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Africa Initiative III
Tipologia:
Internazionale
Programma:
Horizon Europe

L'Iniziativa Africa III è una componente della dimensione di cooperazione internazionel di Horizon Europe, volta a promuovere partenariati equi e sostenibili tra Europa e Africa nel campo della ricerca e dell'innovazione. Mira a rafforzare gli ecosistemi di ricerca e innovazione, responsabilizzare scienziati giovani e donne, sostenere lo sviluppo socio-economico sostenibile guidato dall'innovazione e fornire soluzioni condivise a sfide globali e regionali. L'iniziativa è suddivisa in 24 bandi, raggruppati in cinque temi principali, con un finanziamento di 500 milioni di euro. 

Ecco alcuni dettagli sull'Iniziativa Africa III:

  • Finanziamento:

    L'iniziativa dispone di 500 milioni di euro, suddivisi in 24 bandi raggruppati in cinque temi principali. 

  • Temi Principali:

    • Salute pubblica (50 milioni di euro). 
    • Transizione verde, inclusi energia pulita e agricoltura sostenibile (241 milioni di euro). 
  • Contesto:

    L'iniziativa si inserisce nel quadro dell'Agenda di Innovazione AU-UE e implementa le azioni a breve, medio e lungo termine di tale agenda, che funge da guida politica per la cooperazione tra Unione Africana e Unione Europea nel campo della ricerca e dell'innovazione.

  • Obiettivi:

    • Promuovere partenariati equi e sostenibili, favorendo la co-progettazione di soluzioni innovative. 
    • Rafforzare gli ecosistemi di ricerca e innovazione in Africa. 
    • Potenziare scienziati giovani e donne. 
    • Sostenere lo sviluppo socio-economico sostenibile guidato dall'innovazione. 
    • Fornire soluzioni condivise a sfide globali e regionali. 
    • Accelerare la traduzione della conoscenza scientifica in azioni concrete su sfide globali condivise in Africa e in Europa. 

The European Union has launched the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025, with a committed focus on deepening EU-Africa cooperation in Research and Innovation (R&I). This includes the publication of Africa Initiative III, which allocates €500.5 million across 24 calls for proposals, aimed at advancing shared priorities between Africa and the EU.

Building on the momentum of Africa Initiatives I & II, this third wave of support reflects the strong political commitment made under the AU-EU Innovation Agenda and contributes to the AU’s newly declared Decade of Education Transformation, Youth Skills Development and Innovation (2025–2034).

What is Africa Initiative III?

Africa Initiative III is a component of Horizon Europe’s international cooperation dimension, aiming to accelerate the translation of scientific knowledge into action around shared global challenges in Africa and Europe. The calls are now open and fall under four thematic pillars:

  • Public Health (€50 million)
  • Green Transition (€241 million)
  • Innovation & Technology (€186.5 million)
  • Capacities for Science (€3.5 million)
  • Cross-cutting issues (€19.5 million)

These calls are designed to involve African institutions and researchers, ensuring meaningful participation in consortia tackling shared challenges in areas such as climate change adaptation, clean energy, sustainable agriculture, digital innovation, science for policy, and equitable access to health.

Interested applicants can access the full list of calls and eligibility details via the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

What did Africa Initiative achieve?

Africa Initiative I, implemented within Horizon Europe 2021–2022 under the four thematic pillars of AU-EU R&I cooperation, demonstrated the power of cross-continental partnerships. With a budget of approximately €500 million, it supported 38 topics and was complemented by 5 additional topics under the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking.

Key outcomes include:

  • 473 African organisations engaged across 40+ countries
  • €128 million in direct EU funding allocated to African entities
  • African participation in 144 out of 161 grants awarded
  • Major investment in epidemic preparedness via a €70 million grant to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) 

Why this matters

The AU-EU partnership on research and innovation continues to prioritize open and collaborative science, and Horizon Europe remains a key tool to implement this vision.

Africa Initiative III is not just a funding programme. It is an opportunity to strengthen R&I ecosystems, empower young and women scientists, support innovation-led sustainable socio-economic development, and deliver shared solutions to global and regional challenges.

Learn more

For full information on the Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programme, including the Africa Initiative III, please visit:

Horizon Europe Work Programmes – European Commission

Apply now via the EU Funding & Tenders Portal

AU-EU Innovation Agenda

African Union and European Union Celebrate 25 Years of Strengthened Partnership

 

Bando:
Scadenza: 2 settembre 2025 (L'iniziativa è suddivisa in 24 bandi che hanno scadenze differenti dal 02/09/2025 al 12/11/2025 )

Support measures for migrant women’s integration - AMIF-2025-TF2-AG-INTE-01-WOMEN
Tipologia:
Internazionale
Programma:
Horizon Europe

Nome dalla Call: Support measures for migrants women's integration 

• Titolo del bando: AMIF 2025 – TF2-AG-INTE-01-Women
• Programma: Fondo Asilo, Migrazione e Integrazione (AMIF)
• Apertura bando: 3 aprile 2025
• Scadenza per la presentazione: 16 settembre 2025, ore 17:00 (CET)
• Durata del progetto: 36 mesi
• Contributo UE: da 1.500.000 € a 3.000.000 €
• Cofinanziamento: 90% (ma occorrerà integrare il contributo da destinare a ECH – almeno 10%)
• Modalità di finanziamento: costi reali per alcune categorie, costi unitari per altre
• Presentazione: tramite il Funding & Tenders Portal (tutti i partner devono avere un PIC)

- Obiettivi del Bando
Obiettivo generale: Promuovere l’integrazione socio-economica delle donne migranti e migliorare il supporto loro dedicato.
Obiettivi specifici:
• Sviluppare misure mirate di supporto all’inserimento lavorativo e all’inclusione sociale.
• Adottare un approccio familiare all’integrazione.
• Rafforzare la cooperazione tra attori locali, regionali e nazionali.
• Supportare donne migranti vulnerabili (es. con traumi o bassa scolarizzazione).
• Diffondere e replicare buone pratiche su scala più ampia.

- Attività Finanziabili
1. Sensibilizzazione sui diritti e opportunità lavorative delle donne migranti.
2. Approcci integrati per l’inclusione nel mercato del lavoro e l’integrazione civica.
3. Schemi di mentoring per migliorare l’integrazione socio-economica.
4. Attività per aumentare la partecipazione sociale, culturale e politica.
5. Co-progettazione con donne migranti o loro organizzazioni rappresentative.
6. Formazione e sensibilizzazione di operatori pubblici.
7. Workshop, conferenze e attività di scambio buone pratiche.

- Requisiti di Partecipazion
• Ammissibili solo enti legali stabiliti nell’UE (eccetto Danimarca e Ungheria).
• Consorzio: almeno 5 beneficiari (non affiliati) da 5 diversi Stati membri partecipanti.
• Partner chiave: autorità pubbliche nazionali, regionali e locali, datori di lavoro, sindacati, attori dell’economia sociale e ONG, comprese le organizzazioni guidate da migranti.

- Gruppi Target
• Donne e ragazze migranti, con particolare attenzione a madri e persone vulnerabili.
• Anche uomini migranti, se rilevante per gli obiettivi.
• Funzionari pubblici e operatori dei servizi per l’integrazione.

 

Bando:
Scadenza: 16 settembre 2025 (16 September 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time)

MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2025 (HORIZON-MSCA-2025-COFUND-02)
Tipologia:
Internazionale
Programma:
Horizon Europe (HORIZON)

Topic description

Expected Outcome

For supported researchers:

  • Concrete career prospects and increased career stability
  • Access to diverse career pathways in and outside academia
  • Deeper and more diverse set of research-related, academic and transferable skills and competences, leading to greater autonomy

For participating organisations:

  • Better alignment of research and Human Resources practices, including recruitment, career accession and progression systems, at participating organisation(s) with the European Charter for Researchers and the Council Recommendation of 18 December 2023 on a European framework to attract and retain research, innovation and entrepreneurial talents in Europe and the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment;
  • Increased global attractiveness, visibility and reputation of the participating organisation(s);
  • Stronger R&I and teaching capacity and output;
  • Increased contribution to the local, regional and/or national socio-economic ecosystems;
  • Stronger synergies across institutional research, management and teaching structures.

Scope:

The objective of this new scheme is to tackle brain drain and precarity of researchers' careers to make Europe more attractive to the most promising young talents. Applicants submit proposals for talent recruitment programmes that will provide researchers holding a doctoral degree with excellent research and academic opportunities, potentially coupled with management activities, to lead them to concrete and attractive career prospects. This will have an impact on the enhancement of human resources in R&I at institutional, regional, national or international level. These programmes will be co-funded by MSCA Choose Europe for Science.

The programmes will be divided into two phases. A first phase (24-36 months) in which the EU funding is equivalent to the minimum gross salary for the recruited researcher during this phase and a second phase (24 months) in which the applicant is expected to continue to employ the researcher, set salaries attractive at a national level and ensure availability of the necessary internal or external funds.

Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines. The selection procedure for candidates must be open, competitive, merit-based and with a transparent international peer-review in line with the European Charter for Researchers[1]. Alignment with the principles outlined in the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment[2] is also encouraged. Selection criteria should be based primarily on excellence. Additional selection criteria require clear alignment with local human resources needs identified in the relevant institutional, regional or national strategies. These must be described in the proposal and must be listed in the vacancy notice (to be widely advertised internationally, including on the EURAXESS website[3]) alongside the gross salaries applicable to the two programme phases (net salary + employee’s taxes and contributions). Selected fellows will be able to work in research, teaching or management positions and, where relevant, define their own research topic at their host institution(s). The programmes should aim at offering excellent working conditions to researchers, including salary, professional resources, and career development.

The career development should incorporate transversal skills but also job-specific skills and, where relevant, language courses to ensure that the training is in line with the career opportunities offered following the fellowship. These opportunities must include concrete and attractive long-term career prospects, such as pathways towards open-ended contracts, which can be subject to assessment and evaluation. There must be a fair, equal, inclusive, transparent, structured career accession and progression system providing access to these opportunities in line with the Council Recommendation of 18 December 2023 on a European framework to attract and retain research, innovation and entrepreneurial talents in Europe, the European Charter for Researchers in its annex and the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.

A Career Development Plan must be maintained throughout the period of the Choose Europe for Science programme. In addition to research objectives, this Plan comprises the researcher's career development needs, including training on languages, transferable skills, teaching, planning for publications and participation in conferences and events. The Plan should outline the projected career progression paths in the host institution.

[1] Council Recommendation of 18 December 2023 on a European framework to attract and retain research, innovation and entrepreneurial talents in Europe

[2] agreement_final.pdf (coara.eu)

[3] EURAXESS |

Topic destinations

MSCA Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (2023/24)

MSCA COFUND co-finances new or existing doctoral programmes and postdoctoral fellowship schemes with the aim of spreading the best practices of the MSCA including international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as international and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.

In practice, MSCA COFUND provides complementary funding for doctoral or postdoctoral programmes managed by entities established in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries. Those co-funded programmes must follow MSCA’s good practice in terms of international recruitment and minimum standard of employment for the recruited fellows as described in the European Charter for Researchers.

Expected impact

Proposals under this Action should contribute to the following expected impacts:

  • Enhance talent and knowledge circulation across the R&I landscape, through international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility, including by supporting regional or national smart specialisation strategies when appropriate;
  • Align practices with MSCA policies based on the European Charter for Researchers;
  • Improve the attractiveness of researchers’ careers notably through better working and employment conditions;
  • Strengthen Europe's human capital base in R&I by training highly-skilled researchers;
  • Increase Europe's attractiveness as a leading R&I destination;
  • Enhance the quality of R&I contributing to Europe's sustainable competitiveness;
  • Establish sustainable collaboration between academic and non-academic organisations;
  • Foster the culture of open science, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Deadline mode: single-stage

Planned opening dat: 01 October 2025

Deadline dat: 03 December 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time

Bando:
Scadenza: 3 dicembre 2025 (03 December 2025 17:00:00 Brussels time)

Next generation distribution substation for increasing the system resilience
Tipologia:
Internazionale
Programma:
Horizon Europe (HORIZON)

Topic description

Expected Outcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Improved observability, monitoring and control of the electricity distribution grids;
  • Optimised management (including maintenance) of the grids by system operators and improved system resilience (including withstanding natural hazards and cybersecurity incidents);
  • Grid operators integrate in their practices real-time decision-making. These could be assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, if applicable;
  • A 'smart substation ecosystem’ is created that includes distribution system operators, technology/solution providers, integrators, application developers etc. This should cover both high-to-medium and medium-to-low voltage levels.

Scope:

Projects are expected to:

  • Demonstrate the integration of power electronics, intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), and software solutions in the distribution substations or in their proximity;
  • Demonstrate real-time monitoring and analysis of grid conditions (including power quality, voltage levels, grid component monitoring, and overall system performance) that allow operators to quickly identify and address any potential issues or disturbances, help to prevent outages and minimise the impact of service disruptions;
  • Consolidate data streams from otherwise dispersed sources to create unified visualisations and consolidated analytics that offer insights into the performance of distributions substations;
  • Develop the concept of a flexible and programmable electricity distribution grid in which the substation is a centre of intelligence that facilitates optimal power routing while ensuring the resilience of the electricity grid.

The demonstration, test and validation of the activities should be carried out in at least two pilots in different EU Member States and/or Associated Countries.

The projects should propose a set of best practices and recommendations on effective overarching principles and operational measures for: (i) building smart distribution substations, and (ii) integrating them into a more resilient, intelligent, and responsive distribution grid which is able to tackle disturbances and address net congestion.

Projects are expected to include at least five distribution system operators (DSOs) operating across different geographies and climate conditions. This total number of DSOs per project could be distributed across the different pilots of a particular project.

Additionally, collaboration is encouraged with the following entities:

  • at least two suppliers of technologies for smart power substations;
  • at least one TSO.

This collaboration (minimum number of entities) is sought per project in total and does not necessarily apply per each pilot in particular.

The selected projects are expected to contribute to the BRIDGE initiative[1], actively participate in its activities.

[1] https://bridge-smart-grid-storage-systems-digital-projects.ec.europa.eu/

Planned opening dat: 16 September 2025

Deadline dat: 17 February 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time

Bando:
Scadenza: 17 febbraio 2026 (17 February 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time)