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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: 30 September 2025
- Closing time: 30 January 2026 00:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 29 800
- Official website
Call 2: Engagement and Collaboration [CURRENT CALL] – Initiatives that promote digital skills, awareness, and collaboration with CHIs. Projects that strategically enlist professional umbrella organisations[…]
- Opening date: 1 October 2025
- Closing time: 1 February 2026 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
- Total budget: € 4 500 000
- Official website
Visegrad Grants is a grant program run and financed by the International Visegrad Fund, aimed at fostering cooperation between the V4 countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland,[…]
- Opening date: 4 December 2025
- Closing time: 10 February 2026 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Total budget: € 12 600 472
CBHE funds international higher-education partnerships that strengthen universities and systems in eligible third countries not associated to the Programme. Aligned with the SDGs and the[…]
- Opening date: 4 December 2025
- Closing time: 10 February 2026 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Total budget: € 11 111 710
- Official website
CBHE funds international higher-education partnerships that strengthen universities and systems in eligible third countries not associated to the Programme. Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris[…]
- Opening date: 4 November 2025
- Closing time: 3 March 2026 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 8 500 000 of total € 17 000 000
- Official website
Expected Outcome: Contributing to European digital sovereignty and open strategic autonomy in the domain of virtual worlds; Contributing to development of innovative and interoperable virtual[…]
- Opening date: 3 December 2025
- Closing time: 4 March 2026 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 2 000 000 of total € 70 000 000
- Official website
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has launched a new call under its Higher Education Initiative (HEI) to boost STEM education, strengthen innovation[…]
- Opening date: 23 October 2025
- Closing time: 19 March 2026 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget: N/A
- Official website
The Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Instrument, under the European Regional and Development Fund (ERDF), supports interregional innovation projects in their scale-up and commercialisation phases. It[…]
- Opening date: 23 October 2025
- Closing time: 23 April 2026 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Total budget: € 7 021 561
- Official website
The Creative Innovation Lab support shall support the design, development and/or spread of innovative tools, models or solutions applicable in the audiovisual (compulsory) and at[…]
- Opening date: 1 November 2024
- Closing time: 31 May 2026 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 60 000 of total € 3 450 000
- Official website
EIC ACCESS+ provides co-funding of up to 50% of the costs for deep-tech startups to access essential business services from the EIC Service Catalogue. Startups[…]
- Opening date: 12 May 2026
- Closing time: 16 September 2026 00:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 3 750 000 of total € 15 000 000
- Official website
Expected Outcome: Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Deepened understanding and comprehensive evaluation of cultural policy models, creative industry ecosystems, and[…]
- Opening date: 12 May 2026
- Closing time: 16 September 2026 00:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 5 000 000 of total € 15 000 000
- Official website
Expected Outcome: Proposals should contribute to the first two expected outcomes, and either the one listed under Focus 1, or the one listed under Focus[…]
- Opening date: 12 May 2026
- Closing time: 16 September 2026 00:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 5 000 000 of total € 15 000 000
- Official website
Expected Outcome: Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Insights, recommendations, strategies, guidelines, methods and tools supporting full AI integration in CCSI[…]
- Opening date: 12 May 2026
- Closing time: 16 September 2026 00:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 4 000 000 of total € 12 000 000
- Official website
Expected Outcome: Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: An in-depth analysis of the socio-economic dimensions and impacts of generative AI on[…]
- Opening date: 30 June 2027
- Closing time: 16 September 2027 00:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 4 000 000 of total € 20 000 000
- Official website
Expected Outcome: Projects should contribute to the following expected outcome: New groundbreaking findings and methods are developed, verified and put into practice that significantly contribute[…]