RESEARCH FUNDS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR

1^ST STAGE DEADLINE: OCTOBER 13^th, 2010.

1.     BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENERIC TOOLS AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR HUMAN HEALTH 

• High-throughput research
• Innovative therapeutic approaches and interventions: regenerative medicine clinical trials

2.        TRANSLATING RESEARCH FOR HUMAN HEALTH

• Integrating biological data and processes: large-scale data gathering, systems biology
• Research on the brain and related diseases, human development and ageing
• Translational research in major infectious diseases: to confront major threats to public health 
• antimicrobial drug resistance
• Potentially new and re-emerging epidemics
• Translational research in other major diseases

3. OPTIMISING THE DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE TO EUROPEAN CITIZENS

• Developing methodologies to reduce inequities in the determinants of health.
• Analysis of integrated strategies for sustainable behaviour change.

 

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RESEARCH FUNDS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR

DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 10^th, 2010

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:

1.     BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENERIC TOOLS AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR HUMAN HEALTH

a.       High throughput proteomics for human health and disease

b.       High impact research initiative for better immunization

c.       New therapeutic approaches in chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

  

2.     TRANSLATING RESEARCH FOR HUMAN HEALTH

·         INTEGRATING BIOLOGICAL DATA AND PROCESSES: LARGE-SCALE DATA GATHERING, SYSTEMS BIOLOGY:

a.       High impact research initiative on the human epigenome

b.       Population genetics studies on cardio-metabolic disorders in EU/AC and EECA populations

·         RESEARCH ON THE BRAIN AND RELATED DISEASES, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND AGEING

a.       Creating clinical and molecular tools for experimental therapy of paediatric neurodegenerative disorders causing childhood dementia in Europe and India

b.       Management of Gram negative multi-drug resistant infections

·         TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN MAJOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES: TO CONFRONT MAJOR THREATS TO PUBLIC HEALTH

a.       ANTIMICROBIAL DRUG RESISTANCE: Multidisciplinary research on the evolution and transfer of antibiotic resistance

b.       EMERGING EPIDEMICS: Comprehensive control of Dengue fever under changing climatic conditions

·         TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN OTHER MAJOR DISEASES:

a.       Epidemiology and aetiology of infection-related cancers

 3. OPTIMISING THE DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE TO EUROPEAN CITIZENS

·       HEALTH PROMOTION

a.       Developing and implementing methods for the transfer of research into policy in the fields of health promotion and disease prevention

b.       A road-map for mental health research in Europe

·       INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH & HEALTH SYSTEMS

a.       Development and assessment of comprehensive and integrated interventions and programmes to improve reproductive health and health equity

b.       Building sustainable capacity for research for health and its social determinants in low and middle income countries

c.        Multilateral cooperation between Europe, Africa and Latin America on public health and health services research

4. OTHER ACTIONS ACROSS THE HEALTH THEME

a.       Networking of major research institutions to coordinate communication actions aimed at the media and the general public

b.       Targeting publication bias

c.        Linking EU and Latin American policy making institutions in the field of health research

d.       Organisation of supporting actions and events related to the Presidency of the European Union

·         RESPONDING TO EU POLICY NEEDS

a.       Investigator driven clinical trials on off-patent  medicines for children

b.       Adverse drug reaction research

c.       New methodologies for clinical trials in personalised medicine

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Contribution for SMEs’ Research and Innovation Activities.

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30^TH, 2010.

BENEFICIARIES:

A Eurostars project is collaborative, meaning it must involve at least two participants (legal entities) from two different Eurostars member countries:

• Main participant: one R&D-performing SME from a Eurostars member country (i.e. a SME that invests 10% or more of its turn-over or its full-time equivalent personal in research and development activities).

• Other entities: Any type of organisation (small and medium-sized enterprise, large company, university, research centre).
  
  ACTIVITIES:
  The activities to be implemented include:
  • Industrial research activities (planned research or critical investigations aimed at gaining new knowledge, which has to be exploited in order to develop new products, processes or services, or else to allow a significant improvement of the already existing ones).
    
  • Experimental development activities (acquisition, combination, structuring and use of the existing knowledge and skills: these can have either a scientific, technological or commercial nature, in order to produce plans, projects or designs for new products, processes or services, amended or enhanced).
  
  
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EU FUNDS FOR COOPERATION IN THE ICT SECTOR

  TOPICS

• Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures
• Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics
• Components, systems, engineering
• Digital Libraries and Content
• Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
• ICT for Mobility, Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency
• ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
• Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) 
  
  
  
  Target audience: research organizations, universities, industry, including SMEs, potential end-users) established in different EU Member States or Associated countries; furthermore, participation is open to any International European Interest Organisation or any legal entity established in an FP7 International Cooperation Partner Country.

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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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PARTNER SEARCH FOR FINANCED RESEARCH PROJECT

Deadline for submission of mandatory Project Outlines: 26th of March 2010

Countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic,

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia,

Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, FYR Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway,

Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United

Kingdom.

PURPOSE:

The objective of this project is the realization of an industry-driven projects in the field of embedded systems, which

aim at generating new and improved technologies and in applying them in products, processes or

services; in order to strengthen the competitiveness of European industry, improve sustainability,

and facilitate the emergence of new markets and applications that respond to societal needs.

Partner profile sought:

INDUSTRIAL PARTNER: may be an industrial organization, financial or government, ideally a credit Institute. It has technical resources able to experience the solution. Operates in a business environment characterized by complex ICT infrastructures. Normally uses methodologies for testing and validation of ICT solutions.

 

TECHNICAL PARTNERS: The partner sought could be either technical or scientific, has resources capable to perform application development, has expertise in the field of information security with particular reference to issues relating to risk management. It has a technological infrastructure required for the provisioning, development and testing of application modules implemented. Use useful methodologies to ensure the Software life cycle processes.

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GRANT FUNDS

DEADLINE: March, 24th 2010

Topics:

• Information and communication technologies for manufacturing including industrial robotics;
• Environmental and energy technologies;
• Knowledge-based engineering technologies (computer-aided engineering and design, automated manufacturing, product lifetime management, etc.);
• Adaptive manufacturing technologies: processes for removing, joining, adding, forming, consolidating, assembling;
• Other technologies/products related to the manufacturing field. 

 

BENEFICIARIES:

- At least one company must be based in Piedmont

- At least one company must be based in Asturie, Catalonia, Navarra or Basque country (Spain), Austria, France, Northen Ireland, Israele, Estonia,  Poland, West Greece, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Wallonia (Belgium).

 
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EU FUNDS FOR COOPERATION IN THE ICT SECTOR

DEADLINE: APRIL 13 TH, 2010

 TOPICS:

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS

• New approachers towards understanding and solving  key issues related to the engineering of artificial congnitive systems
• New ways of designing and implementing complete robotic systems A framework to facilitate cross-fertilization between academic and industrial research efforts in robotics
• Co-ordinated co-operation and communication within a multidisciplinary artificial cognitive systems research community in Europe, with concomitant outreach to potential industrial applications   

DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND DIGITAL PRESERVATION

• Scalable systems and services for preserving digital content 
• Advanced preservation scenarios:
  
  • Methods and tools for preserving complex objects
  • Intelligent digital curation and preservation systems. 
• Innovative solutions for assembling multimedia digital libraries 
• Adaptive cultural experiences 
• Interdisciplinary research networks - NoE 

Promoting the uptake of EC-funded research enabling the deployment of new ICT-based cultural and memory preservation services. 

VIRTUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL HUMAN

• Development of patient-specific computer based models and simulation of the physiology of human organs and pathologies
• Development of ICT tools, services and specialised infrastructure for the biomedical researchers
• Support action on evaluation and assessment of VPH projects
• Coordination/Support action to develop an observatory on the achievements and evolution of the broader Biomedical Informatics field.
  
  
  
  ICT FOR MOBILITY OF THE FUTURE 
  
• ICT-based systems and services for Smart Urban Mobility and new Mobility Concept
• Field Operational Tests for Integrated Safety Systems and Co-operative Systems  
• Coordination and support actions In the framework of the Intelligent Car initiative: research agendas, dissemination of results (user awareness campaigns), assessments of socio-economic impact and training
•  International cooperation in accordance with the specific cooperation agreements with Japan and the USA.

FUTURE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

• Brain-inspired ICT 
• Coordinating Communities, Plans and Actions in FET Proactive Initiatives  
• Identifying new research topics, Assessing emerging global S&T trends in ICT for future FET Proactive initiatives.
• Molecular Scale Devices and System:
  • Development of multi-scale models of information processing and communication in the brain and/or PNs 
  • Synthetic Hardware Implementations of Neural Circuits

HORIZONTAL AND SUPPORT ACTIONS

• International Cooperation : Support to the uptake of European ICT research results in developing economies

• Supplements to support International Cooperation between ongoing projects (Fields of Activity: Nanoelectronics Technology,  ICT for Safety and Energy Efficiency in Mobility).

     

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FUNDS FOR PROJECTS IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR

DEADLINE: MARCH 12^TH, 2010. 

areas for funding: 

1)    Improve citizens’ health security

a.        Develop prevention and control of existing or emerging Communicable diseases

b.        Improve preparedness for and response to health emergencies, including climate change, issues related to pandemic influenza and interregional cooperation

c.        Enhance existing response capacity against threats from biological, chemical and radiological agents as well as emerging environmental burden of diseases

d.        Develop prevention in the field of patient safety

e.        Scientific advice and risk assessment

f.          Safety of blood, tissues, cells and organs

2)       Promote health

a.        Promoting health in all policies approach

b.        Public health capacity building

c.        Reduction of health inequalities

d.       Children and young people

e.        Health and work

f.       Nutrition and physical activity

g.      Sexual health and HIV-AIDS

h.       Mental health

i.       Addiction prevention

j.        Prevention of major and chronic diseases and rare diseases

k.       Healthy environments

l.        Injury prevention

3)    Generate and disseminate health information and knowledge

a.        Exchange knowledge and best practise

b.        Collect, analyse and disseminate health information

c.        European Health Information System

d.        Dissemination and application of health information

e.        Analysis and reporting

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