Objectiu de la convocatòria

JPND was established in 2009 to enable participating EU Member States to work together on the challenge of age-related neurodegenerative diseases, in particular Alzheimer's. In the past five years, tremendous progress has been made by JPND in terms of increasing coordination, collaboration and alignment between national research programmes and projects related to neurodegenerative diseases.

Característiques principals

Imaging techniques such as MR, PET and EEG mapping have brought about a dramatic improvement in the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. In recent years, access to cutting-edge imaging technologies and platforms has expanded, and advances have been made in the harmonisation of acquisition procedures across scanners and vendors. However, fully capitalising on the use of brain imaging technologies for neurodegeneration research will require the development of new methodologies and the ability to achieve image acquisition and analysis at scale and at the global level.

The purpose of the call is to establish a limited number of transnational working groups to address the key challenges facing the use of new and innovative brain imaging techniques in neurodegenerative disease research. The working groups will be community-led and will establish 'best practice' guidelines and/or methodological frameworks to overcome these barriers. The call is not intended to support direct research studies.

The following neurodegenerative diseases are included in the call:

Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

Parkinson's disease and PD?related disorders

Prion diseases

Motor neuron diseases

Huntington's disease

Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA)

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

Studies primarily relevant to other diseases with a neurodegenerative component (e. g., multiple sclerosis) are not included in the call.

A typical arrangement would entail small workshops at the beginning and end of the process, with sub-groups established to achieve more focused work through remote-working.

Convocatòria (URL)

http://www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu/initiatives/annual-calls-for-proposals/open-calls/brain-imaging-working-groups-2016/

Electronic proposal: https://www.pt-it.de/ptoutline/application/Imaging

Requisits

Applications are to be led by a coordinator from an eligible institution within one of the participating JPND member countries (in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of the relevant national funding organisations).

As a cross-JPND activity, experts from all JPND member countries may participate in Working Groups, including countries who are not financial participants to the call. In addition, Working Groups are encouraged to include key expertise from non-JPND countries.

Only trans-national research groups will be funded. To qualify for funding, each proposal must involve research experts from three or more of the 30 JPND countries.

Working Group contributors are permitted to be members of Working Groups in more than one proposal. However, individuals may not act as the Coordinator for more than one proposal.

Please see page 4 af the Call text for a complete of JPND countries contributing funding to this call.

Dotació

Up to € 50,000 per working group.

Durada

9 months

AVÍS IMPORTANT

At the time of publication of the call, the participation of Spain is pending final decision. Please contact Research Support Office for updated information (Leonor Norton, lnorton@fsjd.org, recerca@fsjd.org)