Open Calls & Deadlines to remember

DateOpportunities
8.10.2025 HORIZON-MSCA-2025-SE-01-01: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2025
9.10.2025 FWF: WE&ME Award
9.10.2025 Klima- und Energiefonds: Clean Energy Transition Partnership 2025
9.10.2025 Klima- und Energiefonds: Mission Klimaneutrale Stadt - Technologien und Innovationen für die klimaneutrale Stadt 2025
9.10.2025 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-11-01-two-stage: Towards precision medicine: platform for transdiagnostic stratification of brain dysfunction
9.10.2025 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-11-03-two-stage: AI-Powered Signal Detection in Pharmacovigilance
9.10.2025 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-11-02-two-stage: Understanding how infections foster and induce non-communicable diseases
9.10.2025 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-11-04-two-stage: Leveraging Europe's Expertise to accelerate Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes
9.10.2025 HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-11-05-two-stage: Establishing Ortho and Cardiology Ambulatory Surgical Centres in Europe
12.10.2025 GIN Austria: GO HONG KONG 2026 + Breakout session to Macao
13.10.2025 BMLUK: Biodiversität auf landwirtschaftlichen Flächen vernetzt denken und gemeinsam entwickeln
15.10.2025 HORIZON-EIE-2025-02-CONNECT-01: Preparatory action for setting up joint programmes among innovation ecosystems actors
15.10.2025 HORIZON-EIE-2025-02-CONNECT-02: Implementing co-funded action plans for connected regional innovation valleys
16.10.2025 EDF-2025-LS-RA-SMERO-NT: Non-thematic research actions by SMEs and research organisations
16.10.2025 EDF-2025-LS-DA-SME-NT: Non-thematic development actions by SMEs
21.10.2025 COST Open Call 2025: Fund your network
28.10.2025 Houska Prize: Austria's largest private award for applied research
29.10.2025 EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025: Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing
29.10.2025 EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025: Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer
29.10.2025 EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025: Waste-to-value devices: Circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials
30.10.2025 aws: Proof of Concept Groß
31.10.2025 EUREKA Call for disaster resilience, response, and recovery projects: Sustainability, Medical devices, AI, Advanced manufacturing, New materials, Other areas
31.10.2025 Vienna Business Agency: Vienna Planet Fund
31.10.2025 EIT Food: Proof-of-Concept Co-Financing Instrument
4.11.2025 HORIZON-CL5-2025-05-Two-Stage-D1-05: Adaptation to Climate Change: Effectiveness and Limits
7.11.2025 CDG: Deadline to submit proposals
10.11.2025 Eureka-Cluster Ausschreibung ITEA 2025: Internationale Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekte im Bereich Software-intensive Systeme und Services
12.11.2025 HORIZON-NEB-2025-01-REGEN-02: Bio-fabricated materials for sustainable and beautiful construction
13.11.2025 EIT Food: Larger-scale collaborative programmes (improve the impact of diet on obesity and non-communicable disease, reduce food-system-related environmental harms, deal with the threats posed by food integrity and complex supply chains), and innovative single projects (innovative solutions for protein diversification, regenerative agriculture, labelling, packaging & transparency)
18.11.2025 HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-02-ACCESS-01: EIC pre-accelerator - Widening
18.11.2025 FFG: COMET-Zentren 2025
20.11.2025 HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-01-ACCESS-01: European Excellence Initiative (EEI)
24.11.2025 RWA: Agro Innovation Lab: Proteinnovation Discovery - Do you have a solution for novel protein sources, production processes, or a promising end product? Apply now! For the best startups there are opportunities for investments, PoC funding, follow-up projects, sales partnerships, or exclusive participation in our Proteinnovation Summit with the “who’s who” of the protein ecosystem.
25.11.2025 HORIZON-MSCA-2025-DN-01-01: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2025
30.11.2025 Vienna Business Agency: Understanding Science Funding
30.11.2025 EIT Food: Proof-of-Concept Co-Financing Instrument
2.12.2025 FFG: Talente regional 2025: Kinder, Unternehmen und die Welt der Forschung
3.12.2025 HORIZON-MSCA-2025-COFUND-02-01: MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2025
3.12.2025 FFG: Schlüsseltechnologien im produktionsnahen Umfeld 2025 - Nationale Forschung und Entwicklung in den Themenfeldern Robotik, Advanced Materials, Photonik und Quantentechnologien
16.12.2025 HORIZON-EIC-2025-EICSTEP-01: EIC STEP Scale Up
18.12.2025 HORIZON-EIC-2025-ACCELERATOR-01: EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application
31.12.2025 FFG: ESA_LAB@ – PARTNERING TO INNOVATE
31.12.2025 FFG: Frontrunner 2025 (decisions are taken on a rolling basis, apply throughout the year)
31.12.2025 FFG: Impact Innovation 2025 (apply throughout the year, decisions are taken on a rolling basis)
31.12.2025 FFG: Basisprogramm 2025 (apply throughout the year, decisions are taken on a rolling basis)
31.12.2025 Vienna Business Agency: Digitalisation Funding
31.12.2025 Vienna Business Agency: Innovation Funding
31.12.2025 Vienna Business Agency: Vienna Quality of Life Funding
31.12.2025 Vienna Business Agency: Production Funding
31.12.2025 Vienna Business Agency: Business Location Funding
31.12.2025 FFG: Markt.Einstieg 2025
15.1.2026 Vienna Business Agency: International Market Entry Funding
20.1.2026 The Future is Fungi: SCIENCE ENTREPRENEUR AWARD
20.1.2026 HORIZON-EIE-2026-01-CONNECT-01: European network of national competence centers for innovation procurement
20.1.2026 HORIZON-EIE-2026-01-CONNECT-03: Scaling up deep tech ecosystems
20.1.2026 HORIZON-EIE-2026-01-CONNECT-02: Expanding Investment Ecosystems
20.1.2026 HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-COE-LH-01-03: Lighthouse Codes for HPC Applications -> high-performance computing (HPC)
20.1.2026 HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-COE-LH-01-02: Transversal Centres of Excellence
20.1.2026 HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-COE-LH-01-01: Community Centres of Excellence
17.2.2026 HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D3-01: Large-scale production of liquid advanced biofuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin
17.2.2026 HORIZON-CL5-2026-02-D3-24: New CO2 capture technologies
1.5.2026 CEPI: Innovative analytical technologies to improve vaccine manufacturing speed and equitable access: Minimizing time/cost to release/develop vaccine | Vaccine characterisation
31.5.2026 Vienna Business Agency: Tech4People Funding
14.12.2026 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.)
14.12.2026 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)
18.12.2026 FFG: Austrian Life Sciences Program (Projekte können laufend eingereicht werden, 7 Entscheidungstermine im Jahr geplant | Leitprojekte: Einreichfrist endet mit 9.9.2024, verpflichtendes Vorgespräch mit der FFG bis spätestens 22.7.2024 erforderlich)

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