This event will highlight the regionâs strengths in tech innovation, from AI & robotics to policy, and foster vital cross-border collaboration. By connecting visionaries and decision-makers, the event will showcase the growth & global scale competitiveness the Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) ecosystem has shown over the past
few years.
Further information: ADRA â Regional Ecosystem Event
The event will feature international perspectives and host a variety of sessions covering business-academia collaboration, socially responsible licensing, standards for innovation, citizen science, insights from the EUIPO and the EPO on the role of academia and SMEs, prize ceremonies and much more. A panel will discuss the future of knowledge valorisation.
The event is open to attendance in person or online through live broadcasting, free of charge. For more information and registration please access event website.
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The annual brokerage event co-organized by AENEAS, EPoSS and INSIDE Industry Associations, will gather more than 500 stakeholders and domain key players to network, exchange innovative R&D project ideas, meet potential partners and build future project consortia. This 2025 edition will focus on the opportunities provided under the Chips JU ECS Calls 2025.
Further information: ECS Brokerage Event 2025
The wideraexperts.eu portal is a free-of-charge matchmaking portal for international experts and Widening countries applicants. The aim is to support the applicants from Widening countries who plan to submit proposals within the Widening, ERA, Pillar II clusters and EIC Pathfinder schemes under the Horizon Europe programme.
The portal is created and managed by the NCP_WIDERA.NET consortium of National Contact Points.
Registration in the portal here: https://wideraexperts.eu
OSCARS project is organizing the launch event of the OSCARS 2nd Open Call for Open Science projects and services to be held online, on Wednesday, 15 January 2025.
Researchers from all scientific disciplines are welcome to apply to the 2nd OSCARS Open Call before March 17th, 2025, with proposals for the development of Open Science projects or services, that together will drive the uptake of FAIR-data-intensive research throughout the European Research Area (ERA).Â
Projects are funded with a lump sum between 100,000 and 250,000 EUR, and can be proposed in the fields of any of the Science Clusters and beyond, by any researcher or group of researchers.Â
By the end of OSCARS, it is expected that a series of valuable scientific results and new services will be available, leading to an increased uptake of Open Science by researchers and to promote cross-border and cross-domain cooperation in the long run.
For more information and registration, please visit the following website.
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In its Communication on Web 4 and Virtual Worlds, the EC acknowledged the need to engage internationally with the multistakeholder community on a broad scope of technical and content issues. It also emphasised that this technological shift may involve new forms of governance, reconsidering current mandates of current internet governance institutions and whether other (existing or to be built) institutions should be involved. The results collected through the consultation link below will feed into the development of guiding principles for the governance of virtual worlds and Web 4.0. Further details can be found here.
âŹ323 million is available for co-funding the deployment of digital connectivity infrastructures:
The deadline to apply is 13 February 2025 - further details available here.
The Call for Expression of Interest to participate in the Preparatory Action 'Innovation for place-based transformation'Â is open until 22 November 2024.
The EU Preparatory Action (PA) 'Innovation for place based transformation'Â is dedicated to empower territories in supporting policy practitioners in building capacities, designing and implementing transformative approaches.
In concrete, it aims at:
Public sector authorities from EU Member States, Candidate Countries for accession to the EU and Horizon Europe Associated Countries are invited to express their interest to participate leading their territorial ecosystems in this PA, supported by the European Parliament.Â
More details here.
A new way to bring concrete solutions to some of the EU greatest challenges with ambitious goals to deliver concrete results by 2030.
Targets by 2030: cleaning marine and fresh waters, restoring degraded ecosystems and habitats, decarbonising the blue economy in order to sustainably harness the essential goods and services they provide.
Targets by 2030: at least 75% of all soils in the EU are healthy for food, people, nature and climate. The proposed mission combines research and innovation, education and training, investments and the demonstration of good practices using âLiving labsâ (experiments and innovation in a laboratory on the ground) and âLighthousesâ (places to showcase good practices).
Targets by 2030: more than 3 million more lives saved, living longer and better, achieve a thorough understanding of cancer, prevent what is preventable, optimise diagnosis and treatment, support the quality of life of all people exposed to cancer, and ensure equitable access to the above across Europe.
Targets by 2030: prepare Europe to deal with climate disruptions, accelerate the transition to a healthy and prosperous future within safe planetary boundaries and scale up solutions for resilience that will trigger transformations in society.
Targets by 2030: support, promote and showcase 100 European cities in their systemic transformation towards climate neutrality by 2030 and turn these cities into innovation hubs for all cities, benefiting quality of life and sustainability in Europe.
European Partnerships bring the European Commission and private and/or public partners together to address additional challenges through concerted research and innovation initiatives, on top of the challenges addressed by Horizon Europe. They are a key implementation tool of Horizon Europe, and contribute significantly to achieving the EUâs political priorities.
By bringing private and public partners together, European Partnerships help to avoid the duplication of investments and contribute to reducing the fragmentation of the research and innovation landscape in the EU.
Find out more about European Partnerships in the Commissionâs infographic.
The Commission carried out impact assessments that helped identify the candidates for partnerships.
The portfolio of European Partnerships includes 49 candidates  which have now been taken into the next step of preparations.
The partnership candidates are collected across 5 areas.Â
Full details of candidates, draft proposal documents and contact details please see below.
The current list of candidate European Partnerships is found in Annex 7 of the Orientations towards the first Strategic Plan for Horizon Europe.
Results from the structured consultation of EU countries are summarised in the report European Partnerships under Horizon Europe: results of the structured consultation of Member States.
The Horizon Europe proposal lays down the conditions and principles for establishing European Partnerships. There are 3 types.
Co-programmed European Partnerships
These are partnerships between the Commission and private and/or public partners. They are based on memoranda of understanding and/or contractual arrangements.
Co-funded European Partnerships using a programme co-fund action
Partnerships involving EU countries, with research funders and other public authorities at the core of the consortium.
Institutionalised European Partnerships
These are partnerships where the EU participates in research and innovation funding programmes that are undertaken by EU countries.
These partnerships require legislative proposals from the Commission and are based on a Council Regulation (Article 187) or a Decision by the European Parliament and Council (Article 185). They are implemented by dedicated structures created for that purpose.
Institutionalised partnerships will only be implemented where other parts of the Horizon Europe programme, including other types of partnership, would not achieve the desired objectives or expected impacts.
Documents
Horizon Europeâs next generation European partnerships (PDF File)
Source:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/horizon-europe/european-partnerships-horizon-europe_en
WIDERA NCPs is an umbrella name for the transnational network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area under Horizon Europe.
NCP_WIDERA.NET Project is a 3 years Coordination and Support Action financed by the European Commission and established with the aim to empower the network of National Contact Points (NCP) for WIDERA under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.
The check-list was developed as a tool for NCPs to help them to review the project proposals in order to help the applicants to develop their project proposals in higher quality. There are included all the conditions / questions published in the WP General Annexes, Application form and Evaluation form
Following a workshop activity which took place in May in Dublin, the report summarises delegates' input on opportunities, barriers and useful support.
In a nutshell, the main conclusions are: