Horizon Europe on-site Matchmaking for Cluster 6 - Calls 2026

CARE4BIO awards 5 travel grants per brokerage event to promising participants from Widening Countries. Travel costs for selected grantees are subsidised up to a maximum of EUR 1,000. Please note that only applications from persons working at an institution or organisation in a Widening Country are eligible. A list of eligible countries can be found below. Potential coordinators are particularly encouraged to apply.

By the time the selection process begins, your profile must be validated. Please check your spam folder if you have registered, but neither heard from us nor been validated.

Applicants for a travel grant must meet specific eligibility criteria. The detailed guidelines and the application form can be found below. To qualify, applicants must also submit a flash presentation.While your submission of a flash presentation and willingness to present it onsite is an eligibilty criterium, you are not automatically guaranteed a presentation spot. Applications for a travel grant, including the corresponding flash presentation, must be submitted by 7 December 2025.

For questions about the CARE4BIO Travel Grant, please get in touch at: nks-bio-umw@fz-juelich.de

Please note that while you may also apply for a travel grant from NCP_WIDERA.NET, only one travel grant can be awarded per participant for this event.

According to the Horizon Europe Regulation, the less advanced countries in terms of research and innovation performance, eligible to host the coordinator of widening actions, are:

• Member states:  Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

• Associated countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Kosovo*, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and once associated — Morocco

• Outermost Regions (defined in Art. 349 TFEU). Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands