What, where & when:

On 20 November 2025, LINO office and Lithuanian Research Council’s national contact points (NCPs), together with Slovak, Austrian, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Latvian, Czech and French offices, is organising a networking event in Brussels for researchers working with Cluster 2 of “Horizon Europe” (Culture, creativity & inclusive society).

SSH researchers from all 9 organising countries are expected to attend, as well as researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, Germany.

Programme:

Download the preliminary agenda (also displayed below)

This time we will be focussing on the topics of media, migration and education.

We will be looking into all 3 destinations of Cl. 2 of “Horizon Europe” work programme for 2026-2027 (the latest draft of which was published on the European Commission’s Comitology Register in July).

From the said draft programme, we have selected 12 calls relevant to the 3 topics of our event – the list of them all can be found here .

Relevance:

Participants of the event can expect to:

• hear insights from the European Commission on Cl.2 policies;
• get advice from national contact points (NCPs) on how to prepare successful research grant applications;
• have a chance to briefly present their own work and partnerships sought in a pitching session and 1:1 meetings;
• find international partners from other “Horizon Europe” countries for joint research projects.

On the same day, after our event, those who will be interested will have a chance to participate in the Netherlands’ office (Neth-ER) networking conference taking part in the evening.

Registration:

We have spaces available for 5-6 participants from each organising country, including Lithuania.

We invite Lithuania-based researchers who are interested to participate to get in touch with us via email agne.drumelyte@lmt.lt, briefly introducing themselves and their past/current/planned research topics as well as briefly describing the partnerships they would like to start with researchers from other “Horizon Europe” countries.

There might be a possibility for research managers to attend this event too; however (in the case of having more interested participants than we have available spaces) we are likely to give priority to researchers working on media, migration and education topics.

Participants who are willing to do brief (a few mins) presentations about themselves during the event’s pitching session are particularly welcome. 😊

We expect to select participants from all the attending countries by September – we look forward to your application already during this summer!

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UPDATE, October 2025

Preliminary list of participants from Lithuania has been selected.

Our event has just been added to the list of events, eligible for Widera travel grants.

Selected participants from Lithuania who have not yet secured travel funding from alternative sources are welcome to apply for Widera funding via the national contact points (NCP) office of the Lithuanian Research Council.

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