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NCP Flanders is conducting a short satisfaction survey to gather valuable feedback and suggestions on the NCP services. The survey is organised into three sections: NCP Flanders assistance, info sessions, and NCP Flanders website & LinkedIn. If you are not familiar with one of these sections, the survey will automatically guide you to the next section. The survey is fully anonymous and will remain open until 24 July 2026. The NCP Flanders team would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill in the survey and provide your opinion via this link. If you would like to get in touch NCP Flanders, please mail to info@ncpflanders.be
The European Commission adopted a Charter of Access for Industrial Users to Research and Technology Infrastructures on 28 July 2026 and launched an outreach campaign. The charter aims to facilitate easier and faster access for companies, including startups and scaleups, to the services offered by European research and technology infrastructures, including advanced laboratories, pilot lines and large scientific instruments. Limited information on the availability and access conditions of relevant services can be a barrier, particularly for SMEs, startups and scaleups. The charter is intended to address this by improving visibility, simplifying access and supporting better use of infrastructure services for developing, testing and validating technologies, products and services. The charter sets out six principles to guide research and technology infrastructures in facilitating access for industrial users: Increased visibility and availability of services Transparency and quality of services Simplified contract and agreement procedures Safe intellectual property management Tailored support to companies Cooperation between infrastructures and access to data Research and technology infrastructures can endorse the charter on a voluntary basis. The European Commission has also launched an outreach campaign to support uptake, including a first webinar (which takes place on 22 September), and a call for good practices to showcase successful examples of support provided by research and technology infrastructures to industrial users. The initiative is linked to the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy and complements the European strategy on research and technology infrastructures. More information is available in this European Commission news article and on this webpage.
These free training courses under the EIC Tech to Market Programme are designed to help deep-tech researchers turn research results into market-ready innovations. Applications are now open across the full offer for EIC beneficiaries: EIC Pathfinder and Transition beneficiaries, entities eligible for EIC Transition, Seal of Excellence holders, Women TechEU awardees. 1) Entrepreneurship Foundation: Introduction to entrepreneurship for researchers (the core concepts and principles of entrepreneurship, for researchers starting from scratch). Application deadline: 24 August 2026 | Duration: 1–3 September 2) Entrepreneurship Immersion: deeper, practical knowledge across the topics that decide whether a deep-tech venture succeeds. Application deadline: 24 August 2026 | Duration: September–December 3) Business Idea Validation: a hands-on course to test how your research results fit real market needs, using stakeholder interviews and design thinking. Designed for teams whose results are already at a more advanced stage, typically EIC Transition or late-stage Pathfinder projects. Requires a team of at least two. Application deadline: 24 August 2026 | Starts: 5 October Find more information on trainings here. Apply here.
The Water4All partnership has pre-announced a Joint Transnational Call for research and innovation projects on “Sustainable Water Management”. The Call focuses on Sustainable Water Management (excluding extreme events and circularity) and invite proposals addressing critical challenges related to hte following topics: Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), River Basin Management, Groundwater Management, Water Resilience, Integrated Water Monitoring and data management and Water-positive solutions. The call will open on 8 September, and it closes on 10 November 2026. An informative webinar dedicated to the international researchers’ community will be organised on 17 September at 2pm. You can register for it via this website.
The European Commission and Japan have officially signed the association agreement. This agreement will allow Japanese researchers and organisations to take part in Horizon Europe on equal terms as EU Member States and other Horizon Europe associated countries. Japan’s association to Horizon Europe only covers Pillar II. More details in this press release. To check if a specific country is eligible for Horizon Europe funding use the country eligibility overview tool created by NCP Flanders.
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EURHISFIRM designs a world-class research infrastructure (RI) to connect, collect, collate, align, and share detailed, reliable, and standardized long-term financial, governance, and geographical data on European companies. EURHISFIRM enables researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to develop and evaluate effective strategies to promote investment, economic growth and job creation. The RI provides the tools for long-term analysis highlighting the dynamics of the past and the way those dynamics structure our present and future.
The EURHISFIRM European project received € 3.4 million in financing from the European Commission through the H2020-INFRADEV-2017-1 research infrastructures call. The project started with a consortium of eleven research organisations (including University of Antwerp) from seven European countries.
