28DIGITAL is inviting intermediary organisations  to help deliver its Venture Incubation Programme designed to support early stage ventures and its SPIN Rise Programme focusing on researchers who are embarking on a commercialisation trajectory. Hereby we provide you a short overview. Venture Incubation programme This project aims to support... read more 

EIT Urban Mobility has opened a call for applications aimed at startups addressing urban mobility challenges. Eligible companies can apply for funding of up to €2.5 million.  The initiative seeks to enhance Europe’s innovation capacity in urban mobility by supporting pre-seed, seed, and Series A startups. Financial aid is inte... read more 

The results of the 2025 European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant call  (second deadline date 18 September 2025) were published. Principal Investigators (PIs) with a main ERC Grant that is ongoing or ended after 1 January 2024 are eligible to participate in an ERC 2025 PoC Grant. The ERC PoC Grants aim at facilitat... read more 

The European Commission has launched a call for evidence to help shape the first action plan for women in research, innovation and start-ups. The EU’s action plan will address persistent gender gaps and promote diversity, equality and inclusiveness in the European Research Area (ERA). The plan aims to make the ERA the world’s most attra... read more 

The personnel cost of SME owners and natural persons beneficiaries has to be declared by using the unit cost (daily rate) fixed by the authorisation decision C(2020)7155 and set out in Annex 2a, as explained in the Annotated Model Grant Agreement p 64. This Annex 2a has been updated again in December, stating the following SME owner unit cost expr... read more 

Net4Society, the NCP network for Cluster 2, has published the latest edition of the document "Opportunities for Researchers from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Horizon Europe". This document is designed to help potential applicants to find SSH-related call topics across the different parts of Horizon Europe in Work Programmes 2026-202... 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. CERIC... read more 

The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) has opened a call for tenders to set up a European testing infrastructure for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Open to applicants across the European Economic Area, the contract is worth EUR 25 million and covers IT services including development and support. The submission deadline is 20 Februa... read more 

The European Commission has published a new call: MCP on Innovative and Connected Public Administrations (DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-MCP-09-INNOV-ADMIN). The Multi-Country-Project (MCP) funded under this call is supposed to bring together Member States and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme, to jointly identify needs, deploy... read more 

In October 2025 the European Commission (EC) has launched a public consultation questionnaire on the Have Your Say Portal, inviting all interested stakeholders to contribute to the future European Research Area (ERA) Act. More information is also available in the EC’s news alert. The questionnaire is an important part of the consultation pro... read more