We would like to inform you that the Commission has adopted and published the European Defence Fund Work Programme 2025. The news announcement (with links to the documents and a factsheet) is available on DEFIS website: https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/european-defence-fund-over-eu1-billion-drive-next-generation-defence-technologies-and... read more 

In the last months, the European Commission has finalised its due dilligence on the previous calls within cluster 6. in total over 90 projects have signed their grant agreement which amounts to a total investment of just under 501 million euros. More details and all projects can be found here. read more 

The Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CERIC-ERIC) is calling for proposals for coordinated access to more than 60 instruments and support laboratories for research in all fields of materials, biomaterials and nanotechnology. A detailed description of the facilities available in CERIC can be found here. Access to CERIC is op... read more 

If your organisation is focused on cybersecurity, you know there’s no time to waste in getting projects up and running. While we await the official publication of the Horizon Europe and Digital Europe 2025 work programmes, here you can find a selection of open cascade calls that could be relevant to your business: CyberSecDome Open Ca... read more 

You may have noticed that call topics for 2025 are not yet available on the Funding & Tenders Portal. This is due to ongoing preparatory work. Adoption will be the earliest in April 2025. To stay ahead, consider reading a draft version. A bit on the process A work programme is typically drafted in stages. It begins with setting prioritie... read more 

The results of the 2024 European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant call (2nd deadline date 17 September 2024) were published. Principal Investigators (PIs) with a main ERC Grant that is ongoing or ended after 1 January 2023 are eligible to participate in an ERC 2024 PoC Grant. The ERC PoC Grants aim at facilitating exploratio... read more 

The EIT has opened the call for a new EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community (EIT KIC) in the water, marine and maritime sectors and ecosystems. It will address global challenges including: water scarcity, droughts and floods as well as marine and freshwater degradation. The main goal of this new organisation will be to strengthen the bl... read more 

The European Commission has opened two prizes towards innovation and creativity inspired by the New European Bauhaus (NEB):  the fifth edition of the New European Bauhaus Prizes and the new NEB Boost for Small Municipalities. NEB Prizes 2025 The NEB Prizes will honour outstanding projects and ideas from individuals, teams, and organisations.... read more 

The Clean Aviation partnership is organising a pitching event for entities interested in applying for the Clean Aviation’s third Call for Proposals.This will take place on the 13th of February. The deadline for registration has now been extended until the 24th of January. All information can be found here. read more 

As communicated before in this news article the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the European Commission have finalised the negotiations regarding the association of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to Horizon Europe in March 2024. Signing of the association agreement will be expected to take place in 2025. As of 1 January 2025 the transitio... read more