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2026-09-03
ERC MSCA Research Infrastructures Health Culture and society

Deadline extended: We appreciate your feedback!

NCP Flanders has extended the duration of its short satisfaction survey to gather valuable feedback and suggestions on the NCP services. The survey is fully anonymous and is open until 9 October 2026. It 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 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 with NCP Flanders, please email info@ncpflanders.be 

2026-09-14
Research Infrastructures Health Culture and society Civil Security Digital, Industry & Space

Open calls for transnational and/or virtual open access to European research infrastructures

More information is available about opportunities for transnational (TNA) and virtual access (VA) to European research infrastructures for researchers from the academic and private sector in this RICH Europe leaflet. Access the database on TNA and VA open calls here. The database can be filtered on scientific domain, the status of the call (open, closed, forthcoming), type of access and project acronym. Currently there are several open calls for TNA and/or VA. More information is available via the links below. ACME – Astrophysics Center for Multimessenger studies in Europe. More info about the transnational and virtual access AQUASERV – Research Infrastructure Services for Sustainable Aquaculture, Fisheries and the Blue Economy. More info about the transnational and virtual access ATRIUM – Advancing fronTier Research In the arts and hUManities. More info about the transnational access Infra4NextGen. More info about the virtual access INFRACHIP – European Research Infrastructure on Semiconductor Chips. More info about the transnational and virtual access IRISCC – Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks. More info about the transnational and virtual access LASERS4EU – European Laser Research Infrastructures serving Science and Industry. More info about the transnational access NFFA – Nanoscience Foundries and Fine Analysis. More info about the transnational and virtual access NEPHEWS – NEutrons and PHotons Elevating Worldwide Science. More info about the transnational and virtual access POLARIN – Polar Research Infrastructure Network. More info about the transnational and virtual access RIANA – Research Infrastructure Access in NAnoscience & nanotechnology. More info about the transnational and virtual access For any questions about the calls, please contact the infrastructures directly.

2026-09-14
EIC

EIC Pathfinder and EIC transition 2026 - submission requirements updated

Updates about submission are published in the part "Topic updates" under each call topic on the Funding and Tender Portal. Hereunder the publication of topic updates of some EIC Pathfinder and EIC Transition call topics. EIC Pathfinder The European Commission has announced a change in the ethics and security section in the following call topics (deadline for submission 28 October) HORIZON-EIC-2026-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 HORIZON-EIC-2026-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02 HORIZON-EIC-2026-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03 The annexes, regarding the Part B Ethics section and Part B Security section, were indicated previously as mandatory. They may be useful for the Ethics and Security assessment of the selected for funding proposals, however, the Commission noticed that they create confusion for the applicants, because the basic information on Ethics and Security is already mandatory in Part A. The Commission has now removed these annexes from Part B and encourages applicants to check the submission and to make sure they comply with the corrected requirements. EIC Transition Regarding the call topic HORIZON-EIC-2026-TRANSITIONOPEN, with deadline 16 September: applicants specifying an eligible originating project with a 6-digit project number should note that the administrative forms (part A - Other questions) only accept 9-digit project number. To proceed with the submission, applicants should add three leading zeros (000) to the project number. Eligible originating project with a 9-digit do not need to add anything.  

2026-09-11
MSCA

New communication material on businesses in MSCA

The European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) has shared communication material designed to help more businesses discover how they can improve their research and innovation capabilities through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). It is available both as a webpage and as downloadable files for both print and web use (a guide, slides and visuals). The MSCA Guide for Businesses is designed to explain, in simple terms, why companies should engage with MSCA and the different ways they can get involved. The material refers to two testimonies from companies that were involved in MSCA-funded Staff Exchanges projects: Remarkable - Rural Environmental Monitoring via ultra wide-ARea networKs And distriButed federated Learning with Portuguese IT company PDMFC. For more information visit the projects’ website and Cordis page PEPSA-MATE - Nanopeptides and Nanosaccharides for Advanced and Sustainable Materials with Italian company Nanofaber. Visit the projects’ website and Cordis page The communication material was developed to reach new businesses and strengthen the links between academia and non-academia across Europe.

2026-09-11
Civil Security Cybersecurity

Cascade funding for cybersecurity preparedness in offshore wind & related critical energy infrastructures

AENAON, a Digital Europe-funded project, has opened the first of two cascade funding calls. Open Call 1 focuses on the initial validation, integration, and testing of AENAON technologies and services in realistic offshore wind and related critical-infrastructure environments. The objective of Open Call 1 is to strengthen the technical and operational foundations of the AENAON ecosystem by enabling external organisations to integrate with, test and validate AENAON technologies and services through targeted offshore-wind cybersecurity use cases. The call is open to single applicants or small consortia combining complementary expertise, where this strengthens the proposed use case and contributes to the objectives of the AENAON project. Detailed information on the call objectives and scope, the procedure and selection criteria can be found on the dedicated website of the AENAON project. Deadline to submit proposals is 13 November 2026.

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