Ein vollständiger Projektantrag für den themenoffenen Bereich (einstufig kurz) kann der Geschäftsstelle des Innovationsausschusses laufend im Jahr bis zur Ausschöpfung der im jeweiligen Haushaltsjahr zur Verfügung stehenden Mittel (20 Mio. Euro), jedoch spätestens bis zum 31. Dezember 2025, 23:59 Uhr (Einreichungsfrist) in elektronischer Form vorgelegt werden. Hinweis: Es erfolgt keine automatische, sondern eine individualisierte Eingangsbestätigung während der üblichen Arbeitszeiten.

Deadline: 31.12.2025

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Förderziel:

Zweck der Förderrichtlinie ist die Förderung von Vorhaben der Forschung, Entwicklung und Innovation (FuEuI) zur klinischen Validierung von innovativen medizintechnischen Lösungen. Dabei sollen KMU im Rahmen von Einzel­vorhaben in die Lage versetzt werden, einen zügigen Transfer ihrer innovativen Lösungen in die Gesundheits­versorgung zu gewährleisten.

Deadline: 15.01. / 15.05. / 15.09. jedes Jahr

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Trotz leichter Verbesserungen in den letzten Jahren hungern derzeit weltweit noch fast 800 Millionen Menschen,
weitere ca. 2 Milliarden leiden an „verstecktem Hunger“, das heißt, an einem Mangel an Vitaminen und Mineralstoffen.
Gleichzeitig wächst die Weltbevölkerung weiter an und damit auch der Nahrungsbedarf. Veränderte Konsumgewohn-
heiten in den Schwellenländern und weltweit steigender Bedarf an nachwachsenden Rohstoffen für den Nicht-Nah-
rungsbereich führen zu zunehmendem Bedarf an und Konkurrenz um landwirtschaftliche Produktionsflächen. Globale
Herausforderungen wie der Klimawandel stellen die Landwirtschaft zudem unter erheblichen Anpassungsdruck. Um
die Ernährungssituation weltweit nachhaltig zu verbessern, sind unter anderem Fortschritte in der Produktivität der
Landwirtschaft und dem weiteren Aufbau von Kompetenzen und Strukturen erforderlich. Der internationalen Agrar-
und Ernährungsforschung kommt hierbei eine Schlüsselrolle zu. Die Bundesregierung unterstützt daher die interna-
tionale Agrar- und Ernährungsforschung verstärkt durch Beiträge des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Land-
wirtschaft (BMEL), des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) sowie des
Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), wobei die Ziele und Ausrichtungen der jeweiligen Förder-
programme und Instrumente so gestaltet sind, dass sie sich gegenseitig sinnvoll ergänzen.

Deadline: /

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Die Forschungszusammenarbeit mit den Ländern der Östlichen Partnerschaft (Armenien, Aserbaidschan, Georgien, Republik Moldau und Ukraine) und Zentralasiens (Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Mongolei, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan und Usbekistan) hat bereits in den vergangenen Jahren stark zugenommen und seit 2022 als Folge des russischen Angriffskrieges weiter an Bedeutung gewonnen. Viele dieser Länder sind bestrebt, ihre politischen und wirtschaft­lichen Systeme und die Wissenschaftslandschaften zu transformieren und sich stärker europäischen Strukturen anzunähern oder sich zu integrieren (unter anderem in den Europäischen Forschungsraum).

Deadline: 18.01.2024 oder 15.01.2026

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Das Walter Benjamin-Programm ermöglicht es Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in der Qualifizierungsphase im Anschluss an die Promotion, ein eigenes Forschungsvorhaben am Ort ihrer Wahl selbständig umzusetzen.
Das Vorhaben kann an einer Forschungseinrichtung in Deutschland oder im Ausland durchgeführt werden, wobei die gastgebende Einrichtung das Vorhaben unterstützt.

Deadline: Antragsstellung jederzeit möglich

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Mit dieser Fördermaßnahme verfolgt das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) das Ziel, das Innovationspotential kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) im Bereich Spitzenforschung zu stärken sowie die Forschungsförderung im Rahmen des Gesundheitsforschungsprogramms insbesondere für erstantragstellende KMU attraktiver zu gestalten. Gegenstand der Förderung sind risikoreiche Vorhaben der industriellen Forschung und experimentellen Entwicklung, die technologieübergreifend und anwendungsbezogen sind. Diese FuE-Vorhaben müssen der Medizintechnik zugeordnet sein und für die Positionierung des Unternehmens am Markt von Bedeutung sein. Wesentliches Ziel der BMBF-Förderung ist die Stärkung der KMU-Position bei dem beschleunigten Technologietransfer aus dem vorwettbewerblichen Bereich in die praktische Anwendung in der Gesundheitswirtschaft

Deadline: 15. April und der 15. Oktober eines Jahres

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Themen von der Quantenfeldtheorie über Medienanthropologie und kollektives Entscheiden bis zum inflammatorischen Tumorsekretom / 72 Millionen Euro für zunächst viereinhalb Jahre

Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) richtet zur weiteren Stärkung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses 16 neue Graduiertenkollegs (GRK) ein. Dies beschloss der zuständige Bewilligungsausschuss in Bonn. Die neuen GRK werden ab der ersten Jahreshälfte 2020 zunächst viereinhalb Jahre lang mit insgesamt rund 72 Millionen Euro gefördert. Darin enthalten ist eine 22-prozentige Programmpauschale für indirekte Kosten aus den Projekten. Ein Verbund ist ein Internationales Graduiertenkolleg (IGK) mit Partnern in Großbritannien.

Deadline:

• Antragsskizzen jederzeit
• Einrichtungsanträge - nach Absprache mit der Geschäftsstelle - auch jederzeit

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Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) richtet zur weiteren Stärkung der Spitzenforschung an den Hochschulen zehn neue Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB) ein. Dies beschloss der zuständige Bewilligungsausschuss in Bonn. Die neuen SFB werden ab dem 1. Januar 2020 zunächst vier Jahre lang mit insgesamt rund 101 Millionen Euro gefördert. Darin enthalten ist eine 22-prozentige Programmpauschale für indirekte Kosten aus den Projekten. Drei der neuen Verbünde sind SFB/Transregio (TRR), die sich auf mehrere antragstellende Hochschulen verteilen.

Deadline: /

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Herausragenden Forscherinnen und Forschern die Möglichkeit zu geben, durch die eigenverantwortliche Leitung einer Nachwuchsgruppe verbunden mit qualifikationsspezifischen Lehraufgaben die Voraussetzungen für eine Berufung als Hochschullehrerin bzw. Hochschullehrer zu erlangen.
Herausragende Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus dem Ausland (zurück) zu gewinnen.

Deadline: Anträge können jederzeit eingereicht werden.

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Im Förderprogramm „Forschungssoftwareinfrastrukturen“ können Anträge zum Aufbau, der Etablierung oder der Organisation von Infrastrukturen für Forschungssoftware eingereicht werden. Forschungssoftwareinfrastrukturen umfassen technisch und organisatorisch vernetzte Dienste und Angebote, beispielsweise für die Erzeugung, Verarbeitung und Verwendung sowie den Zugang zu und die Erhaltung von Forschungssoftware.

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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

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The subject of the contract is supply, delivery, unloading, siting and installation, calibration and certification (where applicable), testing (where applicable), training (where applicable), after-sales services including maintenance (where applicable) and response and repair time (where applicable) of the laboratory equipment. Contract is expected to contribute to developing and introducing new laboratory methods for the food safety area, the residue of plant protection products and other residues and contaminants, the animal disease diagnosis and the plant pests, thus contributing to the protection of public, veterinary and plant health through food safety measures and measures for the prevention, detection, suppression and eradication of infectious, parasitic and breeding diseases of animals and prevention, detection, suppression and eradication plant pests.

Deadline: 04.07.2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mit dem Förderangebot "NEXT – Rethink Neurodegeneration!" unterstützen wir interdisziplinäre Forschungsteams dabei, etablierte Paradigmen zu überdenken und neue Wege in der Erforschung der demenziellen Neurodegeneration zu beschreiten. Wir suchen nach risikoreicher, explorativer Grundlagenforschung, die über konventionelle Ansätze hinausgeht, um grundlegende Krankheitsmechanismen aufzudecken. Ziel ist es, transformativen Fortschritt voranzutreiben und das Fundament für zukünftige präventive und therapeutische Durchbrüche zu legen.

Deadline: 28.08.2025, 2pm (CEST)

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Laut Satzung wird die Aufgabe der Daimler und Benz Stiftung durch die „Förderung von Wissenschaft und Forschung zur Klärung der Wechsel beziehungen zwischen Mensch, Umwelt und Technik“ definiert. Da diese Wechselbeziehungen vielschichtig und dynamisch sind, bedarf es einer sachkundigen Reflexion auf wissenschaftlicher Basis, um sie zu verstehen und die Grundlage für gezielte Forschungstätigkeiten zu legen.

Mit dem Tagungsformat „Ladenburger Diskurs“ bietet die Daimler und Benz Stiftung einen Freiraum für die interdisziplinäre Reflexion eines wissenschaftlich und gesellschaftlich relevanten Forschungsthemas. Die Stiftung stellt in ihren Räumlichkeiten einen Ort zur Verfügung, an dem Wissenschaftler:innen und Expert:innen aus der Praxis ein frei gewähltes, interdisziplinäres Forschungsthema ergebnisoffen erörtern können.

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Wir brauchen Veränderungen in unserer Gesellschaft und in den bestehenden Strukturen, um die Vielzahl der Krisen zu bewältigen, mit denen wir heute konfrontiert sind. Von der Wissenschaft wird erwartet, dass sie planetare Grenzen und Vulnerabilitäten aufdeckt, faktenbasierte Handlungsoptionen erforscht und zu Lösungen beiträgt. Daher sucht die VolkswagenStiftung Persönlichkeiten aus der Wissenschaft, die gemeinsam mit außerwissenschaftlichen Stakeholdern zu Transformationsprozessen forschen und diese anschieben möchten.

Deadline: Jährliche Stichtage sind geplant.

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Die Projektförderung der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung richtet sich an Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften sowie der Biomedizin. Das geplante Vorhaben sollte sachlich und zeitlich begrenzt sein.

Deadline: 01.Februar und 01.September eines jeden Jahres

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Seit ihrer Gründung vor über 40 Jahren hat die Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung über 2.200 Forschungsprojekte gefördert und ein Fördervolumen von über 236 Mio. ausgeschüttet (Stand 31.12.2018). Unterstützt werden von der Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung hauptsächlich Forschungsprojekte mit dem Schwerpunkt Krebsforschung (klinisch und klinisch-experimentell). Die Förderung ist beschränkt auf Deutschland und die Schweiz.

Bitte reichen Sie vor der ausführlichen Antragstellung eine kurze Voranfrage bei der Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung ein, um sicher zu stellen, dass das geplante Forschungsprojekt für das aktuelle Förderspektrum der Stiftung geeignet ist.

Deadline: Keine

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Die ROMIUS Stiftung will mit ihren Programmen und Initiativen das Interesse von jungen Menschen an Naturwissenschaften fördern, um zur Qualität der Versorgung im Gesundheitswesen beizutragen und den Wissenschaftsstandort Deutschland zu sichern. Sie ergänzt damit die vielfältigen Aktivitäten von Roche in Deutschland als forschendem Gesundheitsunternehmen.

Sie können den Antrag auf Förderung zu jedem beliebigen Zeitpunkt bei der Stiftung einreichen. Nach einer ersten stiftungsinternen Vorprüfung und Diskussion des eingereichten Vorhabens informieren wir Sie über den Fortgang des Verfahrens. Bitte sehen Sie während dieser Prüfungsphase von Nachfragen bei der Stiftung ab, da erst im Anschluss an eine gründliche Vorprüfung Aussagen zu Ihrem Vorhaben getroffen werden können. Sofern von unserer Seite Klärungsbedarf besteht, setzen wir uns selbstverständlich mit Ihnen in Verbindung.

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Die Stärkung der wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit mit Japan ist eine wichtige Aufgabe in der internationalen Wissenschaftspolitik vieler europäischer Länder. Die European Interest Group (EIG) CONCERT-Japan ist eine gemeinsame internationale Initiative zur Unterstützung und Verbesserung der Zusammenarbeit zwischen europäischen Ländern und Japan in den Bereichen Wissenschaft, Technologie und Innovation. Die EIG-CONCERT-Japan fördert nicht nur die Verbindungen zwischen Europa und Japan, sondern ist auch ein koordiniertes Netzwerk, das von gemeinsamen akademischen Interessen sowie von sozialen, interdisziplinären und globalen Anliegen geprägt ist.

Deadline: 22.07.2025

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Förderziel:

Mit der Dachmarke „KMU-innovativ“ verfolgt das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) das Ziel, das Innovationspotenzial kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) im Bereich Spitzenforschung zu stärken und erst­antragstellende Unternehmen für die Forschungsförderung zu gewinnen. Die KMU sollen zu mehr Anstrengungen in der Forschung und Entwicklung angeregt und besser in die Lage versetzt werden, auf Veränderungen rasch zu reagieren und den erforderlichen Wandel aktiv mitzugestalten. Gefördert werden sollen innovative Projekte, die einen Beitrag zur Lösung aktueller gesellschaftlich relevanter Fragestellungen leisten.

Deadline: jeweils der 15. April und der 15. Oktober eines Jahres bis 2027

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Die Forschungszusammenarbeit mit den Ländern der Östlichen Partnerschaft (Armenien, Aserbaidschan, Georgien, Republik Moldau und Ukraine) und Zentralasiens (Kasachstan, Kirgisistan, Mongolei, Tadschikistan, Turkmenistan und Usbekistan) hat bereits in den vergangenen Jahren stark zugenommen und seit 2022 als Folge des russischen Angriffskrieges weiter an Bedeutung gewonnen. Viele dieser Länder sind bestrebt, ihre politischen und wirtschaft­lichen Systeme und die Wissenschaftslandschaften zu transformieren und sich stärker europäischen Strukturen anzunähern oder sich zu integrieren (unter anderem in den Europäischen Forschungsraum).

Deadline: 18.01.2024 oder 15.01.2026

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Das Walter Benjamin-Programm ermöglicht es Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern in der Qualifizierungsphase im Anschluss an die Promotion, ein eigenes Forschungsvorhaben am Ort ihrer Wahl selbständig umzusetzen.
Das Vorhaben kann an einer Forschungseinrichtung in Deutschland oder im Ausland durchgeführt werden, wobei die gastgebende Einrichtung das Vorhaben unterstützt.

Deadline: Antragsstellung jederzeit möglich

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Von Forschung und Entwicklung gehen wesentliche Impulse für die Wohlstandssicherung und Innovationsfähigkeit unserer Gesellschaft aus. Dazu tragen im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem die Fachhochschulen (FH)/Hochschulen für Angewandte Wissenschaften (HAW) bei, die über ein hohes anwendungsnahes Forschungs- und Entwicklungspotenzial für den Wissens- und Technologietransfer in Unternehmen verfügen. Auf nationaler Ebene unterstützt das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) durch das Programm „Forschung an Fachhochschulen“ die anwendungsorientierte Forschung an FH/HAW. Innerhalb des europäischen Forschungsraums sollen die FH/HAW ihr Forschungspotenzial jedoch noch weiter ausschöpfen können. Das BMBF übernimmt im Rahmen des Förderprogramms „Die europäische Innovationsunion – Deutsche Impulse für den Europäischen Forschungsraum“ Verantwortung für die Stärkung von Forschungsexzellenz und für enge Kooperationen zwischen Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in der Europäischen Innovationsunion.

Mit FH-Europa zielt das BMBF darauf ab, die Beteiligung der FH/HAW an EU-Programmen wie vorzugsweise „Horizont Europa“ oder an weiteren EU-Programmen wie beispielsweise Green Deal, EUREKA als Partner, möglicherweise auch als Koordinatoren, von EU-Forschungsanträgen zu erhöhen. Zweck ist es, FH/HAW in die Lage zu versetzen, ihre Netzwerke auf europäischer Ebene auszubauen und zu stärken sowie sich nachhaltig und längerfristig mit ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten in der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft zu etablieren.

Deadline: 30. Juni 2027

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Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) richtet zur weiteren Stärkung der Spitzenforschung an den Hochschulen zehn neue Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB) ein. Dies beschloss der zuständige Bewilligungsausschuss in Bonn. Die neuen SFB werden ab dem 1. Januar 2020 zunächst vier Jahre lang mit insgesamt rund 101 Millionen Euro gefördert. Darin enthalten ist eine 22-prozentige Programmpauschale für indirekte Kosten aus den Projekten. Drei der neuen Verbünde sind SFB/Transregio (TRR), die sich auf mehrere antragstellende Hochschulen verteilen.

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Herausragenden Forscherinnen und Forschern die Möglichkeit zu geben, durch die eigenverantwortliche Leitung einer Nachwuchsgruppe verbunden mit qualifikationsspezifischen Lehraufgaben die Voraussetzungen für eine Berufung als Hochschullehrerin bzw. Hochschullehrer zu erlangen.
Herausragende Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler aus dem Ausland (zurück) zu gewinnen.

Deadline: Anträge können jederzeit eingereicht werden.

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Das Förderprogramm richtet sich an wissenschaftliche Informationsinfrastruktureinrichtungen wie Bibliotheken, Archive, Museen, Rechen- und Medienzentren.

Ziel der Förderung ist die Digitalisierung und / oder Erschließung von Beständen und Sammlungen, die für die Forschung überregional von Bedeutung sind (Dokumente der handschriftlichen und gedruckten Überlieferung, nichttextuelle Objektsammlungen inklusive audio- und / oder visueller Medien und auch genuin digitale Daten („born digital“), bspw. digitale Kunstwerke, digitale Nachlässe (E-Mail-Korrespondenzen etc.), Bilddatensätze (z. B. dreidimensional dargestellte Mikro-CT-Daten)).

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Im Förderprogramm „Forschungssoftwareinfrastrukturen“ können Anträge zum Aufbau, der Etablierung oder der Organisation von Infrastrukturen für Forschungssoftware eingereicht werden. Forschungssoftwareinfrastrukturen umfassen technisch und organisatorisch vernetzte Dienste und Angebote, beispielsweise für die Erzeugung, Verarbeitung und Verwendung sowie den Zugang zu und die Erhaltung von Forschungssoftware.

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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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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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Laut Satzung wird die Aufgabe der Daimler und Benz Stiftung durch die „Förderung von Wissenschaft und Forschung zur Klärung der Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Mensch, Umwelt und Technik“ definiert. Da diese Wechselbeziehungen vielschichtig und dynamisch sind, bedarf es einer sachkundigen Reflexion auf wissenschaftlicher Basis, um sie zu verstehen und die Grundlage für gezielte Forschungstätigkeiten zu legen.

Mit dem Tagungsformat „Ladenburger Diskurs“ bietet die Daimler und Benz Stiftung einen Freiraum für die interdisziplinäre Reflexion eines wissenschaftlich und gesellschaftlich relevanten Forschungsthemas. Die Stiftung stellt in ihren Räumlichkeiten einen Ort zur Verfügung, an dem Wissenschaftler:innen und Expert:innen aus der Praxis ein frei gewähltes, interdisziplinäres Forschungsthema ergebnisoffen erörtern können.

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Wir brauchen Veränderungen in unserer Gesellschaft und in den bestehenden Strukturen, um die Vielzahl der Krisen zu bewältigen, mit denen wir heute konfrontiert sind. Von der Wissenschaft wird erwartet, dass sie planetare Grenzen und Vulnerabilitäten aufdeckt, faktenbasierte Handlungsoptionen erforscht und zu Lösungen beiträgt. Daher sucht die VolkswagenStiftung Persönlichkeiten aus der Wissenschaft, die gemeinsam mit außerwissenschaftlichen Stakeholdern zu Transformationsprozessen forschen und diese anschieben möchten.

Deadline: Jährliche Stichtage sind geplant.

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Die Projektförderung der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung richtet sich an Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften sowie der Biomedizin. Das geplante Vorhaben sollte sachlich und zeitlich begrenzt sein.

Deadline: 01. Februar und 01. September eines jeden Jahres

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Die großen Herausforderungen an unsere Gesellschaft zur Umsetzung der Klimaschutzziele, der Energie- und der ebenso erforderlichen Rohstoffwende kann nur durch eine effiziente und nachhaltige Gewinnung, Erzeugung und Nutzung erneuerbarer Ressourcen erfolgen. Grundlage für die Projektförderung ist das Förderprogramm "Nachhaltige Erneuerbare Ressourcen" (FPNR) des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL). Es soll vorrangig angewandte Forschung und Entwicklung im Bereich der nachhaltigen Erzeugung und Nutzung erneuerbarer Ressourcen unterstützt werden.

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