Objectives of the Call

The joint action "Nutrition and Cognitive Function" (NutriCog) aims at promoting research activities that address the interrelation of diet and cognitive function. This knowledge will lay the basis for dietary preventive strategies and recommendations to guide individuals and populations towards health promoting dietary habits.

The objective of the NutriCog Call is to support ambitious, innovative and transnational collaborative research projects that will address important questions relating to the interplay between nutrition and cognitive function. Both the influence of dietary patterns (and/or dietary constituents, where appropriate) on cognitive functions and vice versa the effects of Central Nervous System nutrient signaling and cognitive processes on food intake, dietary patterns and eating behaviour are relevant for this call.
Proposals have to follow a multidisciplinary approach and should cover multiple areas, such as mechanistic/experimental research, translational research, epidemiological research and pilot/proof of principle studies for interventions.

Call (URL):

http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/joint-actions/nutricog

Eligible activities

Proposals must follow a multidisciplinary approach and should cover multiple areas, such as:

- Mechanistic/experimental research (in vitro, animal and/or human studies) focusing on how dietary factors interrelate with cognitive functions and processes;

- Translational research (animal and/or human studies) delivering the physiological basis for the development of effective strategies to influence dietary behavior and/or to improve cognitive function and performance;

- Epidemiological research elucidating the relationship between diet and cognitive function across the life course, exclusively based on existing cohorts or other ongoing epidemiological studies;

- Pilot and/or proof of principle studies for interventions in humans, to develop new strategies for the maintenance and promotion of cognitive function and/or healthy dietary habits during the lifespan.

Eligible applicants

Applicants can be research groups working in universities (or other higher education institutions), non-university public research institutes, hospitals and other health care settings as well as commercial companies, in particular small and medium-size enterprises. The eligibility of these organisations and institutions are subject to the national/regional regulations of the individual funding organisations and may therefore vary.

Eligible countries

Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom.

Partnership criteria

Each consortium must involve a minimum of three and a maximum of six research groups eligible for funding and three groups must be from different countries. No more than two research groups can originate from the same country.

Project duration

Maximum 3 years

Funding

Single research groups will be funded according to national regulations. Eligible costs may vary according to the corresponding funding organisations' regulations. Each group is subject to the rules and regulations of its respective national/regional funding organization.

For further information do not hesitate to contact Leonor Norton-International Projects FSJD (lnorton@fsjd.org).