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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: 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: € 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: 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: 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: € 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: 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: 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[…]
- Opening date: 14 May 2025
- Closing time: 15 October 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 1 000 000 of total € 5 000 000
- Official website
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Open dialogue, prepare the ground and facilitate the agreement among Member States,[…]
- Opening date: 6 May 2025
- Closing time: 12 November 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 5 200 000 of total € 10 400 000
- Official website
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Improved integration of public authorities (for compliance with regulations, strategies, etc.), social[…]
- Opening date: 6 May 2025
- Closing time: 12 November 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 3 000 000 of total € 9 000 000
- Official website
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Better evidence is made available to public authorities and not-for-profit organisations of[…]
- Opening date: 6 May 2025
- Closing time: 12 November 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 3 500 000 of total € 10 500 000
- Official website
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Better understanding of the effects of the design, aesthetics and other features[…]
- Opening date: 22 May 2025
- Closing time: 13 November 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 10 000 000 of total € 23 000 000
- Official website
The Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Instrument is a funding instrument under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) regulation (article 13) and supports interregional innovation projects[…]
- Opening date: 22 May 2025
- Closing time: 13 November 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 10 000 000 of total € 24 000 000
- Official website
The Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) Instrument is a funding instrument under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) regulation (article 13). It supports the scaling up[…]
- Opening date: 8 May 2025
- Closing time: 20 November 2025 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Budget per project: € 5 000 000 of total € 80 000 000
- Official website
According to the recent report on the future of European competitiveness by Mario Draghi (published in September 2024)[1], ‘the EU boasts an excellent university system[…]
- Opening date: 29 September 2025
- Closing time: 27 November 2025 13:00 (Europe/Brussels)
- Total budget: € 23 000 000
- Official website
Central Europe is a complex functional area characterised not only by geographic proximity but also by spatial interactions and functional linkages in various sectors of[…]
- 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: 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[…]