Europen funds for research: Space

European funds for R&D in the Space sector

Deadline: 23rd November 2011

Main areas of intervention:

Space-based applications at the service of European Society / Preoperational validation of GMES services and products

• Testing and validating the intelligence-driven and high time-critical scenarios of the CONOPS
• Testing and validating the low time-critical components of the CONOPS
• GMES Security
• Support to emergency response management
• Preparing takeup of GMES Sentinel data

Space-based applications at the service of European Society / Support to the coordinated provision of observation data

• Research and development for In-situ component
• GMES Climate Change – Coordination of Earth observation data validation for reanalysis
• GMES Climate Change – Data archiving and exchange
• Consolidation of user requirements for GMES

Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology / Research to support space science and exploration

• Exploitation of science and exploration data

Strengthening the foundations of Space science and technology / Research to support space transportation and key Technologies

• Key technologies enabling observations in and from space
• Key technologies for in-space activities

Cross-cutting activities / SME specific research

• Bringing terrestrial SME-research into the space domain

Cross-cutting activities/ Studies and events in support of European Space Policy

• Studies and events in support of European Space Policy
• Research agenda definitions and research activity road-maps for a European Research framework programme (workshop activities)
• New emerging research needs - reduction of vulnerability of space infrastructure

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European Research Council Grants

The film portrays seven young and bright researchers that have received a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant. This documentary film reveals their personalities uncovering their research universe and ambitions. The research they strive for can be carried out with the financial support of ERC grants. The European Research Council (ERC) is the first European funding body set up to support investigator-driven and excellent frontier research. Every year the ERC selects and supports the very best, truly creative scientists, scholars and engineers, both Europeans and non Europeans, by the means of calls for proposals funded by the Seventh EU Research Framework Programme (FP7). Since its setting up in 2007, the ERC has supported more than 800 research projects, led either by top scientists ("ERC Advanced grants") or by younger, emerging research leaders ("ERC Starting grants").

European Research Council (ERC) starting grant holder wins Nobel physics prize

A recipient of one of the European Research Council’s (ERC) first grants, Konstantin Novoselov, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on graphene, a new carbon material that is expected to have widespread application in electronics and photonics. 

Novoselov, who was awarded his ERC Starting Grant in 2007, becomes one of the youngest Nobel Prize winners, at the age of 36. The prize was awarded jointly to Novoselov and his fellow Russian Andre Geim, with whom he carried out the research at Manchester University. Geim has been funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for the past ten years, most recently being awarded a £5 million grant in October 2009.

more at:http://bulletin.sciencebusiness.net/

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RESEARCHERS’ GRANT FUNDS

The European Research Council (ERC) funds every year excellent research projects in any scientific discipline aiming at broadening the scientific and technological knowledge ("frontier research"). Top researchers of any nationality and  from anywhere in the world can apply, as long as  their ERC project will be carried out in a public or private institution based in Europe ( EU Member State  or Associated Country ). The grants are for up to 5 years.

KEY POINTS:

• All fields of research are eligible
  
• All researchers are eligible: from any country in the world, regardless of nationality, type of institution, or age 
  
  
  
  Two types of ERC grants:

• Starting Grants, for the best researchers with 2 to 10 years of experience after their PhD;
  
• Advanced Grants, for top research leaders, with at least 10 years of experience and significant research achievements
  

• Attractive long-term funding: each project can receive up to 2 Million € (for Starting Grants) or up to 3.5 Million € (for Advanced Grants), for up to 5 years
  
• Principal Investigators and their research team are supported: no trans-national partnerships nor consortia are required
  

 

The ERC has yearly calls for proposals covering all scientific fields: Life Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Physical Science and Engineering

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Social Sciences and Humanities Starting Grant

If you are a young researcher and your research project is dealing with:

-Individuals, institutions and markets;

-Institutions, values, beliefs and behavior;

-Environment and society;

-The Human Mind and its complexity;

-Cultures and cultural production;

-The study of the human past

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