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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.
2026-01-29 ERCThe results of the 2025 European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant call (second deadline date 18 September 2025) were published. Principal Investigators (PIs) with a main ERC Grant that is ongoing or ended after 1 January 2024 are eligible to participate in an ERC 2025 PoC Grant. The ERC PoC Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and are therefore available only to PIs whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research. For this call in total 136 ERC PoC Grants were awarded to PIs working in 23 different countries across Europe. In the ERCEA news article more background on the evaluation results, the full list of winning projects (deadline 1 plus 2) and several project examples are highlighted. Among the 136 selected researchers are five based at Flemish host institutions. The projects of several PIs are presented in the news articles of Universiteit Gent (web article), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Linkedin post) and Universiteit Antwerpen (web article). Sara BALS, Universiteit Antwerpen, “SEEBIC - Secondary-Electron Imaging through Electron-Beam-Induced Current: a Fast and Easy Approach for 3-Dimensional Characterisation of Nanoparticles” which builds on research funded by the 2018 Consolidator Grant “REALNANO - 3D Structure of Nanomaterials under Realistic Conditions” and is the fifth ERC Grant awarded to her (1 Starting, 1 Consolidator, 1 Synergy and 2 Proof of Concept Grant). Kristof COOLS, Universiteit Gent, “TDBEAST - Time-Domain Boundary Element Analysis and Simulation Toolkit” which builds on research funded by the 2020 Consolidator Grant “BET3D -March-on-in-Time: Boundary Element Time-Domain Domain Decomposition Methods”. Michiel DUSSELIER, KU Leuven, “R-U-ZEALOUS - Reactor for Upscaling ZEolite Assembly Leveraged On Unique Stirrers” which builds on research funded by the 2020 Starting Grant “Z-EURECA - ZEolite synthesis in Unusual Reactors for Enhanced Catalysts”. Kiavash MOVAHEDI, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, “PERTURB-Flow - In vivo PERTURB-Flow: high-throughput single-cell perturbation screening for macrophage target discovery” which builds on research funded by the 2022 Consolidator Grant “ReplaceMi - Microglia engineering and replacement to treat brain disease”. Marian VERHELST, KU Leuven, “AigenTech - A Hardware-Aware AI Execution Framework for Edge AI Accelerators” which builds on research funded by the 2022 Consolidator Grant BINGO - Outplaying the hardware lottery for embedded AI and is the third ERC Grant awarded to her (1 Starting, 1 Consolidator and 1 Proof of Concept Grant).
2026-01-28 Enhancing EU R&I Horizon EuropeThe European Commission has launched a call for evidence to help shape the first action plan for women in research, innovation and start-ups. The EU’s action plan will address persistent gender gaps and promote diversity, equality and inclusiveness in the European Research Area (ERA). The plan aims to make the ERA the world’s most attractive place for women to work in research, innovation and startups by 2030. This initiative is aligned with the Choose Europe campaign, promoting the continent's research environment, quality of life and dedication to diversity and inclusion. The call is open to contributions from citizens, businesses, policymakers, academics and civil society organisations. It is open until 23 February 2026 on the Have Your Say portal.
2026-01-23 Horizon Europe HorizonEU L+FThe personnel cost of SME owners and natural persons beneficiaries has to be declared by using the unit cost (daily rate) fixed by the authorisation decision C(2020)7155 and set out in Annex 2a, as explained in the Annotated Model Grant Agreement p 64. This Annex 2a has been updated again in December, stating the following SME owner unit cost expressed as daily rates: For calls with opening date before 30 July 2024: {EUR 5 080 / 18 days = 282,22} multiplied by{country-specific correction coefficient of the country where the beneficiary is established} For calls with opening date as from 30 July 2024: {EUR 8 745,40 / 18 days = 485,85} multiplied by {country-specific orrection coefficient of the country where the beneficiary is established} For calls with opening date as from 16 December 2025: {EUR 9271 / 18 days = 515,06} multiplied by {country-specific correction coefficient of the country where the beneficiary is established} The country-specific correction coefficients used are those set out in the Horizon Europe Work Programme (section Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions) in force at the time of the call (see Portal Reference Documents). For Belgium this coefficient equals 1.
2026-01-22 Culture and societyNet4Society, the NCP network for Cluster 2, has published the latest edition of the document "Opportunities for Researchers from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Horizon Europe". This document is designed to help potential applicants to find SSH-related call topics across the different parts of Horizon Europe in Work Programmes 2026-2027. The document can be downloaded here.
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Circusol is an Innovation Action project funded under a cross-cutting work programme part of Horizon 2020. Circusol aims at unleashing the full potential of circular business models, in particular Product-Service Systems, in simultaneously delivering real environmental, economic and user benefits. By that, Circusol aims to establish solar power as a spearhead sector in demonstrating a path driven by service-based businesses towards a circular economy in Europe.
A strong Flemish partnership in new Horizon 2020 project on circular economy business demonstrators, including VITO (Coordinator), IMEC, Ecopower cvba, Futech bvba, PV Cycle aisbl and Daidalos Peutz bvba.
