UNICEF Femtech Ventures is inviting applications for its second annual cohort of companies developing technology-driven solutions to improve the health, wellbeing, and sexual and reproductive health and rights of girls and women.

The Agrifood Roadmap to Market is a free programme designed by BGI Sustainable Ventures and supported by EIT Food to help agrifood innovators, entrepreneurs and researchers bridge the gap between technology validation and market adoption.

The programme targets innovations at Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) 4–7, supporting participants to assess their market readiness, identify gaps in their development pathway and build a structured roadmap towards commercialisation and future investment.

Restack is a funding programme supporting the development, improvement and scaling of open technologies that strengthen the internet's foundational infrastructure. The programme aims to establish a secure, interoperable and sustainable Open Internet Stack built on shared digital resources, free and open-source software, open hardware, open standards and open data.

The Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) 2027 Visiting Fellowship Program supports early-career international researchers undertaking a 12-month research project in France. The programme is funded by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space (MESRE), and implemented by Campus France.

The VICTAM Foundation Call for Funding 2027 is inviting researchers, organisations, innovators and eligible commercial companies to submit proposals for projects that contribute to the development of the animal feed and flour milling industries.

The Foundation supports innovative projects that advance technology, sustainability, efficiency, animal nutrition and knowledge development across the global feed and flour milling sectors.

Funding Available

The Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) is supporting the development of European AI chip demonstrators that can move advanced chip designs closer to integration into real European compute infrastructure.

The call is the first stream under the AI Chips and Systems for EU Compute Infrastructure initiative and focuses on bringing cutting-edge European AI chip designs to the demonstrator stage, with functional silicon hardware integrated with system partners and prepared for infrastructure-level evaluation.

Funding Available

The Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) has opened a joint call for international collaboration between Europe and Japan on semiconductors, focusing on the development of a strong chiplet ecosystem for AI and advanced semiconductor process technologies for nodes beyond 2nm.

The call is designed to bring together European and Japanese organisations to advance semiconductor technologies, strengthen industrial cooperation and support the development of next-generation chip architectures.

Funding Available

The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Open Call 2026 invites researchers and innovators to propose new COST Actions, collaborative science and technology networks designed to advance knowledge and strengthen international research collaboration.

COST Actions are bottom-up and open to all science and technology fields, meaning proposals can address a challenge or emerging opportunity identified by the research community. Multi- and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged.

Funding Available

The EIT Higher Education Initiative (EIT HEI) Call for Proposals 2026 will support higher education institutions and their innovation ecosystem partners in strengthening the capacity to transform STEM talent, research and knowledge into deep-tech and manufacturing innovation and entrepreneurship.

The call focuses on strengthening HEIs as drivers of innovation by improving entrepreneurship and intellectual property capabilities, knowledge valorisation and technology transfer, and collaboration with industry and wider European innovation ecosystems.

The FORTIS Open Call #2 is inviting universities, research organisations, SMEs, start-ups and mid-caps to develop, integrate and validate technologies that advance Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), collaborative robotics, AI and digital environments.

The call provides access to the 10-month FORTIS Programme #2, combining financial support, technical mentorship and structured sprints to help applicants integrate technologies into FORTIS pilot environments or demonstrate FORTIS solutions in new sectors.

Funding Available