New Call for Proposals of the «Horizon Europe – 2nd Opportunity – MSCA » Programme (OPPORTUNITY – MSCA/0125)

The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) announces the new call for proposals for the «Horizon Europe – 2nd Opportunity – MSCA » Programme (OPPTY – MSCA/0125).

The call budget is €1.000,000, and the maximum funding per project is €170.000.

Proposals have to be submitted through the IRIS portal and the deadline for submitting proposals is 9 May 2025, time 13:00.

The Programme’s objective is to provide a second opportunity to entities and natural persons (researchers) who attempted to receive a grant under Horizon Europe Programme, and whose proposals despite of being of high quality did not manage to secure funding due to budget exhaustion. Through “Horizon Europe – 2nd MSCA Opportunity” the integration of young scientists into the research and innovation system of Cyprus is supported.

Proposals can be submitted in two categories as follows:

Path 1: Project Coordinators can be researchers whose “Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions” – European Postdoctoral Fellowships proposals have received a Seal of Excellence from the EU (score ≥ 85/100) with a Host Organisations in Cyprus that would host the Researcher for the implementation of the project in Cyprus.

Path 2: Project Coordinators can be researchers whose “Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions” – European Postdoctoral Fellowships proposals received a Seal of Excellence from the EU (score ≥ 85/100) and the Host Organization was in another EU country and has been replaced by an Organization in Cyprus that will host the Researcher for the implementation of the project in Cyprus.

The present Call will be co-financed by the Republic of Cyprus and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), in the frame of the Operational Programme «ΘΑλΕΙΑ» 2021-2027 under Priority 1: «Competitive, Smart and Digital Economy» and the Specific Objective (1i): «Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies».

Entities eligible to participate in this programme include Research Organisations (Α.1, Α.2),

For information regarding the RIF’s open calls, as well as useful documents and guides, interested parties can visit the IRIS portal.

For further information, interested parties may contact the RIF’s Partner Support Center by phone on 22205000 or via email at [email protected].