Europe's Rail joint undertaking is the EU partnership that wants to transform our European rail network and industry. Earlier this month they have published a series of new calls for proposals which you can find here.  For those organisations that are new to this partnership, we would kindly ask you to have a look at their research priorities... read more 

Today the European Institute of innovation and technology (EIT) has officially announced that the consortium Allwaters has been awarded the contract for the new knowledge and innovation community, EIT Water. It consists of 50 partners from 24 countries, including industry partners, universities, research organisations, ports, non-governmental organ... read more 

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the Commission invites applications for hands-on training at its state-of-the-art Nanobiotechnology Laboratory. This call offers researchers the opportunity to strengthen expertise in nanomaterials, nanomedicines, advanced materials, and micro(nano)plastics, with a focus on their detection, characterisation, and i... read more 

InnoMatch is a EU funded project within the framework of the EIC Innovation Procurement Programma. Innomatch helps public and private buyers to find and develop tailor-made solutions together. This programme enables collaboration between buyers and innovative suppliers (only open to EIC Awardees) to address challenges and deploy... read more 

On 10 November 2025, Switzerland and the EU signed an agreement enabling Swiss participation in Horizon Europe and Digital Europe and Euratom, and this retroactively to 1 January 2025. This means that researchers and innovators can participate as beneficiaries in Horizon Europe and Digital Europe from the 2025 programme year onwards and can submit... read more 

Europe is experiencing rapid warming leading to significant climate risks, including heat-related health issues, crop stress from drought, water scarcity, and flooding. To address these challenges, the European Commission's EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change is seeking innovative solutions. That is why they have joined forces with the EIC a... read more 

The 2026 EIC Work Programme is designed to support deep tech innovators. It's actions are contributing to Europes StartUp and Scaleup Strategy. With a budget of €1.4 billion it opens funding opportunities in: Pathfinder (€262 million) Transition (€100 million) Accelerator (€634 million) STEP (€300 million) Advanced... read more 

The European AI in Science Summit in Copenhagen saw the launch of RAISE, a new virtual institute aimed at enhancing AI in scientific research. Funded with €107 million under Horizon Europe, RAISE seeks to unite resources and drive strategic advancements in various scientific fields. RAISE is designed to centralise resources essential for deve... read more 

The selected projects of the 2025 European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant call (call deadline 6 November 2024) were published. Synergy grant projects consist of minimum two to maximum four researchers or Principal Investigators (PIs) and their teams that jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the indiv... read more 

28DIGITAL, formerly known as EIT Digital, is moving forward while maintaining collaboration with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) under a Memorandum of Collaboration. Each knowledge and innovation community (KIC) has a financial support life cycle of maximum 15 years after which it no longer receives funding from the Europ... read more