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 24 participant funding organisations across 18 European Member States, Israel as an Associated Country, and Canada.

Característiques principals
The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative research projects that will address important questions relating to the neurodevelopmental nature of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The call will accept proposals ranging from understanding basic mechanisms of disease through proof-of-concept clinical studies in humans. These may include - without excluding others - diseases such as autism, schizophrenia, mental retardation, attention deficit disorders, foetal alcohol syndrome, epilepsy syndromes, cerebral palsy, inherited peripheral neuropathies, sensory disorders and spastic paraplegias. Disorders that manifest only with neurodegenerative features during adulthood will not be eligible for this 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.

Research proposals should cover at least one of the following areas:
A) Fundamental research on the pathogenesis and/or aetiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. 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 clinical data sets, to develop new strategies for diagnosis, therapy, and rehabilitation procedures for diseases in which neurodevelopmental mechanisms play the key role.

Informació addicional
The call follows a two-stage procedure. Pre-proposals must be submitted in electronic format no later than March 09, 2015 (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 (see above); all three groups must be from different countries. The total number of research groups in a consortium must not exceed five. Not more than two research groups can be from the same country.
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.

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.

SPANISH CONDITIONS:(See more details in Anexo MINECO)
Eligible institutions:

Durada
3 years

In case of interest please contact

Leonor Norton

International projects

lnorton(ELIMINAR)@fsjd.org