FUNDS FOR COOPERATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEADLINE: Continuos open call for proposals.

  

SCIENTIFIC DOMAINS:

• Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences
• Food and Agriculture
• Forests, their Products and Services
• Materials, Physical and Nanosciences
• Chemistry and Molecular Sciences and Technologies
• Earth System Science and Environmental Management
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Transport and Urban Development
• Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health

In addition, Trans-Domain Proposals allow for broad, multidisciplinary proposals to strike across the nine scientific domains.

ACTIVITIES:

The support will cover the costs of networking activities such as:

• meetings
• conferences
• workshops
• short-term scientific exchanges
• dissemination activities     

BENEFICIARIES:

Researchers from the following countries :

35 member states: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Serbia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and
Other states: Israel, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.  

SUSTAINABLE SURFACE TRANSPORT

DEADLINE: 12^th April 2011

 Topics called: 

ENSURING SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY

• Design, implement and test innovative strategies for sustainable urban transport
• Support action for coordination, dissemination and evaluation, CIVITAS Plus

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").

NUCLEAR FISSION AND RADIATION PROTECTION

DEADLINE: APRIL 7^Th, 2011.

ACTIVITIES:

1) Management of Radioactive Waste:

- Geological disposal:

• Research activities in support of implementation of geological disposal
• Support for regulatory functions in the area of geological disposal

- Partitioning and transmutation

2) Reactor Systems:

- Safety and competitiveness of existing and future nuclear installations

- Advanced nuclear systems for increased sustainability

• Support for ESNII

- Cross-cutting aspects for nuclear systems:

• R&D activities in support of the implementation fo the Strategic Agenda of SNE-TP

- Advanced systems for nonelectrical uses of nuclear energy

3) Radiation Protection:

- Quantification of risks for low and protracted exposures:

•  Contribution to low-dose risk research in Europe

- Medical uses of radiation

- Networking and coordination in biodosimetry

- Supporting infrastructures

- Access to infrastructures:

• Transnational access to large infrastructures

4) Human Resources, Mobility and Training:

- Training and mobility of research workers

BENEFICIARIES:

Any legal entities established in different EU Member States or Associated countries.

FUNDS IN THE BIOTECHNOLOGY SECTOR

DEADLINE: FEBRUARY  1^ST, 2011.

BENEFICIARIES:

SMEs or organisations based in the following countries/regions:

• Austria
• Belgium represented by the regions of: Flanders, Wallonia, 
• Finland
• Germany
• Hungary
• Israel 
• Italy
• The Netherlands
• Spain represented by the regions of: Basque Country, Catalonia, Madrid, Navarra.

Funding is intended for innovative biotech-projects in the fields of:

·         Industrial research & development

·         Applied research

ACTIVITIES:

The strategic objective of the call is to foster the competitiveness of Europe’s biotechnology industry by supporting research intensive SMEs and their strategic partnerships.

Funding possibilities will be offered to excellent and innovative industrial research and development and applied research projects.

All  projects should be designed according to the following principles:

• All project partners contribute to, and benefit from, an equitable and balanced cooperation.
• Results of collaborative projects are shared through a controlled process that protects and allocates any intellectual property rights used and established during cooperation.
• Projects must be in the field of biotech irrespective of the core business of the applicants
• Projects must be technologically innovative and create economical value. They may involve any kind of work up to and including the pre-competitive phase (i.e.up to the first prototype)

SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ON- AND OFF-LINE INTERACTIVE WORKS

DEADLINE: APRIL 11^Th, 2011.

One of the objectives of the programme is to promote, by providing financial support, the development of production projects intended for European and international markets presented by independent European production companies.

METHOD OF FINANCING: reimbursement of 50% of eligible costs

The minimum grant is 10,000€. The maximum grant is 150,000€.

BENEFICIARIES:

This notice is aimed at European companies whose activities contribute to the attainment of the above objectives, and in particular to independent production companies.

Applicants must be established in one of the following countries:

— the 27 countries of the European Union,

— the EEA countries, Switzerland and Croatia.

ACTIVITIES:

The activities for the following interactive works are eligible:

The concept development (up to a first playable application) of digital interactive content complementing an audiovisual project (drama, creative documentary or animation) specifically developed for at least one of the following platforms:

•  Internet,
• PC,
• console,
• handheld device,
• interactive television.

This digital content must present:

• substantial interactivity with a narrative component,
• originality, creativity and innovation against existing works,
• European commercial potential.

Only the following types of audiovisual project intended for commercial exploitation can be complemented by the submitted interactive work:

• a drama of at least 50 minutes (the total length of the series in the case of a series),
• a creative documentary of at least 25 minutes (length per episode in the case of a series),
• an animation of at least 24 minutes (the total length of the series in the case of a series)

EC launched an Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe project

The European Commissioni has launched the project “Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe” (OpenAIRE), the purpose of which is to encourage and support free online access to knowledge generated by researchers within grants from the Seventh Framework Programme and the European Research Council.

OpenAIREwill provide support structures for researchers and an electronic infrastructure to handle peer-reviewed articles. It also aims to establish cooperation with communities to deposit access and manage research datasets.

http://www.openaire.eu/

FORTHCOMING CALL: SME INITIATIVE ON DIGITAL CONTENT AND LANGUAGES

DEADLINE: First stage (short proposals) 28 April 2011

TARGET OUTCOMES

a) Bootstrapping a data economy:

·         To maximise reuse of digital content resources by making them easy to find, evaluate and integrate.

·         To foster reuse of digital content resources by providing guarantees and fair incentives for their creators and maintainers.

·          To develop robust and highly usable new services demanded by citizens and businesses (especially SMEs) and create value by correlating independently produced datasets or extracting valuable information not foreseen by the original data producer.

b) Community building and best practices: Produce rigorous studies on the actual or projected economic impact of digital resources pooling as a function of well defined parameters such as the size of resources, user populations, socio-economic sectors, and software stacks adopted.

c) Sharing language resources:

·         To make more effective the acquisition of language resources exploiting automated and/or collaborative means

·         To contribute to an open exchange place based upon the concerted pooling of resources having a significant potential for reuse.

·         To show the concrete impact of using, combining or repurposing the above resources in a given use context, in terms of improved functionality, maintainability, scalability and portability of new systems and technologies.

d) Building consensus and common services: Actions under this heading must help establish mechanisms, forums and support services to (i) coordinate efforts, reach consensus, mobilise the community at large, and (ii) set up and manage the planned electronic trading facilities.

 

If interested, please write to  infonetwork@igcsas.it

HELP TO IMPROVE SOSRESEARCHERS

Dear all,

 in order to give you more information you are interested in I'll be pleased to receive comments from you about your research interests. Knowing  in which country you work will be a plus.

Remember that if you want to apply for a grant I can look for the other partners (SMEs, industrial partners, Universities etc..) needed. 

Any suggestion on how to improve this blog is more than welcome.

Thank you everyone.

SENIOR RESEARCHERS GRANT- PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING

DEADLINE:9 February 2011

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION:

• Mathematics: all areas of mathematics, pure and applied, plus mathematical foundations of computer science, mathematical physics and statistics
• Fundamental constituents of matter: particle, nuclear, plasma, atomic, molecular, gas, and optical physics
• Condensed matter physics: structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences
• Physical and analytical chemical sciences: analytical chemistry, chemical theory, physical chemistry/chemical physics
• Materials and synthesis: materials synthesis, structure-properties relations, functional and advanced materials, molecular architecture, organic chemistry
• Computer science and informatics: informatics and information systems, computer science, scientific computing, intelligent systems
• Systems and communication engineering: electronic, communication, optical and systems engineering
• Products and processes engineering: product design, process design and control, construction methods, civil engineering, energy systems, material engineering
• Universe sciences: astro-physics/chemistry/biology; solar system; stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, planetary systems, cosmology, space science, instrumentation
• Earth system science: physical geography, geology, geophysics, atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climatology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management

Applicants for the  ERC Advanced Grant are expected to be active researchers and to have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years.

Minimum number of participants: At least 1 independent legal entity established in one of the Member States, or one of the associated countries.