LIFE: protecting nature and adapting to climate change via support for environmental and climate action. It is relevant when a rural initiative addresses biodiversity, water, soil, forests, waste, circular economy, clean energy, or climate adaptation. LIFE can support:
Restoration and protection of habitats and species
Nature-based solutions
Water conservation and drought preparedness
Flood, wildfire, and coastal-risk management
Climate-resilient agriculture, forestry, and tourism
Circular use of local resources
Community energy and clean-energy transitions
Environmental governance, awareness, training, and stakeholder participation
Replication of proven environmental solutions
LIFE is generally suited to well-developed projects capable of demonstrating, implementing, or scaling practical solutions. It can connect rural communities with environmental authorities, researchers, businesses, and civil-society organizations. cinea.ec.europa.eu
Biodiversa+ — BiodivFuture 2026–2027: Transnational research funding for biodiversity and novel ecosystems, supports international research and innovation projects addressing biodiversity loss and ecosystem change. The current BiodivFuture call focuses on novel ecosystems, their socio-ecological consequences and future trajectories, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers and relevant societal stakeholders. For rural territories, projects may explore biodiversity in changing agricultural landscapes, land-use transitions, ecosystem resilience, nature-positive development and the equitable sharing of biodiversity benefits.
Who can apply? Research consortia involving teams from at least three participating countries, including at least two EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries. National funding and eligibility rules apply to each partner. Application deadline: Mandatory pre-proposals by 10 November 2026, 12:00 CET. Only invited consortia can submit full proposals, due 16 April 2027, 12:00 CEST. Expected project start: December 2027–April 2028. Official call: https://www.biodiversa.eu/2026/06/09/2026-2027-joint-call/
Note: This is a research-focused funding opportunity. Rural organisations may be valuable stakeholders or project partners where eligible, but participation and funding depend on the call’s scientific and national eligibility requirements.
The Rural Funding Navigator helps rural communities turn locally identified needs into viable, fundable initiatives.
Rural actors may know what their communities need, but may not know which funding program fits their idea, whether they are eligible, what evidence is required, or which partners they need. The Navigator provides a guided pathway through local, regional, national, and European funding opportunities, helping users clarify need, assess the maturity of their initiative, identify the most appropriate funding route, and prepare for application, implementation, and long-term sustainability. It is presented by the Ruralities Living Lab as a tool that connects rural actors with opportunities under a range of funding opportunities that support rural development, social innovation, skills, environmental action, entrepreneurship, and territorial cooperation. Its purpose is not only to help rural actors win a grant. It is to help them build the local partnerships, evidence, skills, financial model, and organizational capacity needed to create lasting impact after the funding period ends.
Funding rural resilience: from local ideas to European cooperation
Rural communities need more than short-term project funding. They need a combination of investment, skills, partnerships, experimentation, and reliable local capacity. The most appropriate funding opportunity depends on what the rural actor wants to achieve, how developed the idea is, and whether the activity is local, regional, national, or European. Consider the opportunities currently available:
LEADER — “Links between actions for the development of the rural economy” — is the EU’s bottom-up approach to rural development. More than 2,600 Local Action Groups operate across the EU. It is a community-led approach financed through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The present LEADER framework operates through the 2023–2027 CAP Strategic Plans. Rural stakeholders are advocating a better-resourced, more flexible LEADER model with less administrative burden and a stronger role for Local Action Groups. The future approach is expected to support priorities closely related to the Rural Pact: stronger, connected, resilient, and prosperous rural communities. However, the final post-2027 budget, regulations, funding architecture, and Local Action Group arrangements have not yet been adopted.
Local Action Groups bring together municipalities, businesses, farmers, associations, and community representatives to prepare a local development strategy and manage a budget for their territory. The current LEADER approach is expected to remain an important mechanism for translating the EU Rural Pact and the Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas into locally designed action. Future priorities are likely to emphasize stronger, connected, resilient, and prosperous rural communities; social innovation; local services; entrepreneurship; youth participation; and the green and digital transitions. The detailed rules and funding arrangements for the next programming period after 2027 are still being developed.
OTHER FUNDING PROGRAMS:The purpose of the Rural Funding Navigator is not simply to identify an open call. It is to help rural actors build a realistic funding pathway—matching each stage of development with the appropriate source of support while strengthening the partnerships, skills, evidence, and organizational capacity required for long-term viability and impact.
Develop and connect: Turn a promising idea into a credible, locally grounded project. Through practical webinars, peer learning and exchanges with experienced rural actors, users can strengthen their project concept, identify suitable partners and understand what funders expect. The Rural Funding Navigator also supports connections to potential consortium members and signposts users to Local Action Groups, specialist support organizations and relevant open calls where their ideas can be developed, funded, tested or scaled.
Three-Stage Journey
EXPLORE AN IDEA: Define the local need and understand the funding landscape ..... Guided questions help users identify and describe the actual problem in their rural community before they start looking for funding that avoids a common mistake of wanting to apply for a grant for XYZ without asking first, "what problem needs solving, and what evidence shows something is needed." , who experiences it, and what evidence shows that it is needed?”
Identify realistic funding pathways: Translate the identified local need into a practical funding strategy. Compare suitable EU, national and regional opportunities, assess organizational and project readiness, and understand eligibility, evidence, partnership, co-financing and application require-ments. This prevents communities from chasing poorly matched calls and helps them identify the funding pathway — or combination of grants, investment and local resources — for long-term impact.
Horizon Europe supports collaborative research and innovation addressing major European challenges. Rural actors may participate as demonstration territories, living labs, pilot sites, end users, data providers, community partners, or solution developers. Participation in Horizon can help rural territories test innovative solutions in real conditions, establish experimentation demonstration sites that Improve climate, soil, water, food, energy, health, and mobility systems, and develop digital platforms, decision-support tools, and new services. Projects are aimed at connecting research with local knowledge, evaluating what works and under what conditions, replicating successful approaches in other territories, and influence regional, national, and European policy
Horizon projects are usually larger and more competitive than LEADER or small-scale Erasmus+ projects. They generally require a strong international consortium and a clearly defined research, innovation, or demonstration role. Rural actors do not need to be research organizations: municipalities, associations, SMEs, cooperatives, schools, and community organizations can contribute essential territorial expertise and access to real-world settings. European Commission
Projects commonly run for 3-5 years and must deliver clearly- defined results, demonstrate credible pathways to impact, manage data according to FAIR and open-science principles, communicate and disseminate findings, and show how results will be used after the grant ends.
UPCOMING CALLS.....
Erasmus+ Based on historical calls, the Rural Funding Navigator is keeping an eye out for:
Capacity Building – in Higher Education and Youth (February), Vocational Education & Training and Sport (March)
Centers of Vocational Excellence – September
Erasmus+ develops people, skills, and organizations. Rural resilience depends on people having the skills and confidence to create new opportunities, where Erasmus+ can support education, training, youth, and adult-learning organizations through mobility activities, small-scale partnerships, cooperation projects, and larger European initiatives. For rural communities, Erasmus+ can finance activities such as:
Training educators, community leaders, and rural-development professionals
Developing green, digital, entrepreneurial, and vocational skills
Creating learning programs for adults, young people, farmers, and small businesses
Exchanging practices with organizations in other countries
Establishing local learning centers and innovative learning spaces
Improving social inclusion and access to learning in remote communities
Developing curricula, learning resources, micro-credentials, and training models
Small-scale Partnerships can be an accessible starting point for organizations with limited European project experience. Larger partnerships can develop and transfer models across several countries. Erasmus+ explicitly recognizes people living in rural and remote areas as potentially facing barriers to participation.
Erasmus+ KA2 Small-scale Partnerships (KA210) - Funding for transnational cooperation in rural communities is available to support organizations working together across borders to improve practices, develop innovative approaches and strengthen local communities. The program is designed to make European cooperation more accessible to smaller organizations, grassroots initiatives and organizations with limited experience of Erasmus+. For rural and remote communities, KA210 can support collaborative projects that address challenges through education, skills development, youth participation, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, digital transformation and civic engagement. Funding up to 60,000€ per project is available to organizations in eligible fields that include School education, Adult education, Vocational education and training, Youth, and Sport. Project duration: 6–24 months. Partnership require at least two organizations established in two different Erasmus+ Program Countries. The project must address relevant Erasmus+ priorities and demonstrate clear benefits for participating organizations and their communities.
Who can apply? Public and private organiZations, including NGOs, educational providers, local authorities and other organiZations whose activities contribute to the objectives of the selected field. Next application opportunity is expected in spring 2027. The standard deadline under the current rules is 5 March. We will publish the 2027 deadlines and call conditions when the official call is published. Applications in school education, adult education, vocational education and training, and youth are submitted through the relevant National Agency. Sport applications are submitted through the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
Turning Ideas into Long-Term Impact
The Rural Funding Navigator helps rural enterprises, communities, and organisations find their way through Europe’s main funding programmes and support mechanisms. It turns complex funding systems—often spread across different EU initiatives—into clear, practical pathways for action. From Horizon Europe and LIFE to Erasmus+ and Interreg, funding opportunities are translated into accessible entry points tailored to rural realities. Instead of searching through fragmented calls and technical documents, users can quickly understand what is relevant, what is realistic, and what steps to take next. The Ruralities Living Lab provides its members a guided system designed to support decision-making, partnership building, and project development in rural areas. It highlights entry points such as cascade funding, pilot calls, and micro-grants, while also helping users identify potential partners and project pathways.
The goal is simple: to reduce barriers between rural innovation and European funding, and to make participation in EU programmes more accessible, collaborative, and actionable.
Whether you are a small rural business, a cooperative, a municipality, or an emerging rural initiative, the Rural Funding Navigator helps you move from idea to funded project with greater clarity and confidence.
UPCOMING CALLS.....
Ruralities Living Lab is currently seeking partners to participate in the following open calls:
Bioversa+ – 3BASINSHIFTS: Three marine receiving environments. Four complementary research territories. One comparative framework for understanding ecological novelty and biodiversity resilience. Submission Deadline: 10 November
New European Bauhaus –
HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-03 — Approaches to reuse vacant, obsolete or underutilized spaces in three territories (rural, peri-urban, urban)
HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03 - Understanding inhabitant’s experiences of neighborhoods to support their health and well-being. Submission Deadline: 1 December
Other Horizon Europe -
HORIZON-NATURE-2027-02-02 Living labs co-creating solutions for the restoration of ecosystems addressing implementation bottlenecks and improving resilience to risks
HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-03: Systemic approaches to accelerate transformative change for biodiversity
Submission Deadline: 14 January 2027
HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03 - Understanding inhabitant’s experiences of neighborhoods to support their health and well-being.
Deadline: 1 December 2026 at 17:00 Brussels time:
Type: Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action
Total topic budget: €15 million
Expected EU contribution: approximately €5 million per project
Expected awards: 3 projects
Funding rate: normally 100% for eligible RIA lump-sum costs
Navigate the European funding landscape to find funding that best aligns with project goals and objectives
Focus grantwriting efforts on the most relevant funding opportunities
Develop a strategic pipeline of future grant applications for better use of precious time and resources
HORIZON EUROPE....
14 Jan 2027 - Transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society.” It cuts across biodiversity/restoration priorities and is part of the 2026–2027 Horizon work program.
The EU is moving from biodiversity commitments to implementation. The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 aims to put Europe’s biodiversity on a path to recovery, while the Nature Restoration Regulation has introduced binding restoration targets and implementation pressure for Member States. The Horizon Europe work plan supports the horizontal call “Transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society” (HORIZON-NATURE-2027) introduces several topics designed to increase biodiversity-related R&I investment across Pillar II of the Horizon work plan. Its overarching goal is to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by embedding nature restoration and biodiversity considerations across research, industry, public policy and society—moving beyond isolated conservation measures towards systemic economic and societal change. The 2027 topics address four broad areas:
pollution impacts on biodiversity, particularly PFAS;
the effects of clean and digital industries and other drivers of biodiversity decline;
ecosystem restoration through living labs and scalable implementation networks
connections between biodiversity, human health and ocean observation.
Horizon Europe finances the evidence, collaborative models and practical solutions needed to make Europe’s economy and society nature-positive. It supports the EU Biodiversity Strategy, Nature Restoration Regulation and the global biodiversity framework. Horizon Europe’s strategic plan also commits 10% of its 2025–2027 budget to biodiversity-related topics. European Commission strategic plan. For the Baltic Living Lab, the most natural entry points are the two strands supporting living labs.
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Robust evidence on how inhabitants experience their neighbourhood and the impact of these experiences on their health and well-being. The research informs policies, strategies, neighbourhood planning and procurement for the green transition of neighborhoods, including their nature-positive[3] transformation and climate resilience
HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-03 — Approaches to reuse vacant, obsolete or underutilized spaces
Deadline: 1 December 2026 at 17:00 Brussels time:
Type: Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action
Total topic budget: €9 million
Expected EU contribution: approximately €4.5 million per project
Expected awards: 2 projects
Funding rate: normally 100% for eligible RIA costs
This is not simply funding to renovate an abandoned building. The consortium must develop a systematic method to:
Identify and map vacant, obsolete, or underused buildings and infrastructure;
Investigate why they became vacant;
Assess community needs before deciding how spaces should be reused;
Use community co-creation;
Identify funding and financing mechanisms;
Evaluate social, cultural, environmental, and economic value;
Address risks such as displacement, gentrification, affordability, or loss of ecologically valuable space.
Most importantly, the approach must be validated in at least three neighborhoods: One urban; One peri-urban; One rural. These must be located in different EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries. Social-sciences and humanities expertise is also mandatory.
WIDERA—Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area—has two main components:
Widening participation and spreading excellence: reducing disparities in research and innovation capacity between countries and regions.
Reforming and enhancing the European Research Area (ERA): improving how European research is governed, shared, financed and connected with society.
The second component is organised around four ERA pillars. Forthcoming calls to be announced in December, 2026 for March submissions. Actively Seeking WIDERA-based partners Email Reference:
WIDERA - Support for Widening Countries
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Outermost Regions
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Estonia
Greece
Hungary
Recent Submissions
A Multi-Level Skills Alliance for Europe’s Twin Transition Readiness
TT-Bridge is an Erasmus+ Alliances for Education and Enterprises project that connects enterprises directly to curriculum that contributes to workforce preparedness for the Twin Transition, the EU’s goals for decarbonization and digitalization. Labor-market actors co-define what green-digital competence looks like, validate challenge-based learning modules, and endorse the resulting micro-credentials. Those credentials are EQF-mapped, Europass-compatible, and recognized across consortium institutions in EU Member States. Thirteen partners from Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain will focus on research for skills development needs of sectors at the convergence of energy and ICT sectors.
Baltic-to-Balkan Green Corridor
The B2B Green Corridor COSME project supports sustainable competitiveness of tourism SMEs by connecting less-visited territories across Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, and Bulgaria via an integrated transnational sustainable tourism route. The project was designed to strengthen the competitiveness, resilience, sustainability, and digital visibility of rural tourism SMEs and Destination Management Organizations while reinforcing the long-term vitality of rural communities. A Financial Support to Third Party process will be issued for targeted countries in 2027 Consortium led by the Regional Cluster North-East (Bulgaria) with partners Baltic Living Lab (Estonia), Tietola (Finland), Estonian Business School, Lithuanian Hotels & Restaurants Association, DMO Bucovina (Romania), DMO Varmland (Sweden)
Aimed at engaging and supporting public authorities and other relevant socio-economic actors (e.g. farmers, landowners, aquaculture producers, tourist operators, fishers, businesses, water management authorities) in addressing aquatic pollution and biodiversity loss, thereby demonstrating and accelerating the transitions needed for achieving one or several objectives of the Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters”. The direct involvement of relevant authorities and stakeholders in the consortium is strongly encouraged. Project results are expected to provide Member States and Associated Countries with cost-effective solutions to reach the targets of the Water Framework and the Marine Strategy Framework directives, the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, and the EU strategy for sustainable chemicals and are enabled to take action to implement the targets of the EU biodiversity, climate adaptation and water resilience strategies for 2030 and the EU zero pollution action plan; facilitate access for National, regional and local authorities and other relevant stakeholders to cost-effective, adaptative and nature-positive solutions to remediate and reduce pollution from nutrients, chemicals, plastics and microplastics from source to sea, while protecting and restoring the capacity of ecosystems to provide services and adapt to climate change impacts, Led by the Regional Cluster North East (BG), four demonstration sites are hosted in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, with five associated region sites in Ireland, Italy, Slovenija, Egypt, Turkey.
MOBLIC is a transnational cooperation project that mobilizes cultural and creative sectors across Europe to address “Ocean Blindness” – the lack of recognition for the value Earth’s waters provide to humankind. An innovative, culture-driven Blue Literacy model introduces the “Long Blue Thread” (LBT) — a cumulative, relay-based knowledge system connecting diverse European sea basins and communities.
Blue literacy is about understanding how water systems—seas, rivers, lakes, and coasts—shape our environment, economy, and culture, and how we interact with them responsibly. MOBLIC shifts Blue Literacy from a science-led paradigm to a culture-led, participatory framework, embedding artistic practice, virtual reality storytelling, and community identity into environmental awareness and behavioral change. The project develops a new cultural methodology integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), art, and digital tools; the project pilots a transnational co-creation model (Long Blue Thread relay) that introduces native-language cultural production as a structural innovation in European cooperation projects to enhance capacity-building across CCS operators through training, co-creation labs, and peer learning.
Activities under this call will support the EU Vision for Agriculture and Food, the EU Soil Strategy for 2030, including the implementation of the EU Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive, the EU Adaptation Strategy, the EU Water Resilience Strategy, and the forthcoming European Climate Adaptation Plan. SOILMATES pairs EU demonstration sites with those in the Western Balkans to enhance the monitoring of soils at subnational level (e.g. regions and municipalities) leading to an overall improved soil resilience against extreme weather events, particularly in terms of soils’ capacity to withstand and recover from floods, droughts, heatwaves and broader temperature fluctuations. These partnerships will demonstrate best practice in soil management practices and solutions that improve soil health are adopted, promoting sustainable land management, enhancing food system resilience, including food security, and strengthening the overall resilience of agricultural systems to current and future climate extreme events. The project proposes to create a soilathon primer. Led by the Estonian Business School, the project creates partnerships that include representatives from Bulgaria, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and Slovenija in the EU with Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Turkey in neighboring countries.
A Centre of Vocational Excellence is not a training course or a single school. It is a skills ecosystem that brings together vocational education and training (VET) providers, universities and compulsory education ecosystems, employers, sector associations, SMEs/MNEs, public authorities, research centers, and innovation actors to address workforce needs and regional economic development through high-quality vocational education.
The European Commission describes CoVEs as locally anchored but internationally networked ecosystems that connect skills development, innovation, applied research, entrepreneurship, and regional development. Maximum EU contribution = €4 million per project at a funding rate of 80%. Typical duration is 48 months. Projects generally require at least eight partners from at least four Erasmus+ Programme countries including both VET providers and industry/business representa-tives in each participating country. Projects must address three clusters:
1. Teaching & Learning - innovative curricula, microcredentials, digital and green skills, work-based learning.
2. Cooperation & Partnerships - employer engagement, applied research, innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurship support.
3. Governance & Funding - sustainable governance models, long-term financing mechanisms, regional and sectoral skills strategies
Our CoVE BLUEII application - Boosting Learning and Upskilling in the Blue Economy for Employ-ment, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Multimodal Shipping, Sustainable Transporta-tion, and the Blue and Circular Economies - is being led by the University of Piraeus (GR). The 32-partner consortium contains education/ industry partnerships in Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, and Spain in the EU, in collaboration with partnerships from Region 1 (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro), and Region 3 (Egypt).
THRIVE will develop, test and replicate a practical social-economy model that enables rural communities along long-distance trails to benefit more fully from nearby visitor flows and emerging mainstream tourism trends. These include nature-based and experiential tourism, slow and mindful travel, health and well-being, active mobility, authentic local encounters and growing demand for lower-impact destinations for activities such as forest bathing. The project addresses fragmented local tourism ecosystems, weak integration of social-economy actors, limited digital visibility, insufficient cooperation and the lack of shared impact-measurement tools. The model will be demonstrated in Estonia along the Hiiumaa long-distance trail and adapted for two contrasting replication territories: Camino Lituano (Lithuania) and the Via Francigena in Alta Tuscia (Italy); a lightweight, multilingual Progressive Web App (PWA) will connect visitors with local businesses, social-economy organizations, services and experiences. Local authorities, trail managers, tourism businesses, social-economy organizations and communities will co-design integrated visitor offers, strengthen territorial networks and develop the skills needed to retain greater tourism value locally. THRIVE will also produce a validated governance and cooperation model, capacity-building resources, tested visitor offers, an impact-measurement framework and a practical replication blueprint. An independent external evaluator will assess the project’s implementation, results and transferability, strengthening the credibility of its evidence and recommendations. Led by the rural municipality of Pomarico (IT), the project includes support to the long-distance trails in Hiiumaa (Estonia), the Area Interna Alta Tuscia (Italy), and Kaunas (Lithuania). Participating public bodies will support the translation of project evidence into policy recommendations and practical replication pathways for rural municipalities and long-distance-trail territories across Europe, and a replication toolkit will promote the project’s long-term impact.
Competitive European proposals are built through a process that begins well in advance to the submission deadline, extends far beyond identifying a suitable funding call, and having the people with the right skills craft the application. Equally important is the ability to convene the right consortium, align diverse partners across borders and around a shared vision, to transform complex ideas into coherent, credible, and implementable project frameworks capable of meeting highly competitive European evaluation standards.
Equally important is the ability to convene the right consortium. Successful applications depend on building balanced partnerships that combine technical expertise, geographic diversity, implementation capacity, communication strength, and long-term sustainability. We work closely with municipalities, universities, SMEs, NGOs, rural organisations, and sector specialists to create collaborative partnerships capable of delivering meaningful impact.
In reality, coordinating a large European proposal often becomes a temporary multinational operation. Over months of development, partners across countries and sectors must align visions, contribute specialised expertise, resolve competing priorities, build coherent work plans, structure budgets, and respond to evolving programme expectations — all within demanding timelines and highly competitive funding environments.
From there, the process becomes one of strategic storytelling and precision. Preparing a competitive European application requires not only technical knowledge and project-design capacity, but also an advanced command of professional English capable of translating complex ideas into clear, persuasive, and policy-aligned narratives. Every proposal must align closely with programme priorities, evaluation criteria, work package logic, budget structures, expected impacts, and measurable outcomes. Strong applications require innovation and vision, but equally clarity, coherence, credibility, and the ability to communicate ambitious concepts in language that is both technically rigorous and accessible to evaluators from diverse disciplinary and cultural backgrounds.
Finally, submission itself demands careful coordination, compliance management, document preparation, budgeting accuracy, partner validation, and technical oversight within complex European submission systems. Much of this work remains invisible once a proposal is submitted. Yet behind every application stands an extraordinary amount of collaboration, persistence, expertise, and commitment dedicated to transforming ideas into projects capable of generating durable social, environmental, educational, and economic impact.
Behind every successful grant application is far more than writing alone. It begins with identifying the right funding opportunity at the right moment; this requires an understanding about not only what a program funds, but why the call exists, what policy objectives it supports, and where genuine gaps or opportunities remain. Our team includes professionals with Master’s and PhD-level academic backgrounds and native English-language proficiency, enabling the preparation of technically rigorous, strategically aligned, and linguistically sophisticated European project applications. They have developed strong expertise in navigating European funding ecosystems, from SMP COSME, Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ to LIFE, Interreg, and Digital Europe. This involves researching complex call documents, analyzing evaluation criteria, monitoring emerging policy priorities, and translating ambitious ideas into realistic, fundable project concepts - in English
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