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ERA 2025 CALL – NO. OF SUBMITTED PROPOSALS

21/10/2025

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:

 

Reforming and enhancing the R&I system – ERA 2025 call

Proposals submitted

Grants to be awarded

HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-1

Rolling out the ERA Policy Agenda results

75

13

HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-2

Enable sustained coordination and guidance at the European level on institutional non-profit open access publishing

3

1

HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-3

Research and innovation to provide evidence that support reforms of research assessment

5

1

HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-4

Investigating and addressing career barriers faced by underrepresented and marginalised researchers

14

1

HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-5

Programme-level collaboration

3

2

HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-6

Strengthening of the European Science for Policy Ecosystem

5

1

HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-7

Science comes to town 2027

8

1

 

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

 

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in January 2026.

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