For the following topics

Analysis and development of interventions for the primary prevention of non-communicable diseases in general practice and in pediatric and adolescent medicine settings
Promoting transplant medicine care – analyzing the identification and reporting of potential postmortem organ donors in hospitals and deriving recommendations for action
    Health services research on the development and testing of a nationwide never event register as an error reporting and learning system
    Care for patients with post-viral symptom complexes such as post-COVID/long COVID, ME/CFS
    Health care for people in need of care from a regional perspective
    Health services research to improve care for people with eye diseases
    Scientific evaluation of blank prescriptions: treatment standards and quality of care in the provision of remedies

Complete applications must be submitted to the project management agency by 12:00 noon on October 21, 2025, at the latest.

Deadline: October 21, 2025, 12:00 noon

Link to the call for tenders

For the open topic area, complete applications must be submitted to the project management agency by 12 noon on October 21, 2025, at the latest.

Deadline: October 21, 2025, 12:00 noon

Link to the call for tenders

For the following topics

• Development or further development of overarching guidelines for frequent consultation occasions and consolidation of guidelines during updates or further development
• Development or further development of guidelines with a particular focus on the creation of aids and formats to support dissemination/implementation, taking into account the information needs of various target groups
•  Development or further development of guidelines for initial care by non-medical healthcare professionals and structured questioning for the management of patients in emergency and acute medicine,

 complete applications must be submitted to the project management agency by 12 noon on September 23, 2025, at the latest.

Deadline: September 23, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Link for the call of tenders

In modern cancer medicine and oncological research, extensive data sets are generated and information technology tools are developed. In addition to their original purpose, these data and tools offer potential for use in further innovative research ideas. Initial testing of the feasibility or applicability of such innovative research ideas holds great potential, but has so far been carried out on too small a scale.

Deadline: December 31, 2026

Link for the call of tenders

The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) has been organizing Science Years since 2000 in collaboration with partners from scientific, educational, and cultural institutions, as well as stakeholders from politics, civil society, and the media. By promoting impact-oriented, experimental, participatory, and dialogical formats, the Science Years aim to create the best possible conditions for exchange between research and different publics, to anchor science communication in the scientific community, and to explore new methodological approaches.

Deadline: 03.09.2025

Link to the call for tenders

A complete project application for the open-topic area (single stage, short) can be submitted to the Innovation Committee office in electronic form at any time during the year until the funds available in the respective fiscal year (€20 million) have been exhausted, but no later than December 31, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (submission deadline). Note: There is no automatic confirmation of receipt, but rather an individualized confirmation during normal business hours.

Deadline: 31.12.2025

Link for the call of tenders

Funding objective:

The purpose of the funding guideline is to promote research, development, and innovation (R&D&I) projects for the clinical validation of innovative medical technology solutions. The aim is to enable SMEs to ensure the rapid transfer of their innovative solutions into healthcare within the framework of individual projects.

Deadline: January 15 / May 15 / September 15 each year

Link for the call of tenders

Despite slight improvements in recent years, almost 800 million people worldwide are still starving,
while another 2 billion suffer from “hidden hunger,” i.e., a lack of vitamins and minerals.
At the same time, the world's population continues to grow, and with it the demand for food. Changing consumption habits
in emerging economies and the growing global demand for renewable raw materials for non-food
uses are leading to increasing demand for and competition over agricultural production land. Global
challenges such as climate change are also putting agriculture under considerable pressure to adapt. In order to
improve the global food situation in a sustainable manner, progress is needed in areas such as agricultural productivity
agriculture and the further development of skills and structures. International agricultural
and food research has a key role to play here. The German government is therefore stepping up its support for international
agricultural and food research through contributions from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
(BMEL), the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), whereby the objectives and orientations of the respective funding
programs and instruments are designed to complement each other in a meaningful way.

Deadline: /

Link for the call of tenders

Research cooperation with the countries of the Eastern Partnership (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) has already increased significantly in recent years and has become even more important since 2022 as a result of Russia's war of aggression. Many of these countries are striving to transform their political and economic systems and scientific landscapes and to move closer to or integrate into European structures (including the European Research Area).

Deadline: January 18, 2024, or January 15, 2026

Link for the call of tenders

The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the qualification phase following their doctorate to independently carry out their own research project at a location of their choice.
The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project.

Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time.

Link for the call of tenders

With this funding measure, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) aims to strengthen the innovation potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the field of cutting-edge research and to make research funding under the health research program more attractive, especially for first-time applicants from SMEs. The funding is intended for high-risk industrial research and experimental development projects that are cross-technology and application-oriented. These R&D projects must be related to medical technology and be significant for the company's market positioning. The main objective of BMBF funding is to strengthen the position of SMEs in the accelerated transfer of technology from the pre-competitive sector to practical application in the healthcare industry.

Deadline: April 15 and October 15 of each year.

Link for proposals

Topics ranging from quantum field theory to media anthropology and collective decision-making to inflammatory tumor secretome / €72 million for an initial period of four and a half years

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is establishing 16 new Research Training Groups (RTGs) to further strengthen young researchers. This was decided by the responsible approval committee in Bonn. The new GRKs will receive a total of around €72 million in funding for an initial period of four and a half years starting in the first half of 2020. This includes a 22% program allowance for indirect costs incurred by the projects. One network is an International Graduate School (IGK) with partners in the United Kingdom.

Deadline:

•     Application outlines at any time
•     Applications for establishment – after consultation with the office – also at any time

Link for the call of proposals

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is establishing ten new Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) to further strengthen cutting-edge research at universities. This was decided by the responsible approval committee in Bonn. The new SFBs will initially receive a total of around €101 million in funding for four years starting on January 1, 2020. This includes a 22% program allowance for indirect costs incurred by the projects. Three of the new networks are SFB/Transregio (TRR) networks, which are spread across several applicant universities.

Deadline: /

Link  for the call of proposals

To give outstanding researchers the opportunity to gain the qualifications required for appointment as a university lecturer by independently leading a junior research group and performing qualification-specific teaching duties.
To attract outstanding young scientists from abroad (back) to Germany.

Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time.

Link for the call of proposals

Applications for the development, establishment, or organization of research software infrastructures can be submitted under the “Research Software Infrastructures” funding program. Research software infrastructures comprise technically and organizationally networked services and offerings, for example for the creation, processing, and use of research software, as well as for access to and preservation of such software.

Link for the call of proposals

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Developing and using new tools,

technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society”. To that end, proposals under this

topic should aim to deliver results directed towards and contributing to several of the

following expected outcomes:

• Researchers and biopharmaceutical developers work together with clinicians striving to

translate innovative therapeutic approaches into healthcare solutions.

• Producers of innovative health technologies use standardised manufacturing processes.

• Healthcare providers get access to a new type of innovative therapies with demonstrated

health benefits as compared to traditional treatments.

• Patients benefit from innovative therapies for conditions for which there are currently no

or only insufficient therapeutic strategies.

• Health systems ultimately benefit from improved patient outcomes, superior to the

current standard of care.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Maintaining an innovative, sustainable, and

competitive EU health industry”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver

results that are directed, tailored towards and contributing to all the following expected

outcomes:

• Healthcare providers increase their hands-on experience regarding the clinical use of

orphan devices221 and/or of highly innovative (“breakthrough”) devices and get timely

access to such devices with demonstrated clinical benefits;

• Developers and manufacturers collect and obtain scientific evidence on their proposed

intervention/ approach with the device under investigation;

• Patients benefit from the development, studies and use of orphan devices and/or of

highly innovative (“breakthrough”) devices;

• Companies in the EU and associated countries get a better market position in this field

and improve their knowledge on how to conduct multinational clinical studies for these

devices.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Tackling diseases and reducing disease

burden”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed,

tailored towards and contributing to all the following expected outcomes:

• The scientific and clinical communities make effective use of state-of-the-art knowledge,

data, technologies, tools, methods, best practices, and trainings to underpin and

complement the development of innovative interventions89 aimed at achieving a lasting

benefit.

• The scientific and clinical communities benefit from the exchange of data, knowledge

and best practices, thereby strengthening their collaboration in the EU, the Associated

Countries and beyond.

• The scientific and clinical communities make wide use of relevant databases and/or

integrate them with existing infrastructures for storage and sharing of collected data

according to FAIR90 principles, thereby encouraging further use of the data.

• Policymakers, funders, scientific and clinical communities, patient organisations,

regulators, and other relevant bodies are informed of the research advances made and the

requirements for a widespread implementation of the innovative therapeutic

interventions and complementary approaches.

• Patients and caregivers are constructively engaged with the research, ensuring that their

needs are catered for, with the aim of tangibly benefitting from the interventions.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Living and working in a health-promoting

environment”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are

directed, tailored and contributing to most of the following expected outcomes:

• Environmental and health policies reducing exposure to micro- and nanoplastics and

preventing their potential health impacts are supported with up-to-date scientific

evidence, standards, tools and methodologies;

• Public authorities and the scientific community have access to FAIR61 data on realistic

human exposures to micro- and nanoplastics and their potential impacts on human health

based on real-world scenarios across living and working environments;

• Citizens are informed about the impacts of exposure to micro- and nanoplastics on health

and adopt behaviours protecting health and reducing human impacts on the environment;

• Industry is supported in the assessment of products’ safety and sustainability;

• Existing major knowledge gaps in the understanding of the health impacts of exposure to

micro- and nanoplastics are filled and mitigation measures based on robust evidence are

promoted;

• Public authorities and regulators are supported with evidence-based guidance to design

health policies.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Living and working in a health-promoting

environment”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are

directed, tailored and contributing to most of the following expected outcomes:

• Global and EU policies preventing and reducing the health impacts of pollution are

supported with up-to-date scientific evidence, tools and methodologies;

• Citizens are more protected by having a better insight into exposure to pollution and its

impacts on brain health and adopting health enhancing behaviours;

• Public authorities, health stakeholders, the scientific community and the society at large

have access to FAIR44 data on the link between pollution and brain health, particular

windows of susceptibility to exposure and the impacts of pollution on the general

population and vulnerable groups;

• Public authorities develop adequate evidence-based measures and guidelines to prevent

and reduce the negative impacts of pollution in the development of brain disease.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Staying healthy in a rapidly changing

society”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed

at, tailored towards and contributing to several of the following expected outcomes:

• Persons with intellectual disabilities and their families enjoy an improved quality of life,

are empowered and have more independence through the support of innovative research.

• The scientific community develops innovative solutions - medical, technological, digital

or others - to reverse and/or reduce the severity level of the intellectual disability as soon

as possible, especially in children, improving the health and autonomy of persons with

intellectual disabilities and relieving their carers.

• Policymakers, health and care services, patient organisations, funders, the scientific

community, and other relevant bodies are informed of the research advances and best

practices addressing the health and needs of persons with intellectual disabilities and

help reduce the impact of those disabilities on individuals, their families and society.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Maintaining an innovative, sustainable, and

competitive EU health industry”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed, tailored towards and contributing to all the following expected

outcomes:

• Notified Bodies (NBs), device218 developers and manufacturers adopt digitalisation in

their conformity assessment procedures thus facilitating device development. As certain

steps of conformity assessment do also require involvement of regulatory authorities

(e.g. consultation of medicines authorities), digitalisation of these steps would also bring

relevant benefit;

• Device developers and manufacturers have access to digitalised conformity assessment

procedures. These procedures will become more efficient, less onerous, and more

predictable, which will reduce costs and shorten the time to market access;

• Device developers and manufacturers, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises

(SMEs), can direct a larger part of their resources towards the research and development

of innovative devices.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Maintaining an innovative, sustainable, and

competitive EU health industry”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver

results that are directed, tailored towards and contributing to most of the following expected

outcomes:

• Academic and industrial developers advance processes that support the timely and robust

development of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs);

• Manufacturers integrate improved technologies/processes (including Artificial

Intelligence solutions), analytic tools, methods including non-clinical methods and

assays for more flexible manufacturing of ATMPs;

• Healthcare providers, researchers and patients get faster access to ATMPs with

demonstrated health benefits for unmet medical needs;

• Companies in the EU and Associated countries get a better market position in the field of

ATMP manufacturing and improve their knowledge on how to advance process

improvements;

• The EU and Associated countries lay the foundations for academic centres of

excellence213 in ATMPs.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Developing and using new tools,

technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society”. To that end, proposals under this

topic should aim to deliver results directed towards and contributing to all the following

expected outcomes:

• Healthcare providers, researchers and patients get faster access to innovative therapies.

• The European Union benefits from more clinical trials being conducted with new biotech

therapeutic approaches.

• The competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the EU and

Associated Countries within the health biotech sector is strengthened.

Deadline 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Developing and using new tools,

technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society”. To that end, proposals under this

topic should aim to deliver results directed towards and contributing to all the following

expected outcomes:

• Researchers, including clinical researchers, have access to robust, trustworthy and

ethical Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) 194 models able to effectively advance

biomedical research towards predictive and personalised medicine.

• Researchers, including clinical researchers, know how to use Generative AI models to

synthesise the available scientific information and large-scale multimodal data and how

to apply the necessary precautions, in order to deliver new knowledge and breakthrough

scientific discoveries.

• Research community benefits from advanced methodologies to assess the validity and

application of accurate, transparent, traceable, and explainable Generative AI models.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Developing and using new tools,

technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society”. To that end, proposals under this

topic should aim to deliver results directed towards and contributing to several of the

following expected outcomes:

• Biomedical scientists dispose of tools that allow them to engineer cells with specific

therapeutic features.

• Improved methods and assays are available for biopharmaceutical developers.

• Clinicians will get access to innovative therapeutic approaches enabling them to treat

conditions, where there are currently no or only insufficient therapeutic strategies.

• Cell engineering will be enriched and pave the way for novel personalised therapy

options.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Ensuring equal access to innovative,

sustainable, and high-quality healthcare”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim

to deliver results directed towards and contributing to all the following expected outcomes:

• Healthcare professionals, at all stages of healthcare provision, have access to user-

centric, robust and trustworthy virtual assistant solutions based on Generative Artificial

Intelligence (AI)170 models and other AI tools to support them towards the provision of

safer, more efficient and personalised care.

• Healthcare professionals benefit from cross-country applicable methodologies with the

aim to facilitate acceptability, healthcare uptake and public trust of virtual assistant tools

based on Generative AI models.

• Patients benefit from enhanced outcomes, more personalised care, and increased

engagement with their healthcare professionals, leading to improved safety, quality of

care, access to appropriate healthcare information and patient-doctor communication.

• Healthcare systems benefit from improved cost-effective patient outcomes, superior to

standard of care in terms of accuracy, safety, and quality, and from cost-savings through

advancements in highly accurate, transparent, traceable, and explainable solutions.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Tackling diseases and reducing disease

burden”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed,

tailored towards and contributing to most of the following expected outcomes:

• The scientific and clinical communities make effective use of state-of-the-art

information, data, technologies, tools and best practices to better understand the

condition, underpinning the development of diagnostics, therapeutics and/or preventive

strategies.

• The scientific and clinical community exchange data, knowledge and best practices,

thereby strengthening their collaboration and building knowledge and care networks in

Europe and beyond.

Deadline 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Tackling diseases and reducing disease

burden”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed,

tailored towards and contributing to some of the following expected outcomes:

• Healthcare practitioners and providers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)115

and/or those in high-income countries (HICs) serving disadvantaged populations have

access to information allowing to strengthen health systems for equitable high-quality

care and health outcomes in the context of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

• Public health managers and authorities have access to improved insights and evidence on

how to decrease the fragmentation of care for patients living with NCDs and ensure

continuity of care across all stages of disease progression, including prevention, risk

reduction, and timely diagnosis of NCDs. They use this knowledge to design policies to

reduce health inequities and to promote equitable health outcomes.

• Researchers, clinicians and authorities have an improved understanding how the

proposed interventions for strengthening health systems for equitable high-quality care

and health outcomes in the context of NCDs could be adopted in LMICs and/or

disadvantaged populations of HICs setting, taking into account specific social, political,

economic and cultural contexts.

• Communities, local stakeholders and authorities are fully engaged in implementing and

taking up interventions that strengthen health systems for equitable high-quality care and

health outcomes in the context of NCDs and thus contribute to deliver better health,

improve quality of life across the life course and extend healthy life expectancy.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Links zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Tackling diseases and reducing disease

burden”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed,

tailored towards and contributing to some of the following expected outcomes:

• International research funders are supported by a dynamic and efficient secretariat in

their coordination efforts for a rapid research response when a pandemic or a severe

epidemic strikes.

• International research funders can rely on a tested framework underpinning a rapid and

effective research response, and as such ensure stronger research preparedness and

response for public health emergencies, including in cross-cutting areas such as data

sharing, social science, clinical trial networks and others.

• Research funders, policymakers and the research community are well informed of the

activities of the members of the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease

Preparedness (GloPID-R)114, both as a group and individually.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Tackling diseases and reducing disease

burden”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed,

tailored towards and contributing to all the following expected outcomes:

• The potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in all aspects that determine optimal

pandemic preparedness and response, and fast learning systems are supported, to the

benefit of scientists, public health responders and policymakers. This includes using the

full potential of available quality data for research and innovation to transform the

development of medical, social or logistical countermeasures, as well as the detection, management and monitoring of emergencies at population levels, and the diagnosis,

treatment, and prevention at the level of individuals.

• European pandemic preparedness and response benefits from readily available,

trustworthy and ethical AI-based tools and technologies that enable it to act fast and in a

targeted manner, to timely detect and understand emerging infectious threats, to respond

adequately and proportionally to identified threats, and to control such threats effectively

and efficiently.

• Different data types from multiple sources and disciplines across the EU and globally

can be accessed, integrated and analysed by scientists, public health responders and

policymakers, using trustworthy and ethical AI-based tools and technologies that support

pandemic preparedness and response.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Tackling diseases and reducing disease

burden”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed,

tailored towards and contributing to all the following expected outcomes:

• The scientific and clinical communities have a better understanding of prophylactic and

treatment options complementary to low molecular weight antiviral therapeutics for

viruses with epidemic potential.

• The scientific and clinical communities have access to experimental antibodies and

antibody-derived proteins for the prevention and treatment of emerging or re-emerging

viral infections, as well as for further clinical investigation.

• Candidate antiviral therapies, including potentially those of broad spectrum are available

for emerging and re-emerging viral infections, increasing therapeutic options for clinical

deployment in case of an epidemic or pandemic.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing

to one or several expected impacts of destination “Tackling diseases and reducing disease

burden”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed,

tailored towards and contributing to most of the following expected outcomes:

• Researchers and developers make the best use of the state-of-the-art knowledge and

resources for an effective development of new treatment options for patients suffering

from difficult-to-treat infections.

• Healthcare professionals and people living with difficult-to-treat infections are

ultimately provided with the availability of clinically useful phage therapies.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

Link zur Ausschreibung

The successful proposal should aim to deliver results that are directed and

tailored towards and contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

• National and regional cancer funders across Europe (i.e. representing Northern,

Southern, Central, Eastern and Western Europe), based on a common strategic research

and innovation agenda, deliver:

1. At least four transnational calls for proposals addressing translational cancer research,

resulting in collaborative grants to academic investigator-led third parties;

2. Streamlined national, regional and foundation-based or charity-based practices in

organising peer-reviewed translational cancer research and innovation funding between the

partners, with attention to exploring novel funding schemes and initiatives as well as

sustainability of a network of funders where appropriate

Deadline: 16.09.2025, 17:00 Uhr

Link zur Ausschreibung

Project results are expected to contribute to some of the following

expected outcomes:

• Researchers and health professionals will advance our understanding on how

environmental, genetic and epigenetic, omics and other factors interact in determining the onset and development of cancers in children, adolescents and young adults and how

they impact health outcomes in young cancer patients.

• Policymakers and public health authorities have scientific evidence to improve

prevention strategies to minimise the impacts of environmental factors on the

development and progression of paediatric, adolescent and young adult cancers.

• Researchers, innovators, and professionals from across different disciplines and sectors

will support and contribute to the future UNCAN.eu research data platform by ensuring

interoperability of data, new digital tools and models.

Deadline: 16.09.2025, 17:00 Uhr

Link zur Ausschreibung

Proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed and tailored towards,

and to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Patients have access to tailored, affordable, effective and–when appropriate–minimally-

invasive surgery-centred, multi-modal treatment interventions targeting locally advanced

or metastatic disease;

• Researchers, innovators87, SMEs and other professionals from different disciplines and

sectors have access to innovative surgery-centred treatment technology and medical

devices for further improvements and validation;

• National healthcare providers, policymakers and authorities in European regions,

Member States and Associated Countries have the evidence to implement affordable surgery-centred treatment solutions that benefit cancer patients with locally advanced or

metastatic disease in their healthcare systems

Deadline: 16.09.2025, 17:00 Uhr

Link zur Ausschreibung

Proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed and tailored towards

and contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Children and adolescents with cancer have access to innovative, more effective, less

toxic treatments–both in terms of acute toxicity and long-term late effects–and care

solutions;

• National healthcare providers, policymakers and authorities in European regions,

Member States and Associated Countries have the scientific evidence to accelerate the

implementation of affordable and accessible treatment and care solutions in their

healthcare systems;

• Researchers, innovators, and professionals from different disciplines and sectors ensure

accessibility and re-usability of relevant trial data, to support the future UNCAN.eu

research data platform, which is currently in preparation.

Deadline: 16.09.2025, 17:00 Uhr

Link zur Ausschreibung

Proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed

and tailored towards, and to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Older cancer patients have access to and benefit from tailored nutritional care-oriented

interventions as part of routine treatment or care interventions, which improves treatment outcomes, alleviates disease symptoms and side effects and enhances their survival and

quality of life;

• National healthcare providers, policymakers and authorities in European regions,

Member States and Associated Countries have the evidence to implement tailored

nutritional care as part of routine cancer treatment or care interventions in their

healthcare systems, including in everyday medical practice.

Deadline: 16.09.2025, 17:00 Uhr

Link zur Ausschreibung

This topic will ensure the continuation of the work of supporting the

creation of a Network of National Cancer Mission Hubs (NCMHs) in Member States and

Associated Countries. NCMHs in each Member State and Associate Country are to operate

for the whole duration of the Cancer Mission and beyond. It was envisaged that there would

be a second phase of support to build on the achievements and needs identified under the

ECHoS project112 during the first phase.

Proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed and tailored towards

and contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• The Network and NCMHs are supported to ensure the integration of Cancer Mission

activities at national, regional, and local levels;

• Stakeholders, including patients and citizens, in national, regional or local health and

research and innovation systems engage in policy dialogues on cancer;

• Citizens, including patients, are involved in citizen engagement activities, including their

design and development, which will lead to recommendations being made to

governments, helping to implement and adapt strategies to national and regional needs;

• Regional and national policy makers and authorities benefit from activities carried out in

the implementation of Cancer Mission actions.

Deadline: 16.09.2025, 17:00 Uhr

Link zur Ausschreibung

With the funding program “NEXT – Rethink Neurodegeneration!”, we support interdisciplinary research teams in rethinking established paradigms and breaking new ground in the study of dementia-related neurodegeneration. We are looking for high-risk, exploratory basic research that goes beyond conventional approaches to uncover fundamental disease mechanisms. The aim is to drive transformative progress and lay the foundation for future preventive and therapeutic breakthroughs.

Link for the call of proposals

According to its statutes, the mission of the Daimler and Benz Foundation is defined as “promoting science and research to clarify the interrelationships between people, the environment, and technology.” Since these interrelationships are complex and dynamic, expert reflection on a scientific basis is required to understand them and lay the foundation for targeted research activities.

With the “Ladenburg Discourse” conference format, the Daimler and Benz Foundation offers a space for interdisciplinary reflection on a scientifically and socially relevant research topic. The foundation provides a venue on its premises where scientists and experts from the field can discuss a freely chosen, interdisciplinary research topic with an open mind.

Deadline: /

Link for the call of proposals

We need changes in our society and in existing structures in order to overcome the multitude of crises we face today. Science is expected to identify planetary boundaries and vulnerabilities, explore fact-based options for action, and contribute to solutions. Therefore, the Volkswagen Foundation is looking for individuals from the scientific community who would like to conduct research on transformation processes together with non-scientific stakeholders and help drive these processes forward.

Deadline: Annual deadlines are planned.

Link for the call of proposals

The Fritz Thyssen Foundation's project funding is aimed at researchers in the humanities, social sciences, and biomedicine. The planned project should be limited in scope and duration.

Deadline: February 1 and September 1 of each year

Link for the call of proposals

Since its establishment over 40 years ago, the Wilhelm Sander Foundation has funded over 2,200 research projects and distributed over €236 million in funding (as of December 31, 2018). The Wilhelm Sander Foundation primarily supports research projects focusing on cancer research (clinical and clinical-experimental). Funding is limited to Germany and Switzerland.

Before submitting a detailed application, please submit a brief preliminary inquiry to the Wilhelm Sander Foundation to ensure that the planned research project is suitable for the foundation's current funding spectrum.

Deadline: None

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Through its programs and initiatives, the ROMIUS Foundation aims to promote young people's interest in science in order to contribute to the quality of healthcare and secure Germany's position as a center of scientific excellence. In doing so, it complements the diverse activities of Roche in Germany as a research-based healthcare company.

You can submit your application for funding to the foundation at any time. After an initial internal review and discussion of the submitted project, we will inform you about the progress of the process. Please refrain from contacting the foundation during this review phase, as statements about your project can only be made after a thorough preliminary review. If we require further clarification, we will of course contact you.

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Funding objective:

With the umbrella brand “KMU-innovativ” (SME Innovative), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) aims to strengthen the innovation potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the field of cutting-edge research and to attract first-time applicants for research funding. SMEs are to be encouraged to increase their efforts in research and development and be better equipped to respond quickly to changes and actively shape the necessary transformation. Funding is to be provided for innovative projects that contribute to solving current socially relevant issues.

Deadline: April 15 and October 15 of each year until 2027

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Research cooperation with the countries of the Eastern Partnership (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) has already increased significantly in recent years and has become even more important since 2022 as a result of Russia's war of aggression. Many of these countries are striving to transform their political and economic systems and scientific landscapes and to move closer to or integrate into European structures (including the European Research Area).

Deadline: 18.01.2024 oder 15.01.2026

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The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the qualification phase following their doctorate to independently carry out their own research project at a location of their choice.
The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project.

Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time.

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Research and development provide significant impetus for securing prosperity and innovation in our society. Within the German science system, universities of applied sciences (FH)/universities of applied sciences (HAW) contribute to this by offering high application-oriented research and development potential for knowledge and technology transfer in companies. At the national level, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports application-oriented research at universities of applied sciences (FH/HAW) through its “Research at Universities of Applied Sciences” program. However, within the European Research Area, universities of applied sciences (FH/HAW) should be able to exploit their research potential even further. As part of the funding program “The European Innovation Union – German Impulses for the European Research Area,” the BMBF is responsible for strengthening research excellence and close cooperation between science, industry, and society in the European Innovation Union.

With FH-Europa, the BMBF aims to increase the participation of universities of applied sciences/universities of applied sciences and arts in EU programs such as Horizon Europe or other EU programs such as the Green Deal and EUREKA as partners, and possibly also as coordinators, of EU research proposals. The purpose is to enable universities of applied sciences to expand and strengthen their networks at the European level and to engage in their research priorities in the scientific community in a sustainable and long-term manner.

Deadline: 30. Juni 2027

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The German Research Foundation (DFG) is establishing ten new Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) to further strengthen cutting-edge research at universities. This was decided by the responsible approval committee in Bonn. The new SFBs will initially receive a total of around €101 million in funding for four years starting on January 1, 2020. This includes a 22% program allowance for indirect costs incurred by the projects. Three of the new networks are SFB/Transregio (TRR) networks, which are spread across several applicant universities.

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To give outstanding researchers the opportunity to gain the qualifications required for appointment as a university lecturer by independently leading a junior research group and performing qualification-specific teaching duties. Attracting outstanding young scientists from abroad.

Deadline: Applications can be submitted at any time.

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The funding program is aimed at scientific information infrastructure institutions such as libraries, archives, museums, computing and media centers.

The aim of the funding is to digitize and/or index holdings and collections that are of supraregional importance for research (manuscript and printed documents, non-textual object collections including audio and/or visual media, and also genuinely digital data (“born digital”), e.g., digital works of art, digital estates (e-mail correspondence, etc.), image data sets (e.g., three-dimensional micro-CT data)).

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Applications for the development, establishment, or organization of research software infrastructures can be submitted under the “Research Software Infrastructures” funding program. Research software infrastructures comprise technically and organizationally networked services and offerings, for example for the creation, processing, and use of research software, as well as access to and preservation of such software.

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Building on the recommendations of the EU Science Diplomacy Working Groups^[1], the project should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• EU and national policymakers as well as researchers obtain a taxonomy of European science diplomacy which maps the relevant players, including from academia, policymaking, diplomacy, civil society, and business, and have an overview of the science diplomacy ecosystems in the EU and the existing capacities, infrastructures, networks (including diaspora and alumni networks), training activities, strategies, and publications at EU and national level. This should also include a mapping of science diplomacy strategies of third countries to inform EU responses.
• Design and launch a European Science Diplomacy Platform as a community of research and practice providing an impartial space for interaction and resources for institutional capacity building, knowledge sharing and scaling up of best practices, involving the key players in European science diplomacy, from both the EU and national levels, liaising also with European scientists in the diaspora and alumni of European mobility schemes, and creating links with existing platforms.
• Building on the activities of existing mechanisms such as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), ERC, COST, EURAXESS, the European Universities initiative, the European Diplomatic Academy, and relevant programmes at national level, schemes, competence frameworks and curricula for training, capacity-building, and mutual learning in European science diplomacy, are developed, paying particular attention to the needs of science counsellors and other diplomats dealing with matters that rely heavily on scientific expertise.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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In supporting the implementation of the European Green Deal, and in particular the 2020 circular economy action plan (CEAP), successful proposals will contribute to the expected impacts of this Destination, notably to innovative business and governance models and innovative circular materials, products, processes and value chains.

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• increased knowledge about suitable indicators for measuring the progress and level of circularity in local communities, households, or in value chains at different company levels, as well as associated impacts, including on greenhouse gas emissions, and using Environmental Footprint methods and the derived Consumption Footprint;
• recommendations are made available on how to develop these indicators further, including for the collection of necessary data;
• guidance and recommendations are made available to local public authorities, social economy entities and financial institutions on how to use these indicators in their circularity-supporting activities.

Deadline: 17.09.2025

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Successful proposals will contribute to the expected impacts of this destination notably by identifying mechanisms to raise awareness on the biodiversity crisis and on opportunities of biodiversity protection and restoration including for climate mitigation and adaptation.

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• policy-makers at all levels better understand how different groups of stakeholders and citizens perceive the biodiversity crisis and its underlying conflicts, as well as the potential impacts of new policies in this area and in climate adaptation and mitigation. This leads to better-informed and more inclusive decision-making and policy implementation, based on the identification of tensions and opportunities;
• policy-makers at all levels are able to implement innovative forms of co-creation and deliberative processes involving citizens throughout the policymaking cycle in order to improve policy-making and eventually contribute to effective mobilisation for collective action in favour of nature restoration and protection, and climate mitigation and adaptation;
• all sectors of society understand the biodiversity crisis and the full extent of its impacts on their lives, including the interplay with climate change and the need for synergies with climate adaptation and mitigation; they understand the critical role of nature restoration in addressing these impacts and are empowered to contribute to it.

Deadline: 17.09.2025

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Successful proposals will contribute to the impacts of this destination by providing tools to assess the socio-economic impacts, including benefits and costs, of measures aiming at restoring degraded ecosystems ensuring the provision of ecosystem services, including for adaptation and/or mitigation to climate change.

Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

• short, medium, and long-term socio-economic impacts, including benefits and costs, of nature restoration, along with their social and territorial distribution, are better known including by scientists and stakeholders of the public and private sectors;
• policy-makers have at their disposal science-based tools to predict impacts, including benefits and costs, of the implementation of policies aiming at restoring nature;
• stakeholders in charge of financing or implementing nature restoration have tools at their disposal to integrate impacts, including benefits and costs, of nature restoration in their business plans;
• socio-economic benefits and costs are traceable directly to the intervention or the origin of stressor, for instance reduction of pollution input.

Deadline: 17.09.2025

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Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Advanced understanding of the causality between anthropogenic climate change and the frequency and intensity of climate and weather extremes (including temperature extremes, heavy precipitation and pluvial floods, river floods, droughts, storms, as well as compound events), and their risks and impacts, including cascading impacts, on human systems and ecosystems;
• Improved methodologies and tools of attribution of extreme climate- and weather-related events, and their impacts, to anthropogenic climate change;

Deadline: 24.09.2025

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Expected Outcome:

• Accelerate research and development in science, with focus on the domains of a) materials science, b) climate change science, c) environmental pollution science (including PFAS) and d) agricultural science ;
• Advance AI technology (not limited to Generative AI) tailored for scientific needs and potentially adaptable to other tasks in the area of application;
• Contribute to the development of foundation models in the areas of application, and pave the way for future funding of foundation models in a broader range of scientific disciplines;
• Advance solutions to societal or scientific challenges;
• Bridge existing knowledge gaps and induce interdisciplinarity by design across different fields necessary to advance the area of application; and
• Support open-source and open science, especially for research communities with limited access to modern AI tools.

Deadline: 23.09.2025

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Projects’ results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following outcomes:

• Critical infrastructure is more resilient to natural hazards, intentional and accidental harmful human actions, including cyberattacks;
• Critical infrastructure operators and authorities have better mapping of the interdependencies relevant for the addressed sector(s) also in view of better managing potential multi-hazard, cross-sectorial and cross border crisis;
• Critical infrastructure operators and authorities have access to improved monitoring, risk and threat assessment, forecast, and if applicable modelling tools as well as cyber- and physical security solutions;
• Critical infrastructure operators and authorities have access to increased post-incident investigation capabilities contributing to better crisis prevention, preparedness, management and response;
• Effective digital tools to conduct virtual and physical stress tests are available for relevant security practitioners;
• Training curricula for critical infrastructure operators, authorities and/or first responders are developed

Deadline: 12.11.2025

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Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Improved, modern, uniform and validated tools, skills, methodologies and innovative training curricula for Police Authorities in Europe, to prevent, detect and investigate organised crime offences, including the early detection of criminal networks and the identification of emerging trends and challenges;
• Improved mechanisms for the use of cross-border tools to facilitate secure information exchange in the fight against organised crime, including criminal networks, taking into account all applicable legislation and fundamental rights;
• Enhanced understanding of the key challenges and best practices related to combating cross-border organised crime;
• Evidence-based support to policy-makers on shaping and tuning of regulation related to cross-border organised crime including criminal networks.

Deadline: 12.11.2025

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Project results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following expected outcomes:

• Improved, modern, uniform and validated tools, skills or methodologies as well as innovative training curricula for security practitioners (Police Authorities, Non-Governmental Organisations, Civil Society Organisations) in Europe, to prevent, detect and deter criminal or terrorist offences, taking into account all applicable legislation and fundamental rights;
• Enhanced understanding of the cultural and societal aspects of crime or terrorism/radicalisation, as well as on the key challenges related to combating them;
• Evidence-based support to policymakers on shaping and tuning of regulation related to crime or terrorism/radicalisation;
• Enhanced perception by citizens that Europe is an area of freedom, security and justice, fully respecting privacy and human rights, thanks to, e.g., innovative awareness-raising campaigns explaining to citizens the key and evolving mechanisms of crime or terrorism/radicalisation, and how to protect against them.

Deadline: 12.11.2025

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Expected Outcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to some or all of the following expected outcomes:

• Modern, uniform and validated tools, skills, methodologies and innovative training curricula for security practitioners (Police Authorities and forensic institutes in Europe) to prevent, detect and investigate criminal and terrorist offences, including the lawful court-proof collection of crime evidence;
• Improved mechanisms for cross-border information exchange in the fight against crime and terrorism, taking into account all applicable legislation and fundamental rights;
• Evidence-based support to policy-makers on shaping and tuning of regulation related to modern information analysis, forensic evidence analysis or frontline policing.

Deadline: 12.11.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Strengthen EU and national migration governance by developing a dynamic knowledge database and an exchange platform, for enhanced collaboration among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, promoting the integration of environment and climate change migration considerations into EU and national policies.
• Develop a strategic roadmap that outlines key research (including in SSH disciplines) and policy priorities addressing climate change and migrationand supports implementation measures.
• Develop policy recommendations to improve the EU's understanding and preparedness, and to enhance collaboration between the EU and third countries within the frameworks of relevant EU policies.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Enhance the understanding and engagement on intergenerational fairness among policy makers, researchers and citizens on future trends and drivers of intergenerational fairness in the EU through quantitative and qualitative analyses;
• Provide policy makers with scientific knowledge (including knowledge generated through SSH) and data for evidence-informed policies to address the drivers of intergenerational inequalities, tailoring interventions to diverse demographic groups, ensuring inclusivity across gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status;
• Develop an action plan to inform policy making, including a set of viable policies to adapt the European economic and social model to reduce intergenerational imbalances and help prevent them in the future, taking into account cross-policy synergies in terms of factors influencing intergenerational fairness.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• New analysis and evaluation of education policy measures.
• Support use of SSH research evidence by education and training policy makers and practitioners.
• Enhanced culture of research and evaluation in education policymaking and among practitioners. Better understanding of the types of expertise and institutional settings that are more effective at informing education policies and practices with evidence.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Policymakers and social partners have insights into the scope and/or characteristics of un(der)declared work or actors involved in un(der)declared work.
• Policymakers receive actionable advice on policy measures effective in reducing the prevalence of un(der)declared work and/or its adverse social consequences.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Policymakers, social partners, and other relevant stakeholders have better understanding of gender differences in career trajectories of parents and their consequences for gender inequalities in the labour market and within households.
• Policymakers, social partners, and other relevant stakeholders have better understanding of links between parental career- and childcare-related decisions, family well-being, and different policy/institutional settings.
• Providing policymakers with effective policy options that help reduce gender gaps in labour market outcomes of parents and support family well-being.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Collect data and analyse the prevalence and impact of gender-based violence (GBV), including tech-facilitated GBV, in different socio-economic contexts and legislative frameworks, and provide policymakers at regional, national and EU level with recommendations to address it.
• Support employers, policymakers, practitioners, and civil society organisations in their work on the prevention, protection, prosecution, and provision of services in addressing GBV, including through promoting best practice sharing, mutual learning and education material focused on consent.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

• Policy makers at European, national, regional and local level from the health, culture, social care, relief/ humanitarian, youth and education sectors are aware of the impacts of arts and culture on health, well-being and social cohesion and are equipped with policy recommendations and with practical guides on to implement cross-sectorial policies and programmes in this field;
• Stakeholders from the health, culture, social care, relief/ humanitarian, youth and education sectors are aware impacts of arts and culture on health, well-being and social cohesion and are equipped with tools to implement cross-sectorial projects in this field;
• Research gaps in this field are documented and explained, and further the R&I implementation science (including in SSH disciplines) by presenting new scalable and replicable best practices;
• Policy-makers working in international relations/ cooperation are provided with recommendations for promoting EU priorities, culture and fundamental values abroad through the angle of cooperation in the areas of culture, health and well-being.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

• Organisations active in diplomacy, culture, research (including SSH disciplines), and education gain insights into the strategic importance of culture, including cultural heritage and the arts, in the contemporary geopolitical context. They understand better how culture can be manipulated, instrumentalised, and even destroyed, to fuel conflict, and how culture, the arts, and tangible and intangible cultural heritage contribute to conflict prevention, reconciliation, preparedness, security and sustainable peace.
• Public authorities, international organisations, NGOs, and society benefit from the empirical knowledge base derived from extensive case study collection, analysis, and evaluation, and from the identification of patterns and best practices, offering adaptable models for integrating culture into sustainable peacebuilding, conflict prevention, preparedness and post-conflict reconciliation.
• Policymakers receive evidence-based recommendations and guidelines for innovative, sustainable peacebuilding strategies working with culture and aligned with EU principles and values.
• Mechanisms fostering ongoing collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are established, to ensure sustained progress in culture for security, foreign policy, and sustainable peace, and to support continuous advancement and integration of knowledge beyond the projects’ conclusion.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Enhanced and updated understanding of the European design^[1] sector and design professionals, including its cross-sectoral relevance for innovation and key strengths, opportunities and challenges, is made available to scientists, policy makers, designers, private companies and other key stakeholders.
• Methods, techniques and applications based on research and knowledge that enable the European design sector and design professionals to stay at the forefront of design for sustainable competitiveness^[2] are developed and put into practice.
• Significant contributions are made to boost Europe as a global powerhouse of design for sustainable competitiveness.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to at least three of the following expected outcomes:

• Policy makers, Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI)^[1] and other stakeholders gain insights into the impact of AI, including, but not limited to, generative AI, on artists, creatives, cultural professionals, creative businesses and on the market for cultural and creative goods and services, as well as on the future of creative work.
• Policy makers, research (including SSH disciplines), education, industry, and society benefit from robust, evidence-based policy recommendations and concrete solutions promoting a mutually beneficial interplay between CCI and AI. These policy recommendations and solutions aim for a fairer marketplace that fosters transparency, fairness, non-discrimination, diversity, and accountability by design, while respecting artistic freedom.
• Policy makers, the CCI, and stakeholders are provided with case studies and evidence-based policy recommendations to harness the CCI’ potential for AI innovation and promote human-centric, unbiased AI applications.
• Frameworks, protocols, and tools for managing intellectual property and personality rights in AI development, training, and use, addressing unauthorised data use and legal breaches, are available to CCI and public authorities.
• Mechanisms or platforms, such as CCI-led competence centres or hubs, are proposed to facilitate interaction among artists, creatives, AI specialists, cultural institutions, and creative businesses. These will facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experiences on AI-powered innovations and aim to develop new solutions that serve the needs of the CCI and society at large, ultimately enhancing creativity-driven innovation.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to the following expected outcome:

• Policymakers are provided with a multi-dimensional overview and assessment of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) role in contemporary societal challenges and European social, economic, and cultural dynamics. A comprehensive analysis of ICH’s potential for societal resilience and its contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation becomes available.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• The networking and capacity-building work of the European network set up under HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-02-01^[1] is strengthened and augmented.
• Research and innovation communities in the field of democracy and civic deliberation and participation and citizenship education are less fragmented and better networked across Europe.
• Researchers in democracy, including rule of law; practitioners in civic participation and deliberation; communication experts; and public authorities and governments have access to research results, innovative methodologies, and tools in the field of democracy and civic deliberation and participation and citizenship education through networking events, accessible platforms, databases, knowledge repositories, advice and capacity building on enhancing diversity and inclusion, civic participation, civic and citizenship education and innovative and experimental deliberation processes at all governance levels.
• Public authorities and governments practice democratic innovation, by applying research results, innovative methodologies, and tools in the field of democracy and civic deliberation and participation and citizenship education which have been distilled by the network into useful “how-tos" and trainings for policymakers, public authorities, and governments.
• Policymakers and research funding organisations are provided with proposals for future research agendas in the field of democracy.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Policymakers, education and training institutions, and educators have a better understanding of the impactful learning, teaching and assessment of citizenship education (underpinned by SSH research and evidence), including formal or formal and non-formal learning.
• Policymakers, education and training institutions, and educators gain a sound understanding of the impact of citizenship education related formal or non-formal learning on young people’s (aged 15-29) civic and democratic engagement (through different forms of community and political engagement), including young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, and considering gender-specific barriers and opportunities.
• Policymakers, education and training institutions, and educators gain a sound understanding of effective collaborative mechanisms between different actors in formal and/or non-formal education sectors in delivering effective citizenship education.
• Policymakers, education and training institutions, and educators are more aware of and can roll out competence-based, transformational (fostering critical thinking and personal development) and action-oriented (fostering active civic engagement and democratic participation) pedagogical approaches to citizenship education, including innovative learning methodologies.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• EU institutions, national decision-makers, practitioners in relevant sectors, civil society organisations and other societal actors are better equipped to confront and prevent different forms of mis- and disinformation and information manipulation, while protecting and respecting the freedom of expression and academic freedom.
• EU institutions and national decision-makers have a better understanding of the categories of stakeholders opposing policies and initiatives aimed at combating disinformation and information manipulation, including understanding the drivers behind their narratives, and are better equipped to engage with them.
• EU institutions and national decision-makers understand how digital media shapes public opinion and regulate it without compromising citizens' rights to information, media freedom, privacy and data protection, and protection from harm.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Enhanced understanding of the interplay between economic inequalities and attitudes towards democracies, achieved by adopting an intersectional perspective across local, national, and transnational levels and acknowledging varying territorial contexts.
• Deeper insights into economic inequalities, including citizens’ own perceptions of such inequalities, across diverse demographic groups, and their impact on public participation, the shaping of attitudes for instance towards women’s and minorities’ rights, as well as trust in democratic processes.
• Enhanced policymakers’ awareness through evidence-based policy recommendations on the relationship between economic inequalities and attitudes towards democracy, bridging research and policy by presenting data and potential solutions to foster informed discussion and adoption of targeted measures.
• Existing data are used effectively, and new data avenues are explored to better understand and address the impacts of economic inequalities across diverse demographic groups, as well as citizen’s own perceptions of these inequalities, on democratic participation and trust in democratic institutions.
• Novel and intersectional approaches to enhance understanding of and participation in democratic processes among economically vulnerable populations, including low- or no-income individuals, and those (at risk of) experiencing downward mobility from the middle class, integrating factors associated with social mobility and individual characteristics such as age, sex, gender, racial or ethnic origin, religion, or belief, and disability.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• EU and national decision makers, researchers (including from SSH disciplines), practitioners, educators, and media organisations are equipped to deliver effective prevention and counter measures on radicalisation, extremism, hate speech, and polarisation, by gaining a comprehensive understanding of the linkages between social and economic inequality, polarisation, radicalisation, and hatred, and by implementing effective recommendations, tools, narratives, methodologies, and other innovative solutions.
• EU institutions and national policymakers gain insights into radicalisation, extremism, and hate speech, including their impact on young people and how youth perceive and engage with information on these phenomena, whether online or offline.
• EU institutions, national decision-makers, and civil society organisations acquire a thorough understanding of the mechanisms driving successful extremist, radical, and hate campaigns, as well as the diverse political environments and their modes of interaction and communication, extending beyond social media and online platforms.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• EU institutions, national decision-makers, and practitioners in various relevant fields dispose of consolidated concepts, workable definitions and a robust evidence base for policymaking, regarding open strategic autonomy and economic security - including research security.
• EU institutions and national decision-makers gain a better understanding of how the open strategic autonomy and economic security – including research security – can benefit the EU and its Member States, associated countries, Neighbourhood, and developing countries, and of the impacts of potentially divergent EU and Member States’ related policies.
• EU institutions and national decision-makers are provided with policy recommendations on how to enhance open strategic autonomy and economic security – including research security – without harming economic and societal actors in the EU, associated countries, Neighbourhood and developing countries or the geopolitical influence of the EU.
• EU institutions, national decision-makers and researchers (including from SSH disciplines) have a deeper understanding of the drivers of open strategic autonomy and economic security – including research security – in key policy fields and what its historical evolution has been.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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Expected Outcome:

Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Policymakers and public administrations in each Member State, candidate country, potential candidate country, and at EU institutional level, are provided with thematic insights on lessons learned from previous enlargement processes for the development of future policies with particular attention to democracy, rule of law and governance related topics.
• Societal awareness of the enlargement process is increased both within the Union and in the candidate country(ies), or potential candidate country(ies), through a deeper understanding of the political, social and economic consequences of enlargement versus non-enlargement of the EU.
• EU authorities and public authorities in Member States benefit from better use of existing interactive tools to better inform and promote educational opportunities on enlargement process for citizens in the Union and in the enlargement countries.
• Public’s at large involvement in enlargement is enhanced through transparent and participatory processes, leveraging digital tools for broader engagement.

Deadline: 16.09.2025

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According to its statutes, the mission of the Daimler and Benz Foundation is defined as “promoting science and research to clarify the interrelationships between people, the environment, and technology.” Since these interrelationships are complex and dynamic, expert reflection on a scientific basis is required to understand them and lay the foundation for targeted research activities.

With the “Ladenburg Discourse” conference format, the Daimler and Benz Foundation offers a space for interdisciplinary reflection on a scientifically and socially relevant research topic. The foundation provides a venue on its premises where scientists and experts from the field can discuss a freely chosen, interdisciplinary research topic with an open mind.

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We need changes in our society and in existing structures in order to overcome the multitude of crises we face today. Science is expected to identify planetary boundaries and vulnerabilities, explore fact-based options for action, and contribute to solutions. Therefore, the Volkswagen Foundation is looking for individuals from the scientific community who would like to conduct research on transformation processes together with non-scientific stakeholders and help drive these processes forward.

Deadline: Annual deadlines are planned.

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The Fritz Thyssen Foundation's project funding is aimed at researchers in the humanities, social sciences, and biomedicine. The planned project should be limited in scope and duration.

Deadline: February 1 and September 1 of each year

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The major challenges facing our society in implementing climate protection targets and the necessary energy and raw materials transition can only be met through the efficient and sustainable extraction, production, and use of renewable resources. The basis for project funding is the “Sustainable Renewable Resources” (FPNR) funding program of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). The primary aim is to support applied research and development in the field of sustainable production and use of renewable resources.

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