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DateOpportunities
27.2.2026 HADEA/2025/OP/0052: Strengthening national implementation of organ transplant practices, in particular through cooperation between national authorities and professional sector associations
27.2.2026 xbio course 2026: Empowering scientists to innovate across diverse areas of life sciences, showcasing the full spectrum of entrepreneurial possibilities
28.2.2026 Vienna Bussiness Agency: Startup Grant
1.3.2026 Startup World Cup Application 2026 - Austria
3.3.2026 DIGITAL-2026-DSM-AI-09-DS-MANUFACTUR-STEP: Data Space for Manufacturing
3.3.2026 DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-TOOL: Health: Data ingestion capacities and data services for the European Genomic Data Infrastructure in the European Health Data Space: data tools
3.3.2026 DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-STORAGE: Health: Data ingestion capacities and data services for the European Genomic Data Infrastructure in the European Health Data Space: data storage and processing capacity
3.3.2026 DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-SOLUTIONS-CANCER-STEP: Deployment of cutting-edge multi-modal AI-based solutions in medical imaging
3.3.2026 DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-VIRTUAL-TESTBEDS-STEP: Virtual worlds test beds
3.3.2026 DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09-LEAGUE-OF-ACADEMIES: ELEVATE: European League of Advanced Digital Skills Academies
4.3.2026 HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-01-LRTI-02-two-stage: Global collaboration action for prevention and treatment of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections (LRTIs) in sub-Saharan Africa
4.3.2026 HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-01-TB-01-two-stage: Global collaboration action for the development of TB drugs for therapy and chemoprophylaxis in adults and children in sub-Saharan Africa
4.3.2026 HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-01-HIV-03-two-stage: Global collaboration action towards better prevention, treatment and clinical management of HIV co-infections or co-morbidities in sub-Saharan Africa
4.3.2026 HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-02-CH-01-two-stage: Global collaboration action on climate and health in sub-Saharan Africa
4.3.2026 EIT Higher Education Initiative: Call for proposals to boost STEM-driven innovation and entrepreneurship capacities in higher education across Europe
5.3.2026 FFG: Rohstoffe 2025 - Gewinnung mineralischer Rohstoffe und der Nutzung des geologischen Untergrundes für Tiefengeothermie und Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
5.3.2026 FFG: Digitale Technologien 2025: Kooperative F&E Projekte, Sondierungen und Qualifizierungsnetzwerke | Leitprojekt zur Entwicklung datengetriebener Anwendungen im Gesundheitsbereich
10.3.2026 JTC2026 Call 2: Neurodegenerative Disorders
10.3.2026 HORIZON-EIE-2026-02-CONNECT-01: European Startup and Scaleup Hubs pilot
10.3.2026 WWTF: Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators - Environmental Systems Research
17.3.2026 FFG: Expedition Zukunft START 2025/2
18.3.2026 aws First Call 1 (Age 18-30, in German)
19.3.2026 EUROSTARS - Partnership on Innovative SMEs
22.3.2026 Mercur Innovation Award 2026
27.3.2026 FFG: COIN KMU-Innovationsnetzwerke 2025
31.3.2026 DIGITAL-ECCC-2025-DEPLOY-CYBER-09-CYBERAI: Cybersecure tools, technologies and services relying on AI
31.3.2026 DIGITAL-ECCC-2025-DEPLOY-CYBER-09-UPTAKE: Uptake of innovative cybersecurity solutions for SMEs
31.3.2026 DIGITAL-ECCC-2025-DEPLOY-CYBER-09-COORDPREP: Coordinated preparedness testing and other preparedness actions
7.4.2026 Creative Transformation - Health & Social Business: Open Innovation Programm für Frauen, die Gesundheit und Soziales neu denken – mit Know-How aus der Kreativwirtschaft für nachhaltigen unternehmerischen Erfolg
13.4.2026 Joint Transnational Call 2026 - European Partnership for Pandemic Preparedness: Research to increase knowledge on therapeutic targets on pathogens and to increase knowledge on pathophysiology
14.4.2026 CEPI: Innovations CfP_Focus Area 1: Innovative vaccine platforms that can transform outbreak response (Proposals may be submitted at any time until this date. Submitted proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis.)
14.4.2026 CEPI: Focus Area 2: Developing new vaccine candidates against CEPI priority pathogens with epidemic or pandemic potential and viral families (Apply at any time, decisions are taken on a rolling basis)
15.4.2026 FFG: Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) – 18th Call
15.4.2026 HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-19: Challenge-Driven GenAI4EU Booster in Apply AI prioritised sectors (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics Partnership)
15.4.2026 HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01: Apply AI: Pilot of the “Science for AI” Pillar of RAISE (“Resource for AI science in Europe”) (RIA)
15.4.2026 HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-08: Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing: Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges (RIA) (Partnership in AI, Data and Robotics)
15.4.2026 HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-HUMAN-01: Developing and demonstrating core technologies for Virtual Worlds and Web 4.0 (IA) (Virtual worlds Partnership)
15.4.2026 HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DATA-06: Efficient and compliant access to and use of data (IA) (AI, Data and Robotics partnership)
15.4.2026 HORIZON-CL4-2026-05-MAT-PROD-25: New or enhanced Innovative Advanced Materials (IAM) enabled sensing functionality (RIA)
15.4.2026 HORIZON-CL4-2026-05-DIGITAL-EMERGING-02: Next-Generation AI Agents for Real-World Applications in the Apply AI sectors (RIA) (Partnership in AI, Data and Robotics)
21.4.2026 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-12-SINGLE-STAGE-01: Boosting innovation for a better understanding of the determinants of health
21.4.2026 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-12-SINGLE-STAGE-02: Boosting innovation through better integration of fragmented health R&I efforts
21.4.2026 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-12-SINGLE-STAGE-03: Boosting innovation for people-centred integrated healthcare solutions
21.4.2026 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-12-SINGLE-STAGE-04: Boosting innovation through exploitation of digitalisation and data exchange in healthcare
21.4.2026 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-12-SINGLE-STAGE-05: Boosting innovation for better assessment of the added value of innovative integrated healthcare solutions
29.4.2026 FFG: FTI-Initiative für die Transformation der Industrie 2025 (Für die Einreichung von Leitprojekten (FFG) sowie kombinierten Projekten (FFG & KPC) sind verpflichtende Vorgespräche erforderlich. Anmeldung bis spätestens 31.03.2026)
1.5.2026 CEPI: Innovative analytical technologies to improve vaccine manufacturing speed and equitable access: Minimizing time/cost to release/develop vaccine | Vaccine characterisation
13.5.2026 CDG: CD labs and JR centers
20.5.2026 FFG: FH-Forschung für die Wirtschaft 2026
22.5.2026 LBG: LExA – Leadership Excellence Award in Research
31.5.2026 Vienna Business Agency: Tech4People Funding
23.6.2026 aws First Call 2 (proposals in English)
30.6.2026 FFG: Qualifizierungsprojekte 2025 - Transformationsoffensive des BMWET (laufende Einreichung und Begutachtung)
31.8.2026 ACHEMA Gründerpreis - Die Zukunft der Life-Science- und Prozessindustrie gestalten: Einreichungsschluss für Geschäftskonzepte
2.9.2026 HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-03-DIGIT-02: Enhancing integrated research and healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa through digital innovation and Artificial Intelligence
2.9.2026 HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-03-SERP-01: Training and innovation networks for sustained capacity development related to ethics, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, and related digital regulatory platforms
30.9.2026 FFG: Industrienahe Dissertationen 2026 - für außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen und Unternehmen mit F&E-Aktivitäten (laufende Einreichung und Begutachtung)
30.11.2026 ACHEMA Gründerpreis - Die Zukunft der Life-Science- und Prozessindustrie gestalten: Einreichungsschluss für Businesspläne
18.12.2026 FFG: Austrian Life Sciences Program (Projekte können laufend eingereicht werden)
31.12.2026 FFG: Collective Research 2026 - Förderung für vorwettbewerbliche Branchen-Forschungsprojekte (Anträge können jederzeit eingereicht werden und werden laufend bearbeitet)

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