AAL (Active Assisted Living)
AAL (Active Assisted Living) is a European Joint Program that supports projects that increase the quality of life of older people through the use of ICT.
Alain Thielemans
Other EU Funding
Besides Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe there are many other relevant funding programmes managed by several agencies and directorates of the European Commission.
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The EU provides funding for a wide range of projects and programs, covering almost all areas. Finding your way in this vast landscape of possibilities is not always easy and can be very time consuming. But no longer...
Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) has created the handy EU Funding Overview tool . Find your way faster within the EU jungle of support options. Check what funding is available to finance your projects, company or organisation.
List of Flemish contact points
Found a funding programme that fits your needs, but don't know who can help you out? Consult VLEVA's list of contact points in Flanders for European programmes, other than Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.
Below you can find a handpicked selection of European funding programmes. We listed those that are closely related to Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, so expect mostly Research, Development & Innovation programmes in thematics related to the Horizon domains.
ERA-NET by VLAIO
ERA-NET (European Research Area Networks) is the policy instrument of the European Commission for the coordination of national research programmes in Europe. VLAIO uses this instrument to enable and encourage companies (SMEs and large enterprises) in Flanders to cooperate with their colleagues in other countries
VLAIO Infolijn
ERDF-INTERREG
Together with the ERDF Flanders program, Interreg programs form the ERDF part of the cohesion policy in Flanders.
Jorre Van Damme
EUREKA
The European cooperation program EUREKA provides a label to companies for the implementation of applied market-oriented industrial research and development.
Lieve Apers
European funding instruments by FWO
FWO is involved in various European research initiatives (Horizon Europe COFUND partnerships and other types of activities). Through these initiatives, FWO enables and encourages researchers in Flanders to cooperate with colleagues in other countries within specific scientific domains.
FWO
Eurostars
EUROSTARS, set up by Eureka, focuses on research-intensive SMEs, and is based on the 'bottom-up' principle: EUROSTARS puts the SMEs at the wheel, supports small consortia, and stimulates market-oriented projects in themes that the SMEs themselves determine.
Frederik De Vusser
Innovation Fund
The Innovation Fund was set up with the revenues of the emission trading system (ETS). The purpose is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by private companies in harder to abate sectors. It aims at 4 technologies: renewable energy sources and storage, carbon capture and storage, carbon capture and utilization, innovative low carbon solutions.
Michiel Maertens
Life +
Is the EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental, nature conservation and climate action projects throughout the EU.