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New year, new opportunities. The Horizon Europe 2026-2027 work programme was published in December and new calls have recently opened or will open soon. Under the Digital Europe programme, several calls are currently open (deadline March 2026) and a new wave of calls is expected in spring.Are you exploring your options or already developing a proposal? NCP Flanders provides a number of tools and services to support you along the way: Want to learn more about open and forthcoming funding opportunities? Have a look at our call topic overview. Building a consortium and looking for suitable partners? One of your options is to look at our partner search section. Also check our country eligibility tool, especially if you consider involving non-EU partners. Looking for support to prepare your proposal? Contact your institution's support office or have a look how NCP Flanders can support you. Find out more about all the services NCP Flanders provides here.
The European Commission and/or its agencies organise info days on the 2026 call topics and these are often complemented by brokerage events, organised by National Contact Point (NCP) networks and/or the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN). These events provide opportunities to connect with potential collaboration partners. In addition, several programmes offer dedicated matchmaking platforms to facilitate partner searches. Here is an overview of the upcoming info days and brokerage events with the link to the event webpage, which you can find in our event calendar as well. When new dates and information will be made known subsequently this overview will be updated. The matchmaking platforms are included in the overview as well. Pillar 1 European Research Council (ERC) 29/04/2026 mERCury webinar - Towards an ERC Advanced Grant: From groundbreaking idea to successful proposal Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Radiance MSCA Matchmaking Platform 16/02/2026 Networking and Brokerage Event on MSCA Staff Exchanges Call 2026 – Ukraine 23/02/2026 International Brokerage Event on Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchanges 03/03/2026 Q&A session MSCA Staff Exchanges call 2026 (REA) 03/06/2026 MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026 Call info day (REA&EAC) Research infrastructures 18/03/2026 (info day) 1-4/06/2026 (RICH Europe Proposal Check Workshop 2026 for Horizon Europe Research Infrastructure Topics) Pillar 2 Cluster 1 Health26-30/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 10/2/2026 (info day) Cluster 2 Culture, creativity & inclusive society26/3/2026 (info day) and 1-2/6/2026 (brokerage event) Cluster 3 Civil security for society 04/03/2026 (info day) Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space29-30/1/2026 (info day) and Ideal-ist online brokerage platform Cluster 5 Climate, energy & mobility14/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 15/1/2026 (info day) and Greenet Partner Search Tool Cluster 6 Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture & environment21/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 22-23/1/2026 (info day) and 10/12/2025 Care4Bio Information session on tools for applicants Clusters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and EU Mission Cities with STEM or SSH expertise relevant to AI - Artificial intelligence in Horizon Europe calls: an interdisciplinary challenge 25/2/2026 (brokerage event - 2026 and 2027 call topics) Horizontal Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area (WIDERA) 11/12/2025 (ERA info day - 2026 and 2027 call topics) and 17/12/2026 (ERA brokerage event) and 22/1/2026 (Widening info day) EU Missions 20-21/1/2026 (info day) and 28-29/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 16/12/2026 Workshop: From Policy to Practice – Regional and Local Impacts of EU Missions and HE Clusters. New European Bauhaus Facility 24/02/2026 (info day) and 05/03/2026 (brokerage event) More information about the publication of the Horizon Europe Main Work Programme 2026-2027 can be found in this NCP Flanders news article.
The EU Commission has added a new lump sum detailed budget table to some call topics under HORIZON-CL6-2026-01, which is embedded directly in the Part A application forms. This means that applicants to the concerned lump sum topics will no longer need to fill out and upload the lump sum budget Excel file. The lump sum budget table in the online Part A forms requires the same level of information as the Excel template, and the budget will be assessed in the same way as before. Detailed instructions on how to fill in the budget table are included in the online form itself. As the roll-out of the online table is gradual, the new budget table format will not be applied to all lump sum topics immediately. During the transition time, there will be lump sum topics with the Excel file or with the online budget form running in parallel. At the time of publication of this news article, the online budget table already applies to the following HORIZON-CL6-2026-01 call topics: HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-05 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-09 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-06 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-05 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-06 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-03 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-11 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-02 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-03 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-01 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-02 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-04 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-10 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-04 HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-07
The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) partnership has published the draft text of its upcoming call for proposals, foreseen to open in summer 2026. The following topics are under consideration for inclusion in IHI call 13: IHI European healthcare incubator network An AI foundation toxicology model and framework to support waiving a second species in drug safety studies Decode the immuno-science of age-related mediated diseases These topics are currently under consultation and may therefore have changed considerably at the moment of the call launch. Applicants should check the final, approved topic texts once they are published. More information is available on the IHI dedicated webpage.IHI will hold info sessions about the call around the time of the launch; these will cover the topics as well as our rules and procedures.
The Start-up Grant Agreement (SUGA) governing the start-up phase of EIT Water has now been signed. Its main objective is to establish the governance structures and lay the foundations for long-term financial sustainability in line with the EIT’s model. EIT Water will take on Europe's most urgent water challenges: scarcity, drought, and ooding; ecosystem degrada on in oceans, lakes, and rivers the shi to a circular and blue economy EIT Water will also develop its Strategic Agenda and build a growing pan-European network of partners across the water, marine and maritime sectors, expanding its current partnership. As part of its start-up phase, it is developing a network of Co-Location Centres across Europe, providing access to its services and the EIT’s Europe-wide network for innovators, students, and entrepreneurs. These centres are located in: • Headquarters – CLC North: Aarhus, Denmark • CLC United Kingdom and Ireland: Leeds, United Kingdom • CLC Central and Baltic: Berlin, Germany • CLC West: Antwerp, Belgium • CLC Central and Danube: Vienna, Austria • CLC South: Sibenik, Croatia • CLC Iberian Peninsula: Malaga, Spain • CLC Black Sea: Varna, Bulgaria Learn more about EIT Water
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Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.
NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic.
