REMORA Fellowships Link Researchers to Horizon EU
The REMORA project is offering networking fellowships to connect researchers in the Azores and La Réunion with top institutions participating in the Horizon Europe program. The initiative aims to foster international collaboration and knowledge sharing within the European research community. The application deadline is February 25, 2026.
- The fellowships are an element of the Horizon Europe "Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence" (WIDERA) program, which has a budget of approximately €3.4 billion to reduce research and innovation disparities across the European Union. - The Azores and La Réunion are two of the European Union's nine Outermost Regions, which face structural challenges due to their geographical remoteness that can impede full participation in EU-wide research networks. - REMORA is a three-year project with a €1.2 million budget specifically aimed at transforming three oceanographic research centers in Outermost Regions into leading participants within the broader Horizon Europe framework. - The initiative specifically targets three institutions: CITEB in La Réunion, OKEANOS in the Azores, and the Observatório Oceânico da Madeira (OOM) in Madeira. - The project's strategy extends beyond fellowships to include developing institutional roadmaps and hosting international events, like the REMORA Symposium in La Réunion, to showcase the regions' unique assets for global ocean science. - Efforts like REMORA aim to address a recognized "innovation divide," ensuring that centralized EU research funding doesn't disproportionately benefit established hubs at the expense of peripheral regions. - Horizon Europe is the EU's primary research and innovation funding program from 2021 to 2027, with an overall budget of €95.5 billion.
