EU FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

The purpose of PENTA is to catalyse research, development and innovation in areas of micro- and nanoelectronics enabled systems and applications across the value chain - where there is shared high national and industrial interest. The first call will focus on the strategic challenges in Automotive, Healthcare and Production.

ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. This action is open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any Member State or Associated.

Deadline Date 12-03-2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)

Topic: Cloud Computing, including security aspects

Specific Challenge: Data are motivating a profound transformation in the culture and conduct of scientific research in every field of science and engineering. Advancements in this area are required in terms of cloud-centric applications for big data, as well as in creating novel cloud technologies that provide effective utilization and optimization of heterogeneous resources (such as storage and communications) in big data scenarios, in particular addressing privacy, security and other Quality-of-Service issues.

Scope:

·         The focus of the joint research will be the development of innovative technologies combining advanced Clouds and Big Data approaches to address the challenges stemming from different application domains in business and societal contexts. The technologies developed should take into account interoperability  and data portability issues and aim towards future standardization.

·         Coordinated and Support Actions

One CSA for the research coordination and policy activities, including research roadmapping and supporting further future common activities, i.e. dissemination, organisation of workshops, preparation of future coordinated call topics, etc.

Planned Opening date 15-10-2014

Deadline Date21-04-2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)

Total Call Budget€7,000,000

Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. This action is open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any Member State or Associated Country.
The ERC's frontier research grants operate on a 'bottom-up' basis without predetermined priorities.
The call 'ERC-2014-AdG' consists of one call with a single deadline applying to each of the three main research domains:
• Physical Sciences & Engineering (Panels: PE1 – PE10),
• Life Sciences (Panels: LS1 – LS9),
• Social Sciences & Humanities (Panels: SH1 – SH6).

Budget: €450,000,000
The deadline for all domains of this call is 21 October 2014, 17:00:00 (Brussels local time).

The AAL Association needs independent experts for the AAL Programme, the renewed € 700 million applied research and innovation programme in the field of ICT-based solutions for ageing well jointly undertaken by several Member States with the participation of the Union. The call for interest is launched now and will remain open until 2020.

The main objectives of this three year ENS project are to:  

1) Study the extent and impact of the arbitrary immigration detention of stateless people and those at risk of statelessness in Europe. It is important to note in this context that stateless persons may also be asylum seekers, failed asylum seekers or completely unrelated to the asylum system.

 2) Develop regional and country-specific tools to protect stateless persons and those at risk of statelessness from arbitrary detention in Europe.   

Remuneration and expenses
A research fee of GBP 3,000 for conducting the research and drafting (and if necessary translating) the country report and toolkit will be paid. In addition, a fee of GBP 800 will be paid for organizing and facilitating the country training workshop. Furthermore, research and publication expenses of up to GBP 600 will be covered for the country research, and GBP 600 will be provided to cover the costs of the country workshop. This the overall amount available is GBP 5,000.

Deadline:08.02.2016

Open call for tenders No MARE/2014/45 Scoping study on maritime economic data

Objectives and scope of the study

The main objective of the study is to support and place on a firm footing the process for the collection and processing of data on the maritime economy across the European Union in order to make available a consistent set of data on the Maritime economy in Europe, its size, growth rates, employment levels and related trends. This in turn should help setting maritime priorities in Europe, define and inform policy and track performance across industries.

Deadline:09/09/2015

Specific challenge: Facilitate trans-national co-operation between NCPs within the Transport Challenge with a view to identifying and sharing good practices and raising the general standard of support to programme applicants, taking into account the diversity of actors that make up the constituency of the Transport Challenge.

Scope: Support will be given to a consortium of formally nominated NCPs in the area of Transport. The activities will be tailored according to the nature of the area, and the priorities of the NCPs concerned. Various mechanisms may be included, such as benchmarking, joint workshops, enhanced cross-border brokerage events, specific training linked to the Transport Challenge as well as to gender dimension of Research and Innovation, and twinning schemes. Special attention will be given to enhance the competence of NCPs, including helping less experienced NCPs rapidly acquire the know-how accumulated in other countries.

The focus throughout should be on issues specific to the Transport Challenge, and should not duplicate actions foreseen in the NCP network for quality standards and horizontal issues under ‘Science with and for Society’.

Only NCPs from EU Member States and Associated Countries which have been officially appointed by the relevant national authorities are eligible to participate in and receive funding for this action.

The consortium should have a good representation of experienced and less experienced NCPs.

Objective:

The COFUND scheme aims at stimulating regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.

This will be achieved by co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to open up to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.

Scope:

Each proposal funded under the COFUND scheme shall have a sole participant that will be responsible for the availability of the necessary matching funds to execute the proposal.

Participants submit multi-annual proposals for new or existing doctoral programmes or fellowship programmes that may be run at regional, national or international level. The evaluation is organised in two different panels: A) Doctoral programmes and B) Fellowship programmes. Support cannot be awarded to researchers who are already permanently employed at the host organisation.

Deadline Date 01-10-2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)

Scope and objectives

Type of action: ECSEL Research and innovation action

Description: Action primarily consisting of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. For this
purpose they may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing  and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.

Reimbursement rate for establishing the EU contribution

Industry  50% 
SME  50% 
University/Other 50%

Deadline Date

Total Call Budget