The 2025 call for the Arqus Innovation Fund opens today!

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 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.

• Please note that priority will be given to Arqus Working Groups that have received little or no funding from the Arqus Innovation Fund in previous calls.
• Please also note that funding for the design of innovative forms of mobility will be assessed separately under this seed-funding call.

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.

• Please note that at least 60% of the available funds will be reserved for ad hoc bottom-up initiatives.

Key details:

• For this call, €101,675.57 in total will be allocated. The distribution of the funds is the joint responsibility of the selection committees.
• The call runs from 15 January 2025 to 17 March 2025 (23:55 CET).
• You must submit one application per initiative and the proposed budget using the Excel template provided.
• Further information and supporting documents can be found on the following link: https://arqus-alliance.eu/call/arqus-innovation-fund-call-2025/
• Online application: https://forms.gle/zP3UEAvq2VADmp3w5

For further questions, please send an email to innovation-fund@arqus-alliance.eu