All documents related to Research funding opportunities

• COST Infographic: What do I need to apply for COST Action?

  Find out what is needed to apply for a COST Action! For more information on the COST Action 2023 Call, visit the call page and check the WB Info hub News and Calls Section and items linked below!

• Guide to funding opportunities for the Cultural and Creative Sectors

  The European Commission published a Funding Guide for the audiovisual and news media sectors, highlighting funding opportunities for the audiovisual and news media sectors, in particular EU Funding Opportunities...

• Find your EU funding programme for the environment

  Supporting the environment under the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework and NextGenerationEU This guide provides a detailed description of those 2021–2027 MFF funding programmes and instruments...

• THE INSTRUMENT FOR PRE-ACCESSION ASSISTANCE (IPA III)

  Pre-accession assistance supports EU candidate countries and potential candidates in adopting and implementing key political, institutional, social and economic reforms to comply with EU values and to...

• Prague Declaration on Synergies in the Research and Innovation Funding in Europe

  The Conference on Synergies in the Research and Innovation Funding in Europe, organised by the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, took place from Thursday, 7th July to Friday, 8th July...

• Applicants' Manual - Danube Region Programme

  The first call for proposals is going to be offically launched in September 2022. For your convenience, we have published the new applicants' manual presenting the main rules, requirements...

• MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Handbook

  The most popular handbook is updated and contains up-to-date tips and tricks on how to ace your MSCA PF proposal! This handbook is the continuation of the MSCA handbooks prepared within the Net4Mobility...

• Handbook for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022

  The Handbook for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) 2022 has been updated and contains up-to-date tips and tricks on how to ace your MSCA-PF proposal!

• Report on the performance of European Partnerships under Horizon Europe

  The Commission released its first report on the ‘Performance of the European Partnerships: Biennial Monitoring Report 2022 on Partnerships under Horizon Europe’ (BMR 2022). The report provides an overview...

• Exploring the performance gap in EU Framework Programmes between EU13 and EU15 Member States

  The European Union (EU)'s Research and Innovation Framework Programmes are the largest programmes for international research collaboration worldwide. Repeated reports point to the issue of underperformance...

• Assessment of financing needs of SMEs in the Western Balkans countries - Synthesis Report

  This study was commissioned by the EIB with funding from the Enterprise Development & Innovation Facility , EDIF. The study assesses the financing needs of the SMEs in the Western Balkans countries...

• COST relations to the Western Balkan Countries

  The 6 WBC countries (Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo*, Serbia) are Full Members of COST or Near Neighbour Country (Kosovo*).  

• H2020 Work Programme Marie Curie Actions

  The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) contribute to excellent research, boosting jobs, growth and investment by equipping researchers with the new knowledge, skills and international and intersectoral...

• The Western Balkans in Horizon 2020

  This infographic was recently released to inform on developments related to the funding of Western Balkan research projects within Horizon 2020. Current data show that the participation of Western Balkan...

• WBC-RTI.INFO Newsletters sent in 2018

  WBC-RTI.INFohas prepared several newsletter issues in 2018. Thematic articles were drafted while relevant stakeholders contacted and in some cases also interviewed.

• 2017 WBIF Annual Report

  It provides a comprehensive overview of 2017 developments - governance and policy, landmark projects, sector and beneficiary portfolios, etc., and comes with a detailed project / grant directory...

• Access4SMEs Promotional Guide to access financial instruments

  The Access4SMEs Promotional Guide has just been published, thanks to a joint exercise carried out by Horizon 2020 National Contact Points for Access to risk finance and SMEs in cooperation with financial...

• Enabling synergies between European Structural and Investment Funds, Horizon 2020 and other research, innovation and competitiveness-related Union programmes

  Funding opportunities in Research Infrastructures, includes the EU Funding from Horizon 2020, the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds), and the national core funding. Complementary EU ...

• Access4SMEs guide: to assist and support SME’s in applying for Horizon 2020 projects

  This guideline, containing “Analysis report on SME success factors and best practices” and “Supporting tool to assess an SME’s pre-requisites and suitability to H2020 projects”is created in order to assist...

• Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016 - 2017: Innovation in SMEs

  More than ever, the EU with its investments into SME innovation is aiming at accelerating company development and growth, from the very early stage to market introduction, with direct and indirect complementary...

• [Theme in Focus] Research funding opportunities and performance in WBC. WBC-RTI.info Newsletter Oct. 2015

  The social and political problems, and currently the migration crisis are still more pressing in WBC than the low level of national R&D investment (Serbia and Montenegro spend on around 1% of GDP ...

• Multi-country– financial assistance under IPA II: Selected IPA 2014-2020 Action Programmes

  The multi-country programme helps meet the targets identified in the Country Strategy Papers, albeit through different means. In line with the Multi-country Indicative Strategy Paper 2014-20 , the programme...

• EC Progress report 2015 Montenegro

  Related to Research and Innovation, the progress report 2015 for Montenegro addresses the following: There is a good level of preparation in this chapter and some progress was made in the past year...

• EC Progress report 2015 Serbia

  Related to Research and Innovation, the progress report 2015 for Serbia addresses the following: Serbia is at good level of preparation in science and research. Some progress was made in improving ...

• EC Progress report 2015 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

  Related to Research and Innovation, the progress report 2015 for fyr of Macedonia addresses the following: There is a good level of preparation in the area of science and research. Good progress was...

• EC Progress report 2015 Kosovo*

  Related to Research and Innovation, the progress report 2015 for Kosovo* addresses the following: Preparations in education and research are at an early stage. There has been no progress in this area...

• Horizon 2020 - First results

  The text and charts below have been taken from the brochure, "Horizon 2020 - first results" (PDF 3MB), which presents information on the first 100 calls for proposals. By 1 December 2014 the first ...

• IPA II (2014-2020) - Indicative strategy papers for WBC

  Prepared in partnership with the beneficiaries, IPA II sets a new framework for providing pre-accession assistance for the period 2014-2020. The most important novelty of IPA II is its strategic focus...

• EC Progress reports WBC 2014 - progress made in Science, Research and Education

  Each year the Commission adopts its "Enlargement package" - a set of documents explaining its policy on EU enlargement and reporting on progress achieved in each country. Most importantly, this package...