Funding opportunities (non-ECPGR)

BiodivERsA+ is a network of national and regional funding organisations promoting pan-European research on biodiversity and ecosystem services, and offering innovative opportunities for the conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity. BiodivERsA is funded under the Horizon 2020 ERA-NET COFUND scheme.

Open call

• 8 September 2022 - Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society
  Deadline for pre-proposals submission (mandatory): Wednesday 09 November 2022, 15:00 CET (local time in Brussels)
  Deadline for full-proposals submission: Wednesday 05 April 2023, 15:00 CEST (local time in Brussels)

Latest calls (now closed)

• 2021-2022 Joint Call “Supporting the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems across land and sea”
• 2019-2020 Joint Call “Biodiversity and climate change”
• 2018-2019 Joint Call “Biodiversity and its influence on animal, human and plant health”

The EU’s rural development policy helps the rural areas of the EU to meet the wide range of challenges and opportunities that face them in the 21st century – economic, environmental and social. Known as the “second pillar” of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), it has been improved for the period 2014-2020 through the process of wider CAP reform, via a number of legislative acts. [more info]

Horizon Europe is the EU's research and innovation programme for 2021-2027 with a budget of €95.5 billion. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.

Open and upcoming calls for Horizon Europe

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding organization for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and beyond and enable researchers and innovators to grow their ideas in any science and technology field by sharing them with their peers. COST Actions are bottom-up networks with a duration of four years that boost research, innovation and careers.

About COST

What are COST Actions?

Open Call: A simple one-step application process

The next collection date is planned for 20 October 2022 at 12:00 noon (CET) 

Treaty Benefit-sharing Fund

The Benefit-sharing Fund invests directly in high impact projects supporting farmers in developing countries conserve crop diversity in their fields and assisting farmers and breeders globally adapt crops to our changing needs and demands. [more info]