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

The aim of the call is to enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on common interdisciplinary research projects based on complementarities and sharing of expertise in the field of Heart Failure, with a clear translational research approach.

The call aims at developing translational innovative projects for diagnosis and therapy of Heart Failure. Research should focus on the association between precipitating or causative factors (e.g. metabolic factors), and the molecular effectors and organ dysfunction in the development and progression of HFREF and HFPEF. Research proposals should have a translational perspective, with potential impact on disease severity and outcome.

Transnational research proposals must cover at least one of the sub-topics proposed below:

- Earlier recognition and prognosis of Heart Failure

- Innovative approaches to prevent and treat Heart Failure or to reverse the remodelling process

- Role of the interface between myocardium and non-myocyte cells in pathophysiology of heart failure

The following approaches are excluded from the scope of the call:

- Interventional clinical trials

- Building up of new cohorts, registries and/or biomaterial banks

- Biomarker fishing experiments

Convocatòria (URL)

http://www.era-cvd.eu/256.php

Informació addicional

Electronic submission system: https://secure.pt-dlr.de/ptoutline/app/users/login/JTC2016

Requisits

Only transnational projects will be funded. Each consortium submitting a proposal must involve a minimum of three (3) eligible partners 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 above). No more than one partner from the same country participating in the call will be accepted per application.

The ERA-NET CVD 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 (Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey) may increase the total number of partners to six (6).

Additional partners that secure their own funding may join consortia. However, their number is limited to one partner per consortium.

Overall, a consortium can have a maximum of seven (7) partners, if including a partner from an underrepresented country and a partner that secures his own funding.

The consortium coordinator must always be eligible to receive funding from the funding organisations participating in the call.

For Spanish applicants: please check the eligibility requirements of the institution and the principal investigator/team members, in pages 32-33 of the Guidelines.

Applicants are strongly advised to contact their national representative and confirm eligibility with their respective funding organisations in advance of submitting an application

Dotació

For Spanish participants:

up to 100,000 € (overheads included) per partner

up to 150.000 € (overheads included) per coordinator

Durada

3 years