This week’s round up of social sciences and humanities-related calls

26 Aug 2025 | News

Here’s a list of funding opportunities in the EU, the UK, Canada, Brazil, India and South Korea

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Across successive EU Framework Programmes, the social sciences and humanities have gained greater visibility and support. Budget allocations have increased, and there is stronger project inclusion, and growing investment in research infrastructures.

Under Horizon 2020, the disciplines were established as a cross-cutting priority across the programme, marking an important step away from treating them as stand-alone domains.

With Horizon Europe, integration of the social sciences and humanities has deepened further. They are now embedded in research addressing major societal challenges and supported through a cluster dedicated to culture, creativity and inclusive society, which has a budget of around €2.3 billion.

According to European Commission monitoring reports, between 2021 and 2023 around 40% of collaborative Pillar 2 topics were flagged as relevant to the social…