The applicants to the 2025 ERA call with the deadline on 18 September 2025 have been informed in January 2026 by the EC (REA) about the evaluation results. The call attracted 113 proposals but only 108 of them were evaluated (5 proposals were inadmissible or ineligible). In total, 21 projects sharing €44 million EU funding have been selected after an independent experts’ evaluation (the call comprising of 7 topics expected the funding of 20 proposals). Most of the selected projects (15) are funded under the Topic 1, which aims to increase the uptake of results developed in different ERA policy areas such as open science, research assessment, research careers, and more. The ranking of the proposals in this topic (75 proposals) was done following a balanced portfolio approach covering the mentioned ERA policy areas. More information is here (under Topic update).
Graph 1: Successful project coordinators 2025 (in alphabetic order)
Table 1: No. of submitted projects and grants awarded in individual topics
|
REFORMING AND ENHANCING THE R&I SYSTEM – ERA 2025 CALL |
PROPOSALS SUBMITTED |
GRANTS TO BE AWARDED |
GRANTS |
|
|
WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-1 |
Rolling out the ERA Policy Agenda results |
75 |
13 |
15 |
|
WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-2 |
Enable sustained coordination and guidance at the European level on institutional non-profit open access publishing |
3 |
1 |
1 |
|
WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-3 |
Research and innovation to provide evidence that support reforms of research assessment |
5 |
1 |
1 |
|
WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-4 |
Investigating and addressing career barriers faced by underrepresented and marginalised researchers |
14 |
1 |
1 |
|
WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-5 |
Programme-level collaboration |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-6 |
Strengthening of the European Science for Policy Ecosystem |
5 |
1 |
1 |
|
WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-7 |
Science comes to town 2027 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
Table 2: Distribution of proposals for the topic ERA-06-01 (bottom-up topic with 6 areas):
|
Area 1 |
Strengthen uptake of solutions for the reproducibility of scientific results |
8 |
|
Area 2 |
Advance reforms to research assessment |
2 |
|
Area 3 |
Establish communities of practice to strengthen research careers |
13 |
|
Area 4 |
Establish a European network of knowledge valorisation intermediaries |
15 |
|
Area 5 |
Upgrade services of Knowledge and Technology Transfer professionals in universities and research performing organisations |
25 |
|
Area 6 |
Strengthen capacities and recognition for research management |
12 |
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