Open calls and deadlines relevant for the life sciences in Vienna

Date	Opportunities
17.3.2025	Women TechEU: Funding and support for women leading deep tech startup companies from Europe
18.3.2025	Organisational support to SoHO Competent Authorities in Member States for the implementation of Regulation 1938/2024
20.3.2025	HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-01-NTD-03-two-stage: Accelerating the development of prophylactic vaccines against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in sub-Saharan Africa
20.3.2025	HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-01-MALARIA-02-two-stage: Global collaboration action for research on existing Malaria therapeutics and clinical development of new antimalarial candidates
20.3.2025	HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-01-TB-01-two-stage: Global collaboration action for the development of vaccines for reducing the disease burden of Tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa
20.3.2025	HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-04-CH-01-two-stage: Global collaborative action tackling Diarrhoeal Diseases in the context of Climate and Health
20.3.2025	HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-03-NETWORKS-01-two-stage: Global collaborative action for strengthening the Regional Networks of Excellence and Epidemic Preparedness Consortia
20.3.2025	HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-02-FELLOW-01-two-stage: Global Health EDCTP3 JU and contributing partners funded Strategic Training Hubs for Fellowships in Public Health covering Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Modelling
20.3.2025	HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-04-ACCESS-02-two-stage: Transformative Innovations in global health
26.3.2025	FFG: IraSME 35. Call
27.3.2025	FFG: Virtuelle Welten und digitale Lösungen für die Gesundheit - Förderung für kooperative F&E-Projekte und Qualifizierungsnetzwerke
31.3.2025	Connect Day 2025: Startup Pitch - DeepTech & Spin-off \| GreenTech \| MedTech & LifeScience \| B2B Saas & AI
31.3.2025	Vienna Business Agency: Healthcare Funding
31.3.2025	FFG: Expedition Zukunft: Challenge Public Sector
1.4.2025	EDCTP Prizes 2025
2.4.2025	FFG: F&E-Infrastrukturförderung 2024
2.4.2025	FFG: Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen 2024
3.4.2025	aws First Incubator: Call #1 für Internationals oder internationale Teams ab 18 Jahren (ohne Alterslimit) und geeignet für multilinguale Einreichungen (Englisch als Programmsprache)
6.4.2025	GIN Austria: Go Singapore 2025: The ideal preparation for Austrian mid- and later-stage startups to take the next steps of their Asia-expansion: Flexible onboarding, IP coaching, workshops, networking, pitching events, travel grant of up to 10,000 EUR, one-week ecosystem tour in Singapore from October 27 - October 31, 2025
8.4.2025	EIT Health: Women Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
8.4.2025	ESFRI Roadmap Update 2026: The research community is invited to propose new Research Infrastructures for inclusion on the ESFRI Roadmap 2026
11.4.2025	FFG: COIN KMU-Innovationsnetzwerke 2024
13.4.2025	xbio 2025 Innovation Junction: Where Science meets Business: Call for experienced business professionals eager to co-found and steer a biotech or life sciences startup
16.4.2025	Healthy Hub: Innovative Digital Health Lösungen für die GKV (Deutschland)
19.4.2025	Framework Contracts to speed up the development of and access to innovative medical countermeasures - Next-generation influenza vaccines
23.4.2025	HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-10-01-two-stage: Digital label: one source of comprehensive information for medical technology products
23.4.2025	HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-10-02-two-stage: Safeguarding innovation in secondary use of health data in the European Health Data Space (EHDS)
23.4.2025	HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-10-03-two-stage: Per- and Poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure, emissions, and end of life management in the healthcare sector
25.4.2025	FFG: Laura Bassi – 3. Ausschreibung
29.4.2025	HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-09-05-single-stage: Boosting innovation for better assessment of the added value of innovative integrated healthcare solutions
29.4.2025	HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-09-04-single-stage: Boosting innovation through exploitation of digitalisation and data exchange in healthcare
29.4.2025	HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-09-02-single-stage: Boosting innovation through better integration of fragmented health R&I efforts
29.4.2025	HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-09-03-single-stage: Boosting innovation for peopled centred integrated healthcare solutions
29.4.2025	HORIZON-JU-IHI-2025-09-01-single-stage: Boosting innovation for a better understanding of the determinants of health
29.4.2025	aws First Incubator: Call #2 für Personen im Alter von 18 bis 30 Jahren und deutschsprachige Einreichungen (Deutsch als Programmsprache)
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
5.5.2025	BISC-E Austria: BISC-E Bio-based Innovation Student Challenge - Europe
9.5.2025	FFG: Data Stewards 2025 - Implementing Data Stewards for EU Missions in Austria
9.5.2025	CDG: Deadline to submit proposals
16.5.2025	LBG: LExA – Leadership Excellence Award in Research
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: Certified Innovation Path EIT Labelled Programme
21.5.2025	EIT Health: Health Data - EIT Labelled Certified Innovation Path
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)
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	Eureka: Austria and Canada call on AI and high-tech
30.5.2025	FFG: Eureka Ausschreibung Kanada - Österreich 2025
30.5.2025	FFG: Eureka Call Canada - Austria 2025
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)