Calls and Funding

Each year, the European Science Foundation (ESF) announces a series of calls for proposals which will give the opportunity to propose collaborative research projects and networking activities with a European dimension. The time frame of these funding opportunities is annually published in the ESF Common Call leaflet, available to download on the ESF website and widely distributed among ESF Member Organisations and European research community.  

The calls span all fields of science through four main funding instruments, covering all types of scientific activities, from basic research and frontier science to networking and dissemination. Information about submitting proposals can be found below or by downloading the Common Call 2010 leaflet to your right:

  • Research Networking Programmes
    2010 call: postponed 

    For Grants and Calls within a running RNP, please consult the pages of the relevant programme itself.



  • Please note
    The ESF does not award grants to students or individual researchers outside its designated funding instruments and related activities.