This week’s updates highlight new life-sciences research funding, transport infrastructure demand, EU border-security investment, NextGenerationEU delivery and reform-linked support for Moldova.
🧬 Horizon Europe - €65M for critical life-sciences data
The European Commission has earmarked €65 million under Horizon Europe to safeguard data and knowledge resources essential for biomedical research, AI and biotechnology.
Funding supports GENCODE (€19M), UniProt (€30M) and Europe PMC (€8M), alongside an €8 million competitive call for other critical scientific repositories.
Source: Research and innovation - European Commission
🚆 CEF Transport - Nearly €3B requested for infrastructure
CINEA received 246 proposals requesting almost €3 billion in EU co-funding under the 2026 CEF Transport calls, against an available budget of €1.1 billion.
The applications target the trans-European transport network (TEN-T), including military mobility; applicants are expected to receive evaluation results in March 2027.
Source: European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
🛡️ EU Border Management - €130M for drone security
The European Commission has announced an additional €130 million under the Border Management and Visa Instrument to reinforce Member States’ drone and counter-drone capabilities.
The investment strengthens border surveillance and responses to emerging security threats, bringing related Home Affairs funding for surveillance and counter-drone technology to more than half a billion euros.
Source: Shaping Europe’s digital future
🇪🇺 NextGenerationEU - €450B disbursed under the RRF
The Commission’s 2026 annual report confirms that €450 billion in grants and loans has been disbursed to Member States under the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
Following the final national implementation and payment-request deadlines, the Commission is assessing 32 payment requests worth €123 billion before the end-of-year payment deadline.
Source: Reforms and Investments - European Commission
🇲🇩 EU-Moldova Growth Plan - €157M unlocked for reforms
The European Commission has disbursed an additional €157 million to Moldova after a positive assessment of 18 reforms under the country’s Growth Plan.
The reforms span economic resilience, business development, governance and the green transition, bringing total funding made available under the Plan to €661 million.
Source: Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood