative international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in research and innovation through exchanging staff and sharing knowledge and ideas at all stages of the innovation chain. The scheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps turn ideas into innovative products, services or processes. It is open to research, technical, administrative and managerial staff supporting R&I activities.

Preparatory work for counselling structures to support mobile migrant labour

Closed

Code: 36155 | Identifier Code: PPPA-2025-COUNSEL | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 25/03/2025 | End submission calls: 27/05/2025

The general objective of this call for proposals is contributing to the implementation of the key EPSR principles in posting and temporary cross-border mobility of third-country nationals. This call for proposals supports the setting up of one single transnational cooperation project/initiative aiming at developing activities by a consortium of relevant stakeholders with a significant and lasting impact on workers, companies, and trade unions. The aim of this action is to support social partners to facilitate the access of mobile migrant workers to essential information on their entitlements.

The European Capital of Innovation Awards 2026 (iCapital)

Opened

Code: 36153 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-ICAPITAL-PRIZE-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/03/2025 | End submission calls: 18/06/2025

The European Capital of Innovation Awards aim to champion inspiring cases of municipality-enabled innovation flourishing in cities. The Awards are a prestigious recognition for city administrators who are courageous enough to open up their governance practices to experimentation, to boost innovation by all means, to be a role model for other cities, and to push the boundaries of technology for the benefit of their citizens. In addition to the monetary reward, the prize brings high visibility in the form of renewed public interest and increased media coverage.

Organisation of high quality master or porst graduate courses or bachelor courses by Ukrainian universities with conference interpreting components

Closed

Code: 36118 | Identifier Code: EP-LINC-SUBV-2025-CONF-INT-03 | Programme name: 17864 | Start submission calls: 06/03/2025 | End submission calls: 07/05/2025

The Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences (DG LINC) of the European Parliament provides and manages interpretation services for all meetings organised by the European Parliament, as well as other institutions and bodies within the framework of inter-institutional cooperation. For this purpose, DG LINC collaborates with universities and organisations specialising in conference interpreter training to ensure the availability of a sufficient number of qualified conference interpreters to cover the service needs.

This topic focuses on the organisation of high-quality master, post-graduate courses or bachelor courses by Ukrainian universities with conference interpreting components.

Outstanding Research Team Prize

Closed

Code: 36112 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-EDCTP3-2025-OutsResearchTeamPrize | Programme name: 29117 | Start submission calls: 11/03/2025 | End submission calls: 01/04/2025

The EDCTP Prizes 2025 are recognition prizes funded under Horizon Europe. This topic is focused on the Outstanding Research Team Prize.

Prizes are financial contributions given as rewards following the publication of a contest.

A ‘recognition prize’ is used to recognise past achievements and outstanding work after it has been performed, whereas an ‘inducement prize’ is used to spur investment in a given direction, by specifying a target prior to the performance of the work.

Dr Pascoal Mocumbi Prize

Closed

Code: 36110 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-EDCTP3-2025-DrPascoalMocumbiPrize | Programme name: 29117 | Start submission calls: 11/03/2025 | End submission calls: 01/04/2025

The EDCTP Prizes 2025 are recognition prizes funded under Horizon Europe. This topic is focused on the Dr Pascoal Mocumbi Prize.

Prizes are financial contributions given as rewards following the publication of a contest.

A ‘recognition prize’ is used to recognise past achievements and outstanding work after it has been performed, whereas an ‘inducement prize’ is used to spur investment in a given direction, by specifying a target prior to the performance of the work.

Scientific Leadership Prize for a woman resident of sub-Saharan African country that is a member of the EDCTP Association

Closed

Code: 36101 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-EDCTP3-2025-SciLeadershipWomanSSAPrize | Programme name: 29117 | Start submission calls: 11/03/2025 | End submission calls: 01/04/2025

The EDCTP Prizes 2025 are recognition prizes funded under Horizon Europe. This topic focuses on Scientific Leadership Prize for a woman resident of sub-Saharan African country that is a member of the EDCTP Association.

Prizes are financial contributions given as rewards following the publication of a contest.

A ‘recognition prize’ is used to recognise past achievements and outstanding work after it has been performed, whereas an ‘inducement prize’ is used to spur investment in a given direction, by specifying a target prior to the performance of the work.

Scientific Leadership Prize for a man resident of sub-Saharan African country that is a member of the EDCTP Association

Closed

Code: 36098 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-EDCTP3-2025-SciLeadershipManSSAPrize | Programme name: 29117 | Start submission calls: 11/03/2025 | End submission calls: 01/04/2025

The EDCTP Prizes 2025 are recognition prizes funded under Horizon Europe. This topic focuses on Scientific Leadership Prize for a man resident of sub-Saharan African country that is a member of the EDCTP Association.

Prizes are financial contributions given as rewards following the publication of a contest.

A ‘recognition prize’ is used to recognise past achievements and outstanding work after it has been performed, whereas an ‘inducement prize’ is used to spur investment in a given direction, by specifying a target prior to the performance of the work.

Outstanding Female Scientist Prize

Closed

Code: 36096 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-EDCTP3-2025-OutsFemaleScientistPrize | Programme name: 29117 | Start submission calls: 11/03/2025 | End submission calls: 01/04/2025

The EDCTP Prizes 2025 are recognition prizes funded under Horizon Europe. This topic is focused on the Outstanding Female Scientist Prize.

Prizes are financial contributions given as rewards following the publication of a contest.

A ‘recognition prize’ is used to recognise past achievements and outstanding work after it has been performed, whereas an ‘inducement prize’ is used to spur investment in a given direction, by specifying a target prior to the performance of the work.

Scientific Leadership Prize for a man resident of an EU Member State or a country associated with the Horizon Europe programme

Closed

Code: 36091 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-EDCTP3-2025-SciLeadershipManEUPrize | Programme name: 29117 | Start submission calls: 11/03/2025 | End submission calls: 01/04/2025

The EDCTP Prizes 2025 are recognition prizes funded under Horizon Europe. This topic focuses on Scientific Leadership Prize for a man resident of an EU Member State or a country associated with the Horizon Europe programme.

Prizes are financial contributions given as rewards following the publication of a contest.

A ‘recognition prize’ is used to recognise past achievements and outstanding work after it has been performed, whereas an ‘inducement prize’ is used to spur investment in a given direction, by specifying a target prior to the performance of the work.

Scientific Leadership Prize for a woman resident of an EU Member State or a country associated with the Horizon Europe programme

Closed

Code: 36089 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-EDCTP3-2025-SciLeadershipWomanEUPrize | Programme name: 29117 | Start submission calls: 11/03/2025 | End submission calls: 01/04/2025

The EDCTP Prizes 2025 are recognition prizes funded under Horizon Europe. This topic focuses on Scientific Leadership Prize for a woman resident of an EU Member State or a country associated with the Horizon Europe programme.

Prizes are financial contributions given as rewards following the publication of a contest.

A ‘recognition prize’ is used to recognise past achievements and outstanding work after it has been performed, whereas an ‘inducement prize’ is used to spur investment in a given direction, by specifying a target prior to the performance of the work.

Heterogeneous Integration for High-Performance Automotive Computing

Closed

Code: 36087 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2025-IA-HPA | Programme name: 32499 | Start submission calls: 04/03/2025 | End submission calls: 29/04/2025

The Chips JU has in the last couple of years supported several projects on heterogenous integration. The present call is, amongst other objectives, also meant to translate the results of those previous calls into process workflows (TRL 7-8). Implementation of the developed workflows will be integrated in the call on RISC-V hardware platform. This will require a close collaboration between the two consortia that will be enforced when preparing the grants.

Support to EFSA for the risk assessment of pesticides

Closed

Code: 36085 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2025-PREV-02 | Programme name: 29844 | Start submission calls: 04/03/2025 | End submission calls: 22/05/2025

The main objective of the call is to award a four-year Framework partnership agreement (FPA) with multiple organisations belonging to the Article 36 list that will support EFSA for tasks on pesticides falling within the mission of the EFSA PREV, PLANTS and FDP units. The tasks will be related to risk assessments of active substances used in plant protection products, and to risk assessments of pesticide residues in food and feed. This type of cooperation between EFSA and organisations sharing at national level the same objectives of human health and environment protection regarding plant protection products will facilitate the transfer of knowledge and experience between EFSA and these organisations and will increase the overall efficiency of the EU regulatory processes in this sector.

Open-source EDA tools development

Opened

Code: 36083 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-CHIPS-2025-IA-EDA-two-stage | Programme name: 32499 | Start submission calls: 04/03/2025 | End submission calls: 17/09/2025

A key objective of the Chips Act under the Chips for Europe Initiative is the ‘building up of advanced design capacity for integrated semiconductor technologies’.Τhe Initiative shall integrate ‘new design facilities with extended libraries and electronic design automation (EDA) tools’ into a virtual design platform, that will make available a number of open-source tools. Chip design is a vital element in the semiconductor value chain and open-source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools can be key drivers for innovation in this sector by enabling researchers and developers to experiment with new algorithms, architectures, and methodologies.

Further Technological development of Maglev-derived Systems

Closed

Code: 36080 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-ER-JU-2025-FA7-01 | Programme name: 24432 | Start submission calls: 26/02/2025 | End submission calls: 07/05/2025

This topic seeks to enhance the existing railway system by exploring the integration of maglev-derived technologies into existing railway infrastructures to reinforce railways as the backbone of the trans-European multimodal transport network by increasing its capacity and performances. The technical approach to be developed could support the enrichment of the railway system through the integration of maglev-based solution into the existing infrastructure following a principle of overlapping technological layers. This integration aims to implement technological, functional and performance upgrades to existing lines and to ensure interoperability of vehicles with both the magnetic and traditional infrastructure by preserving the flow of traditional trains on the existing railway corridor.

RDA TIGER Cascade Grant Call for Adoption Grants

Closed

Code: 36078 | Identifier Code: RDA TIGER | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 27/02/2025 | End submission calls: 27/04/2025

RDA TIGER is a project funded by the European Commission (GA 101094406), that supports RDA Working Groups that concretely align, harmonise, and standardise Open Science developments and technologies globally. The services it provides will facilitate and support coherent and consistent working group definitions and increase the impact of the key European initiatives on the global level. The RDA TIGER Open Calls seek applications from existing or potential Research Data Alliance (RDA) Working Groups (WGs) that wish to receive RDA TIGER support for their WG activities.

Call 1: Empower civil society to promote the rule of law, participative democracy, and good governance, and to defend civic space and media freedom

Closed

Code: 36076 | Identifier Code: PLATO | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 12/03/2025 | End submission calls: 12/06/2025

The objective of the 1st Open call “Empower civil society to promote the rule of law, participative democracy and good governance, and to defend civic space and media freedom” is to strengthen the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in upholding democratic values, ensuring institutional accountability and reinforce media freedom and pluralism by countering disinformation, and promoting an open civic space where civil society can operate without restrictions.

Fast Track Innovation

Closed

Code: 36050 | Identifier Code: FTI/0325 | Programme name: 2941 | Start submission calls: 04/03/2025 | End submission calls: 30/04/2025

The Fast Track Innovation Programme aims to support existing enterprises from all sectors of activity to invest in the rapid development and promotion of internationally competitive innovative products and services. The Programme includes activities targeting the improvement of the characteristics of existing products/services/processes through research and development activities or the development of new products or the development of services that create new revenue streams into the business within a short period of time.

EIC Pathfinder Open

Closed

Code: 36046 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDEROPEN | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 20/02/2025 | End submission calls: 21/05/2025

The overall objective of the EIC Pathfinder for advanced research is to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. It provides support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development. Pathfinder projects aim to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities by realising innovative technological solutions.

The EIC Pathfinder Open supports early stage development of future technologies (e.g. various activities at low Technology Readiness Levels 1-4), based on high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology, breakthrough research (including ‘deep-tech’).