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This consultation assesses the impact of and explores the future framework for treaty-based partnerships, also known as Institutionalised Partnerships, such as Joint Undertakings and Article 185 initiatives, within the broader framework of European Partnerships under Horizon Europe 2028-2034. The consultation is open to researchers, industry representatives, Member States, Associated Countries, and the wider public. Interested stakeholders can review the consultation documents and submit feedback until 16 October 2026 through the European Commission's Have Your Say Portal. Background The European Commission's proposal for Horizon Europe under the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF 2028-2034) introduces important changes to the way European Partnerships are established and implemented. Treaty-based partnerships, such as Joint Undertakings and Article 185 initiatives, will only be used in exceptional cases. By default, partnerships will be tripartite, bringing together the EU, Member States and Associated Countries, and industry around shared strategic priorities. What are treaty-based partnerships? Treaty-based partnerships, also known as Institutionalised Partnerships, include Article 187 Joint Undertakings (JUs) and Article 185 initiatives. They are key instruments in the EU research and innovation funding landscape, bringing together different actors around shared strategic priorities. What are the Joint Undertakings? Joint Undertakings are partnerships between the European Union and industry and/or Member States. Under the current MFF (2021-2027), there are nine Joint Undertakings: Circular Bio-based Europe (CBE) Clean Aviation Clean Hydrogen Europe's Rail Global Health EDCTP3 Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) Chips Joint Undertaking Single European Sky ATM Research 3 (SESAR 3) Smart Networks and Services (SNS) What are Article 185 initiatives? Article 185 initiatives are Public-Public Partnerships between Member States (and Associated Countries) and the EU. Under the current MFF (2021-2027), there are two such initiatives: Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) European Partnership on Metrology For more information on the European Partnership landscape, visit the NCP Flanders overview of the partnerships.
Among the results of the 2026 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant call (call deadline 14 October 2025) are 16 researchers with a Flemish main host institution. Starting Grants Starting Grants are open to researchers with 2–7 years of experience since completion of their PhD (extensions are possible under certain documented circumstances), a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal. Note the rules have changed as of the 2027 ERC work programme. More information is available in this news article. Proposal evaluation Proposals are evaluated in 28 evaluation panels in three research domains (Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE), Social Sciences and Humanities (SH) and Life Sciences (LS)), composed of top scientists and scholars coming from all over the world and additionally by remote referees with the necessary specialised expertise (two to five per proposal). Starting Grant 2026 call submissions and awards Of the 4807 submitted proposals 421 researchers with 52 different nationalities received an ERC Starting Grant: 113 In Life Sciences, 169 in Physical Sciences and Engineering and 139 in Social Sciences and Humanities. The overall success rate was 8.8%. In the ERCEA news articles, more background on the evaluation results, call statistics and several project examples are highlighted. Among the 421 selected researchers, 16 are based at Flemish main host institutions. For Belgium, 21 grants were awarded in total. The projects of some of the 16 Principal Investigators (PIs) are presented in news articles of KU Leuven, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universiteit Hasselt. The following researchers have been awarded a Starting Grant (first and last name, main host institution, acronym and title of the project and evaluation panel). Aurélie BELLEMANS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ESCAPADE - Energising the future with clean plasma-based technologies, PE8 Katrien BENHALIMA, KU Leuven, PRISCILA - Precision risk stratification in pregnancy and postpartum in women with gestational diabetes, LS7 Tim BEYNE, KU Leuven, RECRYPT - Reshaping the Security Analysis of Symmetric Cryptography, PE6 Christina BEZARI, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, MEDWON - Mediterranean Shores and Women’s Networks: Translation, Print Culture and Decolonial Thought in Southern Europe and the Maghreb (1912–1995), SH5 Andreas BLOMMAERT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, HOLOVERSE - Gravity without boundaries - a cosmological hologram, PE2 Nel DE MÛELENAERE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, EVERYDAY REBELLIONS - Creativity and Domestic Care as Civilian Resistance in Occupied Europe, 1939-1945, SH6 Jan EIJKING, Universiteit Antwerpen, REGCOM - Regulatory Communities and the Making of Global Order, SH2 Nicolas ENGLEBERT, Universiteit Gent, VISIR - On-chip quadratic soliton modelocking in the ultraviolet, visible, and mid-infrared, PE7 Hilde GUNNINK, Universiteit Gent, LoLaSa - The lost languages of Southern Africa: Linguistic traces of Southern Africa’s early inhabitants, SH4 Mina IBRAHIM, Universiteit Gent, GPS-Archives - The Glocal Public Syrian Archives: Reclaiming Popular Media for Memory and Justice Before and After the Fall of Assad, SH8 Akash KOPPA, Universiteit Gent, LAMDA - Land–atmosphere interactions as a mechanism of dryland formation, PE10 Pablo MARIN-PALOMO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, COMBYNE - Dynamics of Coupled Lasers: AllOptical Scalable Path for Programmable On-Chip Frequency Comb Sources, PE7 Nick RAHIER, Universiteit Gent, HEATWAYS - Beyond Temperature: Thermal Futuring and the Anthropology of Viability in the East African Rift Valley, SH8 Wouter SAELENS, Universiteit Gent, PowerPortrait - Building a full causal Portrait of cell differentiation, LS2 Wouter VAN GOMPEL, Universiteit Hasselt, CONCePT - Electroactive organic cations for chiral hybrid perovskites: combining efficient charge carrier transport with strong chiroptical activity, PE11 Matthew WILSON, KU Leuven, DOLIGOAL - The Role of Dolichol in Linking Glycosylation, Lipid Homeostasis and Human Disease, LS1
The Commission has asked Health NCPs to communicate the information below to the Cluster Health applicant community:The Commission has brought forward the deadlines for two upcoming Cluster Health calls to February 2027. This means many health call topics will have a deadline on 17 February 2027 (instead of April 2027). Below is an overview of the new opening and closing dates:📍 HORIZON-HLTH-2027-01Opening: 29 Oct 2026Deadline(s): 17 Feb 2027 📍 HORIZON-HLTH-2027-02Opening: 29 Oct 2026Deadline(s): 17 Feb 2027 (First Stage), 16 Sep 2027 (Second Stage)📍 HORIZON-HLTH-2027-03Opening: 03 Jun 2027Deadline(s): 16 Sep 2027The latest version (26 June 2026) of the amended draft health work programme that is publicly available on the Comitology register includes the new, correct deadlines. Consult it directly here. ! Important: Please be aware that the update of the dates on the EU Funding & Tenders portal can only happen after the formal adoption of the amended health work programme 2026 - 2027 by the Commission. Formal adoption is foreseen to happen in the course of October 2026. In brief: the information on opening dates and deadlines for the 2027 health calls provided on the EU Funding & Tenders portal is currently incorrect and will not be corrected before October 2026. The correct information is available here.
The FOREST Partnership is seeking independent experts to support the evaluation of research and innovation proposals for its planned 2026 call. Invited are researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders with recognised expertise in the Call topic areas and objectives, including interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research, innovation and practice. Applicants can contact mika.kallio@gov.fi for more information on the eligibility criteria and applicants can submit their application form here.
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The ROOT project obtained funding under Horizon 2020 topic ‘EGNSS applications fostering societal resilience and protecting the environment’. The project, which ran from November 2020 to July 2022, aimed to demonstrate the benefit of Galileo OSNMA signal to increase the robustness of critical telecom infrastructures.
The Flanders-based company Septentrio contributed substantially to completing this objective together with the other ROOT partners. The results of the project partially close a gap in the security of telecommunication networks dependent on satellite-derived time, with indirect benefits in curbing illegal attempts to disrupt network services.
