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The FRONTIERS team invites research institutions and projects to express their interest in hosting a science journalist as part of the FRONTIERS Residency Programme, by joining the database of potential host institutions. The FRONTIERS public database is a starting point for applicants when identifying a host institution, though inclusion in the database is not required to be eligible as a host. Expression of interest form (for institutions) What is FRONTIERS? FRONTIERS is the science journalism initiative funded by the European Research Council (ERC) to design a residency programme for science journalists wishing to experience an immersive period in a European research institution. The FRONTIERS project is set to run from 2023 to 2027. During this time, the FRONTIERS team plans four calls to enable up to 40 science journalists to spend time with research teams, working on their own reporting ideas at institutions of their choice. Fellows and residency projects from previous rounds can be consulted here. While backing independent science journalism, FRONTIERS hopes to contribute to the public trust in scientific institutions and in the scientific method itself, to ensure European citizens have access to reliable and accurate scientific reporting, to tackle misinformation and disinformation, ultimately contributing to more informed policymaking and a more scientifically literate society.
2025-04-08 MSCAThe evaluation results of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks (DN) 2024 call (deadline 27 November 2024) were announced (see this article). A budget of €608.6 million is available. A total of 1417 proposals were submitted for the call, 1249 for Doctoral Networks standard, 80 for Industrial Doctorates and 88 for Joint Doctorates. 149 proposals were retained for funding, of which 133 for Doctoral Networks standard, 8 for Industrial Doctorates and 8 for Joint Doctorates. The success rate for this call is 10.9%. More information on the evaluation procedure can be found in the HE MSCA 2023-2025 work programme, under section 1.5 procedure (p. 114-117) More information on the results of the call can be found in several resources published on the call topic page for HORIZON MSCA 2024 DN (under topic updates) on the European Commission Funding & Tender portal: The amount of submitted proposals and under which category after the end of the evaluation; A table on the percentage of proposals with a given score or higher, per ranking list, also showing the funding ranges; Summary of the independent observer report; List of proposals selected for funding, as of 2 April 2025. The proposals that were selected for funding with a coordinating organisation in Flanders can be found in the attached file.
2025-04-08 Agro-Food, EnvironmentThe European Commission has opened the CBE JU 2025 call. A total of €172 million will be dedicated to advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe across 13 topics. The objective of this call is to support the scaling up of technologies leading to industrial deployment and thus boosting investment and job creation, both regional and local. This call will fund three types of actions: Innovation Actions: scale up activities from prototype to product validation and market replication. Research and Innovation Actions: establish new knowledge or explore the feasibility of new/improved technology, product, process, service or solution. Coordination and Support Actions: structure stakeholder communities, support technological visions and outreach, and disseminate and exploit research results. All stakeholders of the circular bio-based sector can apply before the deadline of 18 September 2025, 17:00 Brussels time. More information can be found here.
2025-04-04 Digital, Industry & Space Digital Europe Defence EDF NATO-EDAHeadquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (HQ SACT) is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) in order to engage with industry and Academia on future Next Generation (NG) Wireless (other than SATCOM) Capabilities. The intention is to evaluate what could be immediately available, the art-of-the-possible and state-of-the-art with respect to systems, products, services, technologies, and methodologies pertaining to NG Wireless. This will support NATO Governance decision making on Common Funded Capability Delivery. If you would like to respond, your answers are expected on 14/05/2025 (09h am EST) by email. May we ask you to inform the Directorate of Aviation and Defense if you intend to answer this RFI. email: dirk.ghijsens@economie.fgov.be ; sander.drieghe@economie.fgov.be
2025-04-04 HealthIn April 2025, the European Commission is expected to publish the Horizon Europe work programme 2025, including the calls for proposals in the health domain (cluster 1). Horizon Europe is the EU funding programme for research and innovation and the calls opening in the health domain require a consortium of partners, including companies, to apply. In the health part of the forthcoming work programme, the Commission is specifically encouraging SMEs to participate in 9 out of the 19 topics that are foreseen to open on 22 May 2025. This is the case for the following topics: Testing safety and efficacy of phage therapy for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections Advancing innovative interventions for mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders Development of antibodies and antibody-derived proteins for the prevention of infectious diseases with epidemic potential Leveraging artificial intelligence for pandemic preparedness and response Enhancing cell therapies with genomic techniques Advancing cell secretome-based therapies Optimising the manufacturing of Advanced Therapy Medical Products (ATMPs) Facilitating the conduct of multinational clinical studies of orphan devices and/or of highly innovative (“breakthrough”) devices Boosting the translation of biotech research into innovative health therapies Furthermore, the call topic on ‘Boosting the translation of biotech research into innovative health therapies’ requires that at least 50% of the total EU contribution to the project should go to SMEs. Disclaimer: the draft Health Cluster text of the forthcoming Horizon Europe work programme 2025 that is already circulating is a provisional version that may be subject to change and will only take a final form upon official publication by the European Commission (expected in April/May 2025).
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Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant coordinated the Glaukos project, which answered the call topic published in 2019 of Horizon 2020 Framework Programme ‘Develop bio-based fibres and/or functional molecules to improve the performance of textile products’ under the Framework of the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU). The consortium partners took up this challenge by valorising industrial side streams and setting up a circular approach to the textile industry.
