HELIOS digest 3: 10 Horizon Europe calls
The HELIOS project, coordinated by Lviv Polytechnic National University, has published the third issue of its grant opportunities digest. The issue holds 10 calls across five programmes: Horizon [...]
The HELIOS project, coordinated by Lviv Polytechnic National University, has published the third issue of its grant opportunities digest. The issue holds 10 calls across five programmes: Horizon [...]
When Erasmus launched in 1987, the European Commission did not administer it. Until 1994 the European Cultural Foundation ran its implementation through the Erasmus Bureau. That foundation is a [...]
On 10 August 2026 the Estonian Research Council (ETAG) opened a travel and collaboration grant scheme for Ukrainian higher education and research institutions. The maximum amount is EUR 1,500 per [...]
Updated on 10 August 2026. The previous version of this roundup came out in April, and six of those seven programmes have since closed. So we checked every deadline against the official pages and [...]
As of 10 August 2026, healthcare funding offers 8 calls with confirmed deadlines. The nearest one closes on 2 September, while the furthest closes on 8 October. And we checked every one of them [...]
The Swiss Federal Council allocated 5 billion francs to Ukraine through to 2036. Of that, 1.5 billion belongs to the cooperation programme for 2025 to 2028, while 500 million goes specifically to [...]
216 winning projects and UAH 255.3 million in grant funding during the first year of operation. Two years later, in 2022, one call ended with twelve winners and UAH 5.5 million. The National [...]
The Horizon Europe work programme for 2026-2027 sets aside roughly EUR 2,023 million for topics that encourage the development of artificial intelligence. That figure excludes the Digital Europe [...]
The European Innovation Council has opened applications for DeepRAP: Deep Reasoning, Abstraction & Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI Systems. The topic code is [...]
3,207 funded projects and almost UAH 2.5 billion invested over nine years. That is the record of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation (UCF), a state grantmaker that a dedicated law created in 2017. [...]
594.1 million euro and 373 grants. That is what the European Research Council (ERC) set aside for the ERC Starting Grant 2027 call, which opened on 22 July 2026. The deadline falls on 14 October [...]
The Netherlands remains one of the EU’s more active bilateral donors for Ukraine. In 2026 it added another EUR 30 million to its reconstruction facility, and it funds work from energy to [...]
Craft cheese, handmade ceramics, a small bakery, a woodworking shop, a local clothing brand. Small producers in Ukraine usually run on their own working capital, and they rarely reach cheap [...]
The Project Office of Lviv Polytechnic National University has released the 15th issue of its “Current Grant Opportunities” bulletin. We gathered the calls into one article, checked [...]
House of Europe has funded Ukrainians since 2019. The European Union pays for the programme, and Goethe-Institut Ukraine runs the calls. So far the team has offered more than 40 competitions for [...]
On 15 July Ukraine marks Ukrainian Statehood Day. The date points back to the baptism of Kyivan Rus and to a continuity of statehood that Russia spent decades trying to rewrite in its own favour. [...]
Japan is one of Ukraine’s largest donors, with more than 10 billion dollars in support since 2022. Almost all of it moves through government channels, so it takes the form of [...]
The International Visegrad Fund distributes 11 million euros a year for regional cooperation across Central and Eastern Europe. For Ukrainian organisations, it is one of the few donors with a [...]
6 US programs currently accept applications directly from Ukrainians, and each one has a concrete, open submission date. This roundup is for scholars, faculty, and journalists who live and work [...]
DAAD is the world’s largest organisation for international academic exchange. Since 1925 it has supported roughly 3 million students and researchers, and every year it awards more than [...]
France opened a dedicated support track for Ukrainian researchers and artists back in spring 2022, and several of those programmes still run today. So this roundup gathers four French options [...]
The Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (BST) is a grantmaking program of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Since 2007, it has supported civil society organizations, [...]
The L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO are accepting nominations for the For Women in Science International Awards. Specifically, this cycle covers physical sciences, mathematics and computer [...]
Belgium distributes over €202 million through a single foundation every year. 201 calls for projects annually. 1,723 active Funds under management. 5,155 individuals and organisations supported [...]
The European Commission has opened a €593 million call for doctoral research consortia. MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026 (HORIZON-MSCA-2026-DN-01-01) funds international PhD programmes through [...]
Switzerland has opened the third round of direct support for private investment in Ukraine’s recovery. The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) is making up to CHF 50 million [...]
Urgent: The Documenting Ukraine programme (funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung Foundation) is accepting applications from Ukrainian journalists, researchers, and artists. Deadline: 31 May 2026 – [...]
Denmark is one of the world’s largest donors per capita. Yet most Danish grant programmes remain far less known than Horizon Europe or US foundations, even though they are genuinely [...]
aUkraine’s Ministry of Education and Science is launching what the research community has been waiting for: a support system for scientists based on actual results rather than seniority or [...]
Between 350,000 and 500,000 hryvnias from the Ukrainian government for your own business – with no repayment required. The єRobota “Vlastna Sprava” programme exists and it pays out. [...]
From €1,704 to €2,055 per month, travel covered in both directions, accommodation support, and full insurance – with one central requirement: stay in Ukraine before and after the placement. The [...]
In 2025, Oak Foundation distributed approximately 1,000 grants across 33 countries totalling $383 million. For context, that exceeds the annual grantmaking budget of most major international [...]
Sweden is one of the largest bilateral donors to Ukraine’s recovery: in 2025 alone, Sida directed hundreds of millions of Swedish kronor to support Ukraine through dozens of programs and [...]
HELIOS is a Horizon Europe project on white-emitting organic lighting systems, coordinated by Lviv Polytechnic National University in Ukraine. Each month, HELIOS publishes a curated review of [...]
Since February 2022, Japan has provided Ukraine with over $10.7 billion – more than any other Asian country. Most of this support flows through government-to-government channels and multilateral [...]
€200,000 – the total budget of the LASER-PRO Open Call, launched under Horizon Europe. Until the end of June 2026, the program will support up to 5 companies from the EU and Ukraine with vouchers [...]
Ukraine’s national small business grant program “Vlasna Sprava” (Own Business) has issued over 34,000 micro-grants totalling nearly ₴9 billion and helped create 60,000 jobs [...]
Within 24 hours of Russia’s full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022, EED established a €2.2 million emergency fund for its Ukrainian partners. Over the first 60 days – an average of one [...]
The United Kingdom is one of Ukraine’s most committed bilateral partners in 2026: £11.5 billion under the 100 Year Partnership agreement, £240 million per year in FCDO bilateral aid, and [...]
20 open opportunities with deadlines in May 2026. House of Europe roundup: for artists, translators, journalists, filmmakers, musicians, media and NGO managers, entrepreneurs, human rights [...]
Over $230 million in grants across 35 years, more than 1,000 projects funded since February 2022 alone, and a position as the largest independent funder of civil society in Ukraine – that is the [...]
NOK 274.5 billion – the largest bilateral aid programme in the entire history of Norway, named after Fridtjof Nansen, who saved Ukraine from famine a century ago. Yet the vast majority of those [...]
7 open business support programmes – that is how many verified opportunities with grants, acceleration and incubation the Diya.Biznes digest of 24 April 2026 contains. They include regional [...]
Up to UAH 1,000,000 – that is the maximum grant available to Ukrainian civil society organisations (CSOs) building regional and inter-regional collaboration platforms in 2026. The “Civil [...]
Up to EUR 1.3 million for a groundbreaking research idea with no predefined topic – that is one of the flagship programmes of Volkswagen Stiftung, one of the largest independent science [...]
From EUR 992 per month for students to EUR 25,000 for business development – Germany is the single most diversified donor for Ukraine among all bilateral partners. No other country offers such a [...]
The Ukrainian government has launched Tysiachovesna – a national initiative to fund the creation of Ukrainian cultural content across seven disciplines, from feature films and animation to [...]
Ukraine’s research institutions now have a concrete pathway to the European Research Area: the RIFF project has launched an Open Call for Research Infrastructures (RIs), inviting existing [...]
Finland has allocated over EUR 1 billion in development cooperation and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine since February 2022 – making Ukraine its largest single partner in development [...]
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (EYE) is a European Commission programme that enables new or aspiring entrepreneurs to spend up to six months working alongside an experienced entrepreneur running [...]