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DateOpportunities
15.5.2026 Impact Hub Vienna: FABB Social | The Golden Age - Skills Program
19.5.2026 Wellcome Trust: Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Development Award
20.5.2026 FFG: FH-Forschung für die Wirtschaft 2026
22.5.2026 LBG: LExA – Leadership Excellence Award in Research
26.5.2026 GRAPPA open call: Agri-food Biomass Upcycling
26.5.2026 Business Angel Summit 2026: Apply to pitch
27.5.2026 ÖGMBT: Life Sciences Research Awards Austria | Life Sciences PHD Awards Austria
31.5.2026 Vienna Business Agency: Tech4People Funding
31.5.2026 The Soglio Innovation Catalyst: VP Venture Partners workshop for life sciences startup projects and companies (3 days in October)
2.6.2026 SMP-COSME-2026-BIOAGRIFOOD: Agri-food Biotech Scaling-up
2.6.2026 Wellcome Trust: Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award: Optimising interventions for impact
6.6.2026 MudTronics: Microbial fuel cell world championship - join the competition
9.6.2026 BIONetZero accelerator program: Networking and travel grants (up to €3,500 per SME), Grants for testing and validation of products and processes (up to €15,000 per SME), Funding for further development and market adaptation (up to €40,000 per SME), Support for entering third-country high growth markets (up to €5,000 per SME) | Focus: Agrifood or energy-intensive industries, Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, Reduction of dependency on critical raw materials, Validation, scaling or commercialisation of biosolutions supporting net-zero production
11.6.2026 FFG: BRIDGE 2026/1
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-07: Risk management, mitigation and contingency for ESFRI/ERIC and other world-class research infrastructures
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-TECH-01-01: R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools, methods, digitalisation and solutions for research infrastructure upgrades
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-01-EOSC-01: Uptake of FAIR data management practices and of EOSC by research communities and research infrastructures (EOSC Partnership)
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-SERV-01-01: Implementing digital services to empower neuroscience research for health and brain inspired technology via EBRAINS
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-04: Strengthening the human capital managing research infrastructures, including in international context
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-02: Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – pilots for strategic coordination, synergies and simplified access pathways, by large thematic clusters of pan-European research infrastructures
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-TECH-01-02: Digital twins and/or their major components for environment, climate and security
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-06: Strengthening the international dimension of ESFRI and/or ERIC research infrastructures
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-03: Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – individual support for evolution, long-term sustainability and emerging needs of pan-European research infrastructures
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-01-EOSC-02: Trusted frameworks for secure and efficient data sharing in EOSC (EOSC Partnership)
16.6.2026 HORIZON-INFRA-2026-DEV-01-01: Research infrastructure concept development including major upgrades or extensions of existing infrastructures
23.6.2026 aws First Call 2 (proposals in English)
30.6.2026 FFG: Qualifizierungsprojekte 2025 - Transformationsoffensive des BMWET (laufende Einreichung und Begutachtung)
1.7.2026 FFG: Nano Environment, Health and Safety (Nano EHS) - F&E-Dienstleistungen
14.7.2026 Wellcome Trust: Mental Health Award: Using physical activity and circadian-based interventions to reduce anxiety and depression in young people
21.7.2026 TRANSCAN-4: JTC 2026 call on the topic of "Translational Research on Cancer Metabolism: Multidisciplinary Approaches for Diagnosis and Treatment"
19.8.2026 EU Reference Laboratories for public health – 2026 calls for applications: EURL for Public Health on Clostridioides difficile | on Sexually Transmitted Bacteria | on Mycobacteria | on Invasive Bacteria
20.8.2026 FFG: Expedition Zukunft: Challenge Nature-based Solutions
21.8.2026 CDG: CD labs and JR centers
26.8.2026 FFG: Praktika für Schüler:innen 2026 - mind. 4 Wochen in Forschung und Entwicklung für Jugendliche ab 15 Jahren im Zeitraum 1. Juni bis 30. September 2026, Förderanträge werden laufend geprüft
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
8.9.2026 Vienna Business Agency: Content Vienna – competition for digital design (incl. Digital Design for Health)
15.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-02-CANCER-04: Earlier and more precise palliative care
15.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-02-CANCER-01: Virtual Human Twin (VHT) Models for Cancer Research
15.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-02-CANCER-07: Improve the Quality of Life of older cancer patients
15.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-02-CANCER-02: Microbiome for early cancer prediction before the onset of disease
15.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-02-CANCER-03: Pragmatic clinical trials to optimise immunotherapeutic interventions for patients with refractory cancers
15.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-02-CANCER-05: Boosting mental health of young cancer survivors through the European Cancer Patient Digital Centre (ECPDC)
15.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-02-CANCER-06: Development of a research capacity building programme on cancer with and for Ukraine
15.9.2026 FFG: Eureka GlobalStars-Ausschreibung mit Taiwan 2026
16.9.2026 Phönix: Austrian Startup Award
17.9.2026 ERC-2026-POC: ERC Proof of concept grants
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-06-CLIMA-SOIL: Joint demonstration of solutions to build soil resilience to extreme weather events and support food security
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-02: Antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic biosynthesis in soils: developing key understanding and counteractive strategies using a One-Health approach
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-04: Leveraging long-term field experiments and other datasets to develop AI-ready decision support systems for sustainable soil management
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-01: Monitoring soil health in practice: equipping stakeholders to sample, analyse, and interpret soil health indicators
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-03: Enabling user-centred and open innovation initiatives to enhance soil health in Ukraine
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-05: Regional (sea-basins) components of the EU Digital Twin Ocean
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-01: Large-scale demonstration for mapping the distribution and condition of marine habitats to implement the Nature Restoration Regulation
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-03: By fishers, for fishers: co-management of marine and freshwaters ecosystems and resources
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-04: Towards a European network of ocean technology testing sites
23.9.2026 HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-02: Addressing aquatic pollution and biodiversity loss through nature positive solutions from source to sea
25.9.2026 FFG: Eureka Biotech-Ausschreibung 2026
29.9.2026 EDF-2026-LS-DA-SME-NT: Non-thematic development actions by SMEs
29.9.2026 EDF-2026-RA-MCBRN-DST: CBRN decontamination systems and technologies
30.9.2026 FFG: Industrienahe Dissertationen 2026 - für außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtungen und Unternehmen mit F&E-Aktivitäten (laufende Einreichung und Begutachtung)
1.10.2026 DIGITAL-2026-AI-PILOTING-10-SCREENING: Apply AI: Piloting AI-based image screening in medical centres
1.10.2026 DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-DIGITAL-HEALTH-STEP: Advanced Digital Skills for AI Uptake in Health
1.10.2026 DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-10-EHDS: Building capacity to deploy the EEHRxF and digital health services and systems to support the rights of citizens and reuse of health data under EHDS
13.10.2026 FFG: COMET-Module 2026
13.10.2026 FFG: COMET-Projekte 2026
20.10.2026 GRAPPA open call: Agri-food Biomass Upcycling
4.11.2026 FFG: Go!Tech Praktika 2026: mehrmonatige Praktikumsplätze für Maturant:innen, die noch keine Studienrichtung oder Berufsperspektive gewählt haben
4.11.2026 EIC: Biotech for Regenerating Agricultural Soils - Bioremediation technologies, Soil and soil microbiome management technologies, Renewable fertilizers and bio stimulants (Deadline model: continuous | Deadline for full proposals for successful short proposals: Batch 1: 07.01.2026 | Batch 2: 04.03.2026 | Batch 3: 06.05.2026 | Batch 4: 08.07.2026 | Batch 5: 02.09.2026 | Batch 6: 04.11.2026)
4.11.2026 EIC: Boosting the European Critical Raw Materials value chain - Exploration of critical and strategic raw materials, Extraction, processing and metallurgy refining for the supply of primary critical and strategic raw materials, Recycling from end-of-life products for the supply of secondary critical and strategic raw materials (Deadline model: continuous | Deadline for full proposals for successful short proposals: Batch 1: 07.01.2026 | Batch 2: 04.03.2026 | Batch 3: 06.05.2026 | Batch 4: 08.07.2026 | Batch 5: 02.09.2026 | Batch 6: 04.11.2026)
6.11.2026 CDG: CD labs and JR centers
6.11.2026 LBG: Clinical research group in gender medicine
25.11.2026 HORIZON-EIC-2026-STEP: EIC STEP Scale Up - equity-only investments managed by the EIC Fund (deadline model: continuous | Batch 1: 11.02.2026 | Batch 2: 06.05.2026 | Batch 3: 09.09.2026 | Batch 4: 25.11.2026)
28.11.2026 FFG: Veranstaltungen und Dissemination 2026 (laufend: Einreichung, Begutachtung, Entscheidung)
30.11.2026 ACHEMA Gründerpreis - Die Zukunft der Life-Science- und Prozessindustrie gestalten: Einreichungsschluss für Businesspläne
4.12.2026 EUIPO: Call for PROPOSALS – GR/001/26 (SME FUND - Intellectual property vouchers) - The SME Fund 2026 has limited funds. If the funds are exhausted, applications will be closed before the indicated date. Decisions are taken on a rolling basis.
17.12.2026 HORIZON-EIC-2026-ACCELERATOR-01: EIC Accelerator 2026 - Short proposal (Deadline model: continuous | Full proposal deadlines: Batch 1: 07.01.2026 | Batch 2: 04.03.2026 | Batch 3: 06.05.2026 | Batch 4: 08.07.2026 | Batch 5: 02.09.2026 | Batch 6: 04.11.2026)
18.12.2026 FFG: Austrian Life Sciences Program (Projekte können laufend eingereicht werden)
31.12.2026 FFG: Frontrunner 2026 (laufende Einreichung, Begutachtung und Entscheidung)
31.12.2026 FFG: Collective Research 2026 - Förderung für vorwettbewerbliche Branchen-Forschungsprojekte (Anträge können jederzeit eingereicht werden und werden laufend bearbeitet)
31.12.2026 FFG: Projekt.Start 2026 - Förderung der Projektvorbereitungskosten für konkrete F&E-Unternehmensprojekte (laufende Einreichung und Begutachtung)

This list is not exhaustive. LISAvienna accepts no liability for potential mistakes. Be invited to contact us at news(at)LISAvienna.at to add funding opportunities or to update an entry.

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