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 current project NEURON II co-ordinates national and regional programmes for disease-related neuroscience research in 23 participant funding organisations across 14 European Member States, Israel as an Associated Country, and Norway and Canada.

Característiques principals

The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative research projects that will address important questions relating to external insults to the central nervous system. These insults often cause permanent disability and constitute a heavy burden for patients and their families. The call will accept proposals ranging from understanding basic mechanisms of disease through proof-of-concept clinical studies in humans to neurorehabilitation. The focus of the call is on primary physical insults to the central nervous system, i.e. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). The call covers acute traumatic events over the entire lifespan.

Excluded from this call are research projects on haemorrhage and hypoxia. Moreover, research on psychological/mental consequences of insults, including stress related disorders (e.g. post-traumatic stress disorder) is not part of the present call. Research on neurodegenerative disorders will not be eligible in the present call.

The ERA-NET NEURON funding organizations particularly wish to promote multi-disciplinary work and to encourage translational research proposals that combine basic and clinical approaches, for the benefit of the affected patients.

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

a) Fundamental research investigating consequences of external insults to the central nervous system on a biological and functional level. This may include the development of innovative or shared resources, and new technologies for the prediction, prevention or therapy of disease.

b) Clinical research, including the exploitation of novel and/or existing clinical data sets, to develop new strategies for diagnosis, therapy, and technology-driven neurorehabilitation (e.g. brain computer interfaces, EEG and neuroimaging approaches) for diseases after external insults to the central nervous system.

Deadline

Pre-proposals must be submitted in electronic format no later than March 14, 2016 (14:00:00 CET)

Convocatòria (URL)

http://www.neuron-eranet.eu/en/613.php

Electronic submission system: https://www.pt-it.de/ptoutline/application/neuron_cofund

Informació addicional

The call follows a two-stage procedure. Pre-proposals must be submitted in electronic format no later than March 14, 2016 (14:00:00 CET) via the electronic submission system. Full proposals will only be accepted from those applicants explicitly invited by the Joint Call Secretariat to submit them.

Requisits

Only transnational projects will be funded. Each consortium submitting a proposal must be com-prised of a minimum of three research groups eligible for funding by organizations listed in this call text. The research groups must be from at least three different countries. The total number of research groups in a consortium is limited to five. 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, Slovakia, and Turkey) may increase the total number of partners to six.

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 on secured budget for their part in the project. In any case, the total number of research groups in one consortium must not exceed five, or six if one of the underrepresented countries listed above is comprised.

Although applications must be submitted jointly by groups from several countries, the individual research groups will be funded by the individual NEURON funding organization(s) of their respective countries. Eligibility criteria are the matter of individual partner funding organizations.

Therefore, applicants are strongly advised to follow the instructions contained in the country-specific eligibility tables which are published on the NEURON website and to contact their national/regional funding organization to confirm eligibility matters before submitting an application.

SPANISH CONDITIONS:(See more details in Anexo ISCIII)

Eligible institutions:

Hospitals, primary health care or public health settings of the Spanish National Health System (SNS)

Accredited Health Research Institutes (Institutos de Investigación Sanitaria acreditados, IIS) MUST BE PROJECT COORDINATOR

CIBER or CIBERNED MUST BE PROJECT COORDINATOR

A. Only one partner per beneficiary institution may be funded within the same proposal

B. SMEs and other private companies are encouraged to participate at their own cost, as subcontractors or funded by other sources including CDTI open calls for internationalization

Only one proposal per partner is allowed

Researchers with ongoing NEURON projects in 2017 cannot apply to the current call except if the applicant is the coordinator

Eligible applicants

The Principal Investigator (PI) and all members of the research group must belong to the eligible institution or be affiliated to CIBER, CIBERNED or an IIS.

Excluded personnel as Principal Investigator (PI):

Those undergoing a postgraduate training in Health Specialization (MIR, FIR, QIR, BIR, PIR)

Those undergoing research training (e.g. PhD students, or "Río Hortega" contracts)

Researchers contracted by a RETIC or a CONSOLIDER

Those undergoing postdoctoral training (e.g. "Sara Borrell" or "Juan de la Cierva" contracts

Maximum budgets:

100 K€ per partner (overheads included)

150 K€ per project coordinator (overheads included)

Al ser elegibles por el ISCIII, quedan excluidas de la financiación del MINECO:

* Instituciones sanitarias públicas y privadas sin ánimo de lucro, vinculadas con el Sistema Nacional de Salud y que desarrollen actividad investigadora.

* Institutos de investigación sanitaria acreditados conforme a lo establecido en el Real Decreto 339/2004, de 27 de febrero, y normas complementarias.

Durada

3 years

In case of interest please contact the Research Support Office (Leonor Norton lnorton@fsjd.org, recerca@fsjd.org)