The results of the Arqus Innovation Fund 2025 selection process have been published!
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26 May 2025|
26 May 2025Arqus is delighted to announce that the results of the 4th call for the Arqus Innovation Fund have been published!
The Arqus Innovation Fund seeks to incentivise innovative, internal bottom-up initiatives led by Arqus staff and students that have an impact on the entire Alliance.
To achieve this, it provides seed-funding to foster innovation and an entrepreneurial mindset, strengthen the visibility of Arqus internally and promote further staff engagement.
The aim of this seed-funding call 2025 was twofold:
The aim was to provide guidance to Arqus Working Groups on the external funding opportunities available for the individual innovative initiatives in the Arqus Erasmus+ work plan 2022-2026, and to provide financial support for expenses that cannot be covered by other sources. Please note that priority has been given to Arqus Working Groups that had received little or no funding from the Arqus Innovation Fund in previous calls. In addition, funding for the design of innovative forms of mobility has been assessed separately under this seed-funding call.
The aim was to incentivise innovative ad hoc bottom-up initiatives from Arqus academics, administrative staff and students with a joint approach. At least 60% of the available funds have been reserved for ad-hoc bottom-up initiatives.
In this context, the Alliance would like to support activities that are linked to the major goals of the Arqus European University Alliance and the Arqus Boards: Education, Research & Innovation, Societal Engagement. The following ceilings have been established:
Types of activities supported under this call: challenge-based-learning programmes, collaboration project labs, cross-disciplinary seminars, events for the general public, joint short-term study projects, research training, twin/triplet transition initiatives, workshops.
Each selection committee organised its own joint selection meeting to evaluate, select and rank the applications submitted for the corresponding sub-call according to the established selection criteria.
Both selection committees were asked to appoint a chair and vice-chair who met in a joint selection meeting to discuss the selection results of each sub-call and prepare a proposal for the allocation of funds. Following the committees’ proposal, the final decision on the allocation of funds was made by the Executive Council of the Arqus European University Alliance.
All selected initiatives will be contacted by the co-leads of the Arqus Innovation Fund with detailed information regarding next steps and monitoring procedures. Initiatives that were not selected for funding will also receive individual feedback outlining the reasons for their rejection.
Read the complete information on the results, including the selected and non-selected initiatives:
Learn more about Arqus Innovation Fund here.