A European Commission mid-term assessment released on 15 September 2026 finds that the five EU Missions under Horizon Europe are making progress towards their 2030 goals. The assessment says the Climate Adaptation Mission has already gone beyond its target, while the other four missions are advancing through projects, partnerships and demonstration sites. read more 

The ERC is looking for ERC grantees to participate in the 2027 edition of the annual ‘Science is Wonderful!’ science fair. The fair is aimed at primary and secondary school students and gives them the opportunity to interact with teams of researchers that showcase their work at booths through live experiments, inter... read more 

The MSCA is seeking MSCA fellows and alumni to showcase their research at the 2027 edition of the annual Science is Wonderful! science fair. The fair is aimed at primary and secondary school students and gives them the opportunity to interact with teams of researchers that showcase their work at booths through live experiments,... read more 

A verified technical issue has affected the Funding & Tenders portal during the last hours, creating problems with the submission of proposals. Therefore, the deadline for call series HORIZON-CL6-2026-01 has been extended until 23/09/26 at 17h Brussels local time.       read more 

The eight winners of the 2026 edition of the ERC Public Engagement with Research Award (ERC-2026-PERA) have been announced. This is the first time, since the PERA Award was established, that two researchers affiliated with Flemish universities have won this award: Valeria Pulignano from KU Leuven and Sarah Lebeer from Universiteit Antwerpen. More i... read more 

The Research Executive Agandcy (REA) reported that 73 new Research Infrastructure projects will receive funding and are starting their activities. In total 159 applications were submitted to the Research Infrastructures 2025 call destinations, in total 18 call topics which closed on 18 September 2025. 23 funded projects have participation of one or... read more 

The European Commission has proposed a European Innovation Act aimed at helping innovative ideas move from research to market and scale across the EU. It was presented publicly on 9 September 2026. read more 

More information is available about opportunities for transnational (TNA) and virtual access (VA) to European research infrastructures for researchers from the academic and private sector in this RICH Europe leaflet. Access the database on TNA and VA open calls here. The database can be filtered on scientific domain, the status of th... read more 

The European Innovation Council has published submission-related updates for several 2026 Horizon Europe calls. For three EIC Pathfinder Challenges topics, the Part B Ethics and Security annexes are no longer mandatory. For the EIC Transition 2026 call, applicants using an eligible six-digit originating project number need to add three leading zeros in Part A. read more 

The European Commission, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) has shared communication material designed to help more businesses discover how they can improve their research and innovation capabilities through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). It is available both as a webpage and as downloadable files for b... read more