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WIRE Horizon Mission Pilots (2025)

WIRE by FilmEU HORIZON PILOTS (2025)

Call for proposals

What is the call about? 

WIRE by FilmEU brings together eight European higher education institutions to collaborate around the common objective of jointly promoting artistic research, innovation and educational activities in the multidisciplinary field of Film and Media Arts and, through this collaboration, consolidate the central role of Europe as a world leader in the creative fields.  

WIRE by FilmEU aims to implement the framework conditions for building excellence in research and innovation. The core of WIRE is where research activities through seed funding are carried out, ensuring that FilmEU’s artistic and practice-based agenda is transferred and assimilated by the new partners coming from widening countries or less-research-intensive HEIs now joining the Alliance in the context of the ongoing enlargement. We want to foster the emergence of new research pilots that integrate researchers from the new partners and support the integration of young researchers. 

The WIRE pilots will test an innovative interdisciplinary agenda that promotes the use of artistic research to address the five Horizon Missions in Horizon pilot projects. This year, the FilmEU Alliance calls for proposals for new pilots to work on the initiative for "Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities." 

WHAT IS EXPECTED?  

Requirements 

  • Only clusters of researchers based on at least three of the partner HEIs are eligible;
  • The lead researcher should have a senior profile in one of the participating HEIs (a senior researcher profile holds a PhD with at least five years of post-PhD research experience).
  • Each pilot proposal should include FilmEU senior and junior researchers.
  • No institution can be awarded as the lead HEI more than once per round.
  • In 2025, a HEI that led a 2024 FilmEU Cosmos collaboration cannot lead another proposal. (2024 awarded leading HEIs in WIRE: Lusofona and NATFA)
  • The maximum duration of a cluster is 20 months, starting in June 2025 and ending January 2027. 

Connect with your peers and explore collaboration opportunities at the matchmaking session on 6th March from 10:00-12:00 CET (Exclusive for partner institutions of FilmEU). 

Zoom link

The deadline for applications is 24 April 2025.

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published 07 February 2025modified 13 February 2025