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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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Hop-on facility - 2025 call outcomes

02/12/2025

The Hop-on call HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-03-ACCESS-01 was open since 6 May 2025 and by the deadline on 4 September 2025, 61 proposals were submitted. The call budget allowed for funding of 90 projects. At the beginning of December, the applicants were informed on call evaluation...

New policy brief advocates for the reinstatement of Horizon Europe Twinning calls

20/11/2025

The joint policy brief was prepared by the GEMSTONE Project with inputs by seven sister Twinning projects, including the TwinVECTOR Project of Tomas Bata University in Zlín. All materials, including the policy brief and accompanying factsheets on Twinning calls, are now...

Research and Innovation in S3

17/11/2025

Smart specialisation strategies (S3) is an EU policy approach, fully implemented from the 2014-2020 programming period with the goal to maximise competitive advantage and to build on the regions’ own economic strengths. The European Court of Auditors (ECA) review 05/2025...

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