The 2026 COST Open Call invites researchers and innovators to propose new interdisciplinary COST Actions. COST Actions fund pan-European research networking rather than research itself, supporting meetings, training schools, short-term scientific missions and other collaboration activities. Up to 80 new Actions are expected to be funded.

The 2026 Horizon Europe Cluster 3 call on a Disaster Resilient Society supports research and innovation to reduce losses from natural, accidental and human-made disasters. Five topics cover areas including innovative search-and-rescue tools and the uptake of disaster-risk solutions. The indicative budget is EUR 32.5 million.

The 2026 Horizon Europe call ‘Better Protect the EU and its Citizens against Crime and Terrorism’ funds research and innovation across six topics, including law-enforcement responses to climate-related challenges and protecting citizens from terrorist attacks in public spaces. The indicative budget is EUR 40.67 million.

The 2026 CERV Daphne call supports projects preventing and combating gender-based violence and violence against children. Priorities include prevention, victim protection and support, implementation of European legal frameworks, integrated child-protection systems and financial support to grassroots civil society organisations.

The 2026 call supports research and innovation in smarter border monitoring, easier and more accessible travel, and reliable age checks for border security. Indicative budget: EUR 21.33 million.

The 2026 SSRI call supports cross-cutting security research and innovation, with three topics covering SME innovation, preparation for future pre-commercial procurement of security technologies, and demand-led innovation in security. Indicative budget: EUR 13.83 million.

The SustainMedia call supports independent Western Balkan media through two funding tracks: media business development, and thematic journalism/content and audience development.

Interreg Euro-MED Call 8 supports thematic cooperation projects addressing shared Mediterranean challenges. The call promotes transnational partnerships and the transfer of solutions across programme territories, with projects contributing to the programme’s thematic missions and regional cooperation objectives.

The 2026 MSCA Doctoral Networks call supports international partnerships that develop innovative doctoral programmes and train doctoral candidates across all scientific fields. Consortia can bring together universities, research institutions, businesses, SMEs, public-sector organisations and other socio-economic actors.

This Horizon Europe Cluster 6 call supports additional activities for the European Partnership of Agriculture of Data. It sits within the Green Deal-oriented Cluster 6 programme and has an indicative budget of EUR 23 million, with proposals due on 26 November 2026.

The pilot supports stronger and better-connected European startup and scaleup hubs, helping innovation ecosystems cooperate across borders and improve conditions for high-growth companies to access networks, services, investment and markets.

The Digital Europe Programme has opened a new round of cybersecurity calls supporting projects that strengthen European cybersecurity capacities and infrastructure. Current topics include implementation of EU cybersecurity legislation, strengthening National Coordination Centres and improving…

The 2027 Horizon Europe Nature calls support research and innovation for a nature-positive economy and society. HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02 covers five topics including biodiversity decline, living labs for nature restoration, wildlife trafficking, invasive species and cost-effective biodiversity monitoring.

The 2027 call supports projects that translate, publish, distribute and promote European works of fiction. Projects may be submitted by a single eligible organisation or a consortium and must include at least five eligible literary works.

This Creative Europe MEDIA call supports European video game producers, XR studios and audiovisual production companies developing video games and interactive immersive experiences with strong potential to reach European and international audiences.

The Bridging Actions 2027 call HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-06-02 supports the valorisation of Horizon Europe project results through innovation ecosystems, helping promising research and innovation outcomes connect with actors able to scale, deploy and exploit them.

This Bridging Action supports promising climate-preparedness and resilience solutions in moving closer to deployment and market uptake, helping connect research and innovation results with users, investors, public authorities and other actors needed for scale-up.

The 2027 call supports initiatives that increase audiences’ interest in and knowledge of European audiovisual works, including film-education activities and innovative audience-development approaches with cross-border reach.

The European Co-development call supports cooperation between independent European production companies developing audiovisual works with international audience potential. It is designed to strengthen cross-border collaboration at the development stage.

The Horizon Europe Excellence Hubs call supports regional innovation ecosystems in Widening partners by building stronger links between academia, businesses, governments and civil society. The 2026 call has an indicative budget of EUR 100 million and remains open until 4 March 2027.

A five-month, full-time residential programme at the College of Europe in Bruges for early-career diplomats and public officials from the enlargement region. The programme combines EU affairs and accession training with workshops, simulations, study visits, networking, a Natolin module and job shadowing in Brussels.

Western Balkan organisations can apply continuously for the European Solidarity Corps Quality Label for volunteering host and/or support roles. The label certifies compliance with programme quality standards and gives access to European Solidarity Corps opportunities and its pool of young participants.