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New year, new opportunities. The Horizon Europe 2026-2027 work programme was published in December and new calls have recently opened or will open soon. Under the Digital Europe programme, several calls are currently open (deadline March 2026) and a new wave of calls is expected in spring.Are you exploring your options or already developing a proposal? NCP Flanders provides a number of tools and services to support you along the way: Want to learn more about open and forthcoming funding opportunities? Have a look at our call topic overview. Building a consortium and looking for suitable partners? One of your options is to look at our partner search section. Also check our country eligibility tool, especially if you consider involving non-EU partners. Looking for support to prepare your proposal? Contact your institution's support office or have a look how NCP Flanders can support you. Find out more about all the services NCP Flanders provides here.
2025-12-23 Agro-Food, EnvironmentThe European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare (EUPAH&W) iwill launch its second external co-funded research and innovation call "shaping the future of animal health and welfare" during the course of January 2026. The Call will aim to foster international collaboration and impactful research and innovation across Europe and will be supported by funding organisations across 19 countries. Proposals submitted under this Call must address animal welfare or prevention and control and spanning welfare assessment, humane transport and slaughter, disease prevention, resilience, therapeutics, and innovation. You can find more information about the call on this website.
2025-12-23 Agro-Food, EnvironmentThe European Commission would like to revise the European rules on marine environment protection. This initiative follows the evaluation of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive. It aims to better protect the marine environment, simplify rules and their implementation, improve data use, and reduce administrative burden including by easing reporting. This will be done without having a negative effect on the environmental goals of the Directive, which are to ensure that EU marine waters are clean, healthy, resilient and productive. You can access the survey via this webpage.
2025-12-22 Climate, Energy, MobilityThe European Commission has launched an Automotive Package to support the automotive sector's transition to clean mobility by 2050. This package aims to enhance competitiveness, simplify regulations, and encourage the production of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) within the EU. The Automotive Package establishes a policy framework focused on achieving climate neutrality in the automotive sector while offering manufacturers greater flexibility to meet CO2 targets. Key features include reduced compliance burdens and additional financial support measures, such as a battery booster initiative worth €1.8 billion to bolster the EU's battery production capabilities. From 2035, carmakers must reduce their tailpipe emissions by 90%, allowing certain vehicles to play a role beyond this date, while corporate vehicle initiatives are set to establish mandatory targets for Member States to enhance the market for low-emission vehicles. To drive the uptake of zero- and low-emission vehicles, the package introduces measures like banking and borrowing of emissions allowances and super credits for affordable small electric vehicles. Furthermore, the Automotive Omnibus aims to cut administrative costs, projected to save businesses approximately €706 million annually, and strengthens the EU's competitive edge through reduced red tape and harmonised car labelling rules for consumer clarity. This effort is part of a broader strategy established in response to insights from industry stakeholders during the Strategic Dialogue launched by President von der Leyen in January 2025. Entities interested in exploring these initiatives are encouraged to review the full Automotive Package details through the European Commission's website.
2025-12-22 Agro-Food, EnvironmentThe European Commission, led by DG AGRI, is preparing a new EU Agricultural Research and Innovation (R&I) Strategic Approach, planned for mid-2026. This Strategic Approach aims to secure the long-term competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of the EU’s agri-food sector, forestry and rural areas, and contribute to the objectives of the Vision for Agriculture and Food and other Commission initiatives. They invite interested persons to take part in a short questionnaire designed to gather feedback from key stakeholders across the agricultural, forestry, and rural sectors. You can access the survey here.
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The Project SeafoodTomorrow is a project that is approved within the call BG-08-2017: Innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and dietary properties of seafood.
The three-year SeafoodTomorrow project brings together 34 partners. From Flanders, ILVO takes part in the project.They are responsible for setting up two databases which are the central point of the project to gather all the project data from analysis and assessement. ILVO is also leader of the workpackage dealing with authenticity, traceability and labelling. ILVO is also involved a the workpackage about novel food preparation. And in the managerial part, ILVO is head of the IPC- Intellectual Property Comité.
