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Technical problems affected the submission for Cluster 2 and Cluster 6 lump sum proposals in recently closed topics. The main problems were: Slow performance Different person-month figures (in some proposals, the figures entered in the Part A online forms did not match those in the submitted PDF) Incorrect indirect costs (some proposals displayed 0% indirect costs instead of 25%) Missing country correction coefficients The technical problems identified will not put the affected proposals at a disadvantage. Where necessary, the Commission will correct the budget data and add the missing figures. The central services will upgrade the system before reintroducing the lump sum budget section in the Part A online forms. Until then, calls that have not yet opened are expected to use the previous approach, thus applicants will be expected to provide again their detailed lump sum budget in an Excel table.
As it was reported to the Programme Committee at the meeting on 17/09/2026, following the STEP ScaleUp 2026 third batch, due to the first-come, first-served nature of the EIC STEP call, and considering the remaining available budget for the third batch, it is very likely that the 2026 budget will be exhausted with the first three batches. Therefore, as foreseen by the 2026 Work Programme, in the event of budget exhaustion, the EC will cancel the fourth EIC STEP batch of 2026. Accordingly, the call’s closure date will be brought forward to the 8 October 2026 at 17:00 (Brussels time). In light of this, potential EIC STEP applicants are encouraged to submit their proposals under the new 2027 EIC STEP call, which will be opened for submissions in November 2026. For those applicants who have already submitted their proposal for the 4th Batch, EISMEA will send a message requesting to resubmit to the 2027 call and withdraw the 2026 proposal to avoid being in a situation of concurrent submission. For technical and legal reasons it is not possible for the EC to automatically transfer proposals from the 2026 call to the 2027 call as these are two separate calls with different legal bases, application forms, criteria and budgets.
As part of the amended Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026 - 2027, the Commission has published a series of new call topics under the Horizontal Activities Work Programme 2027, including topic HORIZON-NATURE-2027-03-01, which may be of interest to stakeholders active in health research.This topic, titled 'Advancing interdisciplinary, data-driven research at the biodiversity-health interface under a One Health approach', aims to strengthen interdisciplinary research linking biodiversity, ecosystem health, animal health and human health. The topic supports the operationalisation of One Health and Planetary Health approaches through improved data sharing, interoperability and evidence-based policymaking. The planned opening date for the topic is 3 June 2027, with the deadline on 16 September 2027.The €20 million Research and Innovation Action invites the development of multiple use cases addressing biodiversity loss and its impact on health, including infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases and mental health. Proposals are expected to bring together expertise from life sciences, environmental sciences, data science and public health. This topic may therefore be particularly relevant for universities, research institutes, public health organisations, hospitals and other stakeholders working at the interface between environment and health.
2027 Health calls have been brought forward As previously communicated, the main impact for Health applicants concerns the earlier opening dates and deadlines for the 2027 health calls. These changes are now officially confirmed and published in the updated health work programme on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal. Strategic reframing of topic HORIZON-HLTH-2027-03-TOOL-08 This topic has been renamed "Towards the next generation of frontier Artificial Intelligence models for healthcare". References to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) have been removed throughout the text. The topic now focuses on frontier AI models, multimodal health data and European AI infrastructures, while maintaining its original level of ambition. Read the changed topic text here.The topic now explicitly requires the contribution of Social Sciences and Humanities, highlighting the importance of addressing ethical, societal, governance and human-centred aspects of advanced AI development in healthcare. In addition, stricter participation conditions have been introduced. Entities controlled by China can no longer rely on the guarantee mechanism that was available in the original version. Applicants are therefore advised to review ownership structures and consortium composition carefully when preparing proposals for this strategically sensitive topic. Updated policy reference References to the future EU Cardiovascular Health Plan have been updated following the adoption of the Plan in December 2025. These changes do not affect the scope or budget of the cardiovascular health topics. What should you do? The amended Health Work Programme is now available on the Funding & Tenders Portal and should be used as the reference version for proposal preparation. Applicants targeting a 2027 topic are encouraged to check the final topic text and revised call timetable carefully.
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The AI4Culture project, funded under Digital Europe call Data space for cultural heritage (deployment) aims to develop an online capacity building hub for AI technologies in the cultural heritage sector. This hub contributes to the creation of the European common cultural heritage data space, which provides support to the digital transformation of Europe’s cultural sector and fosters the creation and reuse of content in cultural and creative sectors. The Flemish company CrossLang is one of the 12 partners in the project and brings in its year-long expertise in the development of multilingual technology to the transcription and translation of scanned printed and handwritten documents.
