As part of the Interreg Central Europe 2021-2027 transnational cooperation program, the first Call for project proposals has been opened. The aim of the first call is to offer the widest thematic range for the largest possible number of interested partners. In this sense, all four thematic priorities are open to applicants:

The DIOSI project is mentioned as a good example in the European Research Area and Innovation Committee’s report on research evaluation in a context of Open Science and gender equality! The DIOSI project is mentioned near the end of the report, under the heading of the 6th general principle ''Create a virtuous circle between training and evaluation'', stating: As a general principle, researchers should only be assessed in regard to skills and practices for which they have been duly trained or a...

In January 2021 a new Erasmus+ sports project named Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports in Europe (EMPLOYS) has started. The Project is coordinated by Deutsche Sporthohlschule Köln (Germany) and the University of Rijeka, in partnership with the UNIRI Faculty of Law, together with Universidade Europeia (Portugal), Edge Hill University (United Kingdom), Institute for Sports Governance (Poland), and athletes’ representatives: European Elite Athletes...

The European Research Council (ERC) just announced the results of its latest ERC Consolidator Grant tender for mid-career researchers. The funding is part of the EU’s current research and innovation program, Horizon 2020, and worth in total €655 million. With this support, the new grantees will be able to consolidate their teams and have a far-reaching impact. The ERC funds the best research in Europe, and grants are awarded to scientists solely based on the e...

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is organizing an international networking event on the topic of Horizon 2020’s European Green Plan call. The event is set to take place on Friday, October 23, 2020. The event aims to bring together up to 500 participants from academic and industrial organizations, as well as participants from public institutions and NGOs in Europe and Turkey in areas related to the European Green Plan.

As a partner in the project "Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education" (TEFCE), our University participates in creating a framework for initiating, promoting, and strengthening the involvement of higher education institutions in the community. The project resulted in the creation of the TEFCE Toolbox, an instrument through which universities can identify places and ways to improve their community activities, and within this project, our University was given a unique opportunity to identify, assess, and further develop i...

EU Missions aim to provide solutions to some of today's biggest societal challenges such as the fight against cancer, adaptation to climate change, clean oceans, climate-neutral cities, and healthy soil and food. The European Commission develops and creates missions together with the citizens of the European Union to ensure that missions meet the expectations and needs of citizens. At the end of June, the Mission Committees presented their

niversity of Rijeka, in collaboration with the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education and within the Croatian presidency over the Council of the European Union, is organizing HERItage video conference that will be held from June 15 to June 18 2020. on the Zoom platform.

Special tenders have been issued under the Horizon 2020 project, in the amount of 122 million euros, and are intended for research related to COVID-19. These tenders complement activities from previously published calls, and projects funded under new tenders should enable the rapid production of vital medical supplies and equipment needed for Coronavirus testing, treatment, and prevention, as well as develop medical technologies and digital tools to improve detection, surveillance and patien...

The European Commission has launched a unique initiative called pan-EU Hackathon #EUvsVirus to find solutions related to Coronavirus. The Hackathon will be organized online on April 24 - 26, 2020, with entries possible until Sunday, April 19. You can sign up through the pan-EU Hackathon website. Within the 48-hour Hackathon, the goal of this initiative is to jointly develop inno...

The current COVID-19 crisis activated many initiatives worldwide to support and help those who are in need mostly fragmented on a regional scale. Hence, the Enterprise Europe Network launched a new platform - 'Care & Industry together against CORONA'. The ‘Care & Industry together against CORONA’ platform aims to bring together all the different actors in Europe to:

The LIFE Program is a European Union financial instrument intended to co-finance projects in the fields of environmental, nature and climate activities. As part of the Environment and Climate Action sub-programs, a total of 10 new tenders have been opened. More about deadlines and the tenders for the Environment sub-program can be found at the following link, and

In order to provide a targeted response to the global outbreak caused by COVID-19, the CEI is glad to launch the COVID-19 Extraordinary Call for Proposals 2020. The call purposely aims at addressing quickly the specific needs of communities in CEI Member States. A total budget of EUR 600.000 - supported by all CEI Member States through the CEI Cooperation Fund and by Italy through the Know-how Exchange Programme under the CEI Fund at the EBRD - will be allocated for granting proposa...

The European IP Helpdesk organizes a series of webinars related to Intellectual Property (IP) in EU projects, with a particular focus on Horizon 2020 funded projects. Webinars are free of charge for all participants and are held in English, and the list of webinars to be held during April and May this year is as follows (click on the title for more information): 01/04/2020

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) aims to provide researchers with a secure environment for storing, analyzing and reusing data for research, innovation and educational purposes, regardless of the discipline in which they operate. Through the EOSC, the European Union wants to take a leading role in the management of research data and to ensure that European scientists can reap the full benefits of data-driven science. The EOSC Secretariat has issued a brief

Given the difficulties in the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, all deadlines for applications within the scope of the Rights, Equality & Citizenship Program (REC) and the Justice Program have been delayed for two weeks. Also, due to this unprecedented situation, if a letter of support from public or national bodies is required to apply for a tender, such a letter may be submitted without a signature. The signed copy can be sent via e-mail after the tender deadline.

Following the rapid spread of the Coronavirus throughout Europe and subsequent difficulties, the European Commission decided to extend the application deadline for Key Activity 2: Strategic Partnerships in Education and Training from 24 March to 23 April 2020 at 12 p.m. (noon). The application deadline has been updated on the web pages of the Agen...

Due to subsequent difficulties in the context of the Coronavirus spread, the European Commission has extended the deadlines for Horizon 2020 applications. The new deadline for applications is April 15, 2020. The exception is the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI2-2020-21-01) and the European Innovation Council pilot call (EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020), which remains the same. You can find new application deadlines under each individual competition on t...

IP Helpdesk organizes a webinar on the topics of properly addressing intellectual property rights (IPR) issues and the most common pitfalls and challenges of IPR in EU-funded research and innovation projects (FP7/Horizon 2020). Date: Wednesday, March 25th, 2020Time: 10.30 AM – 12 PM; webinar session will open 15 minutes before the official startMentor: European IP HelpdeskSpeaker: Ms. Michele DubbiniLevel of expertise:

Within the scope of the HERItage Conference, set to be held in Opatija on March 11-13, 2020, the University of Rijeka is organizing a pre-conference workshop entitled "H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Workshop for Young Researchers in Cultural Heritage". The workshop will be held before the official opening of the conference, on March 11th from 9 am to 12 pm...

The Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Crafts and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) are organizing an EIT Awareness Day in Zagreb (venue: Hotel International, Miramarska 24) on February 24th, 2020, with the aim of getting to know the EIT community, its activities, and opportunities to cooperate with relevant national stakeholders. The event is organized under the auspice of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The co...

The Agency for Mobility and Programs and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency organized an Info-Day on Friday, November 15, 2019, with the aim of introducing participants to the specifics and opportunities of collaboration through ENRICH networks, RISE projects and participation in EIT programs. The Info Day started with a presentation of the ENRICH centers network which is promoting internationalization and cooperation in the field of science, technology, and innovation between European organizati...

The project „Strategic Internationalisation of Graduate Studies in Mathematics and Biotechnology – OPTILIFE ” has been approved for funding under the Operational Programme Efficient Human Resources 2014-2020 and co-financed from the European Social Fund.

The ceremonial signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Rijeka, Trieste International Foundation (Fondazione Internazionale Trieste per il Progresso e la Libertà delle Scienze) and The Agency Rijeka 2020 LLC was held on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at the Student Center’s Café "Akvarij" at the University of Rijeka Campus. The Agreement will contribute to strengthening social, cultural and economic relations as well as strategic cooperation between T...

SPEAR (Supporting and Implementing Plans for gender Equality in Academia and Research) is a Coordination and Support Action project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Science with and for Society (SwafS) programme. Despite numerous EU-wide projects aimed at improving gender equality (GE) in academia, challenges persist, and GE practitioners and change agents experience fatigue and lack of support structures. SPEAR will initiate institutional change in nine European research performing organizations (RPOs) by implementing gender equality plans.

The 11th BESTPRAC Working Group meeting was held from March 11-12 at the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and gathered over 100 people from different European countries.

University of Rijeka is a partner in Erasmus+ Key Action 3 Forward Looking Cooperation Project “Towards a European Framework for Community Engagement in Higher Education” (TEFCE). The specific objective of the TEFCE project is to develop innovative and feasible policy tools at the university and European level for supporting, monitoring and assessing the community engagement of universities. The project has two sub-objectives:

European Researchers’ Nights are public events dedicated to bringing researchers closer to the public. They showcase the diversity of research and highlight the impact of research on our daily lives. The aim of this action is also to motivate young people to embark on research careers. This is the second time for UNIRI to participate in this type of action. In 2013 we had successful application and implementation and that was the reason to join this project in 2018/2019 again. European Researchers´ Night 2018/2019...