European Commission Calls
MSCA
Call Identifier: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-COFUND-01-01
MSCA COFUND 2025 HORIZON-MSCA-2025-COFUND-01-01
Scope: Applicants submit proposals for new or existing doctoral or postdoctoral programmes with an impact on the enhancement of human resources in R&I at regional, national or international level. These programmes will be co-funded by MSCA COFUND.
Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines ("bottom-up"), but exceptionally can also focus on specific disciplines, notably when they are based on national or regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3 strategies). In this case, the range of covered disciplines should allow reasonable flexibility for the researchers to define their topic.
A Career Development Plan must be jointly established by the supervisor and each recruited researcher upon recruitment. In addition to research objectives, this Plan comprises the researcher's training and career needs, including training on transferable skills, teaching, planning for publications and participation in conferences and events aimed at opening science and research to citizens. The Plan must be established at the beginning of the recruitment and should be revised (and updated where needed) within 18 months.
A) Doctoral programmes
Doctoral programmes offer research training activities to allow doctoral candidates to develop and broaden their skills and competences. The training activities should be based on the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training.
Substantial training modules, including digital ones, addressing key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, fostering good scientific conduct such as research integrity, and fostering the culture of Open Science, innovation and entrepreneurship will be supported.
Applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Collaboration with a wider set of associated partners, including from the non-academic sector, will be positively taken into account during the evaluation. These organisations may provide hosting or secondment opportunities or training modules in research or transferable skills.
Particular attention is paid to the quality of supervision and mentoring arrangements as well as career guidance.
B) Postdoctoral Programmes
Postdoctoral Programmes fund individual advanced research training and career development fellowships for postdoctoral researchers. The programmes should offer training to develop key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, foster good scientific conduct such as research integrity, foster innovation and entrepreneurship and promote and (where appropriate) reward Open Science practices (open access to publications and to other research outputs including data, FAIR data management, societal engagement and citizen science, etc.).
Postdoctoral Programmes should have regular selection rounds following fixed deadlines or regular cut-off dates, allowing fair competition between researchers.
Applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Researchers will be able to freely choose a research topic and the appropriate organisation to host them, fitting their individual needs.
Budget: 101.820.280 EUR (Postdoctoral programme);
101.820.280 EUR (Doctoral programme)
Deadline: 24 June 2025
Who can apply:
1. Admissibility conditions: described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in the MSCA part of the Work Programme.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.
Scope: Applicants submit proposals for new or existing doctoral or postdoctoral programmes with an impact on the enhancement of human resources in R&I at regional, national or international level. These programmes will be co-funded by MSCA COFUND.
Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines ("bottom-up"), but exceptionally can also focus on specific disciplines, notably when they are based on national or regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3 strategies). In this case, the range of covered disciplines should allow reasonable flexibility for the researchers to define their topic.
A Career Development Plan must be jointly established by the supervisor and each recruited researcher upon recruitment. In addition to research objectives, this Plan comprises the researcher's training and career needs, including training on transferable skills, teaching, planning for publications and participation in conferences and events aimed at opening science and research to citizens. The Plan must be established at the beginning of the recruitment and should be revised (and updated where needed) within 18 months.
A) Doctoral programmes
Doctoral programmes offer research training activities to allow doctoral candidates to develop and broaden their skills and competences. The training activities should be based on the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training.
Substantial training modules, including digital ones, addressing key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, fostering good scientific conduct such as research integrity, and fostering the culture of Open Science, innovation and entrepreneurship will be supported.
Applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Collaboration with a wider set of associated partners, including from the non-academic sector, will be positively taken into account during the evaluation. These organisations may provide hosting or secondment opportunities or training modules in research or transferable skills.
Particular attention is paid to the quality of supervision and mentoring arrangements as well as career guidance.
B) Postdoctoral Programmes
Postdoctoral Programmes fund individual advanced research training and career development fellowships for postdoctoral researchers. The programmes should offer training to develop key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, foster good scientific conduct such as research integrity, foster innovation and entrepreneurship and promote and (where appropriate) reward Open Science practices (open access to publications and to other research outputs including data, FAIR data management, societal engagement and citizen science, etc.).
Postdoctoral Programmes should have regular selection rounds following fixed deadlines or regular cut-off dates, allowing fair competition between researchers.
Applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Researchers will be able to freely choose a research topic and the appropriate organisation to host them, fitting their individual needs.
Budget: 101.820.280 EUR (Postdoctoral programme);
101.820.280 EUR (Doctoral programme)
Deadline: 24 June 2025
Who can apply:
1. Admissibility conditions: described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in the MSCA part of the Work Programme.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.
Innovative Europe
European Innovation Council (EIC)
Call Identifier: EIC Accelerator
EIC Accelerator Open
Scope: This call is for innovations in any field of technology and innovations that cut across different scientific, technological, sectoral and application fields.
The EIC Accelerator is a funding programme under Horizon Europe that offers support to start-ups and SMEs that:
• have a innovative, game changing product, service or business model that could create new markets or disrupt existing ones in Europe and even worldwide,
• have the ambition and commitment to scale up,
• are looking for substantial funding, but the risks involved are too high for private investors alone to invest
Budget: EUR 384 million of the total indicative budget will be allocated to EIC Accelerator Open.
Grant component below EUR 2.5M for innovation activities (TRL 6 to 8). Investment component of EUR 0.5 up to 10 million for scaling up and other activities. Grant only and investment only component under certain conditions.
For further information consult Funding&Tender Portal and Work Programme.
Deadline: Short applications: any time (continuous)
Full applications: 12 March 2025, 1 October 2025
Who can apply: Single start-ups and SMEs (including spin-offs), individuals (intending to launch a start-up/ SME) and in some cases small mid-caps (fewer than 499 employees).
Scope: This call is for innovations in any field of technology and innovations that cut across different scientific, technological, sectoral and application fields.
The EIC Accelerator is a funding programme under Horizon Europe that offers support to start-ups and SMEs that:
• have a innovative, game changing product, service or business model that could create new markets or disrupt existing ones in Europe and even worldwide,
• have the ambition and commitment to scale up,
• are looking for substantial funding, but the risks involved are too high for private investors alone to invest
Budget: EUR 384 million of the total indicative budget will be allocated to EIC Accelerator Open.
Grant component below EUR 2.5M for innovation activities (TRL 6 to 8). Investment component of EUR 0.5 up to 10 million for scaling up and other activities. Grant only and investment only component under certain conditions.
For further information consult Funding&Tender Portal and Work Programme.
Deadline: Short applications: any time (continuous)
Full applications: 12 March 2025, 1 October 2025
Who can apply: Single start-ups and SMEs (including spin-offs), individuals (intending to launch a start-up/ SME) and in some cases small mid-caps (fewer than 499 employees).
European Innovation Council (EIC) Call Identifier: EIC Accelerator EIC Accelerator Challenges
Scope: The EIC Accelerator Challenges calls are open to proposals in predefined topics that have been identified in areas where breakthrough technologies or game-changing innovations developed by start-ups or SMEs can have a major impact on EU objectives.
In 2025 support for start-ups in semiconductor technologies and quantum technologies will be pursued in particular through STEP Scale Up.
EIC Accelerator Challenges 2025:
1. Acceleration of advanced materials development and upscaling along the value chain: Scaling SMEs belonging to the whole value chain of advanced materials and addressing one or more of these four key application areas: energy, mobility, electronics, construction.
2. Biotechnology driven low emission food and feed production systems: Radically decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and the wider environmental footprint of the food production system requires further action on several fronts.
3. GenAI4EU: Creating European Champions in Generative AI: To support start-ups and SMEs committed to bringing transformative AI-driven solutions to market, to safeguard human autonomy and enhance human expertise thus providing significant added value to decision-making processes, services or industrial workflows.
4. Innovative in-space servicing, operations, robotics and technologies for resilient EU space infrastructure: To support companies developing cost-effective, scalable and resilient solutions to service and/or augment satellite capabilities, perform in-orbit refuelling, contribute to space debris reduction, and protect EU space infrastructure.
5. Breakthrough innovations for future mobility: To support cost-effective and scalable deep tech breakthroughs that will help deliver reductions in mobility-related emissions.
Budget: The total indicative budget for EIC Accelerator Challenges is EUR 250 million.
Grant component below EUR 2.5M for innovation activities (TRL 6 to 8). Investment component of EUR 0.5 up to 10 million for scaling up and other activities. Grant only and investment only component under certain conditions.
For further information consult Funding&Tender Portal and Work Programme.
Deadline: 12 March 2025
1 October 2025
Who can apply: Single start-ups and SMEs (including spin-offs), individuals (intending to launch a start-up/ SME) and in some cases small mid-caps (fewer than 499 employees).
Innovative Europe Call Identifier: EIC Pathfinder EIC Pathfinder Open
Scope: to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. Support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development. Pathfinder projects aim to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities by realising innovative technological solutions. Support for projects in any field of science, technology or application without predefined thematic priorities.
You should apply if you are looking for support from EIC Pathfinder Open to realise an ambitious vision for radically new technology, with potential to create new markets and/or to provide solutions for global challenges. EIC Pathfinder Open supports early stage development of such future technologies (e.g., various activities at low Technology Readiness Levels from 1 to 4), based on high-risk/high-gain science to wards-technology breakthrough research (including ‘deep-tech’). This research must provide the foundations of the technology you are envisioning.
Budget: The total indicative budget for this call is EUR 142 million.
For this call, the EIC considers proposals with a requested EU contribution of up to EUR 3 million as appropriate.
Deadline: 21 May 2025
Who can apply: This call is open for collaborative research. Your proposal must be submitted by the coordinator, on behalf of a consortium including as beneficiaries, at least three legal entities, independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
• at least one legal entity established in a Member State; and
• at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.
The legal entities may for example be universities, research organisations, SMEs, startups, industrial partners or natural persons.
Innovative Europe Call Identifier: EIC Pathfinder EIC Pathfinder Challanges
Scope: to develop the scientific basis to underpin breakthrough technologies. Support for the earliest stages of scientific, technological or deep-tech research and development. Pathfinder projects aim to build on new, cutting-edge directions in science and technology to disrupt a field and a market or create new opportunities by realising innovative technological solutions. Support for coherent portfolios of projects within predefined thematic areas with the aim of achieving specific objectives for each Challenge.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025:
1. Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing: To enhance adaptation pathways for the production of climate-resilient crops and develop alternative pathways to produce high value ingredients in plants by increasing nutrient profile of crops based on plant native and/or non-native ingredients.
2. Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer: To create interactive GenAI autonomous agents and/or a combination of them that provide clinicians with a holistic end to end perspective of patient care.
3. Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments: Enabling autonomous robot collectives to collaboratively perform complex construction tasks in dynamic, unstructured environments. Advancing robotic collaboration and electrification to revolutionize on-site building processes and enhance efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
4. Waste-to-value devices: Circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials: Developing of next generation technologies that turn today’s problematic waste streams into essential building blocks of a future circular economy.
You should apply if you have a potential cutting-edge project that would contribute to the specific objectives of the respective Challenge. Specifically, your proposed project must aim to deliver by its end the expected outcomes defined in the respective Challenge. In general, the starting point of a proposal answering to a Pathfinder Challenge is early TRL (e.g., 2) to up to proof of concept or validation in the lab (e.g., TRL 3 or 4). Project results should also include top-level scientific publications, adequate formal protection of the generated intellectual property (IP) as well as an assessment of relevant aspects related to regulation, certification and standardisation.
Budget: The total indicative budget for this call is EUR 120 million which is expected to be allocated in approximately equal shares across the Challenges.
For this call, the EIC considers proposals with an EU contribution of up to EUR 4 million as appropriate. Nonetheless, this does not preclude you to request larger amounts, if duly justified or stated otherwise in the specific Challenge.
Deadline: 29 October 2025
Who can apply: Support for collaborative or individual research and innovation from consortia or from single legal entities established in a Member State or an Associated Country (unless stated otherwise in the specific Challenge chapter).
In case of a consortium your proposal must be submitted by the coordinator on behalf of the consortium. Consortia of two entities must be comprised of independent legal entities from two different Member States or Associated Countries. Consortia of three or more entities must include as beneficiaries at least three legal entities, independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
• at least one legal entity established in a Member State; and
• at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.
The legal entities may for example be universities, research organisations, SMEs, startups, natural persons. In the case of single beneficiary projects, mid-caps and larger companies will not be permitted.
Innovative Europe Call Identifier: EIC Transiiton EIC Transition Open
Scope: EIC Transiiton funds s innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory (applications must have completed all elements of Technology Readiness Level 3). It supports both the maturation and validation of your novel technology from the lab to the relevant application environments (by making use of prototyping, formulation, models, user testing or other validation tests) as well as explorations and development of a sustainable business plan and business model towards commercialisation into high potential markets.
Budget: The total indicative budget for this call is EUR 98 million.
For this call, the EIC considers proposals with a requested EU contribution of more than EUR 0.5 million and less than EUR 2.5 million and duration between 1 and 3 years as appropriate. Nonetheless, in exceptional cases, this does not preclude you to request larger amounts, if very well motivated and duly explained.
Deadline: 17 September 2025
Who can apply: Your proposal must build on results already achieved within an eligible project that are, at least, at experimental proof of concept (applications must have completed all elements of Technology Readiness Level 3or, ideally, technology validated in the lab level (TRL 4).
Proposals building on project results at other TRLs level are not eligible. EIC Transition is restricted to proposals based on results generated by eligible project as indiacted in the Workprogramme.
You can apply for EIC Transition either as:
• A single legal entity established in a Member State or an Associated Country (‘mono-beneficiary’) if you are a start-up, SME or research performing organisation (university, research or technology organisation, including teams, individual Principal Investigators and inventors in such institutions who intend to form a spin-off company). Larger companies (i.e. which do not qualify as SMEs) are not eligible to apply as a single legal entity; or
• A small consortium of two independent legal entities from two different Member States or Associated Countries, or
• A consortium of minimum three and maximum five eligible independent legal entities (‘multi-beneficiary’) following standard rules i.e. must include at least one legal entity established in a Member State and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries.
Other Calls
CARB-X
Funding Round 2025
Call Identifier: Not yet available
About CARB-X:
CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) is a global non-profit partnership dedicated to supporting early-stage antibacterial research and development to address the rising threat of drug-resistant bacteria. CARB-X supports innovative therapeutics, preventatives and rapid diagnostics. CARB-X is led by Boston University and funded by a consortium of governments and foundations.
What CARB-X Funds:
• Early development projects that address serious bacterial threats:
– antibiotics and therapeutics
– prevention such as vaccines, microbiome, antibodies
– rapid diagnostics (pathogen ID/AST)
• Projects must target specific bacteria on the Antibiotic Resistance Threats List issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2013 or on the Priority Bacterial Pathogens list published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017
2025 Funding Rounds:
• Therapeutics for infections caused by Gram-negative pathogens:
The scope is restricted to direct-acting small-molecule therapeutics. Strategies requiring potentiator molecules (including, but not limited to, BLIs, efflux inhibitors, membrane permeators) are not within scope. Molecules with properties that will deliver an IV route with an oral stepdown are preferred. In all cases, activity against both susceptible and multidrug-resistant organisms on priority bacterial threat lists is essential.
• Diagnostics for typhoid fever for low-resource settings:
We seek a diagnostic to support the portfolio to diagnose acute infection of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, the causative pathogen in typhoid fever. The primary health care level is the preferred use setting, with ease-of-use, high performance and affordability prioritized.
Budget:
Deadline: EOI (first steps) opens from 16 April 2025 at 10:00 ET to 30 April 2025 at 23:59 ET
Who can apply: Who can apply
• CARB-X welcomes applications from around the world, companies, academic institutions, research centres, research hospitals
Application process - three steps process
1. Non-confidential Expression of Interest (EOI)
2. Confidential project narrative and budget (“full proposal”)
3. Focused presentation to Advisory Board
About CARB-X:
CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) is a global non-profit partnership dedicated to supporting early-stage antibacterial research and development to address the rising threat of drug-resistant bacteria. CARB-X supports innovative therapeutics, preventatives and rapid diagnostics. CARB-X is led by Boston University and funded by a consortium of governments and foundations.
What CARB-X Funds:
• Early development projects that address serious bacterial threats:
– antibiotics and therapeutics
– prevention such as vaccines, microbiome, antibodies
– rapid diagnostics (pathogen ID/AST)
• Projects must target specific bacteria on the Antibiotic Resistance Threats List issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2013 or on the Priority Bacterial Pathogens list published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017
2025 Funding Rounds:
• Therapeutics for infections caused by Gram-negative pathogens:
The scope is restricted to direct-acting small-molecule therapeutics. Strategies requiring potentiator molecules (including, but not limited to, BLIs, efflux inhibitors, membrane permeators) are not within scope. Molecules with properties that will deliver an IV route with an oral stepdown are preferred. In all cases, activity against both susceptible and multidrug-resistant organisms on priority bacterial threat lists is essential.
• Diagnostics for typhoid fever for low-resource settings:
We seek a diagnostic to support the portfolio to diagnose acute infection of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, the causative pathogen in typhoid fever. The primary health care level is the preferred use setting, with ease-of-use, high performance and affordability prioritized.
Budget:
Deadline: EOI (first steps) opens from 16 April 2025 at 10:00 ET to 30 April 2025 at 23:59 ET
Who can apply: Who can apply
• CARB-X welcomes applications from around the world, companies, academic institutions, research centres, research hospitals
Application process - three steps process
1. Non-confidential Expression of Interest (EOI)
2. Confidential project narrative and budget (“full proposal”)
3. Focused presentation to Advisory Board
National Calls
Italia domani - PNRR
Bandi e avvisi dei soggetti attuatori
Call Identifier: https://www.italiadomani.gov.it/content/sogei-ng/it/it/opportunita/bandi-soggetti-attuatori.html
Bandi e avvisi dei soggetti attuatori
In questa sezione è possibile consultare bandi e avvisi pubblici per cogliere le opportunità del PNRR volte a migliorare la vita pubblica di tutto il Paese.
Budget: Il bando sarà gestito con la collaborazione tecnica di Pluriversum Srl, società identificata dalla Fondazione come partner del progetto in virtù della consolidata conoscenza regionale di promozione e sostegno all’occupazione della società.
Per le modalità di erogazione e di partecipazione alle misure si rimanda agli specifici bandi e call che saranno pubblicati sui canali di comunicazione di IKIGAI (sul sito ikigaihub.it e sulle pagine social di IKIGAI), sui canali di comunicazione di Fondazione MPS (fondazionemps.it e ikigai.fondazionemps.it) e sulle comunicazioni a stampa.
Deadline: Consultare il sito del bando
Who can apply: Consultare il sito del bando.
In questa sezione è possibile consultare bandi e avvisi pubblici per cogliere le opportunità del PNRR volte a migliorare la vita pubblica di tutto il Paese.
Budget: Il bando sarà gestito con la collaborazione tecnica di Pluriversum Srl, società identificata dalla Fondazione come partner del progetto in virtù della consolidata conoscenza regionale di promozione e sostegno all’occupazione della società.
Per le modalità di erogazione e di partecipazione alle misure si rimanda agli specifici bandi e call che saranno pubblicati sui canali di comunicazione di IKIGAI (sul sito ikigaihub.it e sulle pagine social di IKIGAI), sui canali di comunicazione di Fondazione MPS (fondazionemps.it e ikigai.fondazionemps.it) e sulle comunicazioni a stampa.
Deadline: Consultare il sito del bando
Who can apply: Consultare il sito del bando.
Finanziamento IKIGAI - FMPS
Finanziamento di progetti individuali
Call Identifier: https://ikigai.fondazionemps.it/il-bando/
BANDO IKIGAI 2022 – 2024
Budget: Il bando sarà gestito con la collaborazione tecnica di Pluriversum Srl, società identificata dalla Fondazione come partner del progetto in virtù della consolidata conoscenza regionale di promozione e sostegno all’occupazione della società.
Per le modalità di erogazione e di partecipazione alle misure si rimanda agli specifici bandi e call che saranno pubblicati sui canali di comunicazione di IKIGAI (sul sito ikigaihub.it e sulle pagine social di IKIGAI), sui canali di comunicazione di Fondazione MPS (fondazionemps.it e ikigai.fondazionemps.it) e sulle comunicazioni a stampa.
Deadline: Consultare il sito del bando
Who can apply: Consultare il sito del bando.
Budget: Il bando sarà gestito con la collaborazione tecnica di Pluriversum Srl, società identificata dalla Fondazione come partner del progetto in virtù della consolidata conoscenza regionale di promozione e sostegno all’occupazione della società.
Per le modalità di erogazione e di partecipazione alle misure si rimanda agli specifici bandi e call che saranno pubblicati sui canali di comunicazione di IKIGAI (sul sito ikigaihub.it e sulle pagine social di IKIGAI), sui canali di comunicazione di Fondazione MPS (fondazionemps.it e ikigai.fondazionemps.it) e sulle comunicazioni a stampa.
Deadline: Consultare il sito del bando
Who can apply: Consultare il sito del bando.