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On 14 May, the Horizon Europe Main Work Programme 2025 and the amendment to the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2025 were adopted and published on the European Commission Funding & Tender portal. The Work Programmes can be found under reference documents at the Funding & Tender Portal (the files of the Main Work Programme with publication date 14 May 2025 are the final versions). On the NCP Flanders website the published work programmes can be consulted but also direct links to the open and upcoming calls in the Horizon Europe section i.e. on each subprogramme page on the right hand side under ‘work programme and calls’. Find out more about what to expect from this year’s work programme via the Commission’s official press release. An overview of the Info Days and Brokerage Events on the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025 calls can be found in this NCP Flanders news article. Some have already taken place, others will take place in the coming weeks.
2025-05-16 ERCA new study has found that children born today are likely to experience significantly more exposure to extreme climate events over their lifetime than previous generations - unless global greenhouse gas emissions are substantially reduced. Using climate model projections and global demographic data, the researchers assessed exposure to six types of climate extremes: heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, crop failures, river floods, and tropical cyclones across three warming scenarios: 1.5°C, 2.7°C, and 3.5°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. The research was conducted by an international team from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Environment and Climate Change Canada, KU Leuven, the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI), and ETH Zurich. The funding which among others contributed to the study comes from the ERC Consolidator Grant LAgrangian Climate Risk and Impact Attribution LACRIMA, led by Principal Investigator Wim Thiery (VUB). More information about the study and its findings can be found in this ERC news article and this article published in Nature and this report published by Save the Children.
2025-05-16 ERCThe European Commission is inviting the European research community to nominate outstanding candidates for membership to the Scientific Council, the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC). Deadline for submission is 23 June 2025 at 12:00 CET. More information about the call and the online nomination form are available in the European Commission news article.
2025-05-16 Enhancing EU R&IThe call for the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions in R&I has been launched to complement and reinforce the eligibility criterion requirement for legal entities from Member States and Associated Countries that are public bodies, research organisations or higher education establishments (including private research organisations and higher education establishments) applying to Horizon Europe to have a Gender Equality Plan in place (HE general annexes p. 14). Organisations listed above can apply in one of the three following categories: Sustainable Gender Equality Champions (link to F&T portal call topic page) Organisations that can demonstrate a significant and sustained record of activity and a high level of achievement through the implementation of their GEP. (link to F&T portal call topic page) Newcomer Gender Equality Champions (link to F&T portal call topic page) Organisations that have recently finalised the implementation of their first GEP and can demonstrate the most progress achieved through its implementation. Inclusive Gender Equality Champions (link to F&T portal call topic page) Organisations that have developed the most innovative inclusive GEP – i.e. a GEP addressing intersections between gender and at least two other social categories, such as racial or ethnic origin, social origin, sexual orientation and gender identity (LGBTIQ) or disability – and can demonstrate concrete results obtained through its implementation. Each winner will receive a trophy and a 100 000 euro prize. The deadline for applications is 18 June 2025. Previous champions come from Ireland, France, Poland, Spain, Sweden and a pan-European research infrastructure INSTRUCT-ERIC. More information is available in the European Commission press release and prize webpage and the above call topic pages on the European Commission Funding & Tender portal.
2025-05-15 MissionsAt the Cities Mission Conference in Vilnius, 39 cities participating in the EU Mission for climate neutral and smart cities have received the EU Mission label. This recognition highlights their ambitious plans to reach climate neutrality by 2030 and is designed to help them unlock public and private funding to support this goal. Antwerp is one of those 39 cities and is the second city from Flanders after Leuven in 2024 to receive this title. You can find more information on this webpage.
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