Call for Incentive Research & Education Collaboration
Building on the success of the Aurora R&I programme, the 2024 and 2025 calls under the framework of the Aurora 2030 programme, Aurora launches a new Call for Incentive Research and Education Collaboration.
This new call aims to address the intersection between research and education. It incentivises the formation of original collaborative research actions and research-driven educational actions in Aurora’s six thematic hubs of transdisciplinary research and education: Sustainability and Climate Change, Digital Society and Global Citizenship, Health and Wellbeing, Culture: Identities and Diversities, Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Peace Education.
The call supports three types of key actions:
Exploratory and Collaborative Research Projects
Exploratory and collaborative research projects or projects that are built at the interface between research and education, contribute to the increase of knowledge, address societal challenges, and develop long-term research communities within Aurora, creating perspectives for seeking large scale funding opportunities in the future.
Thematic Schools and Intensive Research Seminars
This action supports thematic schools and intensive research seminars focused on disciplinary and multi-disciplinary training that serve as a career development opportunity, a knowledge sharing hub and a network/community building activity for the group of participants and lecturers.
Short-term Secondments for Research and/or Training for Early-stage Researchers
This action supports early-stage career researchers (Master, PhD, post-docs) to go on short-term mobility of up to 3 months in a research laboratory or unit of an Aurora 2030 full member university.
Submission Process
To begin the process of submission, please read the Call for Incentive Research and Education Collaboration 2026 and complete the following: online form.
Fill out the respective application forms listed below:
- Application for Exploratory and Collaborative Research and Education Projects
- Application for Thematic Schools and Intensive Research Seminars
- Application for Short-term Secondments for Research and/or Training for Early-stage Researchers
Submit the full application by email to aurora.arc.office@gmail.com with the subject heading:
2026_AURORA_CALL_[PI NAME]_[UNIVERSITY]_[PROJECT ACRONYME]_[KA123]_[OPTION]
([OPTION] is ER for Exploratory and collaborative research project and CRE for Combined research and education project, TS for Thematic schools and IRS for Intensive research seminars.)
The deadline for the submission of proposals is on 17 April 2026 at 12:00 (noon) Central European Summer Time (CEST).
Laureates of Aurora Call for Incentive Research and Education Collaboration Projects
Since its launch in February 2024, Aurora’s Call for Incentive Research Collaboration Projects has yielded over 90 high-quality applications from Aurora universities across Europe. In February 2026, Aurora launched a new call that includes the possibility of submitting projects mixing teaching and research.
Following a rigorous review process by the Aurora Research Council (ARC) and the Vice-Rectors for Research, discover the laureates that have been selected.