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.

Característiques principals

The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative research projects that will address im-portant questions related to the synaptic dysfunction of the central nervous system. Defective syn-aptic communication is at the origin of numerous neurological and mental disorders –synaptopathies - such as epilepsies, migraine, autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, mood disorders and others. The synaptopathies are often characterized by common alterations of pro-teins and molecular pathways affecting either neurons or glia at synapses and altering pre- and/or post-synaptic function. The present call will accept proposals addressing the disease-related syn-aptic dysfunction with approaches ranging from understanding basic mechanisms of disease to proof-of-concept therapeutically-driven clinical studies in humans.

The ERA-NET NEURON funding organizations particularly wish to promote multi-disciplinary work and translational research proposals that combine basic and clinical approaches. Therefore, the participation of clinicians is encouraged.

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

a) Fundamental research on the pathogenesis and/or aetiology of synaptopathies. This may include the development of innovative or shared resources and new technologies for pre-vention, diagnosis or therapy of disease.

b) Clinical research, including the exploitation of existing clinical data sets, to develop new strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and therapy for diseases in which synaptic dysfunction plays a key role.

Convocatòria (URL)
http://www.neuron-eranet.org/en/698.php

Electronic submission system: https://secure.pt-dlr.de/ptoutline/app/neuron_synaptopa

Informació addicional

-stage procedure. Pre-proposals must be submitted in electronic format no later than March 14, 2017 (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 comprised 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. Please contact the Oficina de Suport a la Recerca FSJD to confirm eligibility matters before submitting an application.