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Project ideas
If you have an idea for a project matching a funding opportunity feel free to register it from within the individual funding opportunity detail pages. To directly browse all currently open ideas, please visit the project ideas page.
Current open calls
- Opening date: 2 May 2025
- Closing time: 15 September 2025 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 100 000
- Official website
The VInnovate Call 2025 provides financial support (grants) to stakeholders (SMEs cooperating with other companies and/or research/technology centres or universities) located in the VInnovate 2025[…]
- Opening date: 15 May 2025
- Closing time: 16 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 4 000 000 of total € 12 000 000
- Official website
Projects should contribute to the following expected outcome: Policymakers are provided with a multi-dimensional overview and assessment of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) role in contemporary[…]
- Opening date: 15 May 2025
- Closing time: 16 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 2 000 000 of total € 2 000 000
- Official website
Projects should contribute to all the following expected outcomes: Policy makers at European, national, regional and local level from the health, culture, social care, relief/[…]
- Opening date: 15 May 2025
- Closing time: 16 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 3 500 000 of total € 10 500 000
- Official website
Projects should contribute to all the following expected outcomes: Dialogues between academics, local authorities and communities are strengthened by a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda[…]
- Opening date: 15 May 2025
- Closing time: 16 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 4 000 000 of total € 12 000 000
- Official website
Projects should contribute to all the following expected outcomes: Organisations active in diplomacy, culture, research (including SSH disciplines), and education gain insights into the strategic[…]
- Opening date: 15 May 2025
- Closing time: 16 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 3 500 000 of total € 10 500 000
- Official website
Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: A deepened understanding is developed and made available to researchers (including from SSH disciplines), policy-makers[…]
- Opening date: 15 May 2025
- Closing time: 16 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 4 500 000 of total € 13 500 000
- Official website
Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Enhanced and updated understanding of the European design[1] sector and design professionals, including its cross-sectoral[…]
- Opening date: 15 May 2025
- Closing time: 16 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 5 000 000 of total € 15 000 000
- Official website
Projects should contribute to at least three of the following expected outcomes: Policy makers, Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI)[1] and other stakeholders gain insights into[…]
- Opening date: 15 May 2025
- Closing time: 16 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 4 000 000 of total € 26 000 000
- Official website
Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Findings from thorough end-to-end testing based on real use cases contribute to a seamlessly working,[…]
- Opening date: 9 April 2025
- Closing time: 17 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Total budget: € 5 000 000
- Official website
The programme helps to promote intercultural dialogue by bringing people of different nationalities and different languages together and giving them the opportunity to participate in[…]
- Opening date: 6 May 2025
- Closing time: 18 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 10 000 000 of total € 40 000 000
- Official website
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Innovative use of artificial intelligence (AI), in line with the GenAI4EU initiative[1],[…]
- Opening date: 22 May 2025
- Closing time: 23 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 3 000 000 of total € 3 000 000
- Official website
Proposals are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: Demonstrated successful incentives for systemic transformation towards Industry 5.0[1] and for skills upgrading and boosting the[…]
- Opening date: 22 May 2025
- Closing time: 23 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 2 000 000 of total € 2 000 000
- Official website
Proposals are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: Increase innovation capacity by drawing on transdisciplinary research and cross-sectoral collaboration to generate economic and societal[…]
- Opening date: 22 May 2025
- Closing time: 23 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 2 000 000 of total € 2 000 000
- Official website
Proposals are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: Swiftly valorise research results by market, society or policy making, powered by AI; Tackle the innovation[…]
- Opening date: 22 May 2025
- Closing time: 23 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 3 000 000 of total € 3 000 000
- Official website
Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: Identify the long-term research challenges where AI can make a meaningful breakthrough contributing to EU’s competitive[…]
- Opening date: 6 May 2025
- Closing time: 24 September 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 6 000 000 of total € 12 000 000
- Project ideas for this opportunity: 1
- Official website
In line with the objectives of the Vision for Agriculture and food and the common agricultural policy (CAP), to support generational renewal, to promote fair[…]
- Opening date: 10 June 2025
- Closing time: 2 October 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 5 000 000 of total € 20 000 000
- Official website
Project results are expected to contribute to at least one of the following expected outcomes: Realistic, creative and innovative characters, user-tailored artefacts, and Virtual Worlds[…]
- Opening date: 10 June 2025
- Closing time: 2 October 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 2 500 000 of total € 2 500 000
- Official website
The launch of the co-programmed new European Partnership for Virtual Worlds will help develop and promote a thriving industrial and end-user ecosystem in the EU,[…]
- Opening date: 27 March 2025
- Closing time: 8 October 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Total budget: € 82 764 008
- Official website
MSCA Staff Exchanges involve organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (including SMEs) from across the globe. Support is provided for international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary[…]
- Opening date: 14 May 2025
- Closing time: 15 October 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 8 000 000 of total € 35 000 000
- Official website
In line with the New European Innovation Agenda’s flagship on accelerating and strengthening innovation in European Innovation Ecosystems across the EU and addressing the innovation[…]