The Women TechEU pilot is funded under the European Innovation Ecosystem work programme of Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme. The scheme offers grants, worth €75 000 each, to support the initial steps in the innovation process, and the growth of the company. It also offers mentoring and coaching, and EU-wide networking opportunities. Following the evaluation by independent experts, the Commission will be supporting a first cohort of 50 women-led companies from 15 different countries.
The overarching message that the European Green Capital Award scheme aims to communicate to the local level is that Europeans have a right to live in healthy urban areas. Cities should therefore strive to improve the quality of life of their citizens and reduce their impact on the global environment. The European Green Leaf Award was born out of the success of the European Green Capital Award and the need to recognise cities of a smaller size in 2015. Both competitions will be closing on 25 March 2022 at 23:59 CET.
AI4Copernicus is a European H2020 project that aims to bridge Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Earth Observation (EO) world by making the already developed AI4EU AI-on-demand platform, the digital environment of choice for users of Copernicus data, for researchers and innovators. Deadline: 30 April 2022
Eureka together with its Celtic-Next, Eurogia, Itea, Smart and Xecs Clusters, have joined forces to promote the generation of international technological cooperation projects that deal with sustainability aspects in the different areas covered by each Cluster. 17 countries have committed public funds that will allow selected applicants to develop the projects. This call is open to all technologies linked to industrial sustainability.
On 6 January 2022, the European Commission launched the third edition of Horizon Impact Award prize! All beneficiaries of closed FP7/H2020 projects are invited to submit their application to the prize by 8 March 2022 and compete for the prize worth 25.000 € per each winner.
The call for proposals to submit ERC Advanced Grants (ERC-AdGs) is open and the deadline date is 28/04/2022. The ERC Advanced Grants (ERC-AdG) are designed to support excellent and competitive Principal Investigators (PIs) at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements
Calls for proposals under the digital part of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) programme. With a planned budget of €258 million, the calls aim to improve digital connectivity infrastructures and contribute to Europe's digital transformation. Deadline: 22 march
Cooperation Partnerships allow organisations to increase the quality and relevance of their activities, to develop and reinforce their networks of partners, to increase their capacity to operate jointly at transnational level, boosting internationalisation of their activities, and through exchanging or developing new practices and methods as well as sharing and confronting ideas. (deadline 23 March 2022)
This action aims at supporting international cooperation between organizations active in the field of Higher Education in third countries not associated to the Erasmus+ Programme for socio-economic recovery, growth and prosperity and reacting to recent trends, in particular economic globalization through 3 specific Strands.(deadline: 17 February 2022)
Forward-Looking Projects are large-scale projects that support forward-looking ideas responding to key European priorities and that have the potential of becoming mainstreamed and giving input for improving education, training and youth systems, as well as to bring a substantial innovative effect in terms of methods and practices. (deadline: 15 March 2022)
Small-scale Partnerships are designed to widen access to the programme to small-scale actors and individuals who are hard to reach in the fields of school education, adult education, vocational education and training, youth and sport. With lower grant amounts awarded to organizations, shorter duration and simpler administrative requirements compared to the Cooperation Partnerships (deadline 23 March 2022)
