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Launching the COST Cross-Cutting Activity on career development for young researchers

22/04/2025

The COST Strategic Plan (published at the end of year 2017) introduces a new instrument - the Cross-Cutting Activity (CCA) whose main aim is to better connect policy makers and R&I players to share best practices. The specificity of the CCA is that it is fully supported by COST. The CCA was launched in December 2024 with a two-year duration and dives into the need to improve career development conditions to attract and retain the best researchers in Europe. Charkes University and Masaryk University – CEITEC represent Czechia in this activity. Further details are available here.

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Regiostars Awards 2025: meet the winners

06/12/2025

Six innovative EU-funded projects were honoured at the 2025 RegioStars Awards on 15 October 2025 in Brussels, held during the 23rd European Week of Regions and Cities. With a record 266 applications from all over Europe, projects were recognized across five thematic categories,...

The first EIC Pre-Accelerator call attracted over 1,000 applicants

26/11/2025

The first EIC Pre-Accelerator 2025 call, with a deadline of November 18, 2025, received 1,056 eligible applications from a total of 30 countries. This is a new instrument funded under the WIDERA Work Program 2025. Eligible beneficiaries are small and medium-sized enterprises...

Brokerage Event on ERA 2026 call

24/11/2025

The network of WIDERA NCPs (NCP_WIDERA.NET,) invites you to a virtual Brokerage event for the ERA Call 2026 taking place on 17th December 2025. It will be an opportunity for matchmaking with other potential ERA call 2026 participants and stakeholders through pre-arranged,...

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