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