Objectiu de la convocatòria

ERA-NETs are projects funded by the European Commission in various research fields. Their goal is to create a European Research Area in which research is conducted and funded across countries, allowing research groups to jointly work on specific problems, exchange ideas, and benefit from cross border expertise.

The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative research projects that will address important questions related to mental health and mental disorders. These may include research on mood disorders (major depression, bipolar disorders), anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, autism spectrum disorders, substance use disorders, and other mental disorders. Research questions may encompass the entire lifespan. Since many mental disorders develop during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood (< 25 years), it is a clear interest for society to find pharmacological, psychological therapies and brain stimulation therapies, besides new diagnostic strategies, to promote mental health in this focus group.

Research on dementia is excluded from the present call.

The call will accept novel and original research proposals within the breadth of research understanding basic mechanisms of disease to proof-of-concept clinical studies in humans.

Característiques principals

The NEURON funding organizations particularly wish to promote multi-disciplinary work and translational research proposals that combine basic and clinical approaches. For many research questions, collaboration within a consortium of psychiatrists and neurologists is important and therefore encouraged, where appropriate, along with fundamental neuroscientists, and disciplines with specific expertise such as e.g. neuro-pediatricians.

Research proposals should cover at least one of the following areas:

a) Fundamental research on the pathogenesis, aetiology and resilience mechanisms of mental disorders. This may include the development of innovative or shared resources and technologies. The relevance of the research to disease must be clearly indicated.

b) Clinical research to develop novel strategies for prevention, (early) diagnosis, patient stratification, therapy, and/or rehabilitation procedures for mental disorders.

Proposals may include, among others, immuno-psychiatric approaches, studies on (epi)genetic causes of mental disorders, studies on social, environmental and biological risk and resilience factors. Innovative treatment approaches may include e.g. brain stimulation, use of mobile health applications, and combinations of cognitive and physical or psychosocial and pharmacological interventions.

Requisits

Only transnational projects will be funded. Each consortium submitting a proposal must be comprised of a minimum of three research groups eligible for funding by organizations listed below:

Austria; Belgium; Canada; France; Germany; Israel; Italy, Latvia; The Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Romania; Slovakia; Spain; Switzerland; Turkey.

The eligible research groups must be from at least three different countries. The total number of research groups in a consortium is limited to five including partners participating by own expenses. Not more than two research groups can be from the same country. The ERA-NET NEURON strives to strengthen the European Research Area by including as many partner countries as possible in its funding scheme. Therefore, consortia including partners from countries that are to date underrepresented in this funding scheme (Latvia, Romania and Slovakia) may increase the total number of partners to six.

Informació addicional

The call is scheduled to open on January 8, 2018.

The deadline for submitting the pre-proposals is scheduled for March 8, 2018, 14:00 CET.

The pre-proposals will be reviewed in a written (remote) peer review process. By mid-May 2018 the

coordinators of the top-ranked pre-proposals will be invited by the Joint Call Secretariat to submit a

full proposals by June 26, 2018, 14:00 CET.

Convocatòria (URL)

http://www.neuron-eranet.eu/en/776.php