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2025-10-29 Climate, Energy, Mobility EIT

Strategic innovation call of the EIT urban mobility

The EIT urban mobility has an open strategic innovation call which focuses on 5 key sectors:  Urban logistics, Public transport, Mobility data management, Electrification of transport and alternative fuels, and Health and mobility.  Important in this call is that cities are an integral partner of the project so they should be included. The call focuses thus on supporting market-critical projects that tackle clearly defined problems faced by cities, public authorities, and mobility providers.  You can find all the (registration and information) details on this website. The next cut-off date is 12 February 2026. Background: The European institute of Innovation and Technology stands at the crossroad of business creation, innovation and education. It consists of ten knowledge and innovation communities of which the EIT urban mobility is one of them. The overal objective is to transform promising innovations into succesful companies

2025-10-29 Cybersecurity

New Cybersecurity calls under Digital Europe

The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) has opened a new call under the Digital Europe programme. The call contains four call topics: Cybersecure tools, technologies and services relying on AI Uptake of innovative cybersecurity solutions for SMEs Regional Cable Hubs Coordinated preparedness testing and other preparedness actions Deadline to submit proposals is 31 March 2026.

2025-10-24 Health AI Continent

Commission launches flagship initiative to increase use of AI in healthcare

The Commission has launched COMPASS-AI – a new initiative that includes the establishment of a community of experts to advance the safe and effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. This is one of the flagship measures in the Commission’s recent Apply AI Strategy. The initiative aims to promote the responsible and effective integration of AI into clinical settings.  It will focus, in particular, on two priority areas: cancer care and healthcare in remote areas.The initiative intends to launch an interactive digital platform to map best practices and facilitate knowledge exchange, to deliver AI deployment guidelines and to raise AI literacy in the health sector. More information can be found in the Commission's press release. 

2025-10-24 Cybersecurity

New Cybersecurity calls under Digital Europe

The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) has published a new call under the Digital Europe programme. The call contains 4 call topics: Uptake of innovative cybersecurity solutions for SMEs Cybersecure tools, technologies and services relying on AI Regional Cable Hubs Coordinated preparedness testing and other preparedness actions The call will open on 28 October 2025, deadline to submit proposals is 31 March 2026.

2025-10-23 Health

Innovative Health Initiative Call 12 Opens in Early 2026

The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) partnership has published the draft text of its upcoming call for proposals, foreseen to open early 2026. IHI Call 12 will take an applicant-driven approach. Proposals must align with the IHI Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and demonstrate a clear impact on society, the economy, and science. Interested parties can register for the brokerage event organised by IHI and taking place in Brussels on 4-5 November 2025. The deadline to present project proposals during the pitching sessions is 27 October.More information on upcoming IHI Call 12, dowload of the draft text and registration for the brokerage event on the dedicated IHI webpage.

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SeaFoodTomorrow - improving the safety and dietary properties of seafood

The Project SeafoodTomorrow is a project that is approved within the call BG-08-2017: Innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and dietary properties of seafood.

The three-year SeafoodTomorrow project brings together 34 partners. From Flanders, ILVO takes part in the project.They are responsible for setting up two databases which are the central point of the project to gather all the project data from analysis and assessement. ILVO is also leader of the workpackage dealing with authenticity, traceability and labelling. ILVO is also involved a the workpackage about novel food preparation. And in the managerial part, ILVO is head of the IPC- Intellectual Property Comité.