MSCA and Citizens brings research and researchers closer to the public at large, to increase awareness of research and innovation activities, and to boost public recognition of science and research education. The 2025 call for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and Citizens opened on 17 June 2025 and will close on 22 October 2025. This call …
The European Innovation Council (EIC) Board has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing gender equality across Europe’s innovation ecosystem, calling for stronger action across the sector. Despite improvements, systemic gender disparities persist across the innovation landscape. Women represent 42% of STEM graduates in the EU but hold fewer than 25% of leadership roles, secure significantly less …
The recent Horizon Europe mid-term evaluation highlights their strong performance and structural impact in supporting research excellence, talent mobility and institutional capacity. The European Commission’s interim evaluation of the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme confirms the important role played by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) in advancing excellent science, supporting research careers and strengthening …
A new report reveals how the ERC Proof of Concept (PoC) Grants are turning frontier research into real-world solutions. With just 1% of the ERC’s total budget – €259 million between 2014 and 2023 – some 1700 PoC projects have delivered impressive results in innovation, commercialisation and cross-sector impact. Available exclusively to ERC grantees, PoC …
EISMEA has launched a new call for tenders titled “EIC Global Business Expansion Programme” (EIC GBE) under the procedure identifier EISMEA/2025/OP/0006. The objective of this tender is to support EIC-funded companies in expanding their business activities to new global markets focusing on Americas, Asia and Pacific regions. Building on the success of previous EIC Soft-landing activities, the …
The 2025 call for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks is open for submissions as of 28 May 2025 with a deadline to apply by 25 November 2025. This call will dedicate €597.8 million to fund over 150 projects in all scientific fields and the training and skills development of more than 2000 doctoral candidates. MSCA Doctoral Networks implement doctoral programmes through …
The European Commission has launched the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, ‘Choose Europe to Start and Scale’, to make Europe a great place to start and grow global technology-driven companies. The Strategy aligns with the broader ‘Choose Europe’ initiative, launched by President von der Leyen. This initiative focused first on the science component promoting a unified European approach to attract and retain …
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The main novelties for 2026, as well as the longer-term goal to extend the eligibility of applicants for Starting and Consolidator Grants from …
The European Innovation Council (EIC) has received an unprecedented 2,087 project proposals under the EIC Pathfinder Open 2025 call, involving participants from 71 countries. The call closed earlier this week on 21 May 2025, with applicants collectively requesting over €6.23 billion in grant funding— demonstrating the growing demand for support in transformative, high-risk research. This …
EIF commitment is backed by the InvestEU programme, which aims to trigger more than €372 billion overall in investment supporting EU policy priorities, until 2027 This investment is the EIF’s first investment in a dedicated European defence fund The Fund targets early-stage companies across the EU, focusing on information superiority, cyber defence, space, autonomy and …