14.12.2026
up to EUR 80,000 per project
European Union
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), through 28DIGITAL, has launched the EIT STEM Tech Talent Induction call with a total budget of €2 million.
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01.12.2026
up to EUR 100,000
European Union
The European Innovation Council (EIC) and EIT have opened the 2027 European Prize for Women Innovators. It rewards founders and co-founders of companies that have brought breakthrough innovations to market.
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15.02.2027
Eight calls for cultural organisations, artists, publishers and translators that are open at the end of October 2026. Amounts range from a EUR 3,000 prize to a EUR 50,000 grant, with deadlines from 1 November 2026 to 15 February 2027.
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02.02.2027
EUR 10,000,000 to 12,500,000 per project
European Union
Topic HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-16 funds the development and demonstration of a pilot-scale facility that integrates processing and refining technologies for better recovery of raw materials, critical ones in particular, from low-grade and complex ores and extractive waste.
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02.02.2027
around EUR 200,000 per project
European Union
Topic HORIZON-CL4-2027-01-MAT-PROD-49 offers small grants to test the market potential of results from Horizon Europe Cluster 4 or Horizon 2020 LEIT projects. Around EUR 200,000 per project, a budget of EUR 4.7 million and 24 grants expected; the funding rate is 70%, up to 100% for non-profit entities.
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02.02.2027
around EUR 9,000,000 per project
European Union
Topic HORIZON-RAISE-2027-01-01 of the AI in Science pilot opened on 13 October 2026. It funds closed-loop systems that combine laboratory automation with trustworthy AI able to plan, run and analyse experiments in any area of materials science, from batteries and photovoltaics to water purification.
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16.11.2026
up to EUR 30,000, up to 100% of costs
European Union
EIT Culture & Creativity has opened the New Ventures in Creative Tech (Spark) call for teams that have not yet incorporated a company around their concept. Selected concepts receive up to EUR 30,000 with no co-funding, an in-person startup sprint and a nine-month online incubation programme with mentors.
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14.09.2027
EUR 1,500,000 to 2,500,000 over 5 years
European Union
Topic HORIZON-WIDERA-2027-02-WIDENING-01 (ERA Chairs) helps universities, research organisations and research infrastructures in Widening countries, which include Ukraine, attract an outstanding scientist or innovator who will create and lead a new research group and raise institutional capacity.
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16.02.2027
topic budget EUR 15,000,000, expected EU contribution EUR 10 to 15 million per project
European Union
Topic HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-01-12 of the Apply AI initiative funds a large-scale cross-border pilot of next-generation AI-driven digital platforms to optimise the European energy system.
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05.01.2027
topic budget EUR 20,000,000
European Union
Topic HORIZON-EIE-2027-02-CONNECT-01 of the Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems call launches the European Startup and Scaleup Hubs (ESSH) pilot. Consortia of leading and emerging European startup ecosystems that bring together universities, research organisations, incubators, corporates and investors should…
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14.01.2027
total call budget EUR 230,000,000, individual topics from EUR 4 to 50 million
European Union
On 2 October 2026 the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation announced a EUR 230 million Horizon Europe call on nature under its Horizontal Activities. It supports biodiversity protection, ecosystem restoration and the mainstreaming of biodiversity across Pillar II.
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30.10.2026
pilot or partnership with the corporation
European Union
The Eureka Investment Readiness Programme, co-funded by the EU through Horizon Europe, has opened a submission call for startups and SMEs developing autonomous medical device solutions.
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03.11.2026
EUR 5,000 to 50,000
Netherlands
CodeSupply is part of the European Commission’s Open Internet Stack initiative and is funded through Horizon Europe (grant agreement No. 101298846). NLnet Foundation runs an open call with a EUR 400,000 budget for small and medium R&D projects that improve software supply chain security, package metadata, open data…
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02.11.2026
GBP 27,036 a year plus tuition fees
Ukraine
Organiser: Imperial College London. Amount: full tuition fees, a stipend of GBP 27,036 a year (2027/28 rate) and GBP 2,000 a year for research consumables during the first three years. Duration: 3.5 years of doctoral study. Fifty scholarships are awarded each year across the whole college.
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27.01.2027
Seven programmes where Ukrainian startups can get money, acceleration or cloud resources this autumn. Deadlines run from 21 October 2026 to 27 January 2027, and amounts range from EUR 10,000 in a bootcamp to USD 220,000 of support in the Techstars accelerator. All seven are open to Ukrainian teams.
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04.03.2027
Seven programmes for Ukrainian researchers, lecturers and research institutions that are accepting applications now. Deadlines run from 28 October 2026 to 4 March 2027, and the formats differ widely: from a EUR 992 monthly scholarship in Bavaria to a Horizon Europe consortium grant of EUR 7.5 million.
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05.10.2026
UAH 250,000 - 715,000
Ukraine
Organiser: Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, the Artistic Debuts competition of the Cultural Horizons programme. Amount: UAH 250,000 to 715,000 per project. Deadline: 5 October 2026, 18:00. Supports projects that give young artists a debut: first exhibitions, productions, publications and screenings.
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30.11.2025
up to EUR 60,000
Ukraine
Organiser: EIT Food, the food community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Amount: up to EUR 60,000 in co-funding for a proof of concept. Deadline: 30 November 2025. Open to startups, SMEs and research organisations from Horizon Europe countries, including Ukraine.
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27.01.2027
up to EUR 30,000
Ukraine
Organiser: EIT Food, Seedbed Venture Catalyst programme. Amount: up to EUR 30,000 per team plus an acceleration programme with mentoring and customer validation. Deadline: 27 January 2027. Open to early-stage agrifood startups and research teams from Horizon Europe countries, including Ukraine.
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01.12.2026
Around EUR 4.5 million per project, topic budget EUR 18 million
The European Commission accepts proposals for topic HORIZON-CL5-2026-11-D3-06, Resource assessment for deep sedimentary and basement reservoirs, until 1 December 2026. The topic budget is EUR 18 million, the indicative EU contribution runs around EUR 4.5 million per project, and the Commission plans to support up to 4 projects.
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16.11.2026
The U.S. National Science Foundation accepts proposals for Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants, opportunity number 22-624. The submission window runs from 1 October to 16 November 2026, and the archive date falls on 16 December 2026. The opportunity category is discretionary, so the programme announces no fixed grant size.
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02.02.2027
€6,000,000 – €7,500,000
EU
A call for advanced materials that cut Europe’s dependency on critical raw materials opens on 22 September 2026. The deadline falls on 2 February 2027, the topic budget is EUR 36 million, and the contribution per project runs from EUR 6 to 7.5 million.
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04.03.2027
€1,500,000 – €4,500,000
EU
The Excellence Hubs call opened on 2 September 2026 with a deadline of 4 March 2027 at 17:00 Brussels time. The topic code is HORIZON-WIDERA-2027-04-WIDENING-01, the action type is CSA, and the procedure runs in a single stage.
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01.12.2026
up to €50 000
European Union
WHAT IS FUNDED: Funding of up to €50,000 is available for young women founders of innovative businesses. WHO CAN APPLY: – Woman – Founder or co-founder of the company – Company registered in the EU or Horizon Europe country (including Ukraine) – Age up to 35 years at the time…
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09.11.2026
up to €50 000
European Union
WHAT IS FUNDED: FIERCE is supporting space-enabled green solutions that have a positive environmental impact. The call funds specialized services from External Service Providers (ESPs) under three pathways: Ideation Projects (up to €25,000), Scale-Up Projects (up to €50,000), and Commercialisation Projects (up to €25,0…
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04.11.2026
up to €2,500,000
EU
€634 million, six cut-offs and a proposal template cut from roughly 50 pages to 20. That is EIC Accelerator in 2026, the largest single funding line the European Innovation Council runs for start-ups and SMEs.
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28.10.2026
≈€690,000
EU
The COST Open Call 2026 opened on 31 July and runs until 28 October 2026 at 12:00 noon CET. Up to 80 new COST Actions will receive funding, meaning four-year interdisciplinary research networks in any field of science and technology.
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15.11.2026
up to CHF 350,000
Ukraine, Switzerland
ETH Zurich, jointly with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), has opened the call under the Innovate Cities & Infrastructure programme. The programme funds interdisciplinary applied research that pairs research groups from ETH-Domain institutions with practice partners in order to develop evidence-based solutions for sustainable urban development, resilient…
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27.08.2026
Ukraine, EU
The HELIOS project, coordinated by Lviv Polytechnic National University, has published the third issue of its grant opportunities digest. The issue holds 10 calls across five programmes: Horizon Europe, the European Research Council, the European Innovation Council, the Chips Joint Undertaking and COST.
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up to €1,500
Ukraine, Estonia
On 10 August 2026 the Estonian Research Council (ETAG) opened a travel and collaboration grant scheme for Ukrainian higher education and research institutions. The maximum amount is EUR 1,500 per participant, and applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
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01.10.2026
Ukraine, Poland +1
Updated on 10 August 2026. The previous version of this roundup came out in April, and six of those seven programmes have since closed. So we checked every deadline against the official pages and rewrote the piece. Right now 6 items are open or about to open.
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02.09.2026
Ukraine, EU
As of 10 August 2026, healthcare funding offers 8 calls with confirmed deadlines. The nearest one closes on 2 September, while the furthest closes on 8 October. And we checked every one of them against the donor official pages.
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20.09.2026
Ukraine, Switzerland
The Swiss Federal Council allocated 5 billion francs to Ukraine through to 2036. Of that, 1.5 billion belongs to the cooperation programme for 2025 to 2028, while 500 million goes specifically to projects involving the Swiss private sector. This ranks among the largest bilateral packages Ukraine has received from anyone.
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Ukraine
Applications closed. All NRFU 2026 calls are closed (the last, the LUKE Joint Call, closed on 15 May 2026); the next window is expected in spring 2027. This page remains a funder overview.
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27.08.2026
Ukraine, EU +1
The Horizon Europe work programme for 2026-2027 sets aside roughly EUR 2,023 million for topics that encourage the development of artificial intelligence. That figure excludes the Digital Europe Programme, the European Innovation Council and EuroHPC.
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28.10.2026
up to €4,000,000
Ukraine, EU
The European Innovation Council has opened applications for DeepRAP: Deep Reasoning, Abstraction & Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI Systems. The topic code is HORIZON-EIC-2026-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-03, and it sits inside EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2026 under Horizon Europe.
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155,000–1,000,000 UAH
Ukraine, EU
3,207 funded projects and almost UAH 2.5 billion invested over nine years. That is the record of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation (UCF), a state grantmaker that a dedicated law created in 2017. Right now the foundation runs three open calls.
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14.10.2026
up to €1,500,000
Ukraine, EU
594.1 million euro and 373 grants. That is what the European Research Council (ERC) set aside for the ERC Starting Grant 2027 call, which opened on 22 July 2026. The deadline falls on 14 October 2026. One researcher, up to 1,500,000 euro over 5 years, and no preset topics.
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14.08.2026
Ukraine, EU +1
The Project Office of Lviv Polytechnic National University has released the 15th issue of its “Current Grant Opportunities” bulletin. We gathered the calls into one article, checked every deadline against the donor’s own page, and confirmed whether Ukrainian universities, researchers and organisations can apply.
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€1,000 – €100,000
Ukraine, EU +1
House of Europe has funded Ukrainians since 2019. The European Union pays for the programme, and Goethe-Institut Ukraine runs the calls. So far the team has offered more than 40 competitions for cultural managers, educators, youth workers, social entrepreneurs and media professionals.
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14.08.2026
Ukraine, EU
On 15 July Ukraine marks Ukrainian Statehood Day. The date points back to the baptism of Kyivan Rus and to a continuity of statehood that Russia spent decades trying to rewrite in its own favour.
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28.08.2026
Japan, Ukraine
Japan is one of Ukraine’s largest donors, with more than 10 billion dollars in support since 2022. Almost all of it moves through government channels, so it takes the form of macro-financial budget support, equipment delivered through JICA, demining, and energy reconstruction.
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€25,000–35,000
Ukraine, Poland +3
The International Visegrad Fund distributes 11 million euros a year for regional cooperation across Central and Eastern Europe. For Ukrainian organisations, it is one of the few donors with a simple, clear application process, and Ukrainian applicants take part on equal terms with partners from Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary.
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31.07.2026
USA, Ukraine
6 US programs currently accept applications directly from Ukrainians, and each one has a concrete, open submission date. This roundup is for scholars, faculty, and journalists who live and work in Ukraine (not the diaspora abroad). The map of US funding for Ukraine changed sharply in 2025.
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€992–2,300 per month
Ukraine, Germany
DAAD is the world’s largest organisation for international academic exchange. Since 1925 it has supported roughly 3 million students and researchers, and every year it awards more than 140,000 scholarships and grants.
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28.10.2026
€10,000,000–€30,000,000
Ukraine, EU
On 1 July 2026, the European Innovation Council (EIC) opened the EIC STEP Scale Up Defence call. Because the rules name Ukraine directly, Ukrainian companies can apply on equal terms with firms from EU countries. The investment size runs from €10 to €30 million in company equity.
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24.09.2026
Ukraine, France
France opened a dedicated support track for Ukrainian researchers and artists back in spring 2022, and several of those programmes still run today. So this roundup gathers four French options that Ukrainians can apply for right now or within a few days: two cultural residencies, a programme for scholars in…
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30.06.2026
€100,000
Global
The L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO are accepting nominations for the For Women in Science International Awards. Specifically, this cycle covers physical sciences, mathematics and computer science. Each of the 5 winners receives €100,000 to support their research. The nominations deadline is 30 June 2026. The programme has run since 1998.
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Belgium, Ukraine +1
Applications closed. King Baudouin Foundation currently has no open calls for Ukrainian organisations; its open calls are for Belgium only. This page remains a funder overview. See the open calls on this topic below. Belgium distributes over €202 million through a single foundation every year. 201 calls for projects annually.
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24.11.2026
Ukraine, EU
The European Commission has opened a €593 million call for doctoral research consortia. MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026 (HORIZON-MSCA-2026-DN-01-01) funds international PhD programmes through partnerships of universities, research institutions and businesses. The submission deadline is 24 November 2026.
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