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The European Defence Fund (EDF) has published its work programme for 2026, allocating €1 billion for defence research and development projects. The programme, approved on 17 December 2025, features 31 call topics aimed at enhancing military capacities. This includes seven thematic calls for proposals, three non-thematic calls, and one initiative focusing on threats posed by hypersonic glide vehicles. Additionally, it encompasses two actions aimed at supporting the EU alliance for medical countermeasures in defence. This structured approach aims to foster collaboration in the defence sector and advance innovative solutions. For further details, including the full list of call topics, indicative budget, and fact sheet, please visit the European Commission's website at EDF Work Programma 2026.
2025-12-17 Deployment: Best use of technologiesPlease note that the European Commission has extended the deadline for call DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-TECH-09 with the following two call topics: European Digital Identity Wallet EU Mobile Driving Licences) NEW closing date: 15 January 2026 (previously 09 December 2025)
2025-12-11 Digital, Industry & Space Digital EuropeThe Digital Decade policy programme sets up a monitoring and collaboration mechanism based on common objectives and targets for 2030, in particular on digital infrastructure, digital skills, digitalisation of public services and digitalisation of businesses. The Commission must review the programme by 30 June 2026 and may propose amendments. It will assess whether the programme and its implementation require changes in the light of technical, economic or societal developments and the evolution of EU priorities. To gather input for this review, the Commission is currently collecting feedback from stakeholders. Contributing to the survey is possible until 23 December 2025 via this link.
2025-12-11 MSCA Research Infrastructures Health Culture and society SecurityOn 11 December 2025, the European Commission has adopted the Horizon Europe Main Work Programme 2026-2027 and has published it on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal. The Work Programmes can be found under reference documents on the Funding & Tenders Portal.On the NCP Flanders website the published work programmes can be consulted in the Horizon Europe section i.e. on each subprogramme page on the right hand side under ‘work programme and calls’. A novelty is that the Commission has dedicated a specific part of the work programme to horizontal activities, which you can find here. This novel part includes two calls: a call on R&I in Support of the Clean Industrial Deal and a call on AI in science, supporting trustworthy AI applications in different sectors and contributing to the recently launched RAISE initiative (Resource for AI Science in Europe).Find out more about what to expect from the work programme via the Commission’s official press release.An overview of the Info Days and Brokerage Events on the Horizon Europe 2026 calls can be found in this NCP Flanders news article. Some have already taken place, others will take place in the coming weeks / months.
2025-12-10 MSCA Research Infrastructures Health Culture and society Digital, Industry & SpaceThe European Commission and/or its agencies organise info days on the 2026 call topics and these are often complemented by brokerage events, organised by National Contact Point (NCP) networks and/or the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN). These events provide opportunities to connect with potential collaboration partners. In addition, several programmes offer dedicated matchmaking platforms to facilitate partner searches. Here is an overview of the upcoming info days and brokerage events with the link to the event webpage, which you can find in our event calendar as well. When new dates and information will be made known subsequently this overview will be updated. The matchmaking platforms are included in the overview as well. Pillar 1 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA): Radiance Matchmaking Platform Research infrastructures 18/03/2026 (info day) Pillar 2 Cluster 1 Health26-30/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 10/2/2026 (info day) Cluster 2 Culture, creativity & inclusive society26/3/2026 (info day) and Net4Society's matchmaking community platform Cluster 3 Civil security for society: 04/03/2026 (info day) Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space:29-30/1/2026 (info day) and Ideal-ist online brokerage platform Cluster 5 Climate, energy & mobility: 14/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 15/1/2026 (info day) and Greenet Partner Search Tool Cluster 6 Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture & environment: 21/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 22-23/1/2026 (info day) and 10/12/2025 Care4Bio Information session on tools for applicants Clusters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and EU Mission Cities with STEM or SSH expertise relevant to AI - Artificial intelligence in Horizon Europe calls: an interdisciplinary challenge 25/2/2026 (brokerage event - 2026 and 2027 call topics) Horizontal Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area (WIDERA): 11/12/2025 (ERA info day - 2026 and 2027 call topics) and 17/12/2026 (ERA brokerage event) and 22/1/2026 (Widening info day) EU Missions: 20-21/1/2026 (info day) and 28-29/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 16/12/2026 Workshop: From Policy to Practice – Regional and Local Impacts of EU Missions and HE Clusters. More information about the publication of the Horizon Europe Main Work Programme 2026-2027 can be found in this NCP Flanders news article.
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Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.
NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic.
