On 19 May 2025, the COST Commitee of Senior Officials (CSO) has approved 70 new COST Actions (results from OC-2024-1) that will have their first kick-off meetings between mid-September and beginning of November 2025. An overview of the newly approved COST Actions can be found in this booklet. All COST Member States (including Belgium) ar... read more 

The open and forthcoming calls under Horizon Europe have been published on the Funding & Tenders Portal (Funding - Call for proposals) However, there are technical issues with the filter functions in Pillar 2: filtering per cluster does not display all 2025 call topics within this cluster and advertise call topics of other work programmes. The... read more 

The pathways2resilience initiative is linked to the mission on adaptation to climate change and is governed by the KIC climate, which operates as a fully independent unit since the beginning of this year. It focuses mainly on helping local and regional authorities to become forerunners in tackling the societal changes resulting from climate change.... read more 

The call text for call topic DIGITAL-2025-SKILLS-08-GENAI-ACADEMY-STEP has been modified.  The following sentence of the Call document, under section 2, on page 23, in the beginning of the last paragraph of the page, is updated as follows: - Detailed description and quantification of most needed AI professional role profiles a... read more 

The Falling Walls Lab (FWL) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) 2025 is accepting submissions that showcase the quality, diversity and passion of the most innovative minds participating in the MSCA. The FWL competition is an opportunity for MSCA fellows to present their projects and innovative ideas to the scientific community through 3-minute t... read more 

The revised version of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Work Programme 2023-2025 (v 3.0 14 May 2025) was published last week and can be found under reference documents on the European Commission Funding & Tender Portal. A summary of the open and upcoming calls in the MSCA work programme can be found in the European Commission press re... read more 

The European Commission wants contracting authorities to take up a more R&D intensive approach and contribute to the take-up of innovative products. To this purpose they have set-up a large initiative on Pre-commercial Procurement (PCP) and Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI). Some of these calls are launched within the Horizon Europe Framew... read more 

The call deadline for call DIGITAL-EUROHPC-JU-2024-MASTER-03 was extended to 27 May 2025 17:00 (Brussels local time). An updated Q&A for the call is available here. read more 

On 14 May, the Horizon Europe Main Work Programme 2025 and the amendment to the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2025 were adopted and published on the European Commission Funding & Tender portal. The Work Programmes can be found under reference documents at the Funding & Tender Portal (the files of the Main Work Programme with publ... read more 

A new study has found that children born today are likely to experience significantly more exposure to extreme climate events over their lifetime than previous generations - unless global greenhouse gas emissions are substantially reduced. Using climate model projections and global demographic data, the researchers assessed exposure to six types o... read more