KreativEU Seed Funding – UG Medium-Scale Project Calls 2026

The KreativEU Seed Funding Initiative aims to support researchers, students, and stakeholders in developing medium-scale cutting-edge and bottom-up educational, research, artistic, entrepreneurial, technological, and societal projects across countries and disciplines, thereby jointly creating new knowledge.

Based on these overall objectives, the University of Greifswald hereby announces three Medium-Scale Project Calls with the following Foci:

A: One Health and Transformation Processes

  • Development of inclusive one-health narratives to enhance public engagement
  • Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in disease surveillance and care
  • Preventative strategies for nutrition, infectious diseases, and mental health
  • Sustainable and equitable health-centric mobility planning
  • Establishing equity-based metrics for the implementation of one health

B: Rural Areas and Eco-Cultural Identity

  • Accessibility of public services
  • Cultural identity
  • Adaptive infrastructure in rural areas of the EU
  • Rural areas as enabling environments

C: Resilience Beyond Restoration: How European Societies Adapt, Transform and Endure in an Age of Polycrisis

  • Resilience of the social fabric: cultural practices, cohesion, and trust
  • Resilience of civil society in the face of catastrophes and compound crises
  • Resilience of democratic systems and political institutions
  • Resilience in international relations: alliances, multilateralism, and conflict management
  • Resilience of economies: supply chains, local value creation, and adaptive markets
  • Resilience of digital and critical infrastructure

Funding grant:

up to € 22,500.00

Time Table:

  • Launch of calls: 14 September 2026
  • Deadline for project proposal submission: 13 November 2026, 23:59:59 (CET)
  • Period for evaluation of submitted proposals: 16 November 2026 - 14 December 2026
  • Announcement of preliminary results: 15 December 2026
  • Period for further development of submitted proposals: 16-17 December 2026
  • Announcement of final results: 21 December 2026
  • Period for forming project partnership contracts: 4-31 January 2026
  • Project implementation period: 1 February 2027 - 31 July 2028

Details:

These calls are fully compliant with the D6.2 KreativEU Seed Funding Initiative – Regulation. Version 1.0, June 2025.