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New year, new opportunities. The Horizon Europe 2026-2027 work programme was published in December and new calls have recently opened or will open soon. Under the Digital Europe programme, several calls are currently open (deadline March 2026) and a new wave of calls is expected in spring.Are you exploring your options or already developing a proposal? NCP Flanders provides a number of tools and services to support you along the way: Want to learn more about open and forthcoming funding opportunities? Have a look at our call topic overview. Building a consortium and looking for suitable partners? One of your options is to look at our partner search section. Also check our country eligibility tool, especially if you consider involving non-EU partners. Looking for support to prepare your proposal? Contact your institution's support office or have a look how NCP Flanders can support you. Find out more about all the services NCP Flanders provides here.
2026-01-22 Culture and societyNet4Society, the NCP network for Cluster 2, has published the latest edition of the document "Opportunities for Researchers from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Horizon Europe". This document is designed to help potential applicants to find SSH-related call topics across the different parts of Horizon Europe in Work Programmes 2026-2027. The document can be downloaded here.
2026-01-20 Research Infrastructures Digital, Industry & Space Agro-Food, EnvironmentThe Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium (CERIC-ERIC) is calling for proposals for coordinated access to more than 60 instruments and support laboratories for research in all fields of materials, biomaterials and nanotechnology. A detailed description of the facilities available in CERIC can be found here. CERIC is open to researchers from all over the world, free of charge for non-proprietary research. In exchange for the free access, the users are required to publish the results of the experiments, with appropriate references to the CERIC facilities and to the local scientific and technical staff involved (CERIC Scientific Data Policy). The call for proposals has a two-step application process with the following deadlines: 3 March 2026 at 17:00 CET, to have a pre-evaluation and the possibility to improve your proposal. 31 March 2026 at 17:00 CEST final submission, recommended only for users that are experts in all the techniques requested. For all information on the call for proposals, partial support for users’s mobility, what’s new in this call, the two-step application process and the online submission platform VUO, visit the call for proposals page and the announcement in the news section on the CERIC website.
2026-01-16 Security Digital, Industry & Space CybersecurityThe European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) has opened a call for tenders to set up a European testing infrastructure for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Open to applicants across the European Economic Area, the contract is worth EUR 25 million and covers IT services including development and support. The submission deadline is 20 February 2026. The relevant documentation can be found on the ECCC website.
2026-01-13 Deployment: Best use of technologiesThe European Commission has published a new call: MCP on Innovative and Connected Public Administrations (DIGITAL-2026-BESTUSE-MCP-09-INNOV-ADMIN). The Multi-Country-Project (MCP) funded under this call is supposed to bring together Member States and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme, to jointly identify needs, deploy and develop interoperability solutions for cross-border digital public services. The overarching objective is to support activities for the implementation of the Interoperable Europe Act. The call will open on 20 January 2026, deadline to submit proposals is 19 May 2026. Detailed information on the call can be found in the call document. Background: MCPs are and new instrument: large-scale deployment and capacity-building projects fostering the digital transformation of the Union. These projects promote coordinated investments among the EU, Member States and private stakeholders enabling digital infrastructure projects that a Member State alone could not deploy on its own. They reinforce the Union’s technology excellence and industrial competitiveness in critical technologies, support an interconnected, interoperable and secure Digital Single Market and address strategic vulnerabilities and dependencies of the Union along the digital supply chain.
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Professor Lieven Eeckhout’s main research interests include computer architecture and the hardware/software interface with a specific emphasis on performance evaluation and modeling, and dynamic resource management.
Professor Eeckhout is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant, Advanced grant and three Proof of Concept grants. Two of his former PhD students founded in 2013 CoScale, a spin-off in data center monitoring, which was acquired by New Relic.
