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Europe's Rail joint undertaking is the EU partnership that wants to transform our European rail network and industry. Earlier this month they have published a series of new calls for proposals which you can find here. For those organisations that are new to this partnership, we would kindly ask you to have a look at their research priorities and discover their three pillars: innovations, systems and deployment. You can read more about it on their website or on our infosheet. Europe's Rail has also made a Q&A overview and a explanatory video about the call which you can find here.
2025-11-13 EITToday the European Institute of innovation and technology (EIT) has officially announced that the consortium Allwaters has been awarded the contract for the new knowledge and innovation community, EIT Water. It consists of 50 partners from 24 countries, including industry partners, universities, research organisations, ports, non-governmental organisations, and small and medium-sized enterprises. There are 4 partners from Flanders: an De Nul NV, De Blauwe Cluster, Aquafin and North Sea Port Flanders. You can learn more about the Allwaters team in this factsheet.
2025-11-13 Health Agro-Food, Environment Joint Research CenterThe Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the Commission invites applications for hands-on training at its state-of-the-art Nanobiotechnology Laboratory. This call offers researchers the opportunity to strengthen expertise in nanomaterials, nanomedicines, advanced materials, and micro(nano)plastics, with a focus on their detection, characterisation, and interactions with biological systems. This is a unique opportunity to access cutting-edge facilities and multidisciplinary expertise at the JRC. Training and capacity building priorities: Topic 1: Hands-on training on the detection and characterisation of micro(nano)plastics in media contributing to human exposure (such as food, drinking water, soil) Topic 2: Hands-on training on the detection and characterisation of (innovative) nanomaterials in food, as well as investigation of contaminants arising from food processing of novel ingredients Topic 3: Hands-on training on the synthesis and advanced characterisation of nanomedicines including liposomal drug products, Lipid Nanoparticles-mRNA Topic 4: Hands-on training on 3D bioprinting and imaging techniques Early-career scientists are strongly encouraged to apply. Provisional dates of the training: 23-27 March 2026, Ispra, Italy.More information and application: 2025-1-TCB-NanoBiotech - Nanobiotechnology laboratory - The Joint Research Centre: EU Science Hub. Deadline to apply: 28 November 2025, 23:45 (CET)
2025-11-13 EICInnoMatch is a EU funded project within the framework of the EIC Innovation Procurement Programma. Innomatch helps public and private buyers to find and develop tailor-made solutions together. This programme enables collaboration between buyers and innovative suppliers (only open to EIC Awardees) to address challenges and deploy tailored solutions through a structured innovation procurement process. The buyer will not receive direct funding but the selected EIC awardee will receive up to 60.000 euro of funding and will then try with the public buyer to develop and test a pilot solution or proof-of-concept demonstration that meets their expectations. The next deadline for submission is 4 February 2026. All details can be found here and if you have any additional questions you can contact cristina.roca@iclei.org
2025-11-12 Horizon Europe HorizonEU L+F Digital EuropeOn 10 November 2025, Switzerland and the EU signed an agreement enabling Swiss participation in Horizon Europe and Digital Europe and Euratom, and this retroactively to 1 January 2025. This means that researchers and innovators can participate as beneficiaries in Horizon Europe and Digital Europe from the 2025 programme year onwards and can submit project proposals in the role of coordinators. Many details about participation of Switzerland in Horizon Europe and Digital Europe can be found in an extensive FAQ list of SERI, the Swiss administration. Regarding participation in strategic areas: in Horizon Europe Switzerland receives full access to calls for proposals in strategic areas (artificial intelligence, quantum, communication and network technologies, and space sensitive research topics). Access to certain calls for proposals in the field of space within Horizon Europe is currently still being clarified. In Digital Europe: Switzerland cannot participate in call topics in Specific Objective 3 (cybersecurity) and 6 (semiconductors) Additionally, the agreement lays the groundwork for Switzerland’s future participation in other EU programmes like Erasmus+ (expected to begin in 2027) and EU4Health, which is contingent upon the health agreement's activation within the Switzerland-EU package.
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