27 May 2025
00-322 Warsaw, Poland
66 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street
National Institute for Culture and Rural Heritage
Horizon Europe Brokerage Event for Cluster 6 - Calls 2025
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 1000 Euro. Please note that only applications from persons working at an institution/organisation in a Widening Country are eligible. You will find a list of the relevant countries below. Potential coordinators are especially encouraged to apply. Furthermore, by the time the selection process begins, your profile should 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 fulfil certain criteria. The guidelines with the criteria and application form can be found below. To be eligible, applicants must also give a flash presentation. Applications for a travel grant must be submitted by 18 April 2025 (including the corresponding flash presentation).
Which are the Widening Countries?
According to the Horizon Europe Regulation, the less advanced countries in terms of R&I performance, eligible for hosting 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, Faroe Islands, Kosovo*, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey, 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
CARE4BIO Travel Grant Guidelines
Guidelines_travel_grant_CARE4BIO2025.docxCARE4BIO Application Form
Application_travel_grants_CARE4BIO2025.docxTravel grants offered by the NCP_WIDERA.NET project
The NCP_WIDERA.NET project partners also have launched a travel grants programme to support participation of applicants from Widening Countries to Pillar II clusters brokerage events organised on-site. Participants from Widening countries therefore have two separate option to apply for a travel grant.
The aim is to establish working contacts between coordinators looking for new partners and to increase the uptake in Horizon Europe proposal submissions. You can receive up to 1,000 EUR to cover the costs of your travel and accommodation to a matchmaking event.
Click here for a non-exhaustive list of eligible events.
The project partners from the following countries have implemented the programme (status: 10 April 2025):
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Cyprus: information in Greek / information in English (PDF)
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Georgia
Download Call announcement and national rules and forms for Georgian applicants (.zip)
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North Macedonia
For more information please contact Prof. Vlatko Sheshov:vlatko@pluto.iziis.ukim.edu.mk
Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the WIDERA-team at widera@ncbr.gov.pl