• FCT - NOVA: 2^nd edition of the CEMAR Marine Science Research Scholarship competition | Deadline: 20^th November 2023
• FCT - DUT Call 2023  | Deadline for pre-proposals: 21^st November 2023
• ANI - Call INNOV-ID (to promote scientific and tech projects' access to venture capital funding)| Deadline: 22^nd November 2023
• Portugal 2030 - (ITI) "Urban Networks" of the Regional Programmes NORTE2030, CENTRO2030, LISBOA2030, ALENTEJO2030 and ALGARVE2030 - Pre-qualification | Deadline: 30^th November 2023
• FCT - Call Advanced Computing Projects (4th ed): A0 Development Access (round A) | Deadline: 30^th November 2023;
• FCT - Call Advanced Computing Projects (4th ed): A1 Development Access (round A) | Deadline: 30^th November 2023;
• IAPMEI -  National Network of Test Beds | Deadline: 4^th December 2023;
• Portugal 2030 - SICE - Inovação Produtiva (Productive Innovation)  | Deadline: 15^th December 2023
  Support to SMEs contributing to the improvement of the productive capacities of SMEs and to the
  development of innovative, digital and sustainable solutions, mainly based on R&D results and the increase of skilled employment.
  
• Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - European Media and Information Fund Call “Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe” | permanently open until June 2025
  Supporting projects from independent fact-checking organisations, which play a key role in limiting the negative effects of disinformation on the public discourse and democratic processes.
• Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos – Programa de Estudos | permanently open
  Thematic areas: Economy, Institutions and Society
• Banco de Portugal - Grants for visiting researchers | permanently open
  Preferred topics include monetary and labour economics, financial intermediation, banking, and studies on the Portuguese economy.

Horizon Europe - highlights for Pillar 1: Excellent Science

• Marie Curie: Marie Curie Doctoral Networks | Deadline: 28^th November 2023
  Implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of universities, research institutions and research infrastructures, businesses including SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from different countries across Europe and beyond.
• European Research Council: ERC Consolidator Grant | Deadline: 12^th December 2023
  To support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Horizon Europe – highlights for thematic collaborative projects

Cluster 1 – Health

Cluster 2 - Culture, Creativity and Inclusive society

• HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-03 | Deadline: 7^th February 2024
  Leverage the digital transition for competitive European cultural and creative industries
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01-02 | Deadline: 7^th February 2024
  Multilevel governance in times of digital and climate transitions
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01-03 | Deadline: 7^th February 2024
  What is the long-term impact of rule of law and other European values on socio-economic outcomes?
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01-06 | Deadline: 7^th February 2024
  Computational Social Science approaches in research on democracy
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01-07 | Deadline: 7^th February 2024
  Digital democracy
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01-08 | Deadline: 7^th February 2024
  Culture, the arts and cultural spaces for democratic participation and political expression, online and offline
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01-09 | Deadline: 7^th February 2024
  The role and functioning of public administrations in democratic systems
• HORIZON-CL2-2024-DEMOCRACY-01-12 | Deadline: 7^th February 2024
  Testing and implementation of research results fostering democracy and governance
  
  

Cluster 3 - Civil Security for Society

• HORIZON-CL3-2023-BM-01-04 | Deadline: 23^rd November 2023
  Interoperability of systems and equipment at tactical level; between equipment and databases; and/or between databases of threats and materials
• HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01-03 | Deadline: 23^rd November 2023
  Security of robust AI systems
• HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01-01 | Deadline: 23^rd November 2023
  Secure Computing Continuum (IoT, Edge, Cloud, Dataspaces)
• HORIZON-CL3-2023-SSRI-01-02 | Deadline: 3^rd February 2024
  Accelerating uptake through open proposals for advanced SME innovation
• HORIZON-CL3-2024-CS-01-01 | Deadline: 20^th November 2024
  Approaches and tools for security in software and hardware development and assessment
• HORIZON-CL3-2024-INFRA-01-01 | Deadline: 20^th November 2024
  Resilient and secure urban planning and new tools for EU territorial entities
• HORIZON-CL3-2024-FCT-01-06 | Deadline: 20^th November 2024
  Open Topic on Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2024

Cluster 4 – Digital, Industry and Space

• HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-06 | Deadline: 19^th March 2024
  Explainable and Robust AI (AI Data and Robotics Partnership)
• HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-01-07 | Deadline: 19^th March 2024
  Collaborative intelligence – combining the best of machine and human (AI Data and Robotics Partnership)
• HORIZON-CL4-2024-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-22 | Deadline: 19^th March 2024
  Fundamentals of Software Engineering
• HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01-01 | Deadline: 19^th March 2024
  AI-driven data operations and compliance technologies
• HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01-03 | Deadline: 19^th March 2024
  Piloting emerging Smart IoT Platforms and decentralized intelligence
  
  

Cluster 5 – Climate, Energy and Mobility

Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

• HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-02-1 | Deadline: 22^nd February 2024
  Supporting the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance and Declaration
• HORIZON-CL6-2024-CircBio-02-1-two-stage | Deadline: 22^nd February 2024
  Circular solutions for textile value chains through innovative sorting, recycling, and design for recycling.
• HORIZON-CL6-2024-CircBio-02-4-two-stage | Deadline: 22^nd February 2024
  New circular solutions and decentralised approaches for water and wastewater management
• HORIZON-CL6-2024-CircBio-01-6 | Deadline: 22^nd February 2024
  Digital information systems for bio-based products
• HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-01-3 | Deadline: 28^th February 2024
  The role of mainstream media, social media and marketing in fostering healthy and sustainable consumption patterns and how to encourage good practices
• HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-01-6 | Deadline: 28^th February 2024
  Develop innovative applications to support the European Green Deal, building on meteorological satellite data
• HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-01-7| Deadline: 28^th February 2024
  Enhancing working conditions and strengthening the work force through digital and data technologies – the potential of robotics and augmented reality in agriculture

Horizon Europe - highlights for WIDERA: Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area

Infrastructures

• HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01-04 | Deadline: 12^th March 2024
  AR/VR-empowered digital twins for modelling complex phenomena in new RI application areas

European Innovation Council | European Innovation Ecosystems 

• EIC Challenge Platform: CircularPSP is looking for innovative procurement R&D solutions for Circular Economy | Deadline: November 2023

Digital Europe Programme

• Developing citiverse | Deadline: 22^th November 2023
• Coordination of AI sectorial testing and experimentation facilities | Deadline: 22^th November 2023
• Data Space for tourism | Deadline: 23^th January 2024
• Data Space for cultural heritage | Deadline: 23^th January 2024

Programme for Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)

Other programmes and opportunities

• European Defence Fund - Deployable Autonomous AI Agent: 22^nd November 2023
  The proposals must focus on the development of an autonomous and adaptive deployable AI agent. All proposed activities must ultimately support the creation of an AI agent that is able to conduct automated and semi-automated incident management on different cyber defence systems for the entire process of the incident management cycle. The solutions must support human operators, analysts and decision-makers at technical, tactical, operational, strategic and political level. In addition, solutions are expected to contribute to enhanced cyber situational awareness, increased military infrastructure resilience and improved protection against AI-based and other advanced cyber threats.
• European Space Agency - The Sustainable Transformation of Agriculture Through Digitalisation and Space | Deadline: 13^th December 2023
  This Fixed Call for Proposals is intended to support industry in the development of services focused on the optimisation of agricultural practices that minimise negative environmental impacts in terms of soil degradation, water depletion and contamination, inefficient energy use and loss of biodiversity
• Future of Life Institute - Postdoctoral fellowship in AI Existential Safety 2024: 1^st February 2024
• Danish Data Science Academy Visit Grants| Deadline: continuous open call
  As part of the DDSA Fellowship Programme, the Danish Data Science Academy provides funding for national and international bachelor’s and master’s degree students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to spend time with new research groups of interest in Denmark.
• FLAD - USA@PT Grants 2024 (to support for the participation of American speakers in seminars, workshops and conferences in Portugal, organized by Portuguese institutions) | Deadline: continuous open call