Calls
2025
As the 2024 call, the 2025 call is twofold.
For Arqus Working Groups: The aim is 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.
For ad hoc bottom-up initiatives: The aim is to incentivise innovative ad hoc bottom-up initiatives from Arqus academics, administrative staff, and students with a joint approach.
The 2025 Arqus Innovation Fund Call is closed.
RESULTS: Selected initiatives
Initiatives submitted by Arqus Working Groups:
- Exploring AI in Academia: Practical Applications and Best Practices
- Arqus PhD Week for Careers beyond academia 2026
Ad hoc bottom-up initiatives:
- Arts and Creativity in the Foreign Language Classroom: Interdisciplinarity and Innovation in the Process of Teaching and Learning Slavic Languages
- VISURB: Workshop on Visual Methodologies in Urban Research
- “Project AiRQUS” AI in Language Learning and Teaching Pedagogy – a Series of Online Workshops and Webinars with Experts to Enhance Innovativeness and Competitivity at Arqus Universities
- Arqus Verde: Connecting Botanical Gardens for Europe’s Biodiversity and Cultural Heritage
- Science on Stage: Learning to Dramatize Figures, Discoveries, and Ideas
- Bottom-up initiative for Research Security
- Virtual Reality Human Library
- Storytelling in Social Advocacy: Building a Partnership Between Academia and NGOs
- Arqus Women Connect
Read the complete information on the results, including the selected and non-selected initiatives here.
Past calls
First Call of the Arqus Innovation Fund
The first Call of the Arqus Innovation Fund supported 17 innovative projects developed by Arqus students and staff. The funding requested in this call amounted to €2,106,058.00, and the final allocation was €828,430, exceeding the originally planned €600,000. This indicator showed the enormous interest aroused by this first call as well as the overall quality of the submitted proposals.
2023 Call – Ad hoc bottom-up initiatives
Call for ad hoc bottom-up initiatives with a joint approach and impact on the Alliance. The Arqus Talent & Innovation Fund looked for macro-activities that were linked to major goals of the Arqus European University Alliance and the Action Lines: Education, Research & Innovation, Societal Engagement. It aimed for a balanced distribution across the Action Lines. Please note that activities with a pure research purpose were not funded.
2024 Call – Arqus Innovation Fund
The aim of the 2024 Call of the Arqus Innovation Fund was twofold. On the one hand, 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 could not be covered by other sources. On the other hand, the aim was to incentivise innovative ad hoc bottom-up initiatives from Arqus academics, administrative staff and students with a joint approach.