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A key deliverable of the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, the European Innovation Act, has the aim to facilitate bringing innovative ideas to market across all sectors, to address challenges in commercialising research results, to strengthen collaboration between the industry and the academia, and to improve access of innovative companies to markets, finance, talent and infrastructures. A call for evidence and a public consultation are open for contributions until 30 September 2025 on Commission's 'Have your Say' portal. The survey gives stakeholders a chance to share their views, in particular on possible measures and how the initiative can help facilitate the establishment and growth of innovative companies in the European Union and enhance the diffusion of innovation across the EU Single Market.
2025-07-10 ERCThe ERC work programme 2026 has been adopted by the European Commission and published on the ERC website and European Commission Funding and Tender portal. More information in this ERC news article. The ERC Starting Grant 2026 call opened for submissions with call deadline 14 October 2025. The call topic page on the F&T portal displays important notifications related to the call under “topic updates”. Tune in to the webinar on the ERC Work Programme 2026 for newcomers today starting at 15 CEST. A webinar for an advanced target audience is coming in September.
2025-07-08 Digital, Industry & Space HPCThe EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has launched two new calls:Support to the International HPC Summer School (HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2025-IHPCSS-02) empowering up to 40 early-career researchers through world-class HPC and quantum summer training from 2026 to 2029 Deadline for application: 2 October 2025 Strengthening National Competence Centres and their European-wide network (DIGITAL-JU-EUROHPC-2025-NCC-01) HPC adoption and support for SMEs, industry, and public administrations. Deadline for submission of proposals: 30 September 2025
2025-07-07 Climate, Energy, Mobility EITThe EIT (european institute for innovation and technology) Urban Mobility's open call invites applications from various organizations, including startups, SMEs, academia, and public authorities to deliver specialized trainings. One of the primary tasks of the EIT is notably to educate the people involved in new innovations and policies. This Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call focuses on a series of specific activity areas aimed at enhancing the skills and capabilities of mobility professionals and organisations, particularly at the local/city level, to achieve systemic transformations for more liveable cities. 👥 Budget The total budget for this call is between 2 and 4 million EUR and the maximum budget per proposal is 700.000 EUR. The call is also open to mono-participant applicant but special rules then apply as is the case for partners from Hungary and Switzerland. 🎬 Call to action You can apply up to the 30th of september and there is a preparatory webinar on the 15th of July. You can find all the details here.
2025-07-07 Digital, Industry & Space SemiconductorsThe Chips JU announces the opening of new calls on 8 July, aiming to drive progress in key areas of Europe’s semiconductor strategy by advancing low-power Edge AI design, enabling next-generation substrates, and strengthening international cooperation.𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴:• Low-power Edge AI Chips• Accelerator for Advanced Strained Silicon on Insulator Substrates• Open-source EDA tools development (second phase)𝗘𝗖𝗦 𝗥&𝗜 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴:• Boosting R&I cooperation between EU and Japan on semiconductors• RISC-V Automotive Hardware Platform (second phase)• AI-assisted Methods and Tools for Engineering Automation (second phase)• Global RIA call (second phase)• Global IA call according to SRIA 2025 (second phase)🔗 More information on the Chips JU website. Please note: The second phase of the calls launched earlier this year will also open this upcoming month, exclusively for proposals that were successful in the first phase.
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The AI4Culture project, funded under Digital Europe call Data space for cultural heritage (deployment) aims to develop an online capacity building hub for AI technologies in the cultural heritage sector. This hub contributes to the creation of the European common cultural heritage data space, which provides support to the digital transformation of Europe’s cultural sector and fosters the creation and reuse of content in cultural and creative sectors. The Flemish company CrossLang is one of the 12 partners in the project and brings in its year-long expertise in the development of multilingual technology to the transcription and translation of scanned printed and handwritten documents.
