Past event
Monday 28 September 2026, 2.30 pm (CET) — online webinar on Zoom.
A meeting of the Confindustria Est Europa network, promoted by Confindustria Bulgaria with ENCO S.r.l. – Engineering & Consulting, on the funding opportunities of the Horizon Europe programme for 2026-2027. A practical session: what is open, how to pick the right call, and what makes a proposal succeed.
Programme
- Welcome and introduction — Irena Brajović, Director of Confindustria Serbia
- Horizon Europe 2026-2027: funding opportunities — Giampiero de la Feld, CEO of ENCO S.r.l. An overview of the calls, emerging trends and priorities in the Work Programme, setting project objectives, and how to identify the call that fits your idea
- Building a competitive European proposal — recurring pitfalls, consortium building, consistency between activities, expected results and impact
- Success stories — SYMBA, with Antonietta Pizza (Head of EU Projects Unit & SYMBA Coordinator), and REFEST, with Francesco Menconi (Technical Coordinator)
- Evaluation criteria and success factors — Excellence, Impact, Quality and efficiency
- Q&A with the audience
How to take part
Attendance is free of charge and open to companies belonging to the network's Representations.
Registration takes two steps: after signing up on this page, you also need to register on Confindustria's Zoom platform, which sends each participant their own personal joining link — register on Zoom.
Each participant registers with their own email address, including when a colleague signed up on behalf of several people.
Companies interested in finding out more can contact their own Association or Representation.