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The new ERA for Research and Innovation calls for deepening existing priorities and initiatives through new and stronger approaches. They require the setting of new priorities, launching ambitious joint initiatives and developing common approaches between policies.
To address these requirements, Reforming and enhancing the EU research and innovation system, will support efforts to reform and enhance the EU R&I system. This programme is built around four strands corresponding to the four objectives set out in the ERA Communication:
Prioritizing investments and reforms;
Improving access to excellence;
Translating R&I results into the economy
Deepening the ERA
Total Budget: 308 Million Euros
There are 7 new calls in the 2025 WIDERA Work Programme
HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-01: Rolling out the ERA Policy Agenda results
HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-02: Enable sustained coordination and guidance at the European level on institutional non-profit open access publishing
HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-03: Research and innovation to provide evidence that support reforms of research assessment
HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-04: Investigating and addressing career barriers faced by underrepresented and marginalised researchers
HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-05: Programme-level collaboration
HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-06: Strengthening of the European Science for Policy Ecosystem
HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-07: Science comes to town 2027
The calls are now open for application and the deadline is 18 September 2025
