The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have opened a call for proposal focused on the following topics: Environment and Energy (Production, storage and transport of hydrogen; fuel cells; Energy with reference to renewable energies and advanced distributed generation); Biodiversity (Marine biodiversity; Use of advanced technologies for species and ecosystem monitoring and conservation) Agrifood (food quality and safety through innovative scientific models of evaluation and monitoring); Health Science (Cancer Immunotherapy and Cancer Vaccines; Gene Therapy for Genetic and Rare Diseases); Interdisciplinary projects to be performed on Large Italian and Chinese research infrastructures (including astronomy, physics, life science, polar and marine science);

On behalf of the European Commission, HaDEA has published new open calls for proposals covering nine topics outlined in the 2025 EU4Health Work Programme and based on DG SANTE policy priorities.

Strategic projects for capitalisation are to take up existing Interreg transnational and cross-border outputs and results, to meet existing and new needs and strengthen their territorial and policy impact in wider areas, also beyond border regions. They must go beyond a mere pooling or duplication of what already exists. Instead, they should further develop, improve, or adapt existing outputs and results by drawing on the experience of more projects. As a minimum requirement, projects must explicitly take up existing outputs and results from: At least two Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE projects funded under the first and second calls of the 2021–2027 programme, and at least two Interreg cross-border cooperation projects (funded in the 2021-2027 period or, if relevant, in the 2014-2020 period), addressing internal central European borders.