Strengthening the international dimension of ESFRI and/or ERIC research infrastructures

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Code: 39716 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/03/2026 | End submission calls: 16/06/2026

This topic aims at supporting the cooperation of pan-European research infrastructures with their international (non-European) counterparts, and/or fostering the international engagement of ESFRI and ERIC research infrastructures through their involvement in global research infrastructure initiatives.

Proposals should describe shared objectives and governance of the collaboration, building on the criteria developed by the Group of Senior Officials on Global Research Infrastructures.

Research infrastructures as accelerators of the integration of Ukraine in the European Research Area

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Code: 39712 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/03/2026 | End submission calls: 16/06/2026

The objective of the topic is the utilisation of Europe’s research infrastructure landscape to facilitate the integration of Ukraine in the European Research Area. Proposals should build on the Coordination and Support Action “assessing the state of research infrastructure in Ukraine” resulting from the 2024 topic.

Moreover, they should include the provision of remote fellowships for researchers based in Ukraine to collaborate on technology development with European research infrastructures, building on the model of the EURIZON project (proposals may use financial support to third parties for that purpose).

Strengthening the human capital managing research infrastructures, including in international context

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Code: 39707 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/03/2026 | End submission calls: 16/06/2026

This topic aims at the training of staff managing research infrastructures, the adequate supply of skilled human resources, and strengthening and sustaining specific education curricula and courses with due attention to widening and candidate countries as well as to evolving research infrastructure environments.

Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – individual support for evolution, long-term sustainability and emerging needs of pan-European research infrastructures

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Code: 39704 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/03/2026 | End submission calls: 16/06/2026

This topic targets the consolidation of the EU research infrastructures landscape through the support, together with the countries that are members of the research infrastructures, to the strengthening, long-term sustainability, reorientation or evolution of ESFRI Landmarks^[1] or European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs)

Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – pilots for strategic coordination, synergies and simplified access pathways, by large thematic clusters of pan-European research infrastructures

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Code: 39701 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/03/2026 | End submission calls: 16/06/2026

This topic aims at equipping large thematic clusters of research infrastructures of European interest with a policy arm combined with a technical arm, to increase awareness, findability and accessibility, better matching user needs.

This thematic clustering is aligned with ESFRI approach: proposals should explicitly state which ESFRI domainthey address (see specific conditions on procedure for ranking proposals).

Proposals should foresee close collaboration across projects under this topic to ensure, where applicable, policy coordination, technical interoperability and other synergies.

Research infrastructure concept development including major upgrades or extensions of existing infrastructures

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Code: 39699 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Research Infrastructures (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 10/03/2026 | End submission calls: 16/06/2026

This topic aims at supporting the development of new concepts for the next generation of research infrastructures of European interest, single- or multi-sited, distributed or virtual, that none or few countries might individually be able to implement. All fields of research can be considered.

ZMINA:Resilience – ZMINA: First call for co-creation funding of international cooperation projects

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Code: 39696 | Identifier Code: ZMINA.Resilience - First call | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 10/03/2026 | End submission calls: 10/05/2026

ZMINA:Resilience is a project to support the integration of the Ukrainian cultural and creative sectors (CCS) in the EU’s cultural landscape, in view of the country’s accession to the EU. To reach this objective, the project will provide funding and capacity building to support collaborations between artistic and cultural organisations (A&COs) from Ukraine and other Creative Europe countries.

Skills and Talent Development

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Code: 39692 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2026-TRAINING | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA | Start submission calls: 09/12/2025 | End submission calls: 16/04/2026

The objective of the Skills and Talent Development support is to enhance the capacity of audiovisual professionals to adapt to new creative processes, market developments and digital technologies that affect the whole value chain.

Erasmus+ Scholarship

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Code: 39688 | Identifier Code: ERASMUS-EDU-2026-POL-EXP-SSEF | Programme name: 2918 | Start submission calls: 03/03/2026 | End submission calls: 28/05/2026

The Erasmus+ scholarship initiative seeks therefore to design, pilot, and evaluate a scholarship scheme that promotes excellence and supports talented students in key strategic fields, helping to meet the growing demand for highly skilled professionals.

The scheme will focus on students with fewer opportunities. It will also generate evidence on the most effective approaches for implementing the scheme and assess its potential for broader scale-up.

Enhancing integrated research and healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa through digital innovation and Artificial Intelligence

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Code: 39685 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-03-DIGIT-02 | Programme name: 29117 | Start submission calls: 14/01/2026 | End submission calls: 02/09/2026

The proposals submitted under this topic should address the following points:

1. Strengthen health systems, capacity and partnership to enhance the development and use of existing and new digital health records and tools, leveraging machine learning and AI, aiming to prevent, detect or treat infectious diseases in the scope of Global Health EDCTP3 in SSA, enabling health care workers, government, and policy makers to make informed clinical decisions or implement well-informed epidemic preparedness measures. Proposals should favour low-risk digital/AI approaches.
2. Strengthen national and regional efforts across SSA with concrete demonstration of scale up of validated digital technologies for implementation at national or sub-regional level, and to align digital health strategies with applicable international best practices.
3. Improved coordination between stakeholders promoting collaborative platforms and partnerships sharing data and knowledge between regions/countries in SSA and ideally with global partners.

Training and innovation networks for sustained capacity development related to ethics, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, and related digital regulatory platforms

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Code: 39680 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-03-SERP-01 | Programme name: 29117 | Start submission calls: 14/01/2026 | End submission calls: 02/09/2026

Proposals submitted under this topic should address persistent gaps in ethics, regulatory and/or PV systems evaluating medical products (therapeutics and vaccines) by strengthening existing and/or building new networks:

1. Proposals should address the capability to provide scientific advice, enhancement of knowledge on assessing complex innovative clinical trial applications (included but not limited to platform trials) and/or assessing marketing authorisation files, and/or PV capabilities including AI and big data as appropriate, strengthening capacity for ethics committees and/or regulatory agencies that did not reach ML3 for the corresponding areas as defined in the WHO Global Benchmarking Tool, while benefitting from mentoring/peer support by ML3/ML4 agencies as part of the consortium.
2. Proposals should establish and strengthen training and twinning networks or a regional regulatory authority dedicated to training ethicists and regulators to ensure sustainable capacity for Ethics Committees, and/or Regulatory Authorities and/or PV across countries in SSA in alignment with international standards.

Call for proposals to national data protection authorities on reaching out to stakeholders in data protection legislation

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Code: 39677 | Identifier Code: CERV-2026-DATA | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 28/02/2026 | End submission calls: 28/05/2026

The objective of this call is facilitating compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), small mid-cap enterprises (SMCs) and organisations with a similar number of employees.

European Cooperation Projects

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Code: 39674 | Identifier Code: CREA-CULT-2026-COOP | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: Culture | Start submission calls: 05/03/2026 | End submission calls: 05/05/2026

European Cooperation Projects are transnational projects involving organisations in the cultural and creative sectors from different countries taking part in the programme. They give cultural organisations of all sizes, including microorganisations and small-sized organisations, the possibility to co-produce, cooperate, experiment, innovate, be mobile and learn from each other. The action aims to improve access to European culture and creative works and to promote innovation and creativity. Projects can cover one or more cultural and creative sectors and can be interdisciplinary.

Support will be given to cooperation projects contributing to only one of the following objectives:

• Objective 1 – Transnational creation and circulation: to strengthen the transnational creation and circulation of European works and artists;
• Objective 2 – Innovation: to enhance the capacity of European cultural and creative sectors to nurture talents, to innovate, to prosper and to generate jobs and growth.

Citizens’ engagement and participation

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Code: 39671 | Identifier Code: CERV-2026-CITIZENS-CIV | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 03/03/2026 | End submission calls: 29/04/2026

The objective of this call is promoting citizens’ and representative associations’ participation in and contribution to the democratic and civic life of the Union by making known and publicly exchanging their views in all areas of Union action.

It aims to empower strong and resilient democracies by supporting initiatives that reinforce situational awareness and support response capacity to safeguard the integrity of the information space; strengthen democratic institutions, free and fair elections and free and independent media and boost societal resilience and citizens’ engagement.

Promote gender equality CERV 2026 GE

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Code: 39666 | Identifier Code: CERV-2026-GE | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 29/01/2026 | End submission calls: 28/04/2026

Under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) in accordance with the 2026-27 Work Programme, the call for proposals “Call for proposals to gender equality” – CERV-2026-GE, has opened for the submission of proposals.

 

The objective of this call is to support, advance and implement comprehensive policies to promote women’s full enjoyment of rights, including work-life balance, women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming, and combat gender violence.

The call covers the following topics representing 4 call priorities:

• Priority 1- Topic 1: Supporting work-life balance, equal share of care responsibilities, family-friendly policies among employers and the value of care sector jobs – CERV-2026-GE-WORK-LIFE.
• Priority 2- Topic 2: Promoting and supporting the implementation of the provisions of the Pay Transparency Directive and respect of equal pay for equal work and work of equal value – CERV-2026-GE-PAY-TRANSP-DIR;
• Priority 3- Topic 3: Supporting equal participation and representation of women and men in economic and political decision-making – CERV-2026-GE-EQUAL-PART-REP;
• Priority 4- Topic 4: Tackling gender stereotypes in media and advertising – CERV-2026-GE-GENDER-STEREO;

Joint Transnational Call 2026 for the BE READY Partnership: Advancing knowledge of host and pathogens dynamics to better combat emerging diseases

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Code: 39663 | Identifier Code: BE READY NOW | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 19/01/2026 | End submission calls: 13/04/2026

The aim of this call is to increase scientific understanding and evidence-based knowledge on emerging and re-emerging pathogens with pandemic potential as well ason the host responses triggered by infection in order to improve our capacity to anticipate, prevent and respond to infectious health threats through a multinational, collaborative and interdisciplinary approach that bridges research and development.

Open Call 2 – Short Term and Long Term Funding to support ICT standardisation

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Code: 39660 | Identifier Code: 2028-12-31T22:00:00.000Z | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 23/02/2026 | End submission calls: 24/04/2026

he objective of the funding is to enable the specialists to contribute to and help create a fully integrated European Standardisation Ecosystem, thereby strengthening Europe’s position in global standardisation initiatives.

SNS experimental infrastructure

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Code: 39650 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2026-STREAM-C-01 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 29/01/2026 | End submission calls: 29/04/2026

The project will leverage existing SNS JU Stream C and D project results, as well as results from European National Initiatives, aggregating testbed sites that can offer combined capabilities across Europe.

The project should focus on integration, evaluation and validation beyond PoC of Stream B type of technologies for 6G KPIs and KVIs in a system context.

The project should not engage in activities of interconnecting or federation, as these issues have been addressed in previous projects. The core of the activities is to run experiments, with some activities to maintain and expand the tool offered to the community.

Collection, Generation and Validation of Datasets suitable for training AI Models for 6G Networks and for AIaaS

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Code: 39644 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2026-STREAM-B-01 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 29/01/2026 | End submission calls: 29/04/2026

This Topic expects proposals with strong industrial participation with demonstrated AI and operational expertise to ensure credibility, usability, and engagement with standardisation bodies. Academic institutions and RTOs will complement consortia where their expertise adds clear value.

EU-India International Collaboration

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Code: 39641 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-JU-SNS-2026-STREAM-CSA-03 | Programme name: 26685 | Start submission calls: 29/01/2026 | End submission calls: 29/04/2026

The goal of this CSA is to facilitate structured cooperation and exchanges between EU and Indian stakeholders in the field of advanced connectivity research.