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
Webinar: Crowdsourcing for Flood Risk Management: Harnessing Community Data and Local Knowledge 9 December 2025   Online
Citizen Science Fair at Museo delle Scienze di Trento (MUSE) 14 December 2025   Italy
Horizon Europe info days - Cluster 6 22 - 23 January 2026   Hybrid
The CS-NL networking day 29 January 2026   The Netherlands
The Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2026 24 - 26 February 2026   Austria
European Ocean Days 2026 2 - 6 March 2026   Belgium
ECSA 2026 Conference Oulu 3 - 6 March 2026   Finland
2026 Botanical Bridges Congress 20 - 24 April 2026   Dominican Republic
The EGU General Assembly 2026 3 - 8 May 2026 15 January 2026 Austria
6th Ecosystem Services Partnership Europe Conference 18 - 22 May 2026 31 December 2025 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 18 January 2026 Sweden
2026 Conference for Advancing the Participatory Sciences 26 - 29 May 2026   Online
DARIAH Annual Event 2026 26 - 29 May 2026 22 December 2025 Italy
UArtic Congress 2026 26 - 29 May 2026 15 December 2025 Faroe Islands
Aurora Symposium on Global Citizenship 27 - 29 May 2026 30 January 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 19 December 2025 Belgium
Living Knowledge (LK11) Conference 7 - 10 July 2026 15 December 2025
10 January 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 31 December 2025 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 28 February 2026 Poland
Ars Electronica Festival 9 - 13 September 2026   Austria
Nordic Oikos 2026 13 - 17 September 2026 16 January 2026 Denmark
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
The Seed Grant Call 2026 Expected soon  Competence Center Citizen Science / Citizen Science Zurich Switzerland
Third call - Interreg Danube Region Programme 15 December 2025 Danube Region Programme Europe
EASST Fund 31 December 2025 European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Fund European region
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
Peatlands and Natura Community Engagement Scheme 2026 9 January 2026 The Peatlands and Natura Community Engagement Scheme (PNCES) Ireland
The 7th IKI Small Grants ‘Call for Proposals’ 15 January 2026 IKI Small Grants Global
The IKI Medium Grants Ideas competition 20 January 2026 IKI Medium Grants Global
Community Water Development Fund 2026 20 January 2026 The Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO) Ireland
NERC: pushing the frontiers of environmental research 21 January 2026 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) UK
Open Call (OC) in iCOSHELLs 4 February 2026 Open Call (OC) in iCOSHELLs Europe
FTI-Projekte: Angewandte Forschung 2025 18 February 2026 FTI-Projekte Austria
FTI-Partnerschaften 2025 20 February 2026 FTI-Projekte Austria
Medium, small and p2p projects 28 February 2026 INTERREG VI-A Bavaria-Austria 2021-2027 Europe
Community Heritage Grant Scheme March 2026 Heritage Council Scheme Ireland
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)
World Soil Day 5 December 2025
International Mountain Day 11 December 2025
Special Collection: Citizen Science for Evidence-based Policy and Decision-Making 15 December 2025
EASST Awards 2026 31 December 2025
Handbook on Transdisciplinarity Sustainability Research: Co-Creating New Narratives - call for chapter contributions 31 January 2026
Submit your urban green stewardship project 17 February 2026
International Day of Forests 21 March 2026
Marine Protected Area Day 1 August 2026

 

Short News

  • New study from BiciZen project: "BiciZen: Lessons in the Development of a Crowdsourcing Mobile App to Make Cities More Bikeable" published in Journal of Participatory Research Methods. More studies available under the publication page here.

    in Shortnews
  • Roadkill project has made wonderful short videos for the citizen scientists! The videos include the Roadkill App functions regarding how to confirm & comment on the spots and how to best take the photos for the project. The videos (in German) are available in the "Österreich forscht" blog here. 

    in Shortnews

Newsletter

Please enable the javascript to submit this form