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The project VALLEYS aims to strengthen knowledge valorisation in Europe by building a network of knowledge valorisation intermediaries connecting more than 150 organisations from over 25 countries, empowering organisations such as TTOs, incubators, science parks, clusters, and citizen engagement entities to adopt and scale the EU Guiding Principles (2022) and Codes of Practice for Knowledge Valorisation. The VALLEYS project includes a cascade funding programme making available €500.000 through two open calls to support external organisations in testing and implementing innovative approaches to knowledge valorisation (up to 25 projects). The first of two open calls funds six-months pilot projects that must address at least one of the four EU Codes of Practice for Knowledge Valorisation: Intellectual Assets Management (2023), Standardisation (2023), Industry-Academia Co-creation (2024) and Citizen Engagement for Knowledge Valorisation (2024). Applicants can choose from three strands for which they can apply: Strand A Toolbox Integration Pilots Deployment and institutional use of the VALLEYS Knowledge Valorisation Toolbox, including AI-enabled assistants. Activities include installing or customising the Toolbox, embedding it into workflows, training staff, testing real cases, and producing documented case studies. Up to €10.000 per project. Strand B Cross-border Mobility and Secondments Structured staff exchanges between two knowledge valorisation intermediaries from two different countries, transferring practices in areas such as IP management, standardisation, co-creation brokerage, or citizen engagement. One organization acts as the host and the other as the guest. Up to €30.000 per project. Two partners from two different countries. Strand C Combined Approaches Integrated actions combining cross-border mobility with Toolbox adoption. Up to €40.000 per project. Two partners from two different countries. For each strand expected outputs have been defined. The call is open for applications from legal entities from EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries and must be a knowledge valorisation intermediary as defined by VALLEYS. The first open call has a budget of up to €210.000 available for up to 11 projects. The first call is open from 19 October to 14 December 2026 17:00 CET. Results of the evaluation and selection are expected to be communicated to the applicants by the end of January, and projects are expected to start as of April 2027. All information related to the first call, including the Guide for applicants and application forms, is available here on the VALLEYS project website. The info day on strand A takes place on 28 October 2026. More information is available here. The info day on strand B and C takes place on 9 November 2026. More information is available here. The second call is expected to open on 7 October 2027 and close on 15 December 2027. Background The project VALLEYS - Valorisation Alliance Linking Laboratories, Enterprises and societY Stakeholders (Cordis project page), is one out of 17 projects that have received funding under the Horizon Europe ERA 2025 call HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-01 Rolling out the ERA Policy Agenda results. This project aims to contribute to achieving the objectives in the ERA Structural Policy Upscaling knowledge valorisation capacities and activities and ERA Action 7 (ERA Policy Agenda (2025-2027) and 2022-2024)). The German SME Atrineo AG leads the project consortium consisting of the following partners: the Spanish subsidiary Atrineo Iberia, Sploro and the Spanish based International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP), the French private-for-profit entity Three O’clock, Greek SME ideas forward and UK private-for-profit entity St. John’s Innovation Centre.
The Bridging actions call in the updated Horizon Europe work programme 2026-2027 Horizontal Activities includes three grants to identified beneficiaries, i.e. not open calls for proposals, with a total earmarked budget of 65 million euro. The explanation provided by the European Commission for the earmarked budget for three life sciences databases is that ‘many of these resources depend on fragmented and short-term funding, putting their long-term maintenance and service continuity under pressure. ... The support will cover the specialised scientific and technical work needed to maintain these resources, curate their content and keep pace with growing volumes of biological data. The funding is subject to evaluation of grant agreements, following normal Horizon Europe procedures.’ The breakdown of the budget is as follows: GENCODE - €19 million: to sustain high-quality information on genes, supporting research into how the genome works and its role in health and disease. The action will involve the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation. UniProt - €30 million: to maintain and develop information on proteins and their functions, supporting biomedical research and biotechnology. The action will involve its European consortium partners, EMBL-EBI and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Europe PMC - €8 million: to sustain access to life sciences research literature and its links to underlying scientific data. The action will be carried out by EMBL-EBI. All information is available in the European Commission news article.
The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) anniversary communication material features a selection of projects and testimonials highlighting the researchers, projects and collaborations supported by MSCA over the past three decades. Through these stories, the material celebrates the achievements of the MSCA community and illustrates how MSCA-funded research has helped advance scientific knowledge, support innovation, contribute to society and supported the career of researchers. This publication contains communication resources to support your outreach and help share stories of MSCA achievements and impact across Europe and beyond. Among others, it contains: A selection of MSCA projects Editable assets of 12 MSCA projects which can also be easily adapted to any other project of your choice relevant to your networks. Available here. Fellow stories A selection of 16 testimonials of MSCA fellows across 3 decades representing different career paths, fields, countries and experiences. It describes their top three career milestones during or since the MSCA grant. Available here. Anniversary webpage articles A selection of 34 articles on a variety of topics, from Marie Sklodowska-Curie and radium research, to guidance (MSCA guidelines on supervision, MSCA Green Charter) and to achievements of MSCA funded projects on e.g. a resilient food system, protecting cultural heritage and inclusive urban design. The complete selection of articles is available here. The participation of Flemish entities in the selection of MSCA funded projects is highlighted in the overview below (entity, participation status in project, project acronym, project title, MSCA type of action and call year, links to more information on the project). KU Leuven (coordinator) in MINTS - Millimeter-wave Networking and Sensing for Beyond 5G, call MSCA-ITN-2019. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, website and the article ‘Building businesses with science. From collaboration to contracts: MSCA's impact on industry.’ to be found here. Centre for Children in Vulnerable Situations (partner organisation) interuniversity research centre (Universiteit Gent, KU Leuven and Vrije Universiteit Brussel) in CHIBOW - Children Born of War - Past, Present and Future, call MSCA-ITN-2014. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, the website and the article ‘Learning to build peace. How MSCA-funded research is helping build lasting peace.’ to be found here. KU Leuven (beneficiary) in NeEDS - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Network of European Data Scientists, call MSCA-RISE-2018. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, website and the article ‘Pivoting to take on COVID-19. How researchers turned on a dime to face the COVID-19 pandemic.’ to be found here. FUJIREBIO EUROPE NV (partner organisation) in TAME - Doctoral training network TAu imMunE: strategies for innovative diagnosis and therapies in dementia, call MSCA-2022-DN. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, website and the article ‘The future of dementia care. MSCA’s innovative solutions for neurodegenerative diseases.’ to be found here. KU Leuven (beneficiary) in HONOURs - Host switching pathogens, infectious outbreaks and zoonosis; a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Training Network, call MSCA-ITN-2016. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘Building pandemic defences. How MSCA research is preparing us to face the next pandemic.’ to be found here. Universiteit Antwerpen and KU Leuven (beneficiaries) in CHAMELEON - Virtual Laboratories for Exoplanets and Planet Forming Disks, call MSCA-ITN-2019. More information in the projects’ Cordis page, website and the article ‘From virtual labs to space-bound robots – how European researchers are helping shine a light into the cosmos’ to be found here. BIOBEST GROUP NV (beneficiary) in ACROPICS - Agroecological crop protection: towards international co-innovation dynamics and evidence of sustainability, call MSCA-2022-SE. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘Drought-proof crops and edible insects: the MSCA’s recipe for a resilient food system’ to be found here. KU Leuven (beneficiary) in GREENEDGE - Taming the environmental impact of mobile networks through GREEN EDGE computing platforms, call MSCA-ITN-2020. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘Balancing Tech and Sustainability. Ensuring the digital revolution is both green and fair.’ to be found here. AQUAFIN NV and Universiteit Gent (beneficiaries) in SANITAS - Sustainable and integrated urban water system management, call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘Sustaining Europe’s water. Cleaner ways to recycle Europe’s precious wastewater.’ to be found here. KU Leuven (coordinator) and Universiteit Gent (beneficiary) in INSIDE:INSIGHT - The integration of technology with medical and healthcare education - a leadership programme, call MSCA 2023-DN. More information in the projects’ Cordis page and the article ‘How AI is reshaping education. AI in the classroom’ to be found here. All communication material is available in the resources section, under the communication toolkit, on the MSCA 30th anniversary webpage.
LLM-Bridge's Venture Incubation Programme (VIP) serves as an instrument to strengthen incubation capacity in Europe to support early-stage GenAI ventures, accelerate the commercialisation of LLM technologies, providing mentoring, access to high-performance computing (HPC) resources, data infrastructures, and regulatory guidance. The VIP programme aims to select one incubator to run a 12-week VIP cohort across Europe, which will: Deliver structured training and mentoring to 30 startups. Provide and help access technical expertise and AI infrastructure. Monitor and report progress using standardised KPIs. Contribute to the overall impact of LLM-BRIDGE and the European GenAI innovation ecosystem. More information on the call can be found on the Funding & Tenders Portal and on the project's website. Deadline to apply is 28 November 2026. Background: The LLM-Bridge project aims to strengthen Europe’s position in generative AI by building a pan-European ecosystem for foundation models and language technologies, reducing dependence on non-EU providers and embedding European values, languages, and culture in AI systems. It brings together expertise, infrastructure, and resources across Member States to support the development, scaling, and competitiveness of European GenAI innovators.
The NOSTRADAMUS project has launched its first open call for digital applications that support more sustainable and efficient cereal-based farming. SMEs, start-ups and small mid-caps can apply individually or in a consortium of up to two organisations, with research organisations, universities and end-user bodies eligible as partners. Proposals should develop and validate open-source, data-driven tools for crop optimisation, soil and nutrient management, water efficiency, drought resilience, or predictive pest and disease management. Cross-domain applications combining several of these areas are also eligible. Selected projects will receive up to €50,000 and take part in a 12-month programme, including testing at a NOSTRADAMUS pilot site. Applications must be submitted by 2 December 2026 at 17:00 CET. Full application documents and further details are available on the NOSTRADAMUS open call webpage.
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The City of Hasselt took part in the ONELAB project (2022–2025) as an end user. The project was funded under Horizon Europe (HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-05) and focused on developing modular Rapid Response Mobile Laboratories (RRML). These laboratories are designed for rapid deployment in a variety of settings to support disease monitoring.
