Funding opportunities

As member of our Time Machine network you are warmly invited to get in touch with our Project Scouting Service team in case any of the below-mentioned funding opportunities spark your interest!

Also note the easy to use interactive search tool for funding opportunities recently published by the European Commission to “find the right funding opportunity for you, based on the sector you are working in, type of organisation and the support you are looking for.”

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: 5 December 2023
  • Closing time: 7 May 2024 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Total budget: € 56 000 000
  • Official website

Implementing vocational excellence approaches features prominently in the overall EU policy agenda for skills and for Vocational Education and Training (VET). The European Skills Agenda,[…]

  • Opening date: 29 February 2024
  • Closing time: 29 May 2024 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 3 000 000 of total € 3 000 000
  • Official website

During the action, the project shall deliver: • Services, open tools, methodologies, best practices, etc. in a knowledge centre accessible by CHIs from the whole[…]

  • Opening date: 1 February 2024
  • Closing time: 1 June 2024 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Total budget: € 500 000
  • Official website

Visegrad Strategic Grants is a grant program run and financed by the International Visegrad Fund aimed at fostering cooperation among the Visegrad Group (V4) countries[…]

  • Opening date: 1 February 2024
  • Closing time: 1 June 2024 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: 5 December 2023
  • Closing time: 4 June 2024 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Total budget: € 15 000 000
  • Official website

Projects can address different educational sectors or bridge educational sectors, and must support high quality and inclusive digital education, in line with the Digital Education[…]

  • Opening date: 20 March 2024
  • Closing time: 7 June 2024 12:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Total budget: € 130 000 000
  • Official website

Through its cohesion policy, the European Union works to reduce disparities both in the levels of development and in quality of life in European regions.[…]

  • Opening date: 29 May 2024
  • Closing time: 29 August 2024 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 2 500 000 of total € 578 000 000
  • Official website

Applicants for the ERC Advanced Grants – called Principal Investigators (PI) – are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research[…]

  • Opening date: 6 June 2024
  • Closing time: 19 September 2024 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 500 000 of total € 2 500 000
  • Official website

Projects results are expected to contribute to four (4) or more of the following expected outcomes: Improved integration of research institutions, Higher Education Institutions, vocational[…]

  • Opening date: 15 November 2023
  • Closing time: 14 November 2024 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget per project: € 1 500 000 of total € 13 000 000
  • Official website

The Interregional Innovation Investments Instrument (I3) creates linkages for interregional collaboration bringing together actors from different EU regions investing in joint innovation projects along S3[…]

  • Opening date: 31 March 2023
  • Closing time: 1 August 2025 23:59 (Europe/Brussels)
  • Budget: N/A
  • Official website

This Call for Expression of Interest is directed towards companies and entities, including training centres and advisors, that are interested in providing services to the[…]