The European Commission is inviting all stakeholders involved in research and innovation activities and policies to participate in the Survey on the Codes of Practice for Knowledge Valorisation, adopted by the European Commission in 2023 and 2024.  The codes of practice cover: Management of intellectual assets, standardisation in the European... read more 

The European Commission has recently published a roadmap for the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Facility which will give direction to the implementation of the New European Bauhaus initiative. The NEB Facility is a new funding tool of the European Commission for the New European Bauhaus initiative and consists of two parts: Research & Innovatio... read more 

The European Commission has launched an open call for applications for two new initiatives under the EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS): the EUDIS Business Accelerator and EUDIS Matchmaking. EUDIS Business Accelerator An intensive 8-month acceleration programme designed for European startups and scale-ups. Participants will benefit from: Si... read more 

The upcoming calls from the Digital Europe Main Work Programme have been published on the Funding & Tenders Portal of the European Commission.  The following 10 call topics are expected to open for submission on 15 April 2025, deadline to submit proposals will be 2 September 2025: AI, data & cloud Apply AI: GenAI for the public ad... read more 

The new Bioeconomy strategy will be adopted by the end of the year but the European Commission would first like to hear the views of the stakeholders on this topic before they write the draft. All feedback can be given on this website. The deadline is the 23rd of June 2025.    read more 

The European Commission outlined their vision at the Global Multistakeholder High Level Conference on Governance of Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds event, emphasizing the need for open standards and global interoperability as augmented reality and digital twin technologies reshape our relationship with the physical world. The emerging Web 4.0 environme... read more 

Multiple Sourcing Framework Contracts to Speed up the Development of and Access to Innovative Medical Countermeasures: Next-Generation Influenza Vaccines  Scope: this call for tenders seeks to accelerate the development of next-generation, rapidly scalable influenza vaccines with innovative production platforms, novel administration route... read more 

The European Union has historically excelled in life sciences. However in the last decades they are losing ground on their international competitors. The upcoming European Life Sciences Strategy want to reverse this evolution and the European Commission would like to receive feedback from interested parties on this new strategy. You can give y... read more 

In June 2024, the seventh EU-US Transportation Research Symposium was held in Washington. The theme of the event was "Behavioural, Social and Technological Research and Innovation (R&I), Strategies for Transportation Decarbonisation".  It is the perfect reading for those who are interested in mobility R&I on the international sta... read more 

The Maglev system (magnetic levitation) of rail transport has been in existence for a long time but has never known a breakthrough in the European Union because of a number of technological disavantages and a lack of adequate infrastructure. The Joint Undertaking European Rail would like to further develop the maglev-derived systems and has theref... read more