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
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
Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation ein	9 - 10 December 2026	26 May 2026	Germany
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		Germany
NbS International Congress 2026	2 - 6 November 2026	5 June 2026	France
The World Conference on Marine Biodiversity	17 - 20 November 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
BlueActionAA Community-Led Pilot Action Call (BAAC-01)	29 May 2026	BlueActionAA	Europe
CARE COLLECTIVE FUND	5 July 2026	CARE COLLECTIVE FUND	Global
The 3rd BlueLightS Project Funding Call	18 September	The 3rd BlueLightS Project Funding Call	EUrope
“Future sustainable socio-ecological systems: trajectories of change” (#BiodivFuture)	November 2026	The sixth Biodiversa+ annual joint call for research	Europe
Addressing homelessness through housing-led approaches aligned with the New European Bauhaus HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-01	1 December 2026	HORIZON NEB Call	Europe
Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02	1 December 2026	HORIZON NEB Call	Europe
Understanding inhabitant’s experiences of neighbourhoods to support their health and well-being HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03	1 December 2026	HORIZON NEB Call	Europe

Other

Title	Date (for submission)
International Day for Biological Diversity	22 May 2026
World Environment Day 2026	5 June 2026
Marine Protected Area Day	1 August 2026