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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.
The Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme (CDP) is an initiative of the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) to establish strategic collaborations with Partner Institutions, including higher education institutions and research organisations. The programme facilitates dual PhD projects, where Partner Institutions collaborate with the JRC to jointly design, host, and supervise doctoral research projects.The 2026 Call for Expressions of Interest invites Partner Institutions to participate in the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme encompasses eight Collaboration Themes: Autonomous discovery for integrated EU policy modelling Leveraging AI in energy and mobility systems Leveraging AI and machine learning to enhance ecosystem resilience AI-Enabled Resilience and Security of the Built Environment and Critical Infrastructure Leveraging AI and data standards to advance disease prevention, detection and treatment Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Approaches for Nuclear Science and Technology Leveraging AI to Improve Policy Design and Evaluation Complex AI systems' evaluation The JRC is looking to establish new CDP partnerships around each Collaboration Theme, with each theme resulting in up to four collaborative PhD projects.More information, including on who can apply, selection criteria and the application form can be found here. The application deadline is 25 September 2026, 23.59 (CET).
Biodiversa+, a European co-funded partnership aiming to drive transformative change and halt and reverse biodiversity decline, has pre-announced a new transnational joint research call entitled ‘Novel ecosystems: biodiversity, socio-ecological consequences and future trajectories’ (BiodivFuture). The call is planned to officially open on Wednesday 9 September 2026. The research priorities covered by BiodivFuture are structured around three non-mutually exclusive themes. Projects may address one or several of these themes: THEME A – NOVEL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: Understanding the functioning of novel ecosystems and their links to socio-cultural and socio-economic dynamics, identifying mechanisms and developing approaches that can facilitate biodiversity gains. THEME B – PATHWAYS TO NOVEL ECOSYSTEMS: Studying robust, plausible, and concrete pathways to novel ecosystems and associated socio-ecological dynamics to prosper under temporal asynchronies and uncertainties. THEME C – BIODIVERSITY BENEFITS AND EQUITY IN THE CONTEXT OF NOVEL ECOSYSTEMS: Studying the fair and equitable sharing of biodiversity benefits in the context of novel ecosystems, supported by inclusive, collaborative, and investment-oriented pathways for nature-positive socio-ecological transformations For more information on the call content, please consult the BiodivFuture webpage. Applications will be submitted by a project coordinator. Each consortium participant will be funded by the Funding Partner Organisation from the country or region participating in the 2026 Joint Transnational Call. Participants are therefore subject to the eligibility criteria of the relevant national or regional funding organisations. To be eligible, research consortia must include teams from at least three countries financially participating in the call, including at least two different EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries. Funding will be provided by various national and regional organisations, for Flanders this is FWO. Details on eligibility, evaluation criteria, and the full description of the themes will be published when the call officially launches. For further information, please consult the BiodivFuture webpage and follow updates from this website or directly from FWO. This last organisation can also be contacted directly at europe@fwo.be.
The 2026-2027 "Horizontal activities" Work Programme in Horizon Europe is created to break down the traditional walls between different scientific departments and funding silos. Rather than keeping research fragmented across separate categories, this new program pools resources to tackle the EU’s most urgent, evolving policy priorities in a unified, cross-sector way. This way, the European Commission tries to achieve a massive, coordinated push that delivers market-ready solutions for Europe's biggest strategic targets and build a bridge towards the next Research and Innovation framework program. This new Horizon program (2028-2034) will notably focus more on competitiveness on the world stage, be more cross-sectoral and be more flexible in terms of funding. It includes 4 different parts The Clean Industrial Deal (€540M) to boost clean tech AI in Science (€90M) for trusted AI (including RAISE doctoral networks) Transformative change towards a nature-postive economy and society (€230M) or in short the biodiversity call, with call topic deadlines in 2027 Bridging actions focusing on bringing innovations to the market (€193M), with call topic deadlines in 2027 Currently, only the first two parts have been officially adopted by the European Commission which you can find here. The final two parts are still in the final drafting phase and can be subject to minor changes. You can find the draft on this webpage. ScienceBusiness wrote an article on these calls which provides interesting reading but please note that this was written in March so some elements might be a bit outdated. You can always consult the latest draft work programmes on our newly created website page "Horizontal activities", where also all latest news and related events will be published. You can adapt your profile on the website ticking this domain of interest ("horizontal activities") to receive updates through the mailings. Finally there is our comitology webpage where you can find the reports of all programme committees, including the latest draft work programmes. For example, you can find the above-mentioned documents under the domain 'Horizontal activities & missions'. Background: more information on how Horizon Europe call topics are developed and followed by Flanders here. More general information about Comitology here and the comitology register here. For a general understanding of Horizon Europe work programmes see the General Introduction of the Horizon Europe work programme 2026-2027.
The European Commission launched an open consultation to help shaping future EuroQCI activities to be supported from 2027 onwards. The aim of the consultation is to gather technical input to inform future EuroQCI activities, following the deployment of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) infrastructures and the broader quantum communication technological developments across Europe supported by the European Union under the EuroQCI and other EU programmes, as well as by national initiatives. The open consultation will remain open until 24 June 2026.
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GenderSAFE, funded by Horizon Europe under call topic HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ERA-01-09, is a project that advances efforts to implement a zero-tolerance approach to gender-based violence in higher education and research in the European Research Area. This overall objective will be achieved through a five-fold strategy. The project exists of a European-wide consortium of six partners. Read more about the GenderSAFE’s five-fold strategy, the role of the Belgian partner Yellow Window and the latest outputs of the project in this testimonial.
