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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.
2026-02-02 Digital, Industry & Space EIT28DIGITAL is inviting intermediary organisations to help deliver its Venture Incubation Programme designed to support early stage ventures and its SPIN Rise Programme focusing on researchers who are embarking on a commercialisation trajectory. Hereby we provide you a short overview. Venture Incubation programme This project aims to support early-stage ventures through structured entrepreneurial education. This Incubation Programme is designed for entrepreneurial education providers, including incubators, accelerators, university entrepreneurship centres, and industry associations. Partners should possess the capacity to deliver a comprehensive 12-week programme in 2026. The deadline for proposal submission is set for 16 March 2026 at 17:00 CET. Interested parties can find more details here. SPIN RISE initiatives This programme will help researchers transform innovative ideas into viable market solutions. The call focuses on developing a hybrid programme that combines online training and in-person mentoring. Submissions must be able to organise a comprehensive 7-week programme during this calender year. The programme should address critical aspects of entrepreneurship and intellectual property (IP) valorisation and will explore avenues such as industry collaboration, licensing, and venture creation. All proposals must be submitted by the deadline of 17 March 2026 at 17:00 CET and you can find all relevant information regarding the call on this website. Background: 28 Digital is the successor of EIT Digital. Its principle objective is to connect business, academia and research to cross the bridge between promising innovation and succesful commercialisation.
2026-02-02 Climate, Energy, Mobility EITEIT Urban Mobility has opened a call for applications aimed at startups addressing urban mobility challenges. Eligible companies can apply for funding of up to €2.5 million. The initiative seeks to enhance Europe’s innovation capacity in urban mobility by supporting pre-seed, seed, and Series A startups. Financial aid is intended to bolster the growth of innovative solutions targeting for example congestion, carbon emissions, urban logistics, share mobility and accessibility in urban areas. To be considered eligible for this Call, applicants must also meet all the following mandatory criteria: You are a startup currently engaged in an active fundraising round (pre-seed/seed or series A round). Your proposed innovations target the Urban Mobility market. You may not apply to three consecutive cut-offs. After submitting an application to two consecutive cut-offs, you must skip at least the following cut-off before applying again. You are not currently part of EIT Urban Mobility equity portfolio. Your company pre-money valuation does not exceed €50,000,000. Your startup has individual founders or executive team members who jointly hold more than 40% share of the company’s equity before the current fund raising. You have a prototype, pilot, or Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Funding is provided through an open application process with multiple cut offs throughout 2026: 1st cut-off date: 23 February 2026 2nd cut-off date: 18 May 2026 3rd cut-off date: 31 August 2026 4th cut-off date: 16 November 2026 Interested startups can find all the details regarding the application procedure on the website of the call.
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.
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