Objectiu de la convocatòria

ERA-CVD is a newly established European Research Area Network (ERA-Net) comprising 23 Partners from 18 countries/regions. The goal of ERA-CVD is to create a European Research Area in which cardiovascular research is conducted and funded across countries, allowing research groups to jointly work on specific problems, exchange ideas, and benefit from cross border expertise.

Característiques principals

JTC 2018 aims at enabling Early Career Scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on common multidisciplinary research projects. The consortia should be based on complementarities and sharing of expertise in the field of cardiovascular disease, with a clear translational research approach. The call aims to promote cooperation and interchange between Early Career Scientists and thus enable international collaboration and new consortia establishment in cardiovascular research. Cardiovascular disease research can comprise hypertensive, ischaemic, pulmonary heart diseases and diseases of pulmonary circulation, other forms of heart disease, diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries and congenital malformations of cardiac chambers and connections and cardiac septa (analogues to ICD-10). The opportunity to independently develop and perform highly innovative research projects enables capacity building and empowering of Early Career Scientists.

Requisits

Each consortium submitting a proposal must involve a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of five (5) eligible partners. Additionally, eligible partners must come from at least three (3) different countries participating in the call (see list in the call text).

A consortium must not involve more than one research group from the same country or region participating in the call, unless the second partner is an associated partner who secures his own funding. As an exception, two (2) research groups from Spain may be comprised in the same research consortium (please see Spanish eligibility conditions).

Each Principal Investigator (PI) - in an applicant consortium cannot participate in more than one proposal. In the Belgian case also two (2) research groups per consortium are allowed, however participation is limited to one partner per region/community, which in practice comes down to one partner per participating Belgian funding agency, per consortium.

Consortia including partners from countries that are to date underrepresented in this funding scheme (Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey) may increase the total number of partners to six (6).

Research groups not eligible to their national funding organizations or from countries which are not involved in this call may participate in projects only if their participation clearly provides an added value to the consortium and if they present evidence of a secured budget for their part in the project. Already at the stage of the pre-proposal submission, such partners have to confirm that their funding is secured. The availability of the funding must be documented at the stage of full proposal submission. Such research groups are not considered in the minimum number of three research groups mentioned above. In any case, the total number of eligible research groups in one consortium must not exceed five, or six if one of the underrepresented countries listed above is comprised and maximum seven (7), when including one partner with secured own funding.

Overall, a research consortium can comprise a maximum of seven (7) partners, if including one (1) partner from the above indicated countries (Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey) and one (1) partner with own funding.

Dotació

For Spanish participants:

Durada

3 years

Convocatòria (URL)
http://www.era-cvd.eu/294.php