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The European Excellence Initiative 2025 call has attracted almost 300 applications

01/12/2025

The European Excellence Initiative 2025 call has received 284 project proposals by higher education institutions eager to build strategic cooperation alliances and work in close cooperation with economic and industrial partners. In total 27 projects (with expected EU contribution per project between €2-5 million) should be financed. The total budget available for the call is €80 million. The projects will now undego evaluation. Applicants will be informed by next April.

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European Court of Auditors Publishes Opinions on Horizon Europe and the European Competitiveness Fund

13/01/2026

The European Court of Auditors has published two closely linked Opinions on the proposed EU budget framework for 2028–2034: Opinion 02/2026 on the future Horizon Europe programme and Opinion 01/2026 on the new European Competitiveness Fund (ECF). While both documents follow...

TWINNING 2026 Call Open

09/01/2026

The HORIZON-WIDERA-2026-02-WIDENING-01: TWINNING call was opened today. The duration of the projects is set at up to 3 years. The recommended budget per project ranges from €0.8 to €1.5 million. The total budget for the call is €264.5 million. It is expected that 210 projects...

Update of the guidance on participation in EU calls with ownership and control restrictions

05/01/2026

The European Commission has updated the guidance on participation in EU calls with ownership and control restrictions. The updated guidance is published under the following link. The update aligns the guidance with the new Financial Regulation 2024/2509 and extends...
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