Financial support for participation in AI SECRETT master programme’s extracurricular educational activities (First edition). Call identifier: AI SECRETT-FSTP-CALL-01-2026.
Digital Europe · Cascade funding
Summary
Not an R&D call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Funds eligible AI-SECRETT master's students participating in extracurricular educational activities, covering up to 50% and €5,000 per person.
- Who can apply
- Companies cannot apply: individual.
- Amount
- €5K per projectTotal budget €600,000
- Deadline
- 01 Dec 2026 00:59 CETin 37 days · +4 later cut-offs
- Status
- Openopened 1 Oct 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
The procedure follows the principles of:
• transparency,
• equal treatment,
• confidentiality,
• absence of conflict of interest.
Admissibility and eligibility checks precede scoring; only eligible applications will be scored.
Eligible proposals are ranked by total score within the available budget.
The final award decision is endorsed by UVEG. All applicants will receive a written justification for the decision, with terms to appeal.
Selected beneficiaries will be requested to sign a Financial Support Agreement (see text here: https://aisecrett.eu/bid-to-our-call/FSA) specifying the supported activity, eligible costs, maximum amount, payment schedule and reporting obligations.
Failure to sign within the indicated timeframe may lead to loss of the grant by the autonomous decision of UVEG.
Payments will be made by UVEG, normally after participation in the activity and approval of the beneficiary report and cost statement. Details are provided in the individual Financial Support Agreement (including e.g. the possibility of small prefinancing in justified cases).
Eligible applicants must hold the nationality of:
- an EU country;
- the following non-EU countries being eligible to the provisions of the Digital Europe Programme: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Kosovo*, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, North Macedonia, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, and Ukraine.
The above list is subject to change in the future without prior notice.
Disclaimer. This Call (as well as the financial support provided through it) is NOT an EU action. This Call is launched solely by UVEG on behalf of the AI-SECRETT consortium. The financial support to the selected successful applicants will be provided directly by UVEG in its own name and under its own responsibility. UVEG’s responsibility includes the preparation and drafting of this Call as well as the selection of successful applicants who will receive the said financial support. The publication of this Call in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal is made solely for information purposes with the aim of increasing the visibility of this call to the general public, including to potential applicants (i.e. students). The said publication shall not be construed as direct or indirect approval of the content and conditions of this Call by the relevant EU authorities or as any form of waiver from the above-described responsibility of UVEG.
The full text of the Call, the draft Financial Support Agreement (see Task description below) and a courtesy application form can be accessed and freely downloaded from the Call page: https://aisecrett.eu/bid-to-our-call/.
For more information, please contact fstp@aisecrett.eu
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- Individual
- Purpose
- Training and people
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- Nationals of EU countries or listed Digital Europe Programme participating countries, subject to programme and activity enrolment.
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Single applicant
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Per project
- €5K
- Topics
- Artificial intelligence education
- Master's extracurricular activities
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Applicant type
- Natural persons who are nationals of an EU country or a listed Digital Europe Programme participating country, and who meet the AI-SECRETT master/activity enrollment conditions.
- Application restriction
- The first edition opened 1 October 2026. Cut-offs: 30 November 2026, 31 January 2027, 31 March 2027, 31 May 2027 and 31 July 2027, each at 23:59 Brussels time. Applicants may apply at multiple cut-offs but support is paid only once.
- Eligible project scope
- Support is for participation in an eligible extracurricular AI-SECRETT activity linked to the online master’s programme; applicants must be enrolled in or accepted to both the master’s programme and at least one listed activity.
- Other condition
- The call states that UVEG launches and pays this support in its own name and responsibility; publication in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal is informational and is not EU approval of the call.
- Other condition
- Payment is normally made after participation and approval of the report and cost statement, against evidence of successful completion and proofs of payment; a partial advance is possible only in special and duly justified cases.
- Other condition
- Only expenses incurred after submission of the relevant application are eligible; the activity must not have ended by the selected cut-off and proof of enrolment/acceptance must be dated on or after 1 October 2026.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €600,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Funding per beneficiary, maximum
- €5,000
Maximum is the lesser of 50% of the approved eligible costs and EUR 5,000, adjusted by the applicable MSCA country coefficient; each person can receive support only once.
- Call allocation
- €600,000
The operator calls EUR 600,000 the total budget and says the resources are shared equally across two yearly editions. It also reserves extra allocation up to twice the initially allocated amount; no distinct independently rounded first-edition pool is asserted.
- Eligible cost
- Actual and justified travel and accommodation costs; actual and documented registration/participation fees; and other actual, justified and documented costs associated with participation.
- Funding intensity, maximum
- 50
Applies to actual eligible participation expenses and is subject to the separate EUR 5,000 per-person ceiling and country adjustment.
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 1 Oct 2026
- Deadlines
- 01 Dec 2026 00:59 CET
- 01 Feb 2027 00:59 CET
- 01 Apr 2027 01:59 CEST
- 01 Jun 2027 01:59 CEST
- 01 Aug 2027 01:59 CEST
- Deadline model
- Multiple cut-off
- Programme
- Digital Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- Financial support for participation in AI SECRETT master programme’s extracurricular educational activities (First edition). Call identifier: AI SECRETT-FSTP-CALL-01-2026.
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 9 Oct 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 23 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.