News and Facts
Here you will find an overview of upcoming calls for proposals. This will keep you informed about application requirements at an early stage – but did you know that we can also provide you with financial support when preparing your application? Contact us to find out more.
News
The European Research Council’s work programme for 2026 is available. This results in the following call calendar for the ERC: The calls for Starting Grants and Synergy Grants are already open with a deadline of 14 October 2025 and 5 November 2025 respectively (see under ‘Calls’). The call for the Consolidator Grant will open on 25.09.2025 (deadline: 13.01.2026), the call for the Advanced Grant on 28.05.2026 with deadline 27.08.2026.
Attention: The current call for the ERC Advanced Grants in 2025 is still open until 28.10.2025.
In addition, the first drafts of further work programmes for the years 2026 to 2027 are already available. Contact us for more details.
Since 15 December 2022, there are a number of Hungarian universities that are no longer eligible for Horizon Europe funding until further notice.
Facts
The EU Office of the FRS can provide financial support to interested researchers at the University of Freiburg for preparing a proposal for European funding. Support may also be available for travelling to initiate partnerships in the field of education or to participate in information events. We strongly recommend that you contact the EU Office as early as possible to make preparations.
Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe, the accessibility of research results and data to the general public is gaining importance. This implies changes for researchers that have to be taken into account as early as the proposal phase:
- A Data Management Plan must be included;
- Only the costs for publications in Open Access journals (Gold OA) will be fundable.
The EU Commission offers researchers Open Research Europe, a platform to enable publishing their articles and thus complying with the Open Access requirements.
Horizon 2020
The EU Commission has published a guide for handling Open Access (OA) in scientific publications and research data in Horizon 2020. For all scientific publications stemming from projects funded under Horizon 2020, Open Access publication is mandatory, either via the so-called Gold OA (publication in an open access journal), or the Green OA (making the publication or accepted manuscript available in an open access repository, in parallel with or shortly after the “conventional” publication of the article in a journal).
The EU Commission also requests that the underlying data is made accessible to enable the verification and reproduction of the published results.
For the 2021-2027 programme period, the EU Commission is looking for experts who are interested in working as reviewers. The experts will be deployed for the assessment of submitted project proposals, programme evaluation and policy development.
Projects funded by Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 must refer to EU funding in publications and on equipment.
The integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) is a key element of Horizon Europe and features across all areas of the programme – not only in Cluster 2 (“Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society”), but also as a cross-cutting theme in many other parts of the Framework Programme.
The updated information sheet ‘SSH Opportunities in Horizon Europe’ by Net4Society provides a concise overview of funding opportunities for Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon Europe.
SSH Opportunities in Horizon Europe