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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.
The European Commission and/or its agencies organise info days on the 2026 call topics and these are often complemented by brokerage events, organised by National Contact Point (NCP) networks and/or the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN). These events provide opportunities to connect with potential collaboration partners. In addition, several programmes offer dedicated matchmaking platforms to facilitate partner searches. Here is an overview of the upcoming info days and brokerage events with the link to the event webpage, which you can find in our event calendar as well. When new dates and information will be made known subsequently this overview will be updated. The matchmaking platforms are included in the overview as well. Pillar 1 European Research Council (ERC) 29/04/2026 mERCury webinar - Towards an ERC Advanced Grant: From groundbreaking idea to successful proposal Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Radiance MSCA Matchmaking Platform 16/02/2026 Networking and Brokerage Event on MSCA Staff Exchanges Call 2026 – Ukraine 23/02/2026 International Brokerage Event on Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchanges 03/03/2026 Q&A session MSCA Staff Exchanges call 2026 (REA) 03/06/2026 MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026 Call info day (REA&EAC) Research infrastructures 18/03/2026 (info day) 1-4/06/2026 (RICH Europe Proposal Check Workshop 2026 for Horizon Europe Research Infrastructure Topics) Pillar 2 Cluster 1 Health26-30/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 10/2/2026 (info day) Cluster 2 Culture, creativity & inclusive society26/3/2026 (info day) and 1-2/6/2026 (brokerage event) Cluster 3 Civil security for society 04/03/2026 (info day) Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space29-30/1/2026 (info day) and Ideal-ist online brokerage platform Cluster 5 Climate, energy & mobility14/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 15/1/2026 (info day) and Greenet Partner Search Tool Cluster 6 Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture & environment21/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 22-23/1/2026 (info day) and 10/12/2025 Care4Bio Information session on tools for applicants Clusters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and EU Mission Cities with STEM or SSH expertise relevant to AI - Artificial intelligence in Horizon Europe calls: an interdisciplinary challenge 25/2/2026 (brokerage event - 2026 and 2027 call topics) Horizontal Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area (WIDERA) 11/12/2025 (ERA info day - 2026 and 2027 call topics) and 17/12/2026 (ERA brokerage event) and 22/1/2026 (Widening info day) EU Missions 20-21/1/2026 (info day) and 28-29/1/2026 (brokerage event) and 16/12/2026 Workshop: From Policy to Practice – Regional and Local Impacts of EU Missions and HE Clusters. New European Bauhaus Facility 24/02/2026 (info day) and 05/03/2026 (brokerage event) More information about the publication of the Horizon Europe Main Work Programme 2026-2027 can be found in this NCP Flanders news article.
Are you an EIC innovator? SPIN4EIC can help boost your procurement capabilities via free training and direct procurement assistance in the preparation of your (innovation) procurement tenders in Europe and beyond. SPIN4EIC (Strategic Innovation Procurement) is an initiative powered by the EIC dedicated to delivering support services to EIC innovators and to scale innovation procurement in Europe. The initiative aims to enhance EIC innovators’ ability to access procurement markets both in Europe and worldwide through trainings, matchmaking, and free hands-on assistance and support. SPIN4EIC also connects EIC innovators with public and private buyers of innovation and offers support to public buyers to set-up innovation procurement tenders. SPIN4EIC can connect you with potential buyers via its online community and matchmaking/pitching events. Read more on the ongoing opportunities and the free assistance on the dedicated web-pages.
The Horizon Europe project PRIMARY has published a €900,000 call to support partnerships that test and scale sustainable agricultural solutions in Europe. The call is designed for consortia of two or three partners working on projects that validate and adapt business models for agricultural waste valorisation from the PRIMARY project. The selected consortia are expected to show technical feasibility, economic viability and sustainability under real rural conditions, while looking at whether the project approach can be repeated and scaled elsewhere. The call closes on 8 June 2026 at 17h. Sub-projects are expected to run between November 2026 and April 2028, for a duration of 1 to 18 months. All information regarding the call can be found here.
The course " Generating Business from Research" is addressed to researchers, innovation managers, technology transfer professionals, and potential participants interested in EIC Transition and in the exploitation of research results through spin‑offs. Having a promising research result does not necessarily mean that it can, or should, be transformed into a viable business. The objective of this course is to equip learners with a clear and practical framework to assess when launching a business makes sense and, equally importantly, when it does not. The framework is built around three cascading questions: Is it feasible? Is it sustainable? Is it scalable? These questions are explored not only from a theoretical perspective, but also through practical examples, helping learners connect strategic reasoning with real‑world decision‑making. The ultimate goal is to enable learners to replicate this assessment process autonomously, apply it to the business ideas they are developing or supporting, and obtain a realistic and honest assessment of their commercial potential. Discover the course here: https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/academy/generating-business-research *The NCP Academy is the training and capacity‑building platform of the Horizon Europe NCP Portal. It aims to strengthen the skills and knowledge of National Contact Points and offers online courses and learning resources across all Horizon Europe areas, with several contents also open to researchers, innovators and other potential participants.
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The Horizon2020 twinning project ScreenME has as its objective to enhance excellence in screen media entrepreneurship at Tallinn University (TLU). To do so, ScreenME has established a network of universities across Europe that aim to improve research into and teaching of entrepreneurship for the screen media industry. ScreenME will develop a teaching course and will kick off research initiatives and projects on entrepreneurial activities in media organisations. The research group on ‘Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology (SMIT)’ of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is partner in the network and is involved in two cross-cutting activities of the project: support for early stage researchers and developing stakeholder involvement.
