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DateOpportunities
30.4.2025 EIT Food: Call for grants: 30 x €2,300 for SMEs and startups in the agrifood sector interested in improving their business
30.4.2025 aws: Proof of Concept Groß
4.5.2025 EIT Health: AIProHealth: Data Science and AI in Health Summer School - Elevating Healthcare through Artificial Intelligence Innovation | Netherlands Edition
5.5.2025 BISC-E Austria: BISC-E Bio-based Innovation Student Challenge - Europe
5.5.2025 EIT Health: Open Innovation: Early diagnosis and disease monitoring for Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA)
5.5.2025 EIT Health: Open Innovation: Enhancing an Accessible Healthcare Pathway and Personalised Breast Cancer Care
6.5.2025 WWTF: Life Sciences 2025 - Precision Medicine
6.5.2025 EIT Food: Fast Track to Market 2025
9.5.2025 EIT Health and Abbott: Start-ups Meet Pharma Challenge: Remote cognitive testing solutions for paediatric clinical trials: The ideal solution would be a user-friendly digital platform that enables remote cognitive testing in clinical trials, providing assessments of memory, reasoning, processing speed, problem-solving, and vocabulary. The platform should be designed for ease of use by paediatric patients, caregivers, clinical trial coordinators, and scientists. A fully functional remote cognitive testing platform is expected to be available by 2026.
9.5.2025 FFG: Data Stewards 2025 - Implementing Data Stewards for EU Missions in Austria
9.5.2025 CDG: Deadline to submit proposals
12.5.2025 HADEA/2025/OP/0012: Multiple framework contracts in cascade for legal support services for the compliance assessment of national transposing measures in the health and food safety areas, in the context of the enlargement
12.5.2025 HADEA/2025/CPN/0006: Development of a rapid point-of-care antimicrobial susceptibility testing diagnostic medical device
12.5.2025 EU4Health call for tenders to develop point-of-care diagnostic medical devices for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (bacteria | fungi)
13.5.2025 Advanced Materials, M-ERA.NET Call 2025
16.5.2025 LBG: LExA – Leadership Excellence Award in Research
16.5.2025 EIT Health: Digital Medical Devices - Summer School
18.5.2025 Business Angel Summit (3.-4.7.2025): Apply for the Startup Pitch session and join national and international investors in Kitzbühel
19.5.2025 HADEA/2025/CPN/0008: Multiple Sourcing Framework Contracts to Speed up the Development of and Access to Innovative Medical Countermeasures: Next-Generation Influenza Vaccines
19.5.2025 EIT Health: InnoStars Awards
21.5.2025 EIC Pathfinder Open: Support for projects in any field of science, technology or application without predefined thematic priorities
21.5.2025 EIT Health: Health Data - EIT Labelled Certified Innovation Path
21.5.2025 EIT Health: Certified Innovation Path EIT Labelled Programme
21.5.2025 EIT Health: Digital Medical Devices - EIT Labelled Certified Innovation Path
21.5.2025 EIT Health: High Value Care - EIT Labelled Certified Innovation Path
23.5.2025 WKO: GoUSA 2025 | Startup Landing Zone: Up to 12 AI and tech startups for San Francisco (29.9.-17.10.2025) | Up to 5 health and life sciences startups for Boston (27.10.-7.11.2025)
25.5.2025 EIT Health: AIProHealth: Data Science and AI in Health Summer School - Elevating Healthcare through Artificial Intelligence Innovation | Estonia & Germany Edition
28.5.2025 EIT Health: MedTech Bootcamp
28.5.2025 EIT Health: Patient Innovation Bootcamp
28.5.2025 EIT Health: Regulatory Pathways to Market Bootcamp
30.5.2025 FFG: Eureka Call Canada - Austria 2025
30.5.2025 EIT Health: Top Female Founders - Summer School (online:13.6.-4.7.2025 | in Vienna: 14.7.-18.7.2025)
30.5.2025 EIT Health: InnoStars Connect 2025 - Challenge 1 Improving Neonatal Respiratory Care (In particular NRDS & BPD) | Challenge 2 Enhancing Prenatal & Neonatal Care | Challenge 3 Innovating Hospital Scheduling: Enhancing Care Delivery and Patient Experience
11.6.2025 ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PEX-COVE: Centres of Vocational Excellence
13.6.2025 aws BoB: Compete for the Best Business Ideas in Biotech & Medtech: International competition in life sciences, aimed at transforming groundbreaking ideas into successful innovations, BoB is open to students, researchers, and teams or individuals from around the world who are looking to turn their ideas into businesses, as well as young startups up to 3 years old (founded after March 31, 2022)
30.6.2025 aws: Fertigungsüberleitung von Energie- und Umwelttechnologien bei Start-ups - es wird laufend über Anträge entschieden
30.6.2025 FFG: Qualifizierungsprojekte 2024
10.7.2025 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)
7.8.2025 aws First Incubator: Call #3 für Personen ab 18 Jahren (ohne Alterslimit) und geeignet für multilinguale Einreichungen (Englisch als Programmsprache)
14.8.2025 CDG: Deadline to submit proposals
28.8.2025 ERC: Advanced Grant
17.9.2025 EIC Transition: Support for the maturation and validation of novel technologies from the lab to the relevant application environments
17.9.2025 HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025: IA-flagship: Urban-industrial symbiosis for bio-waste valorisation | Bio-based drop-ins/smart drop-in platform chemicals, via cost-effective, sustainable and resource-efficient conversion of biomass | Circular-by-design fibre-based packaging with improved properties | Retrofitting of (bio)refineries industrial plants towards higher-value bio-based products
17.9.2025 HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025: IA: Sustainable macroalgae systems for innovative, added-value applications: cultivation and optimised production systems | Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) bio-based solutions to replace hazardous conventional chemicals for textiles production | Scaling-up nutritional proteins from alternative sources | Cost-effective and robust continuous biotech bio-based processes | SSbD bio-based polymers/copolymers unlocking new market applications
17.9.2025 HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025: RIA: Valorisation of untapped forest biomass | Bio-based and biodegradable delivery systems for fertilising products to reduce microplastics pollution & promote soil health | Alternative biomanufacturing routes for natural and synthetic rubber
17.9.2025 HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025: CSA: Develop and deploy new curricula and knowledge exchange practices relevant to bio-based systems
18.9.2025 ERC: Proof of Concept Grant
30.9.2025 FFG: Industrienahe Dissertationen 2025
1.10.2025 EIC Accelerator Challenges 2025: Acceleration of advanced materials development and upscaling along the value chain | Only for successful short proposals! You may submit a short proposal at any time. Please note that evaluation of short propsals takes time.
1.10.2025 EIC Accelerator Challenges 2025: Biotechnology driven low emission food and feed production systems | Only for successful short proposals! You may submit a short proposal at any time. Please note that evaluation of short propsals takes time.
1.10.2025 EIC Accelerator Challenges 2025: GenAI4EU: Creating European Champions in Generative AI | Only for successful short proposals! You may submit a short proposal at any time. Please note that evaluation of short propsals takes time.
1.10.2025 EIC Accelerator Open | Only for successful short proposals! You may submit a short proposal at any time. Please note that evaluation of short propsals takes time.
29.10.2025 EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025: Biotech for Climate Resilient Crops and Plant-Based Biomanufacturing
29.10.2025 EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025: Waste-to-value devices: Circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials
29.10.2025 EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025: Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer
30.10.2025 aws: Proof of Concept Groß
7.11.2025 CDG: Deadline to submit proposals
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 FFG: COMET-Zentren 2025
16.12.2025 HORIZON-EIC-2025-EICSTEP-01: EIC STEP Scale Up
31.12.2025 FFG: ESA_LAB@ – PARTNERING TO INNOVATE
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)

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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