JPI Cultural Heritage Programme

JPI Cultural Heritage Programme 

Deadline: 5 April 2013

Research topics: 

1. Methods, tools (including non-invasive instruments) and modelling for understanding damage and decay mechanisms (including the effects of weathering and climate change) on tangible heritage (including buildings, sites and landscapes); 

2. Materials, technologies and procedures for the conservation of tangible cultural heritage; 

3. Use and re-use of buildings and landscapes, including the relationship between changes of use and public policy, including costs and added value (for example as a result of planning regulations and urban development); 

4. Increasing understanding of cultural values, valuation, interpretation, ethics and identity around all forms of cultural heritage (tangible, intangible and digital heritage). 

 The project must have a maximum duration of 36 months

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FP7: Era-chairs pilot

FP7 Capacities Programme: Research Potential

Deadline: 30 May 2013

The ¨ERA Chairs¨ Concept:

The objective is to support public universities and other eligible research organisations, with a demonstrated potential for research excellence, in developing their potential so that they can achieve excellence on a sustainable basis.
 Research organisations interested in appointing an ERA Chair will have to commit to introduce measures and activities to facilitate the structural change and put in place the conditions needed to develop excellent research and to fully benefit from the ERA Chair.

Activities should be focused on achieving concrete and clearly identified objectives.

The size of the ERA Chair research team to be recruited under the grant is expected to be at least of 300 months of full-time work equivalent (person/month). The ERA Chair holder will have flexibility in timely using the personnel according with the project needs.

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EU ICI-ECP PROGRAMME FOR JOINT MOBILITY PROJECTS (JMP) AND JOINT DEGREE PROJECTS (JDP)

EU ICI-ECP programme for joint mobility projects and joint degree projects Deadline: 15 May 2013

The Industrialised Countries Instrument (ICI) promotes co-operation between the European Union and seventeen industrialised and other high-income countries and territories in North America, the Asia-Pacific region and the Gulf region.

One of the supported specific actions promotes "people-to-people links" with the aim to enhance mutual understanding between cultures and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge. 

This 2012 ICI-ECP Call for Proposals supports co-operation with Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the Republic of Korea by means of Joint Degree projects (JDP) and Joint Mobility projects  (JMP). 

Such projects focus on structured exchanges of students and faculty members; and on the joint development of joint or shared curricula and joint study programmes, as well as on the award of joint or double degrees in the case of Joint Degree projects. 

All projects must address: 

• development of innovative international curricula; 
• student services, 
• language and cultural preparation; 
• organisational frameworks for student mobility and faculty members' mobility; 
• evaluation; 
• sustainability and dissemination.

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ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP)

ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP)

Deadline: 14 May 2013

The ICT PSP supports the realisation of European policies and in particular the Digital agenda for Europe and is aligned with its priorities. It aims at stimulating smart sustainable and inclusive growth by accelerating the wider uptake and best use of innovative digital technologies and content by citizens, governments and businesses.

Intelligent energy europe programme

European funds for energy: IEE programme

Deadline: 8th May 2013

The objective of the Intelligent Energy - Europe Programme is to contribute to secure sustainable and competitively priced energy for Europe, by providing for action:

• to foster energy efficiency and the rational use of energy resources;
• to promote new and renewable energy sources and to support energy diversification;
• to promote energy efficiency and the use of new and renewable energy sources in transport.

Budget for 2013 is EUR 65Million.

Intelligent Energy Europe covers action in the following fields;

 Energy efficiency and rational use of energy resources (SAVE), including: 

• Improvement of energy efficiency and the rational use of energy, in particular in the building and industry sectors; 
• Supporting the preparation and application of legislative measures.

New and renewable energy resources (ALTENER), including:

• Promoting new and renewable energy sources for centralised and decentralised production of electricity, heat and cooling, and thus supporting the diversification of energy sources;
• Integrating new and renewable energy sources into the local environment and the energy systems; Supporting the preparation and application of legislative measures.

Energy in transport (STEER) to promote energy efficiency and the use of new and renewable energy sources in transport, including: 

•  Supporting initiatives relating to all energy aspects of transport and the diversification of fuels; 
•  Promoting renewable fuels and energy efficiency in transport; 
•  Supporting the preparation and application of legislative measures. 

 Integrated initiatives combine several of the above specific fields or relating to certain EU priorities.

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Health programme

European grants in the field of health

Deadline: 22 March 2013

Eligible Actions:

1.Improve citizens’ health security’
1.1. Develop strategies and mechanisms for preventing, exchanging information on and responding to health threats from communicable and non-communicable diseases

• Improve access to early diagnosis of HIV\AIDS and timely treatment and care of most vulnerable groups in priority regions 

2. Promote health 
2.1. Promote initiatives to increase healthy life years and promote healthy ageing 
 4.2.1.1. Addressing chronic diseases and promoting healthy ageing across the life cycle
 4.2.1.2. Supporting the priorities of the European Innovative Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing 4.2.2.7. Pilot network of cooperation under Directive 2011\24\EU

2.2. Prevention of major and rare diseases 

• Support to rare disease registries and networks in view of their sustainability
• Support to an information network on lung mesothelioma

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Call for proposals – Daphne III – Specific 116000 hotline

Deadline: 6 February 2013

This call for proposals for action grants aims to co-fund projects to set up or run 116 000 hotlines for missing children that are presented by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or other entities, which are mandated by the national authorities in setting up and/or running such 116 000 hotlines 

The duration of the project should not exceed 24 months. 

The 116 000 hotline has been designed to report missing children and provide social support services for children and families when a child goes missing. EU Member States, national regulators, telecom operators and organisations wishing to provide this service must each make a strong commitment to ensure the 116 000 number is operational. 

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One Health Programme in Asia

European grant fund: EuropeAid Programme
Deadline: 22nd February 2013 for concept notes

The program is designed to improve health and well-being of fragile populations in Asia by tackling health risks and challenges at the interface between animals, humans and their various environments. The programme aims to strengthen capabilities in notably the Least Developed Countries in Asia to address and prepare for risks related to infectious diseases via the promotion of innovative and regional cross-sectoral and multi-actor collaborations and networking through the implementation of the One Health approach

Eligible actions are those aiming at: 

• Linking wildlife, ecosystems, environments (including socio-economic) and health; 
• Assessing (socio-economically) the burden of neglected zoonoses and the added value of the OH approach; 
• OH advocacy in particular vis-à-vis the public health sector; 
• Asian OH network and governance; 
• Communication in time of sanitary crisis and “peace”; 

European fund for the integration of third country nationals

Deadline: 26th February 2013

Established in the framework of the European Union Programme “Solidarity and management of migration flows” for the period 2007-2013, the European Fund for the integration of third country nationals aims at supporting the member states in their efforts for the smooth integration of third country nationals into the European nationals

Priority 1: Local action to enhance migrants' economic, social, cultural and political participation 

Priority 2: Cooperation with source countries in fostering integration

Priority 3: Governance and effectiveness of integration measures

Beneficiaries: any private or public legal entities established in any EU member state (except Denmark)

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European price for innovation in public administrations

VII Framework programme for resarch and innnovation- Capacities

Deadline: 15th February 2013

The Commission plans to award prizes to successful, already running, and innovative public initiatives. The initiatives, managed by the national, regional or local public administrations, will have made significant improvements in citizens' lives.

With this Prize the Commission wants to reward excellence and innovation in strategies, services, networks, processes and infrastructure. 

The Commission wants to recognise the outstanding achievements of public administrations in the following three categories:

1. Initiatives for citizens (e.g. special assistance for the elderly; eco-friendly public transport; participatory budgeting)

2. Initiatives for firms (e.g. providing networking platforms for start-ups; supporting rural entrepreneurs with e-trade tools)

3. Initiatives for education and research (e.g. new approaches to vocational training; fostering a better learning environment for primary schools; facilitating entrepreneurship of researchers)

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