EPICUR SEED Funding Scheme 2025 – Call for applications
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The core ambition of the EPICUR alliance is to transform education, research and transfer practices and opportunities across its member universities in order to develop original cutting-edge solutions and train new generations of European change makers able to shape a European society in transition and help overcome the daunting challenges.

In the pursuit of deeper research collaboration and future joint teaching between EPICUR members, the EPICUR Seed Funding Scheme has been devised as an instrument to stimulate synergies between teaching and research by offering a financial support mechanism to support the building of promising research collaboration projects between EPICUR partner universities. 

The set-up of a joint scheme is seen by the alliance partners as a strategic investment. It initiates a collaborative coordinated effort to stimulate research partnerships and ensure a more efficient allocation of resources than if each university were to independently create incentives for collaboration within EPICUR.

The Seed Funding call for proposals 2025 is launched by the nine partners of the EPICUR Alliance.

Scope of the 2025 Call

  • The EPICUR Seed Funding Scheme invites researchers affiliated to one of the EPICUR partner institutions to submit proposals for one-year joint research project grants with collegues from EPICUR unversities.
  • The Seed Funding aims to facilitate the development of ideas for joint research cooperation and stimulate synergies between teaching and research.
  • The Seed Funding offers a financial support mechanism for the building of promising research collaboration projects between EPICUR partner universities.
  • Proposals can focus on research in any scientific area. However, projects addressing EPICUR priority areas are strongly encouraged.

Funding and maximum grant amount

  • Projects can request and be awarded up to a maximum of 150.000 EUROS.
  • Applicants can only be awarded funding from their own affiliated university.

Timeline and deadlines

Publication of the callDeadline for submissionEvaluationInformation on evaluation resultsExpected project start date
7 May 20254 September 2025 – 23:59 CETSeptember-October 2025December 2025From December 2025

Call documents

Seed Funding Call
Application form
Budget form
Letter of intent
Download Call package

Info session

Join our online info session on 23 May, 12:00–13:00 CET to ask your questions.

Contacts

For general questions concerning the 2025 Seed Funding call, applicants should send an e-mail to epicur_seedfunding@epicur.edu.eu

For any questions concerning one of the EPICUR partners’ participation conditions in the 2025 Seed Funding call, please contact the local EPICUR contact points:

AMU – epicur@amu.edu.pl

AUTh – Nikos Theodosiou / niktheod@civil.auth.gr

BOKU – Nicolas Fries / nicolas.fries@boku.ac.at

KIT – Michael Zacherle / Kirsten Rosa / epicur@kit.edu

SDU – Ida Thostesen / epicur@sdu.dk

UFR – Charlotte Langowski / charlotte.langowski@zv.uni-freiburg.de

UHA – epicur@uha.fr

Unistra – Pascale Nachez / pnachez@unistra.fr

UvA – epicur_uva-BB@uva.nl