The selected projects will begin their research by the end of the year on a range of topics. The European Commission recently signed grant agreements with 49 projects that successfully applied to Horizon Europe: Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I System and Research Infrastructures. Find out more about these two funding opportunities and the upcoming projects below. …
On 14 July, the Commission launches the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions, a new prize that recognises academic and research organisations that have achieved outstanding results in the implementation of gender equality measures. This new Prize scheme intends to advance inclusive gender equality plans and policies in the framework of the new European Research Area …
The Long-term Europe Africa Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE) is a 5 years programme co-funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, aiming at developing a long-term partnership between Europe and Africa on Research and Innovation (R&I) in renewable energy. The programme is conducted by a consortium of 83 partners from European and African countries. …
The EU funded Innovative Entrepreneurship project has launched the 2022 Startups4Peace (Su4P) programme in cooperation with the Embassy of Finland. The programme aims to encourage innovative entrepreneurs with new business ideas and intercommunal vision in Cyprus to come together, work in partnership and develop closer contacts between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. The successful …
Driven by curiosity and crucial to facing global challenges: in-depth study finds ERC-funded research under Horizon 2020 programme highly relevant to Europe’s policy ambitions. A new in-depth analysis of all research projects funded by the European Research Council under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework programme has been made public. The study – “Mapping …
Professors Mariska Kret, Alpa Shah and Jonathan Tennyson have been awarded the ERC Public Engagement with Research Awards 2022. Professor Artur Obluski has received a special mention following an online vote for the public’s favourite project. The names of the laureates have been announced in an award ceremony at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in …
The study provides an in-depth analysis of MSCA mobility flows and recommendations for a more balanced movement of researchers and talent (“brain circulation”) in the European Research Area. The European Commission carried out a study to understand the structure and determinants of researchers’ mobility and how to make mobility flows across countries more balanced. The study analyses …
A call for applications under the recently announced MSCA4Ukraine scheme, funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and aiming to support displaced researchers from Ukraine, is coming up in September. About MSCA4Ukraine MSCA4Ukraine will enable researchers from Ukraine to continue their work at academic and non-academic organisations in EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries, while …
The ERC has announced its Work Programme for 2023 with a total budget of around €2.2 billion for grants. This amount will support more than a thousand top researchers across Europe. Established by the ERC Scientific Council, the Work Programme for the coming year has been adopted by the European Commission. While the plan contains …
The European Commission will fund at least 71 Staff Exchanges’ projects to support mobility between academia and the private sector The European Research Executive Agency (REA) received 202 eligible applications with a requested budget of €211 million for the 2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) call for Staff Exchanges. This first Staff Exchanges call under Horizon Europe will support over 15 600 months of staff exchanges …