The European Commission published on 19 September 2025 on EU Funding & Tenders Portal the information on the Enhancing the European R&I System - HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06 call (ERA 2025 call). Overall, 113 proposals have been submitted. The breakdown per topic:
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Reforming and enhancing the R&I system – ERA 2025 call |
Proposals submitted |
Grants to be awarded |
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Rolling out the ERA Policy Agenda results |
75 |
13 |
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Enable sustained coordination and guidance at the European level on institutional non-profit open access publishing |
3 |
1 |
|
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Research and innovation to provide evidence that support reforms of research assessment |
5 |
1 |
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Investigating and addressing career barriers faced by underrepresented and marginalised researchers |
14 |
1 |
|
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Programme-level collaboration |
3 |
2 |
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Strengthening of the European Science for Policy Ecosystem |
5 |
1 |
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Science comes to town 2027 |
8 |
1 |
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Distribution of proposals for the topic ERA-06-01 (bottom-up topic with 6 areas):
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Area 1 |
Strengthen uptake of solutions for the reproducibility of scientific results |
8 |
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Area 2 |
Advance reforms to research assessment |
2 |
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Area 3 |
Establish communities of practice to strengthen research careers |
13 |
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Area 4 |
Establish a European network of knowledge valorisation intermediaries |
15 |
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Area 5 |
Upgrade services of Knowledge and Technology Transfer professionals in universities and research performing organisations |
25 |
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Area 6 |
Strengthen capacities and recognition for research management |
12 |
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in January 2026.
06/12/2025
24/11/2025
20/11/2025
