15 January 2027
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Rue de la Loi 170
Commission européenne Bâtiment Charlemagne (CHAR)
Horizon Europe on-site Matchmaking for Cluster 6 - Calls 2027
Registration open until 13 Dec 2026
Travel grants for participants from Widening Countries
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 29 November 2026.
For questions about the CARE4BIO Travel Grant, please get in touch at: nks-bio-umw@ptj.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.
NCP_WIDERA.NET Travel grants for participants from Widening Countries
The NCP_WIDERA.NET project partners have also launched a travel grant programme to support the participation of applicants from Widening Countries in on-site Pillar II cluster brokerage events. Participants from Widening Countries therefore have two separate options to apply for a travel grant.
The aim of this initiative is to foster new working contacts between potential coordinators and partners, and to increase participation in Horizon Europe proposal submissions. Successful applicants can receive up to EUR 1,000 to cover travel and accommodation costs for attending a matchmaking event.
Please note that participants who have already been awarded travel grants through the CARE4BIO project (or from any other funding source) are not eligible to apply for travel grants within this project.
For more information and to see whether your country is eligible to receive the NCP_WIDERA.NET travel grant, see here: https://ncpwideranet.eu/travel-grants/
Proposal pre-screening for applicants from Widening Countries
If you are looking for additional support in preparing your Horizon Europe proposal, you can also benefit from wideraexperts.eu, a platform that links applicants from Widening countries with experienced experts. The free service provides constructive feedback on proposals under Widening actions, ERA, Pillar II clusters, Institutionalised European Partnerships, EIC Pathfinder and Missions.
More information, including the list of eligible countries for proposal pre-screening, is available here: https://www.ncpwideranet.eu/wideraexperts/
Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the WIDERA-team at widera@ncbr.gov.pl
Which are the Widening Countries?
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:
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Member states: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
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Associated countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Egypt, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Kosovo*, Moldova, Montenegro, North
Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and once associated Morocco
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Outermost Regions (defined in Art. 349 TFEU). Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands
*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence