Uptake of innovative cybersecurity solutions for SMEs

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Code: 38416 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-ECCC-2025-DEPLOY-CYBER-09-UPTAKE | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 28/10/2025 | End submission calls: 31/03/2026

The action aims at improving industrial and market readiness for the cybersecurity requirements for SMEs as specified in relevant EU cybersecurity legislation, for instance, as set in the Cyber Resilience Act ensuring more secure hardware and software products.

Cybersecure tools, technologies and services relying on AI

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Code: 38412 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-ECCC-2025-DEPLOY-CYBER-09-CYBERAI | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 28/10/2025 | End submission calls: 31/03/2026

Actions in this topic should develop and deploy systems and tools for cybersecurity, based on AI technologies, addressing aspects such as threat detection, vulnerability detection, threat mitigation, incident recovery through self-healing, data analysis and data sharing.

These activities must also comply with intellectual property rights (IPR) and the GDPR, depending on the type of information handled. The AI solutions proposed should also be cybersecure.

European VOD networks and operators

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Code: 38410 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2026-VODNET | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 08/04/2026

The objective is to support European Video on Demand (VOD) networks and operators, screening a significant proportion of non-national European works, with the aim to improve their competitiveness and attractiveness.

Innovative tools and business models

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Code: 38407 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2026-INNOVBUSMOD | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 15/01/2026

The Innovative tools and business models action is aimed at encouraging the development and/or the spread of innovative tools and business models to improve the visibility, availability, audience and diversity of European works in the digital age and/or the competitiveness and/or the greening process of the European audiovisual industry.

Films on the Move

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Code: 38404 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2026-FILMOVE | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 19/03/2026

The Films on the Move action shall encourage and support the wider distribution of recent non-national European films by encouraging sales agents and theatrical distributors in particular to invest in promotion and adequate distribution of non- national European films.

European co-development

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Code: 38401 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2026-CODEV | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 25/02/2026

The objective of the support to European co-development is to support the cooperation among European production companies that are developing works with a strong international audience potential.

Joint programming for risk assessments in vector-borne diseases

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Code: 38397 | Identifier Code: EUBA-EFSA-2025-BIOHAW-04 | Programme name: 29844 | Start submission calls: 01/10/2025 | End submission calls: 15/01/2026

EFSA aims to enhance the capacity for risk assessment at the European Union level by further developing partnerships among the European institutions that hold this competency. By  establishing long term collaborations and harmonisation of the approaches to carry out risk assessments, EFSA aims to reinforce the development of science that can support decision making  in the area of vector-borne diseases.

The call will be divided  into the following 4 lots:

Lot 1 – Risk Assessments in northern EU
Lot 2 – Risk Assessments in southern EU
Lot 3 – Risk Assessments in western EU
Lot 4 – Risk Assessments in eastern EU

Markets and Networking

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Code: 38394 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2026-MARKETNET | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 20/01/2026

The objective of the Markets & networking support is to enhance the promotion of European content in the global market and to foster cooperation among all parts of the audiovisual value chain for the co-creation and promotion of European audiovisual works.

Cooperation of audiovisual professionals and promotion of European works are pursued by supporting two types of projects and activities:

• Markets focusing on a specific type of films and innovative content, or networking of markets that present similar genre/topics or are located in the same region;
• Networking activities and cooperation among networks across the whole value chain for the promotion of European talents and works.

European slate development

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Code: 38391 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2026-DEVSLATE | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 03/12/2025

Within the specific objective of promoting competitiveness, scalability, cooperation, innovation and sustainability, including through mobility in the European audiovisual sector, one of the priorities of the MEDIA Strand is:

• to nurture talents, competence and skills and to stimulate cross-border cooperation, mobility and innovation in the creation and production of European audiovisual works, encouraging collaboration across Member States with different audiovisual capacities.

Video games and immersive content development

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Code: 38388 | Identifier Code: CREA-MEDIA-2026-DEVVGIM | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: MEDIA (Μέσα Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης) | Start submission calls: 30/09/2025 | End submission calls: 11/02/2026

The objective of the support to Video games and immersive content development is to increase the capacity of European video game producers, XR studios and audiovisual production companies to develop video games and interactive immersive experiences with the potential to reach global audiences. The support also aims to improve the competitiveness of the European video games industry and other companies producing interactive immersive content in European and international markets by enabling the retention of intellectual property by European developers.

ERC Public Engagement with Research Award

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Code: 38385 | Identifier Code: ERC-2026-PERA | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 14/10/2025 | End submission calls: 15/01/2026

The Public Engagement with Research Award is established to recognise and reward those Principal Investigators who successfully engage audiences outside their domain with ERC-funded research. The purpose of this award is also to recognise good practice and to encourage more ERC grantees to develop public engagement activities. For this award, public engagement is defined as the involvement of the public in the design, conduct or dissemination of activities funded by the ERC. Engagement is a two way process, involving interaction and mutual understanding for mutual benefit.

Circulation of European literary works

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Code: 38383 | Identifier Code: CREA-CULT-2026-LIT | Programme name: 3948 | Sub-program: Culture | Start submission calls: 15/10/2025 | End submission calls: 29/01/2026

This action supports projects that translate, publish, distribute, and promote European works of fiction. This action complements the other initiatives or actions under Creative Europe support to the book and publishing sector such as the European Authors Day (reading promotion and discovery of European literature) and the European Union Prize for Literature (promotion of European emerging authors). Applicants are encouraged to look for synergies.

In addition, as part of the exceptional support to Ukraine, applicants will be encouraged to propose activities facilitating the circulation/translation of books from and/or into Ukraine, as well as their translation into or from Ukrainian. In addition, projects aimed at providing books in the Ukrainian language to Ukrainian refugees and displaced people will be encouraged.