Applications for ERC Synergy Grants 2025: Facts and Figures

The ERC Synergy Grants 2025 call closed for applications on 6 November 2024. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals: The ERC received 712 proposals, marking a 30% increase compared to last year’s call when 548 applications were submitted, and an even more significant 80% rise compared to the 2023 call when 395 proposals were received. 754 or 30% …

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MSCA 2024 call to co-fund doctoral and postdoctoral programmes receives 81 proposals

COFUND gives organisations a unique opportunity to attract research and innovation talent through their own doctoral and postdoctoral fellowship programmes. The fourth call under Horizon Europe of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded COFUND scheme closed on 26 September 2024. The European Research Executive Agency (REA) received 81 proposals. Through this call, the European Union will fund around 30 projects and up to 1,000 researchers with an indicative budget …

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EU boosts European AI developers with the AI Factories call for proposals

The Commission has launched a call for setting up AI Factories to boost European leadership in trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI). AI Factories will be created around the EU’s world-class network of European High-Performance Computing (HPC) supercomputers and will be available to a range of European users, such as startups, industry and researchers. AI Factories will bring together …

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