The European Court of Auditors (ECA) audits the revenue and expenditure of the EU budget and delivers its opinion on the extent to which the annual accounts are reliable, and income and spending comply with the rules and regulations. This year it includes findings from Horizon 2020 audits but also from some Horizon Europe audits. In chapter 5 (Sin... read more 

Empowering Diverse Minds to Shape the Future of Global Security Applications are open until 15 November 2024 About the Programme The NATO Chief Scientist Grants Programme is dedicated to fostering excellence in science and technology research. It is committed to supporting groundbreaking projects that contribute to global security a... read more 

The EIC has recently opened the next call for proposals of the EIT Higher Education  Institutions (HEIs) Initiative.The call aims to fund up to 42 projects, with a total duration of 25 months and an overall budget of EUR 1.34 million per project. Deadline to submit applications is 12 December 2024, 17:00 CET. The call will incor... read more 

EIT Health's Flagship Calls 2025 invite the EIT Health communities, and beyond, to work on tackling specific challenges relating to health priority areas.Currently, the Flagship call on 'Digital Tranformation of Healthcare' is open with deadline on 5 November 2024. This Flagship aims to support the digital health transformation in Eu... read more 

The European Commission has published a new booklet “Standing up for democracy”, a compilation of the research and innovation projects selected for EU-funding from the 2023 call for proposals “Standing Up for Democracy” of Horizon Europe’s Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society. read more 

NCP Flanders is looking to reinforce its team with an administrative assistant (part-time). The person we are looking for will be the first point of contact for NCP Flanders, be involved in the organisation of events, communication and administration tasks. Curious about the vacancy? All details (in Dutch) are available on the FWO website. Quest... read more 

Yesterday a joint statement ‘We need much more MSCA!’ was published. The currently 13 organisations that endorse the statement lament the lack of MSCA in Mario Draghi’s report the Future of European Competitiveness and the Mission Letters for the proposed Executive Vice-President for People, Skills and Preparedness Roxana Mî... read more 

Water4All partnership has launched its third Joint Transnational Call for research and innovation projects. The 4 subtopics covered in this call are: Topic 1: Enhancement of water circularity in industries. Topic 2: Urban water circularity. Topic 3: Resource recovery and valorization. Topic 4: Economic, environmental and... read more 

The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) has announced its plans to pilot a novel, applicant-driven approach to its next call for proposals. As there are still untapped opportunities in IHI's Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), Call 9, which is scheduled for launch in early 2025, will have a much broader scope than previous cal... read more 

The Commission’s ERA Forum Sub-group ‘Inclusive Gender Equality in the ERA has recently published a Zero-tolerance code of conduct. It aims to address incidents of gender-based violence in research and higher education environments by setting out a common approach, definitions, and a list of principles to guide all stakeholders and indi... read more