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NCP Flanders is conducting a short satisfaction survey to gather valuable feedback and suggestions on the NCP services. The survey is organised into three sections: NCP Flanders assistance, info sessions, and NCP Flanders website & LinkedIn. If you are not familiar with one of these sections, the survey will automatically guide you to the next section. The survey is fully anonymous and will remain open until 24 July 2026. The NCP Flanders team would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to fill in the survey and provide your opinion via this link. If you would like to get in touch NCP Flanders, please mail to info@ncpflanders.be
AI-BOOST and EUCAIM have opened a joint challenge on 'Generative AI for Enhancement of Clinical Datasets'. The challenge opened on 9 July 2026 and closes on 8 September 2026. It is open to teams from academia and industry. The challenge looks at how generative AI can help improve clinical datasets used in healthcare AI, to address the fact that real-world clinical data can be incomplete, inconsistent or insufficiently representative, affecting the quality and generalisability of AI models. The initiative aims to support approaches such as synthetic data creation, filling missing values and improving dataset completeness. The competition is run in two phases. Applicants start with a concept note. Five selected teams are due to receive €28,500 each for a five-month development and validation phase, and may then compete for a final prize of €100,000. An information webinar is scheduled for 22 July 2026 at 11:00 CEST. More information and the application details are available on the dedicated website. Background: The initiative is part of AI-BOOST, an EU-funded open challenge prize programme that supports the development and benchmarking of trustworthy, human-centric AI solutions across Europe. Designed to run highly replicable AI open innovation competitions across the EU and Associated Countries, AI-BOOST advances major AI fields while fostering collaboration on trustworthy, human-centric solutions to real-world challenges.EUCAIM is the European Federation for Cancer Images, also co-funded by the EU.
ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE REQUEST FOR INFORMATION TO MANUFACTURERS AND FACTORIES FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE NATO ENGINE PILOT -> see attached document NSPA is seeking responses from capable vendors for the NATO Engine pilot, which is designed to support an interoperable and secure digital registry for business-to-business information exchanges. According to the request for information, responses will be used to assess manufacturers and factories and to inform possible next steps. The envisaged areas of interest include, but not limited to:• Automotive;• Electronic manufacturing services;• Aerospace;• Metalworking;• Additive manufacturing/3D printing;• Digital engineering;• Mechanical engineering;• Others. The initial version of the platform is expected to go online in September 2026 and is planned to build on NSPA’s existing RAPiD-e repository. The notice states that information submitted in response to the request will not automatically be included in the NATO Engine pilot platform. Responders are expected to have the opportunity to decide what level of information is made accessible on the platform, and information may be anonymised if requested by the relevant nation where the entity is domiciled. NSPA asks interested vendors to complete the questionnaire by 27 August 2026 through https://www.nspa.nato.int/newsroom/events/request-for-information-for-nato-engine. The notice also states that this is not a request for proposals, does not commit NSPA to issue a solicitation or award a contract, and that responses sent by email will not be considered.
The EU CAP Network is organising an in-person brokerage event in Brussels on 5 and 6 November 2026. It is designed to help stakeholders prepare multi-actor proposals for the 2027 Horizon Europe Cluster 6 and Mission Soil calls. A call for expressions of interest is open until 14 August 2026. The thematic areas for possible collaboration include agrobiodiversity and sustainable agricultural practices, resilience and competitiveness in farming systems, climate-smart and clean farming, innovation through Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems, and healthy soils. If you would like to submit your interest in this call, you can do so on this website.
Keeping track of the exact timelines of multiple Horizon Europe and/or Digital Europe calls can be challenging, especially for organisations active in several domains at once. To help you plan ahead, NCP Flanders has developed a new downloadable Call Topic Heatmap.This new Excel-based tool provides a visual overview of when call topics are open across the different subdomains of Horizon Europe and in Digital Europe, helping organisations identify and anticipate peak periods.Each row in the heatmap represents a specific programme or subdomain, while the timeline is organised by week. As new calls open, the number of available topics increases and the colour intensity changes accordingly. The darker the colour, the higher the number of open topics at that moment in time.You can download the call topic heatmap here on the Call Topic Overview Page, available under Tools.
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Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.
NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic.
