Conferences & Funding Opportunities

Find out about the latest conferences and project funding opportunities (e.g. citizen science, public engagement, nature protection and beyond) which we have found.

Conferences & events

Title Date Date for submissions Location
2026 Botanical Bridges Congress 20 - 24 April 2026   Dominican Republic
The EGU General Assembly 2026 3 - 8 May 2026   Austria
6th Ecosystem Services Partnership Europe Conference 18 - 22 May 2026   Czechia
European Science Engagement Association Conference 19 - 21 May 2026   Luxembourg
European Maritime Day 2026 21 - 22 May 2026   Cyprus
The 47th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology 20 - 23 May 2026   USA
THALASSA 2026 – Marine Sciences Conference 21 - 22 May 2026   Cyprus
EFUF 2026 26 - 29 May 2026   Sweden
2026 Conference for Advancing the Participatory Sciences 26 - 29 May 2026   Online
DARIAH Annual Event 2026 26 - 29 May 2026   Italy
UArtic Congress 2026 26 - 29 May 2026   Faroe Islands
Aurora Symposium on Global Citizenship 27 - 29 May 2026   The Netherlands
2026 Ecsite Conference 2 - 4 June 2026   Belgium
The Festival of the New European Bauhaus 9 - 13 June 2026   Belgium
16th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics 30 June - 3 July 2026   Belgium
Living Knowledge (LK11) Conference 7 - 10 July 2026   Poland
The International Society of Ethnobiology Congress 26 - 29 July 2026   Australia
The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum (CKF) 28 - 30 July 2026   Canada
XX. International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects 16 - 20 August 2026   Germany
ECSA 61 - Bridging the gap between science and policy in estuarine and coastal marine biodiversity: the way forward 24 - 27 August 2026   Belgium
CommOCEAN 2 - 3 September 2026   Norway
Soils for Europe Conference 7 - 11 September 2026   Portugal
EASST2026 8 - 11 September 2026   Poland
Ars Electronica Festival 9 - 13 September 2026   Austria
Nordic Oikos 2026 13 - 17 September 2026   Denmark
ICES Annual Science Conference 2026 15 - 18 September 2026   France
Building Knowledge Together: Citizen Science, Communication, and Trust 5 - 6 October 2026 17 April 2026 Germany
The World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 17 - 20 November 2026 17 March 2026 Belgium
31st Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology July 2027   The Netherlands
12th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens 3 - 7 July 2028   The Netherlands

 

Funding opportunities and Programs

Title Date Program Range
First Nation Adapt Program Ongoing basis First Nation Adapt Program Canada
Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program North Ongoing basis Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program North Canada
Scientific Exchanges grants All year round The Scientific Exchanges funding scheme Switzerland
Community building fund Continuous Community building fund - S4S Europe
Principal Investigator Projects Rolling Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Europe
Arts-Based Research (PEEK) Rolling Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Europe
Critical Pathways Community Fund 31 March 2026 Critical Pathways Community Fund  
Biodiversa+ “Restoration of ecosystem functioning, integrity, and connectivity” referred to as BiodivConnect 14 April 2026 Biodiversa+ (full proposal) Europe
DFF-Research Project1 29 April 2026 DFF Denmark
FRONTIERS Science Journalism Residency Program (round 3) 7 May 2026 FRONTIERS Europe
BlueActionAA Community-Led Pilot Action Call (BAAC-01) 29 May 2026 BlueActionAA Europe
“Future sustainable socio-ecological systems: trajectories of change” (#BiodivFuture) November 2026 The sixth Biodiversa+ annual joint call for research Europe

 

Other

Title Date (for submission)
Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures info day 18 March 2026
International Day of Forests 21 March 2026
Horizon Europe info days - Cluster 2 Culture, creativity and inclusive society 26 March 2026
Marine Protected Area Day 1 August 2026

 

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