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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.
As of the 2028 ERC calls, under the EU’s future Research and Innovation framework programme (2028-2034), a new thematic evaluation panel on Fundamentals of AI in the domain Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE12) will be established. The new panel will cover fundamental and basic research aimed at advancing the foundations, methods, and theories of artificial intelligence - rather than applications of AI in specific domains, which can be submitted to other panels. The new PE12 scope will include machine learning, reasoning, intelligent and autonomous systems, computer vision, natural language processing, generative and multimodal AI, and its mathematical and statistical foundations. The establishment of the new panel will bring the total to 29 evaluation panels (9 panels in Life Sciences; 8 in Social Sciences and Humanities and 12 in PE). More information on this news is available here and on the panels here.
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Funded under Horizon Europe (HORIZON-HLTH-2024-CARE-14-01), running from 2025 to 2029, the THERESA PCP aims to launch a pre-commercial procurement process (PCP) based on the development of an environmentally sustainable on-site system to decontaminate hospital wastewater. Ziekenhuis aan de Stroom (ZAS) plays an important role in the project by contributing real-world insights from a large and diverse hospital network. Read more about the project in this testimonial.
