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IncoNet EaP: Feasibility Study

for structured joint funding mechanisms

in the 3 Societal Challenges

Deliverable Title D1.4 – Feasibility Study for structured joint funding

mechanisms targeting EaP region in the 3 SCs

Deliverable Lead: CNRS

Related Work package: WP1 – Coordinating activities on major Societal Challenges

Author(s): Laura Sedaine and Chantal Khan-Malek

Dissemination level: Public

Due submission date: 30/02/2016

Actual submission: 8/12/2016

Project Number 609528

Instrument: Coordination and Support Action (CSA)

Start date of Project: 01/09/2013

Duration: 40 months

Abstract The main aim of the Feasibility Study is to identify on-going

and upcoming thematic COFUND ERANETs and JPIs of

common interest between EaP and EU partners and to

facilitate the inclusion of research agencies from Eastern

Partnership Countries in these ERANETs and JPIs that leads

to the joint funding activities with EU MS/AC in the three

selected Societal Challenges of the project: Health, Energy

and Climate Change.

Funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for

research, technological development and demonstration

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VERSIONING AND CONTRIBUTION HISTORY

Version Date Modification reason Modified by

v.01 15.08.2016 First Draft CNRS

v. 02 30.08.2016 Second Draft including comments

from CeRISS CNRS

v. 03 30.11.2016 Third Draft including comments

from CeRISS CNRS

v. 04 08.12.2016 Final report CNRS

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TABLE OF CONTENT

ABBREVIATIONS ....................................................................................................... 4

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................... 5

INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 6

METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................ 7

First Step – Identification ........................................................................................... 7

Second Step – Communication .................................................................................. 8

Third Step – Monitoring ............................................................................................. 9

Fourth Step - Assessment ........................................................................................... 9

MAIN RESULTS FROM THIS FEASIBILITY STUDY ........................................... 10

Main findings per EaP country................................................................................. 10

Identification of main challenges and obstacles ....................................................... 13

CONSULTATION PROCESS .................................................................................... 15

SYNERGIES WITH OTHER PROJECTS .................................................................. 15

CONCLUSIONS.......................................................................................................... 16

ANNEX I: Letter to the national authorities ................................................................ 18

ANNEX II: Information package................................................................................. 20

ANNEX III: Feedback form of the communication with national authorities ............ 22

ANNEX IV: ERANETs additional questions to coordinators ..................................... 23

ANNEX V: List of identified ERANETs/JPIs............................................................. 24

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ABBREVIATIONS

AC Associated Country

ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations

BE Brokerage Event

BS ERA-NET Networking on Science and Technology in the Black Sea Region

CeRISS Centre for Regional and International STI Studies

CSA Cooperation and Supportive Actions

DoW Description of Work (of the project)

EaP Eastern Partnership Countries

EEN Enterprise Europe Network

ERANETs European Research Area Networks

ERA-NET RUS Coordination of MS/AC S&T programmes towards and with

Russia

FET Future Emerging Technologies

IncoNet EaP STI International Cooperation Network for Eastern Partnership

Countries

FP7 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development

INOGATE Energy Technical Assistance Programmes in Eastern Europe,

Caucasus and Central Asia

JPI Joint Programming Initiative

EU MS/AC European Union Member States and Associated Countries

NCPs National Contact Points

NMBP Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology, and

Advanced Manufacturing and Processing

SC Societal Challenges

STI Science, Technology and Innovation

ICT Information and Communication Technologies

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The FP7-funded Project IncoNet EaP conducted a feasibility study aiming at facilitating the

participation of EaP countries, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and

Ukraine, in joint funding mechanisms, based on the lessons learned from preceding activities

in the project, namely a twinning exercise among the EU and EaP research and innovation

communities, an analysis of the ERA-NET RUS and BS ERA-NET projects and consultation

with stakeholders.

IncoNet EaP aims to include the research agencies from Eastern Partnership Countries in

thematic COFUND ERANETs and Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) that lead to joint

funding activities with EU Member States/Associated Countries in specific themes, and with

a particular interest to the research and innovation national policy of each EaP country.

In the framework of this activity, the task participants have analysed the ongoing ERA-NETs

and JPIs as well as the ones that are forthcoming in the new H2020 Work Programme (2016-

2017) regarding the three Societal Challenges, namely, Climate Change / Environment,

Energy and Health which are open to participation of third countries.

The identification process enabled to map a total of 89 projects, amongst which 43 on-going

ERANETs, 36 ERANET new calls, and 10 JPIs.

This activity included a consultation process with programme owners and other stakeholders

of the EU MS/AC and EaP countries to identify common grounds and readiness for

commitment on which to build a joint structured cooperation activity.

This study is aimed to serve as an input for the European Commission and the EU MS/AC in

view of developing and enhancing the ERA-NET scheme under Horizon 2020.

The main common topics of interest, as defined by contacted EaP national authorities, are:

Climate change

Agriculture and Food Security

Bio-economy

Water

Transport and electro-mobility

This activity was conducted in close coordination with the projects IncoNet Central Asia and

Black Sea Horizon, in order to combine efforts and avoid duplication of work.

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INTRODUCTION

This document presents the development of a feasibility study for EaP countries (research and

innovation stakeholders, funding agencies etc.) to take part in EU joint funding mechanisms

such as ERANETs and JPIs related to the three SCs.

More specifically, it describes the methodology, the consultation process with EaP national

authorities, the outcome of the feasibility study and its possible next steps.

It has been decided during the IncoNet EaP General Assembly on October 14th, 2014 in

Vienna, to extend the scope of the study by promoting participation of EaP countries in

thematic ERANETs.

The scope of the task – feasibility study of geographical ERANETs in EaP - had to be

redefined from its original definition in the DoW as it became clear once the IncoNet EaP

Project started that the European Commission did no longer envisage the launch of

geographical ERANETs.

Therefore, it was decided that the feasibility study should be focused on thematic ERANETs

and JPIs, both on-going and forthcoming (Work Programme 2016-2017), in line with the

three Societal Challenges, Climate Change/Environment, Energy and Health.

The objectives of the task are:

identify on-going and upcoming thematic COFUND ERANETs and JPIs of common

interest between EaP and EU partners ;

facilitate the inclusion of research agencies from Eastern Partnership Countries in

these ERANETs and JPIs ;

more generally, increase joint funding activities with EU MS/AC and EaP countries;

serve as an input for the European Commission and the EU MS/AC in view of

developing and enhancing the ERA-NET scheme under Horizon 2020.

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METHODOLOGY

The main concept was to conduct an activity with tangible results. The active consultation of

the relevant stakeholders led to the actual support of the EaP funding organisations towards

the inclusion in ERANETs/JPIs.

The feasibility study consisted of the four following steps:

Identification of ERANETs and JPIs (under implementation and upcoming)

Communication with EaP partners and the relevant national authorities

Monitoring of participation

Assessment of participation and deliverable.

First Step – Identification Two types of ERANETs and JPIs were identified –related to the 3 SCs:

Forthcoming ERANETs/JPIs under Work Programme 2016-2017, H2020 and

ERANETs/JPIs under implementation.

The identification was based on a template including the following entries:

Work Programme

2016-2017, H2020 ERANETs under implementation / JPIs

Topic identifier Project Acronym

Title Project Title

Instrument Project Programme

Budget Project Total Cost

Call closure Project End Date

Description Participant Legal Name Coordinator

Website Summary

Status Website

Status (open for participation or not, if yes, under which

conditions)

Indicative questions to the coordinator of each ERANET:

- is the ERANET still open for third countries?

- if yes, until when?

- if yes, what is the indicative minimum contribution?

- if yes, the funding model is the real pot or the virtual

common pot?

- if yes, in which particular topics?

All coordinators of the identified projects (on-going) were contacted in order to determine

whether or not participation of EaP countries in future calls was possible and under which

condition.

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The content of communication with the national authorities (see below) was prepared by all

partners involved in the task.

Second Step – Communication The partners prepared a communication package, which was disseminated to the EaP

partners, who informed their respective relevant national authorities (Ministries and Funding

Agencies) of these opportunities for participation.

The communication with the national authorities included:

A letter to be addressed to the national authorities (aim of the project and task`s

objectives and activities) ;

An information package (introduction of ERANETs, best practices of one geographic

and one thematic ERANETs) ;

A list of the identified ERANETs and JPIs.

EaP partners have identified the national authorities to be addressed, and sent feedback to the

Task Leader, with information which national authorities are interested to participate in

ERANETs, and in which particular ERANETs.

The feedback form (see Annex III) contains questions on the interest on behalf of the national

authorities to participate in a particular ERANET or JPI, on which ERANET(s) or JPI(s), as

well as questions on difficulties or barriers for not participating, and suggestions of

improvement for future participation.

The Task Leader communicated particularly with the EU MS ERANETs/JPIs coordinators for

which the EaP funding agencies have expressed their interest.

As regards the ongoing ERANETs/JPIs, further information was requested about the

modalities of the inclusion in these schemes - pre-requirements and technical issues. The

ERANETs/ JPIs coordinators have replied in detail giving the chance to have an overview of

the conditions of the participation. More specifically, feedback from coordinators included

questions on the current status of the project (i.e. if it is still open to the participation of new

countries, if forthcoming calls are envisaged), on the possible participation of the interested

countries, the modalities for participating (minimum amount required) in a joint call, and

finally on a possible forthcoming meeting for discussing the participation of new countries

(see the template in Annex IV).

As regards the forthcoming ERANETs calls: since there is no identified coordinator yet, the

Task Leader communicated with predecessor (thematic) ERANETs coordinators in order to

examine the possibility of EaP country`s involvement. However, since the received feedback

was insufficient, the EaP countries were advised to publish their interest in a specific

ERANET call into the ERA-LEARN project’s website (official tool for ERANETs/JPIs

support).

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Third Step – Monitoring If needed, assistance and mentoring to EaP research and innovation communities for the

successful participation of EaP relevant institutions (ministries, funding agencies) was

provided. Additional communication between the ERANETs/JPIs coordinators and the EaP

funding agencies was conducted with the purpose to inform/ clarify the exact requirements of

the participation in these schemes.

A four-month prolongation of the IncoNet EaP Project has been formulated to the European

Commission and could lead to further development of the task. Indeed, due to the new

developments in the EaP region (signature of Association Agreements to Horizon 2020 of

Georgia/April 2016 and Armenia/May 2016), the expressed interest of funding authorities

from Georgia and Armenia, but also from other EaP countries, to participate in forthcoming

ERANETs and JPIs, as well as the positive reaction from EU/MS funding authorities to

cooperate with the relevant EaP countries, an extension of this activity is envisaged to result

in concrete commitments especially from the newly Associated Countries.

A Workshop for the Participation of Non-EU Black Sea and Eastern Partnership Countries in

Thematic COFUND ERANETs & JPIs, co-organised by the Black-Sea Horizon and the

IncoNet EaP Project, took place on 13-14 October 2016, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The workshop functioned both as an information meeting for ERANET/JPI schemes, as well

as a networking event between the EU Member States and Black Sea/EaP funding agencies in

view of increasing the participation of Black Sea/EaP Countries in ongoing or forthcoming

co-funding schemes or calls. Experience was shared by the representatives of ERANETs and

JPIs on the modalities of how to participate in thematic COFUND ERANETs as well as

coaching towards the EaP funding agencies. Other sessions included a presentation of ERA

tools for Public-Public Partnerships, a presentation of the platform ERALEARN 2020, best

practices with presentations from three ERANETs/JPIs, followed by presentations of

successful participations of EaP and BSH counties in ERANETs/JPIs.

Fourth Step - Assessment Communication between EaP partners and their national authorities on a regular basis has

been established in order to report any development. In addition, an assessment of EaP

countries participation in ERANETs was carried out, including the benefits, difficulties,

barriers and ways of improvement of the task as a whole.

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MAIN RESULTS FROM THIS FEASIBILITY STUDY

Main findings per EaP country

The identification process enabled to list a total of 89 projects, amongst which 43 on-going

ERANETs, 36 ERANET new calls, and 10 JPIs.

SC On-going

ERANETs

New calls

ERANETs

JPIs Total

Energy 8 7 3 18

Climate Change 8 7 5 20

Health 8 3 4 15

Other 19 19 0 38

Total 43 36 10 89

Other topics in upcoming calls include:

Transport,

Inclusive societies,

Quantum technologies,

Nanotechnologies,

Gender equality

Widening participation.

Other topics in on-going ERANETs include:

FET,

SMEs,

ICT,

International Cooperation,

Agricultural research,

NMBP,

SSH, and

Transport.

A detailed description of each project, as well as the coordinator’s contact details and

possibility to take part in future calls, was sent within the information package to EaP

partners.

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The EaP countries transmitted the following expressions of interest for upcoming ERANETs:

ERANET Name Deadline Interested countries

ERA-NET Co-fund on

electromobility

26/01/2016 Belarus - National Academy of

Science (NASB)

SFS-19-2016: ERANET COFUND :

Public-Public Partnerships in the

bioeconomy A. Organic farming and

food production B. Sustainable food

production and consumption C. A

knowledge platform for the intestinal

microbiome

17/02/2016 Armenia - State Committee of

Science

BG-5-2016: ERA-NET Cofund on

marine technologies

17/02/2016 Belarus - National Academy of

Science (NASB)

SCC-04-2016 - SC5 - Climate

action, environment, resource

efficiency and raw materials Sustainable urbanisation

08/03/2016 Moldova - Agency for

Innovation and Technology

Transfer, AITT

CULT-COOP-10-2017 :

Culture, integration and European

public space

02/02/2017 Georgia - Shota Rustaveli

National Science Foundation

(SRNSF)

HCO-03-2017: To implement the

Strategic Research Agenda on

Personalised Medicine [RTD]

11/04/2017 Georgia - Shota Rustaveli


(SRNSF)

OTH 30. COST - SC6 - Europe in a

changing world - inclusive,

innovative and reflective Societies

2016 and

2017

Moldova - Agency for

Innovation and Technology

Transfer, AITT

OTHER-1-2017: Specific Grant

Agreements (SGAs) for ERA-NET

Cofund actions supporting Joint

Actions towards Public-Public

Partnerships in the Bioeconomy

3rd quarter

2017

Georgia - Shota Rustaveli


(SRNSF)

The EaP countries transmitted the following expressions of interest for JPIs:

JPI Name Interested countries

JPI Water Armenia - State Committee of Science

Moldova - Center of International Projects of the Academy of

Sciences of Moldova

FACCE JPI

(Agriculture, Food

Security, Climate

Change)

Moldova - Center of International Projects of the Academy of

Sciences of Moldova

Armenia - State Committee of Science (FACCE SURPLUS

SC2)

JPI Climate Moldova - Center of International Projects of the Academy of

Sciences of Moldova

Moldova - Organization for Small and Medium Enterprise

Sector Development (ODIMM)

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JPI Cultural heritage Moldova - Organization for Small and Medium Enterprise


JPI MYBL (More

Years Better Lives)

Moldova - Organization for Small and Medium Enterprise


JPI Urban Europe Moldova - Organization for Small and Medium Enterprise


The expressions of interest for each country focused on the following topics:

Armenia: Water, Agriculture, Food Security, Climate Change and Bio-economy

related calls;

Azerbaijan: general interest for all SCs;

Belarus: Electro-mobility and Maritime and Marine Technologies

Georgia: Integration and Cultural Space, Personalized Medicine, Bio-economy

Moldova: Agriculture, Food Security, Climate Change, Water challenge, Sustainable

urbanization, Inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies, Cultural heritage, Urban

Europe and MYBL (More Years Better Lives);

Ukraine: interest for certain SCs, such as SC1 (Health, Demographic Change and

Well-being) SC2 (Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and

maritime and inland water research and the bio-economy), SC3 (Secure, clean and

efficient energy), SC5 (Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw

materials) and SC6 (Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective

Societies), but also Innovation in SME, and Excellent Science/ Future and Emerging

Technologies.

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As shown in the above word-cloud, the main common topics of interest, as expressed by the

feedback from relevant national authorities are:

Climate change


Bio-economy

Water

Transport and electro-mobility

Identification of main challenges and obstacles Based on the feedback from the consultation, a number of challenges and obstacles could be

identified:

- A lack of knowledge about the ERANETs and JPIs as well the feeling that the

schemes are complex constitute some of the main obstacles to the lack of

participation in the EaP countries.

- Other limitations were raised by national authorities and EaP partners regarding the

inclusion of research funding agencies in thematic ERANETs and JPIs: an awareness

campaign may be necessary to ensure the promotion of these programmes and

generate interest from research agencies, as this participation will prove extremely

beneficial to the Scientific, Technological and Innovation communities and help build

a joint structured cooperation activity between EaP countries and the European

Research Area.

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- The administrative procedure for the inclusion may require for some EaP countries to

adapt their legal basis, especially to insure that state budget funds can be provided for

international actions. One possible solution would be to engage in a long-term

dialogue and information-sharing with the identified national authorities in order to

raise awareness and increase the participation.

- Proper training of staff within the funding agencies concerning the EU funding rules

may also be necessary.

- The limitation to the three SCs also appeared as a bottleneck to some EaP countries as

the pre-defined topics did not necessarily reflect the STI strength of each country. It

seems important, though difficult, to take into account the priorities of each country,

even when they are clearly defined, as well as develop synergies with all national

funding schemes. “A-la-carte” participation seems a good option.

- Nevertheless, the participation in ERANETs/JPIs may be considered as a demanding

and dedicated commitment on behalf of the countries. It also requires proper training

of the staff involved within the funding agencies.

- It is important to mention that EaP countries could participate in the ERANET

scheme with an alternative status, for example as an observer, in order to gain

experience and exchange know-how.

- Moreover, political will for international cooperation plays clearly a pivotal role, as

well as sharing common interests between EU MS and EaP countries, since the

ERANETs/JPIs activities and topics are quite specialised and concrete.

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CONSULTATION PROCESS

The principal objective of the feasibility study was helping EaP countries to support joint

activities on agenda setting and joint programming, as well as identifying, preparing and

piloting innovative approaches for joint funding of on-going and forthcoming

ERANETs/JPIs.

Each EaP partner identified national authorities which could be interested in taking part in

ERANETs COFUND and JPIs, either research agencies and bodies, ministries, or national

programme owners.

It enabled to raise some issues concerning the legislation for funding international projects.

For instance, the option of real common pot (or ERA-NET “cash”) is not feasible for certain

countries, as the state budget funds for international actions can be provided only if these

actions result from obligations of the state, government or its bodies (ministries) fixed in the

international treaties.

To consider participation, a national programme owner must have a very clear understanding

of the implementation details - on funding aspects, evaluation, etc. The use of a “virtual”

common pot is one solution to encourage participation (The virtual common pot is a mode of

funding for transnational proposals which involves no funding across borders: each funding

institution undertakes the funding decision and funds its own participants at national level –

even though the evaluation is carried out by an international expert committee).

A special awareness raising campaign is needed in certain EaP countries, for promotion of

ERA-NETs. It should be addressed to sectoral ministries and administration but also to the

key research institutions (programme managers) who are beneficiaries in the ERA-NET calls

for proposals so that, if they are interested, will help them participate in a project. The

campaign should demonstrate the clear benefits a country may get out of the coordination of

programmes, including the financial ones.

SYNERGIES WITH OTHER PROJECTS

It was decided to initiate this activity in parallel with IncoNet CA and Black Sea Horizon

Projects, as some target countries are the same so that activities planned allow creating

synergies in the implementation of the project and thus achieving stronger impact. In order to

avoid duplication of work, tasks were divided amongst partners and coordination of projects

was conducted.

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CONCLUSIONS

The feasibility study was an activity of high importance with significant conclusions: thanks

to a very pragmatic approach to the enhancement of bi-regional cooperation, it enabled EaP

countries to identify future calls of particular interest to their respective national authorities.

The feasibility study proved to be very beneficial, when given sufficient time to inform

beforehand the national authorities of the opportunities of Horizon 2020 cooperation actions.

Its added value is expressed in creating interesting synergies, increasing joint funding

activities with EU MS/AC and EaP countries, and fostering a better approach to future

cooperation at regional level, especially when it is combined with other complementary

activities.

The feasibility study resulted in creating a pathway toward facilitating the communication

with the national funding authorities, informing them about the opportunities regarding

ERANETs and JPIs in the 3 SC (Health, Energy, Climate Change) and beyond, and exploring

their willingness to co-fund a call.

As regards to the future cooperation in the region, better exchange of information and good

practices would certainly improve the cooperation in the region in order to build up on

previous activities, and ensure a long lasting commitment to develop joint structured

cooperation. Besides, there are a number of ways in which a country with limited experience

in the ERANET schemes could participate in ERANET activities besides co-funding a call,

for example as an observer or an associate partner.

The main common topics of interest, as defined by contacted EaP national authorities, are:

Climate change


Bio-economy

Water

Transport and electro-mobility.

Some findings from the Workshop for the Participation of Non-EU Black Sea and Eastern

Partnership Countries in Thematic COFUND ERANETs & JPIs (Baku, October 16) are that

the active participation in COFUND ERANETs & Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs)

constitutes an important element of the Association of Black Sea and EaP countries to

Horizon 2020, the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. In particular,

ERANETs are an ideal instrument for participation providing the following assets:

1) Success rate within ERANET calls is much higher than within the normal H2020

Calls where competition has become too high (10-15% success);

2) Co-funding from national authorities does not necessarily need an additional budget:

already existent budgets can be re-allocated to co-fund relevant ERANET schemes;

3) In practice, the budget for ERANET COFUNDs returns back to the national

researchers participating in the ERANET calls;

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4) Participation in ERANET contributes to the improving of administration performance

at the national level by adopting good practices and harmonising STI systems within

the European Research Area.

The possible steps for remediation of the identified main challenges may include:

- i) information campaigns on ERANET and JPI schemes, highlighting the benefits in

participating in such calls and showing success stories;

- ii) implementation of an adapted legal and financial framework to insure that national

funds can be provided for international actions;

- iii) training of involved staff within funding agencies;

- iv) better awareness of EaP research capacities and priorities, as well as funding

programmes;

- v) increased participation of EaP programme owners in EU events to raise their

awareness and commitment;

- vi) increased networking and experience sharing between scientists from EaP

countries and those from EU member states, and in particular linkage with existing

ERANETs and JPIs;

- vii) increasing the international visibility of the main scientific actors and actions in

EaP countries.

Moreover, political will for international cooperation is needed as well as sharing common

interests between EU MS and EaP countries since the ERANETs/JPIs activities and topics are

quite specialised and concrete.

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ANNEX I: Letter to the national authorities

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ANNEX II: Information package

ANNEX III: Feedback form of the communication with

national authorities

Organisation, Country

Contact Person (name, position)

Email

Questions Answers

Was there any interest on behalf of the

national authorities to participate in a

particular ERANET or JPI?

Yes

No

Please tick as appropriate.

If yes, which national authorities are

interested?

In which ERANET(s) or JPI(s)?

If no, why?

Is there any particular difficulty or barrier

for not participating?

Is there any particular improvement which

can be made for a future participation?

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ANNEX IV: ERANETs additional questions to coordinators

ERANET Interested Funding Agencies/Countries

ERANET SmartGridPlus (ERANET

SG+)

FASIE/Russia

Erich Herber Olga Levchenko - Director of

International Department at FASIE

[email protected] [email protected]

What is the current status (i.e. is it still open to the participation of new

countries)?

How would you see a possible participation of the interested country?

What are the modalities for participating? Is there a minimum amount already

set for participation to a joint call?

Is there a forthcoming meeting for discussing the participation of new

countries?

Is there a forthcoming call?

mailto:[email protected]

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ANNEX V: List of identified ERANETs/JPIs

1. List of Ongoing ERANETs

2. List of new Calls for ERANETs (2016 – 2017)

3. Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs)

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Thematic COFUND

ERANETs List of Ongoing ERANETs

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Energy ....................................................................................................................................................... 4

The coordination of national research activities of Member States and Associated States in the field

of Ocean Energy (ERA-NET) .................................................................................................................. 4

ERA-NET on Solar Electricity for the Implementation of the Solar Europe Industry Initiative ............. 5

Bioenergy Sustaining the Future 2 ........................................................................................................ 6

Geothermal ERA NET ............................................................................................................................ 7

BioEnergy Sustaining the Future : Joint Strategic Planning and Programming to Enable the

Implementation of Bioenergy Demonstrations .................................................................................... 8

New European Wind Atlas Joint Programme ....................................................................................... 9

DemoWind ERA-NET Cofund action - delivering cost reduction in offshore wind (SC3) .................... 10

ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus: support deep knowledge sharing between regional and European Smart

Grids initiatives (SC3) .......................................................................................................................... 11

Environment ........................................................................................................................................... 12

ERA-NET Plus on Cultural Heritage and Global Change Research ...................................................... 12

WaterWorks 2014 (SC5) ..................................................................................................................... 13

Future & Emerging Technologies (FET) ................................................................................................... 14

FET Flagship ERA-NET.......................................................................................................................... 14

Health...................................................................................................................................................... 16

Coordination of European funding for infectious diseases research ................................................. 16

ERA-Net for Research Programmes on Rare Diseases ........................................................................ 18

Photonic appliances for life sciences and health ................................................................................ 19

TRANSCAN-2 has the goal of coordinating national and regional funding programmes for research

in the area of translational cancer research ....................................................................................... 20

ERA-NET for establishing synergies between the Joint Programming on Neurodegenerative

Diseases Research and Horizon 2020 ................................................................................................. 21

ERACoSysMed – Collaboration on systems medicine funding to promote the implementation of

systems biology approaches in clinical research and medical practice (SC1) ..................................... 22

Industrial Production .............................................................................................................................. 23

Supporting SMEs towards a new phase to European Research Area on new processes, adaptive

manufacturing systems and the factory of the future........................................................................ 23

Information and communication technologies ...................................................................................... 24

Organic and Large Area Electronics European Competition for Collaborative R&D Funding ............. 24

International Cooperation (INCO) .......................................................................................................... 25

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Network of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean Countries on Joint Innovation

and Research Activities ....................................................................................................................... 25

EURO-MEDITERRANEAN Cooperation through ERANET joint activities and beyond ......................... 26

Coordination of MS/ AC S&T programmes towards and with Russia ................................................. 27

Innovation driven Initiative for the Development and Integration of Indian and European Research

............................................................................................................................................................ 28

Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) .................................................................................................. 29

Strengthening cooperation in European research on sustainable exploitation of marine resources in

the seafood chains- ERANET ............................................................................................................... 29

Coordinated Integrated Pest Management in Europe ....................................................................... 30

Marine Biotechnology ERA-NET.......................................................................................................... 31

Tackling the challenges in sustainable and multifunctional forestry through enhanced research coordination for policy decisions ........................................................................................................ 32

Coordination of the Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean ...................................................... 33

Information and Communication Technologies and Robotics for Sustainable Agriculture ................ 34

Food security, Agriculture, Climate Change ERA-NET plus ................................................................. 35

Towards an ERA in Industrial Biotechnology 2 ................................................................................... 36

FACCE SURPLUS (Sustainable and Resilient agriculture for food and non-food systems)_SC2 .......... 37

Consolidating the European Research Area on biodiversity and ecosystem services ........................ 38

Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies (NMP) ....................... 39

WoodWisdom-Net+ Pacing Innovation in the Forest-Based Sector ................................................... 39

Innovation and Commercialisation in the NMP thematic area ......................................................... 40

From materials science and engineering to innovation for Europe ................................................... 41

EUROpean network for transnational collaborative RTD projects in the field of NANOMEDicine

.............................................................................................................................................. 42

Science in Society .................................................................................................................................... 44

Promoting gender equality in research institutions and the integration of the gender dimension in

research contents ............................................................................................................................... 44

Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) ........................................................................................................ 45

European Research Area Network on Illicit Drugs - Towards integrated European research in illicit

drugs: cause and nature of drug problems; interventions and policies ............................................. 45

HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters ...................................................................... 46

Transport (TPT) ....................................................................................................................................... 47

ERA-NET Plus on Infrastructure Innovation ........................................................................................ 47

ERA NET TRANSPORT III ...................................................................................................................... 48

ERA-NET Smart Cities and Communities ............................................................................................. 49

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Energy

Project Acronym OCEANERA-NET

Project Title The coordination of national research activities of Member States and Associated States in the field of Ocean Energy (ERA-NET)

Project Programme ENERGY

Project Total Cost 2.673.801,16

Project End Date 30/11/17

Participant Legal Name SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE

Description: Europe’s vast coast line harbours a huge potential resource of ocean energy to be exploited as a renewable electricity source contributing towards the 2020 targets and beyond. The ocean is a complex working environment, relatively little is known about it and it is widely used by others, such as fishing, shipping and recreation. However, the prize for introducing ocean energy generation is high, estimated by DG MARE, at 380GW. Currently, several member states and regions are funding ocean energy research, demonstration, technology and innovation (RTDI). There is a shared goal to generate knowledge about the marine environment and to speed the development of this emerging sector. However these research efforts are not coordinated. This is why the member states are proposing the Ocean Energy ERA-NET as outlined in this paper. The ERA-NET will provide a framework for transnational joint activities and will cooperate with the EERA Ocean Energy Joint Programme; other relevant European projects and industry stakeholders.

Website http://www.oceaneranet.eu/pages/new-page-5.html

Status There is the potential to include funding agencies but the agreement, call documents and memorandum of understanding should be prepared before the end of January 2016.

http://www.oceaneranet.eu/pages/new-page-5.html

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Project Acronym SOLAR-ERA.NET

Project Title ERA-NET on Solar Electricity for the Implementation of the Solar Europe Industry Initiative


Project Total Cost 2.3 M€


Participant Legal Name NET NOWAK ENERGIE & TECHNOLOGIE AG, Switzerland

Description: The goal of SOLAR-ERA.NET is to undertake joint strategic planning, programming and activities for RTD and innovation in the area of solar electricity generation, i.e. photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP). Joint activities, namely joint calls, are defined for key topics and priorities in accordance with the Solar Europe Industrial Initiative (SEII) based on the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan and its related Implementation Plans for PV and CSP.

The network's activities will primarily involve the launching of joint calls for RTD proposals by national and regional RTD and innovation programmes. In order to define and support best joint activities, strategic information exchange and use of implementation tools will be carried out among the network participants and associates from key stakeholder groups.

As the largest European network ever - with 19 partners from 18 countries and regions - in the solar power field, SOLAR-ERA.NET will involve more than 20 RTD and innovation programmes dealing with PV and CSP. This high level of involvement of most relevant stakeholders will provide excellent outreach and coordination needed for an efficient and coherent approach in the highly diverse and versatile RTD landscape.

The EC funding (for the ERA-NET project) shall be multiplied by a factor of 50 in the form of joint calls. These joint calls for RTD and innovation topics in PV and CSP shall result in a total funding volume by the participating programmes of at least 50 MEUR. Assuming an average leverage factor of associated funding by industry and research of 2,5, this shall lead to the mobilisation of at least 125 MEUR in joint projects.

SOLAR-ERA.NET will thus contribute to reach the objectives of the SEII, namely boosting the development of the PV and CSP sector beyond “business-as-usual”, and of the ERA-NET, namely enhancing cooperation between the national/regional programming stakeholders at European level.

Website www.solar-era.net

Status Communication with the coordinator (Stefan Nowak) in process in order to collect information.

SOLAR-ERA.NET has launched its fourth set of transnational calls on photovoltaics (PV4) and Concentration Solar Power (CSP4) on 8 December 2015. 14 countries and regions participate in these calls with an overall funding budget of some 10 MEUR. Deadline for pre- proposal submission is 11 April 2016, 17:00 CET.

SOLAR-ERA.NET is organising an Information and Match Making Event in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 24 February 2016

http://www.solar-era.net/


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Project Acronym BESTF2

Project Title Bioenergy Sustaining the Future 2


Project Total Cost 21 743 483,00

Project End Date 30.11.18

Participant Legal Name The Technology Strategy Board, United Kingdom

Description: This ERA-NET-Plus Coordination and Support Action, BESTF, will bring together a number of national and transnational initiatives in the field of bioenergy. It follows on from the first BESTF call that launched in January 2013 and, like its predecessor, aims to kick-start large scale investment in close-to-market implementation of bioenergy thereby helping to achieve the key objectives of the European Industrial Bioenergy Initiative (EIBI) Implementation Plan. This project is aligned to the wider strategic European requirement to increase the security and sustainability of energy supply. The key objectives of this second BESTF initiative are: To implement a single collaborative funding call that will support projects focused on the generation of bioenergy. To maintain and enhance coherence and networking between national bioenergy programmes across the EU. To further the demonstration of enhanced bioenergy technologies in order to help develop robust project plans for a rangeof demonstrator and flagship plants, that will help Europe to make progress towards achieving its 2016 and 2020 energy targets. To disseminate knowledge gained from the programme and individual projects across the EU.

Research fields covered by the network Energy

Website http://eranetbestf.net/

Status Communication with the coordinator in process in order to collect information

http://eranetbestf.net/

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Project Acronym GEOTHERMAL ERA NET

Project Title Geothermal ERA NET




Participant Legal Name ORKUSTOFNUN, Iceland

Description: The proposed ERA-NET will deepen the cooperation of national programme owners and administrators and thus be an enabler for the integration of national research and development agendas into a coherent European geothermal R&D programme. Countries participating in the first instance in this ERA NET are chosen on the basis of their ambitions to include geothermal energy into their goals for 2020 and 2050 on the reduction of CO2 emissions. A cornerstone of the implementation will be the broadening of this ERA NET partnership by including additional European national programme owners to ensure the appropriate geographic balance and complementarily.

The Geothermal ERA-NET will focus on the utilization of geothermal energy, from direct heating use up to higher enthalpy resources and their corresponding use (e.g. power generation). To ensure appropriate linkages to related R&D activities (renewable heating and cooling via ground storage heat pumps, power distribution and transmission) the interface with related ERA-NETs such as ERACOBUILD or SmartGrids will be maintained to avoid overlap. The ERA NET will include technical and non-technical issues as long they can be considered to be exclusively applied to the support of geothermal energy utilization.

A significant instrument will be the EERA Joint Programme on Geothermal Energy whose aim it is to contribute via research and development to the renewable energy targets for 2020 and beyond in member and associated states. Coordination activities will focus on implementation of commonly agreed objectives and joint activities and funding of joint transnational research actions

Website http://www.geothermaleranet.is/

Status Communication with the coordinator (Guðni A. Johannesson) in process in order to collect information.

No open or upcoming Joint Calls are published on the website.

http://www.geothermaleranet.is/


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Project Acronym BESTF

Project Title BioEnergy Sustaining the Future : Joint Strategic Planning and Programming to Enable the Implementation of Bioenergy Demonstrations.




Participant Legal Name The Technology Strategy Board

Description: A consortium of eight EU Member States and Associated Countries, including the UK, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, is implementing an ERANET Plus activity entitled Bioenergy Sustaining the Future (BESTF). This activity will provide funding to collaborative bioenergy projects that demonstrate at least one innovative step and will result in demonstration at a pre-commercial stage. Boosting the contribution of bioenergy to the EU climate and energy ambitions.

Website http://eranetbestf.net/

Status Demonstrate particular demonstration projects and collaborative opportunities and clearly state what additional benefits of the country / industry bring to the scheme.

http://eranetbestf.net/

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Project Acronym NEWA

Project Title New European Wind Atlas Joint Programme

Project Programme ERA-NET plus - Energy

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Department of Energy and Sustainable Buiding , Public Service of Wallonia

Description: NEWA is a Joint Programme aiming to integrate and coordinate national and regional programmes towards the development of a new European Wind Atlas, allowing for a more efficient use of financial resources and research capabilities. The new Atlas will be based on improved modelling competencies on atmospheric flow and its interactions with wind turbines and wind farms, and will cover all Member States and some Associated Countries, as well as their exclusive economic zones, onshore and offshore. By reducing the overall uncertainties in determining wind the new Wind Atlas will become an essential tool for manufacturers and developers, public authorities and decision-makers. NEWA will contribute to: the reduction of the cost of electricity generated by wind farms by mitigating risks related to the design and operation of large-scale wind turbines through an enhanced knowledge of wind conditions; better quantification of the European wind energy potential, and provision of data and models that can improve spatial planning tools, ensuring an effective and efficient deployment of wind power. NEWA will foster long-term collaborative research and promote reinforcement of research excellence in the wind energy sector, which ultimately translate into attaining the demanding European ambitions for wind energy generation in the future.

Website http://euwindatlas.eu/partners.html

Status Communication with the coordinator is in process in order to collect information.

http://euwindatlas.eu/partners.html

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Project Acronym DemoWind

Project Title DemoWind ERA-NET Cofund action - delivering cost reduction in offshore wind (SC3)

Project Programme SC3 - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), UK

Description: DemoWind proposes to launch and implement a coordinated, collaborative, joint offshore wind technology demonstration Call worth in excess of €100m between 2015-19 under Horizon 2020 topic LCE 18 – 2014: Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions. Partners: Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom, aim to pool their national resources of up to M€21.2, matched with M€10.4 of funding from the EC. DemoWind is focussed on enabling industry, through partnership, to push technologies through TRLs 5-6 to 6-7 in transnationally funded projects. We aim to connect existing and new European offshore wind demonstration opportunities, exchange knowledge and facilitate the acceleration of cost reducing innovative technologies to commercialisation. This action will contribute to European cost reduction targets for offshore wind, economic development of the European offshore wind sector and help to maintain the EU’s internationally leading position in offshore wind. Reducing the technology cost is essential to increase the deployment of offshore wind making a significant contribution to the EU’s climate change targets, replacing aging fossil burning power plant with affordable wind energy. DemoWind has 5 work packages which will be overseen by a Management Group, and coordinated by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change. A Project Secretariat will support implementation and an Advisory Board will ensure that actions remain relevant to the needs of the offshore wind industry. Other work packages include: Preparation and launch of the transnational Call for proposals; Proposal assessment and selection; Monitoring of projects and evaluation of the overall programme and individual projects; Communication, dissemination and exploitation to ensure that funded transnational projects deliver impact.

Website http://www.demowind.eu/pages/home-5.html

Status Pending reply from the Contact Person.

http://www.demowind.eu/pages/home-5.html

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Project Acronym ERA-NET SmartGridPlus

Project Title ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus: support deep knowledge sharing between regional and European Smart Grids initiatives (SC3)

Project Program SC3 - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name AustriaTech – Gesellschaft des Bundes für technologiepolitische Maßnahmen GmbH

Description: The challenges of modernising the electricity grids in Europe lies in enabling an increased flexibility of the European power system, efficiently providing increased transfer capacity and enabling an active participation of users and new market actors (by providing the information, services, market architectures and privacy guarantees). To address these challenges, innovation is needed in system integration, interoperable technologies, services, tools, co-ordination schemes, business processes, market architectures and regulatory regimes to plan, build, monitor, control and safely operate end-to-end networks in an open, competitive, decarbonised, sustainable and climate-change resilient market, under normal and emergency conditions. The major challenge is now to overcome the fragmentation of knowledge and accelerate knowledge exchange between the already existing demonstration projects and R&D initiatives with the goal to enable them to develop European wide interoperable solutions, according to a common reference architecture. With this, critical masses shall be reached in the development of a European market for smart grids technology providers and smart grids service providers. This initiative does not intend to find the final specifications for smart grids, but to organise the learning down to regional Smart Grids stakeholders, beyond the demonstration phase towards implementation. The overall goal of the “ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus” is to support deep knowledge sharing between regional and European Smart Grids initiatives by financing 15-20 transnational projects on applied research, piloting and demonstration in the field of Smart Grids, taking a next step in Smart Grids development building on the knowledge base, R&D initiatives as well as research and demonstration facilities already in place at regional, national and European level. It will coordinate during 2015-19 national and regional RDD budgets of more than 30 M€.

Website http://www.eranet-smartgridsplus.eu/


http://www.eranet-smartgridsplus.eu/

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Environment

Project Acronym HERITAGE PLUS

Project Title ERA-NET Plus on Cultural Heritage and Global Change Research

Project Programme Environment



Participant Legal Name MINISTERO DEI BENI E DELLE ATTIVITA CULTURALI E DEL TURISMO, Italy

Description: The main objective of the HERITAGE PLUS proposal is to pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national programmes and the European Community and to launch a single Joint Call for Proposals for research projects in the cultural heritage field that will be evaluated and managed jointly by the participating programmes. The 16 Participants have a strong background in designing, promoting and managing transnational, collaborative research programmes having participated to the Era Net Projects NET HERITAGE, HERA and DCNET and implemented the Joint Programming Initiative “Cultural Heritage and Global Change: a new challenge for Europe” (JPICH). Within JPICH, the launch of the first pilot call, actually open, represents the factual commitment of Participants to implement transnational research programming. This ERA NET PLUS action will support the JPICH by proposing concrete solutions for pooling national expertise and resources and establishing closer and robust collaboration among the participating States in the field of cultural heritage. The HERITAGE PLUS action will improve the coordination of national research activities and policies in the domain of cultural heritage research.

Research fields covered by the network: Other: Cultural Heritage and Global Change

Website http://www.jpi-culturalheritage.eu/


http://www.jpi-culturalheritage.eu/

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Project Acronym WaterWorks 2014

Project Title WaterWorks 2014 (SC5)

Project Programme SC5 - Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name MINECO

Description: WaterWorks2014 responds to the Horizon 2020 (H2020) Societal Challenge 5 2014 Call topic Water-3 [2014]: Stepping up EU research and innovation cooperation in the water area.

WW2014, which is based on the model of pooling funding from 15 countries, is an ERA-NET Cofund that aims at further reducing the fragmentation and dispersion of EU water-related Research and Innovation by actively contributing to the overall EU objective of building the European Research Area (ERA). The ERA aims at the free circulation of researchers, scientific knowledge and technology, and will promote all research activities deemed necessary to improve the competitiveness of Europe, including its industry. The overall aims of WaterWorks2014 include: • Pooling financial resources towards the definition and implementation of a Cofunded transnational and multi-disciplinary Call for research and innovation proposals; • Overcoming the fragmentation of European water-related research and innovation activities; • Supporting EU policies and initiatives in the field of water; and • Supporting the implementation and the development of the Water Joint Programming Initiative (Water JPI).

Linking to other JPIs • FACCE, related through distribution, measurement, reuse and droughts (core theme 4 of the SRIA). • JPI Climate, related mainly through floods and droughts. • Urban Europe, related through distribution, measurement, reuse, water treatment and floods. • Oceans, related through desalination.

Website http://www.waterjpi.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti cle&id=365&Itemid=797

Status No longer possibility to join

http://www.waterjpi.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=365&Itemid=797

http://www.waterjpi.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=365&Itemid=797

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Future & Emerging Technologies (FET)

Project Acronym FLAG-ERA

Project Title FET Flagship ERA-NET

Project Programme Future & Emerging Technologies (FET)

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name National Research Agency (ANR), France

Description: The FET Flagship ERA-NET, called FLAG-ERA, gathers national and regional funding organisation with the goal of supporting the FET Flagship initiatives and more generally the FET Flagship concept. Most funding organisations in Europe participate, either directly or as associated members. The project also fosters international cooperation with funding organisations outside Europe. FLAG-ERA thus offers a platform to coordinate a wide range of sources of funding towards the realization of very ambitious research goals. FLAG-ERA contributes to the construction of the two Flagship initiatives on Graphene and Human Brain research, and also offers support to the four non-selected pilots to progress towards their goals with adapted means. It does so through a range of activities. In order to enable researchers funded through various sources to work in tight cooperation with each other in the context of the two Flagships, the funding organisations in FLAG-ERA coordinate their funding framework conditions. In order to enhance complementarities and synergies of regional, national and European research programmes and initiatives, the funding organisations share information on these programmes and initiatives, identify gaps and overlaps, and can thus adapt their thematic program and launch new initiatives according to the identified needs. In particular, they can launch transnational calls enabling researchers from different countries to propose joint contributions to the Flagships. Additionally, in order to encourage the actual construction of the Flagships and take-up of their results, the funding organisations organise networking sessions for the research communities and other stakeholders, including industry. The activities in FLAG-ERA are organised around periodic events gathering all stakeholders and structured in sessions dedicated to the various objectives and related tasks of the project. All activities are done with the long-term vision of the Flagship programme in mind, and the project extends slightly beyond the ramp-up phase in order to accompany the transition to the fully operational phase of the Flagships.

Research fields covered by the network Health, Materials

https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/organisations/national-research-agency

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Website http://www.flagera.eu


http://www.flagera.eu/

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Health

Project Acronym INFECT-ERA

Project Title Coordination of European funding for infectious diseases research

Project Programme HEALTH

Project Total Cost 2M€


Participant Legal Name AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE, France

Description: Infectious diseases (ID) also known as communicable diseases are one of the majorcauses of death worldwide. Every year in Europe, infectious diseases cause tens of thousands of deaths (from ECDC ‘Microbes without borders: key facts on infectious diseases in Europe’ 2007 report).

In order to address the challenges in ID and design adapted treatments, as well as diagnostic and preventive tools, the funding programmes involved in The INFECT-ERA aim to support all basic aspects of human infection biology caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses and protozoa. To that end, research addressing the cross-talk between host and pathogens, as well as the relationship between microbes’ environment and infection will be supported by Infect-ERA. In addition, this ERA-NET aims to (i) strengthen the development and improvement of innovative tools and methodologies to address infection biology as a whole and (ii) promote the integration of new tools to carry out research.

Infect-ERA consortium is comprised of 14 participants from 11 countries. It will build on the established network of National Funding Bodies that are participating in the ERA-NET of PathoGenoMics and will bring in new ones. With the accession of new partners the organization of the network will be updated. It will strongly rely on PathoGenoMics’s achievements, such as the establishment of principles and mechanisms for the evaluation of joint calls and for the management of transnational projects. Infect-ERA will therefore concentrate on funding high quality and cutting edge research through yearly Join Transnational Calls (2013-2016). It will also contribute to the European mobility initiatives and strengthen the European research by expanding the young scientist support initiated in PathoGenoMics, and facilitating the mobility of young researchers. Infect-ERA will also develop a long-term cooperation framework in infectious diseases. Infect-ERA will also enable further knowledge on intellectual property protection among scientists of funded projects.

Website http://www.infect-era.eu/

Status Communication with the coordinator (Mme Serawit Bruck-Landais) in process in order to collect information.

A transnational joint call on human infectious diseases within the framework of the ERA-NET Infect-ERA that aims to coordinate European funding for human infectious diseases research is open with an anticipated submission deadline of March 17, 2016.

Two topics:

http://www.infect-era.eu/


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The host-pathogen interactions, with regard to clinically

relevant microbial clones, focused on host susceptibility (e.g.,

innate immune response, populations at risk, etc.).

Development of innovative strategies for the diagnostic and

treatment of high clinically relevant microbial infections;

optimisation of antimicrobial therapy in an individual patient

and development of biomarkers to allow individual response

prediction.

EaP partners can take part in consortia on own funds.

Possibility to join the project as a full partner or for future transnational calls.

http://www.infect-era.eu/join-infect-era

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Project Acronym E-Rare-3

Project Title ERA-Net for Research Programmes on Rare Diseases

Project Programme ERA-NET Cofund

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Agence Nationale de la Recherche - ANR

Description: Rare diseases (RD) are diseases that affect not more than 5 per 10 000 persons (according to the EU definition). 7000 distinct rare diseases exist, affecting between 6% and 8% of the population (about 30 million EU citizens). The lack of specific health policies for rare diseases and the scarcity of the expertise, translate into delayed diagnosis, few medicinal products and difficult access to care. That is why rare diseases are a prime example of a research area that strongly profits from coordination on a European scale. At present only few European countries fund research on rare diseases through specific dedicated programmes. Therefore, the funding of transnational collaborative research is the most effective joint activity to enhance the cooperation between scientists working on rare diseases in Europe and beyond. The E-Rare consortium was built to link responsible funding bodies that combine the scarce resources and fund rare disease research via Joint Transnational Calls (JTCs). The current E-Rare-3 project proposal will extend and strengthen the transnational cooperation by building on the experience and results of the previous E-Rare-1&2 programmes. The consortium comprises 26 institutions from 17 European, Associated and non-European countries. Its international dimension will be directly translated into close collaboration with IRDiRC and other relevant European and international initiatives. IRDiRC guidelines and policies will be implemented in the four JTCs and representatives of the IRDiRC Scientific Committees will be invited to join the Advisory Board of E-Rare-3. Members of the EUCERD group will be involved in identifying rare disease research needs. Patients’ organizations from Europe (represented by EURORDIS) and beyond will be invited as a key partner towards collaborative efforts for research promotion and funding. The collaboration with European Research Infrastructures will be consolidated to enhance efficient and participative research.

Website http://www.erare.eu/


http://www.erare.eu/

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Project Acronym BiophotonicsPlus

Project Title Photonic appliances for life sciences and health

Project Programme

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH, Germany

Description: This ERANET-PLUS on Biophotonics aims to consolidate the respective funding activities in the participating countries and regions and to achieve the best possible exploitation of the resources and the innovative potential of European industry and science. This shall be achieved through a joint call primarily focusing on Biophotonics methods and applications that are translatable into products on the short term. On the one hand, already existing biophotonic technology shall be further developed, refined and combined to the stage of pre-commercial demonstrators which should easily be convertible to commercial products. The pre-commercial demonstrator should be used in application fields with a high societal and/or economic relevance for Europe such as medicine (including veterinary medicine), environment, cosmetics, food and drug quality & safety. On the other hand, seed funding shall be provided to promising application- oriented approaches at an early stage of the value chain. The main activities in the framework of BiophotonicsPlus comprise the preparation of the joint call for proposals, the publication and promotion of the call, the joint evaluation and selection of the proposals and the monitoring of the selected R&D projects.

Research fields covered by the network Information and communication technologies

Website http://www.biophotonicsplus.eu/

Status Still open for third countries. Communication with the coordinator in process in order to collect more information regarding the minimum contribution, particular topics, etc

http://www.biophotonicsplus.eu/

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Project Acronym TRANSCAN-2

Project Title TRANSCAN-2 has the goal of coordinating national and regional funding programmes for research in the area of translational cancer research.

Project Programme ERA-NET: Aligning national/ regional translational cancer research programmes and activities

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Ministero della Salute

Description: TRANSCAN-2 has the goal of coordinating national and regional funding programmes for research in the area of translational cancer research. The specific challenge is to promote a transnational collaborative approach between scientific teams in demanding areas of translational cancer research while avoiding the duplication of efforts and ensuring a more efficient use of available resources, to produce significant results of higher quality and impact, and share data and infrastructures. Along this line TRANSCAN-2 is launching its first Joint Transnational Call for research proposals (JTC 2014).

Website http://www.transcanfp7.eu/transcan/mod/resource/view.php?id=87


http://www.transcanfp7.eu/transcan/mod/resource/view.php?id=87

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Project Acronym JPco-fuND

Project Title ERA-NET for establishing synergies between the Joint Programming on Neurodegenerative Diseases Research and Horizon 2020


Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)

Description: JPcofuND is a five-year initiative (2014-2019) and will build on the considerable momentum and experience gained through JUMPAHEAD, the coordination action that supported JPND from 2010-2014. JPcofuND tasks will be: 1.Maintaining a structure for the organization of the JPcofuND call and other activities 2.Implementing a call via the ERA-NET Cofund mechanism 3.Implementing other JPND calls without EU cofunding 4.Coordinating a number of Actions Groups and converting their recommendations into specific actions 5.Developing outreach and engagement with other international/national/regional initiatives 6.Communicating/disseminating on activities and initiatives of JPcofuND 7.Monitoring and evaluating the impact of JPcofuND actions.

Website http://www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu/initiatives/jpcofund/


http://www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu/initiatives/jpcofund/

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Project Acronym ERAcoSysMed

Project Title ERACoSysMed – Collaboration on systems medicine funding to promote the implementation of systems biology approaches in clinical research and medical practice (SC1)

Project Program SC1 - Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Description: Systems medicine is a new approach which integrates biological and medical data with mathematical and computational modelling in order to understand the underlying mechanisms of disease and to develop new strategies for individualised diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Systems medicine can fill the gap between experimental data produced by modern technologies and medical knowledge. Through the implementation of systems biology approaches in both clinical research and medical practice systems medicine will provide a new tool to clinicians that will change the capabilities of the clinician to diagnose and treat patients faster, better and more effectively – a tool, which has the potential to become a generic prerequisite for any personalized or P4 medicine approach. The central idea of ERACoSysMed is to implement systems biology approaches in medical concepts, research and practice by structuring, coordinating and integrating national efforts and investments during its project duration of five years. To achive this main goal the specific objectives of ERACoSysMed are: 1) Strengthen the systems medicine community both across national borders as well as across specific research areas 2) Establish a network of funding bodies to sustainably implement systems medicine across Europe 3) Launch joint trans-national research calls with the aim to push forward the desired paradigm shift towards P4 medicine 4) Provide a platform for the implementation of the actions recommended by the CASyM road map For this aim Joint transnational calls (JTCs) for research proposals will be implemented. As a first step a co-funded JTC call will be launched with the aim to select transnational research projects in a competitive approach that shall demonstrate the social and economic benefit of the systems medicine approach. The consortium intends to implement further JTCs and other networking activities in order to keep alive the momentum which will be created by the co-funded JTC.

Website https://www.eracosysmed.eu/


https://www.eracosysmed.eu/

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Industrial Production

Project Acronym MANUNET II

Project Title Supporting SMEs towards a new phase to European Research Area on new processes, adaptive manufacturing systems and the factory of the future

Project Programme

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Innobasque, Spain

Description: "The aim of MANUNET II is to cooperate among regions and countries around Europe with fruitful calls in the field of Manufacturing, to ensure that MANUNET II suits perfectly in ERA and, finally, to propose a sustainable cooperation structure for a very long term frame. In order to enhance this impact, the extension that will cover MANUNET II is going to be longer than MANUNET CA, having included more countries. The specific objectives of MANUNET II are: • To constitute a Consortium with a longer extension around Europe. • To improve cooperation and coordination among MANUNET II and national and regional programmes. • To improve cooperation and coordination among MANUNET II and the other initiatives at European level, such as the NMP calls, “The Factory of the Future” and the other manufacturing related ERA-NETs (MATERA, MNT-ERA.Net II…), in this last case opening the path for manufacturing activities integration. • To propose effective solutions for an integrated and sustainable European manufacturing programme based on national and regional funds and able to effectively complement the other continental RTD support tools. • To carry out 6 new calls for proposals with a high cooperation among regions/countries, more funding by countries/regions, higher R&D investment mobilized, appropriate dates and effective dissemination."

Research fields covered by the network

Industrial production

Website http://www.manunet.net/

Status Still open for third countries, deadline: the end of 2015 – at latest 2016 January1, indicative minimum contribution: between 300.000 and 2,000.000 euros , Funding model is the virtual pot; Particular topics2

1 The call will open the 11th January and the deadline for pre-proposals will be 17th March. ERANET can add new countries

once the call is open and announce it. However, it can not wait too long. 2 1.Knowledge-based engineering, information and communication technologies for manufacturing (industrial robotics, computer-aided engineering and design, automated manufacturing, product lifetime management, etc.); 2.Manufacturing

http://www.manunet.net/

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Information and communication technologies

Project Acronym OLAE +

Project Title Organic and Large Area Electronics European Competition for Collaborative R&D Funding

Project Programme Information and communication technologies

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name The Technology Strategy Board, United Kingdom

Description: Organic & large area electronics (also known as plastic electronics, printed electronics or organic electronics) allows electronic circuits and devices to be produced using relatively low cost printing processes onto any surface, whether rigid or flexible, and over large areas. It will lead to the creation of whole new generations of products such as conformable and rollable displays, large area efficient lighting, low cost solar cells, low-cost RFIDs and memories, flexible and environmental friendly batteries, and others. The objectives of this Collaborative Action is as follows: 1. To stimulate the technology and business relationships within the European OLAE community, removing barriers to industrialisation. 2. To contribute to knowledge and technology transfer from "lab to fab", thus significantly accelerating the speed of innovation and industrial development of OLAE in Europe 3. To enhance the supply chain, by improving materials and processes and substantially advancing the potential for new business cases in OLAE. 4. To stimulate collaboration between European enterprises, universities and R&D Centres.


Information and communication technologies

Website http://www.olaeplus.eu/


technologies for environmental and energy applications including resource efficiency and recycling.;3. Adaptive manufacturing technologies including processes for removing, joining, adding, forming, consolidating, assembling;4. Material applications related to manufacturing (alloys, lubricants, coatings, textile fibers, construction, composites, insulation,etc.);5. New manufacturing methods, components and systems. 6. Other technologies/products related to the manufacturing field

https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/organisations/technology-strategy-board

http://www.olaeplus.eu/

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International Cooperation (INCO)

Project Acronym ERANET-LAC

Project Title Network of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean Countries on Joint Innovation and Research Activities

Project Programme INCO



Participant Legal Name DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV

Description: In order to strengthen the bi-regional partnership in Science, Technology and Innovation, ERANet- LAC will implement two joint calls seeking to coordinate and cluster research programmes. Furthermore, the project will mutually open research infrastructures and coordinate and open innovation programmes. ERANet-LAC will lay a special focus on the innovation dimension. It will seek to involve European and Latin American innovation agencies in the joint activities as well as in trust-building actions. The joint activities carried out will be evaluated and function as a basis for a road map to be incorporated in a so-called EU-CELAC Platform for Funding Agencies. This funding platform will serve as information and communication platform and offer substantial guidelines as well as online working space to facilitate the development of future concrete bi-regional joint initiatives.

The main activities of ERANet-LAC:

Promotion of mutual opening and coordination of existing programmes, infrastructures and cooperation.

Implementation of 2 Joint Calls: The first one will be launched approximately in the end of 2014 and the second one in the end of 2015.

Coordination of a consultation process to inform funding agencies and research institutions from both regions about the joint actions.

Building a platform for EU and CELAC funding agencies.

Website http://eranet-lac.eu/

Status Participation is possible as “associated partners” in case the funding is assured and there is a clear added value to the project with this participation.

http://eranet-lac.eu/

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Project Acronym ERANETMED

Project Title EURO-MEDITERRANEAN Cooperation through ERANET joint activities and beyond




Participant Legal Name CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE DI ALTI STUDI AGRONOMICI MEDITERRANEI - ISTITUTO AGRONOMICO MEDITERRANEO DI BARI

Description: The main aim of the project is to enhance Euro-Mediterranean co-ownership through innovation and competitive research in the societal challenges of the region. The project aims at reducing fragmentation of programming in the Mediterranean region by increasing coordination among national research programmes of European Member States, Associated Countries and Mediterranean Partner Countries. Following the Conference of Barcelona on 2012, the ERANETMED responds to the need to develop new ways of “sustainable” cooperation, in which both European and MPC partners will equally participate and benefit from the output and the opportunities created by the project. The ERANETMED will consider a broad area for research, addressing not only the most important societal challenges of the region but also actions to enhance innovation through applied research, capacity building, mobility and clustering. Its action will result in concrete co-operation between research programmes, such as networking, definition of strategic scientific activities, research structuring for long-lasting and stable cooperation beyond ERANET. The main goals addressed by the project will be: - establishing a framework for communication and coordination of programme owners and managers related to S&T cooperation from Europe and Mediterranean Partner Countries; - strengthening Euro-Mediterranean R&I Cooperation promoting joint activities; - developing joint funding schemes and procedures between partners; - supporting long-term and stable Euro-Mediterranean cooperation; - strengthen MPC capacities to enhance research and innovation and increase the impact of research on the socio-economic development of the region. It also implies the achievement of coherence among research, policy and funding instruments to contribute to regional societal challenges, to have a real impact on the society and to establish synergies with other programmes and instruments.

Website http://www.eranetmed.com/


http://www.eranetmed.com/

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Project Acronym ERA.NET RUS PLUS

Project Title Further linking Russia to the ERA:

Coordination of MS/ AC S&T programmes towards and with Russia




Participant Legal Name DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV, Germany

Description: The Partnership for Modernisation between the European Union and Russia states as one of the priority areas to enhance cooperation in innovation, research and development. In this context the 24 consortium members of ERA.Net RUS Plus propose to implement a Single Joint Call for transnational and scientifically excellent research projects in the fields of Nanotechnologies/Materials/Production Technologies, Health, Environment/ Climate Change, Social Sciences/Humanities and Innovation. The national financial contributions of the partners to the Single Joint Call will sum up to approximately EUR 12.2 millions. The action will engage programme owners from various EU-Member States (MS), countries associated (AC) to the EU RTD Framework Programme and Russia. ERA.Net RUS Plus is a follow-up to the current ERA.Net RUS action that was set-up from 2009 to 2013 to link Russia to the European Research Area by a coordination of S&T programmes in EU MS/AC and Russia. ERA.Net RUS was the first joint call activity in which prominent Russian Funding Parties (RAS, RFBR, RFH and FASIE) were jointly participating in a multilateral funding scheme. The major objective of ERA.Net RUS Plus is to deepen the transnational collaboration between EU MS/AC and Russia and to reduce the fragmentation of research programmes along national funding lines. This joint undertaking will create synergies and strengthen the cooperation among the consortium members. Other principal goals of ERA.Net RUS Plus are to further develop the instrumental setting for joint funding activities and thus to provide a solid basis for a joint programmatic approach to be pursued in the near future. This programmatic approach will assure the desired and necessary sustainability of the cooperation between EU MS/AC and Russia and a lasting impact. ERA.Net RUS Plus will therefore be the next important step in further linking Russia and their key research communities to the European Research Area.

Research fields covered by the network Environment, Health, Industrial production, Materials, Nanosciences and nanotechnologies, Socio-economics sciences and humanities, Other: Innovation

Website http://www.eranet-rus.eu/


http://www.eranet-rus.eu/

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Project Acronym INNO INDIGO

Project Title Innovation driven Initiative for the Development and Integration of Indian and European Research




Participant Legal Name DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV, Germany

Description: INNO INDIGO will set up a more relevant STI approach in terms of social and technical innovation, a broader in terms of funding and a more focussed in terms of topics - to answer the needs of the European as well as Indian societies and markets and address the needs of the engines for innovation.

These are SMEs and industries as well as existing clusters of excellence. Future joint programmes will be directed towards the interaction of academia and industry a critical interface for effective innovation. It is also very important to use the STI experience of regions successful funding clusters of excellence for joint calls. On a larger scale INNO INDIGO aims at contributing to ensure global competitiveness and to satisfy social needs through innovation.

Another important task of INNO INDIGO will be to optimize the outreach of the project and facilitate the networking of funding organizations in Europe and India in order to discuss, prepare and implement joint calls on a regular basis. Therefore an open platform for funders will be implemented. A number of national funding agencies have been involved in the joint calls of the ongoing ERA-Net. This was important to gain experiences, approve and adjust tools and methods in existing strategies for the call management.

Within the INNO INDIGO process of the future joint calls the strategies for an enhanced management structure will steadily analysed and optimized also in order to develop common governance principles. Further funding organizations in both Europe and India will be informed about the ongoing collaboration in order to raise their interest in a participation and therefore to enlarge the outreach of the project. In Europe this implies especially Member States as well as Associated Countries that do not have bilateral research programmes with India and would also benefit from the Innovation approach of INNO INDIGO. Furthermore scenarios for cooperation beyond the lifetime of INNO INDIGO will be developed.

Website https://indigoprojects.eu/

Status Communication with the coordinator (Hans Westphal) in process in order to collect information.

A Joint Call is currently open for “collaborative projects between Indian & French SMEs/Companies/start-ups in the area of red biotechnology up to commercialization”. Participants from EaP countries can apply on own funds.

https://indigoprojects.eu/


https://indigoprojects.eu/object/news/137

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Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE)

Project Acronym COFASP

Project Title Strengthening cooperation in European research on sustainable exploitation of marine resources in the seafood chains- ERANET

Project Programme KBBE



Participant Legal Name STYRELSEN FOR FORSKNING OG INNOVATION

Description: COFASP is an ERA-NET created to directly address actions envisaged within fisheries, aquaculture and seafood. It was created as under the KBBE theme in FP7, and is part of the Europe 2020 strategy, which recognises bioeconomy as an important part of the strategy. The main objectives of COFASP are: To lay the basis for exploitation according to the precautionary principles and to enhance innovation in and competiveness of the primary sectors fisheries and aquaculture as well as subsequent seafood processing and distribution to the consumer. To define the science, information and data necessary to underpin the revision of the CFP and to ensure its successful implementation by designing complementary national research programmes and outlining monitoring and information/data sharing systems needed.

COFASP is based on the earlier ERA-NET MariFish and the running ERA-NET SEAS-ERA, and will run 48 months from its initiation on 1 February 2013, ending in 31 January 2017. COFASP has 27 partners from 16 countries in Europe.

Website http://www.cofasp.eu/


http://www.cofasp.eu/

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Project Acronym C-IPM

Project Title Coordinated Integrated Pest Management in Europe




Participant Legal Name INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE, France

Description: Europe faces the challenge of responding to the mandatory implementation of the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as called for by Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides. Most European countries are investing in research and extension to face this challenge, reduce reliance on pesticides, and reduce risks associated with their use. Added value and synergies can be created by coordinating such national research and extension efforts and by pooling existing resources. To this end, C-IPM will create a forum for exchange and identification of IPM research and development priorities, provide recommendations on national and European research, connect existing initiatives, and coordinate joint transnational research calls.

With stakeholders and researchers, C-IPM will position IPM in the future European innovation landscape. It will provide an overall picture of ongoing and desired R&D efforts and of the resources available for IPM implementation. It will propose a common research agenda on IPM and on sustainable solutions in the context of minor uses. It will rapidly generate European-level added value by sharing outputs of ongoing national and regional research, and by disseminating R&D methods, experience and expertise. It will create knowledge hubs by linking R&D resources in the field of IPM and minor uses. It will develop and implement joint transnational calls. A website, newsletter and final workshop will ensure that C-IPM disseminates widely. To achieve lasting impact, C-IPM will plan its continued activity beyond the funded period.

C-IPM realises that innovation and sustainability in crop protection can only come about if funders, researchers and farm advisers are closely associated, if multiple sectors are taken into account, and if all available control tactics and strategies are integrated. This approach is key to enriching the suite of IPM techniques and ensuring a high level of implementation of IPM among European farmers.

Website http://c-ipm.org/

Status Coordinator contacted (Dr. Antoine Messéan): the 2015 Joint Call is closed but another Joint Call with the same calendar will be open in 2016 (decision meeting to fianlize the call budget and topics, deadline in Autumn).

Topics will be a bit wider than for the previous call (“Innovative and new pest monitoring tools and decision support systems (DSS)", “Pest resistance management” and “Minor uses”).

EaP Funding Agencies interested in funding the 2nd Joint Call are invited to send a letter of commitment until March.

The coordinator would like to further develop the project and open new calls based on Funding Agencies contributions (2017/2018).

http://c-ipm.org/


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Project Acronym ERA-MBT

Project Title Marine Biotechnology ERA-NET




Participant Legal Name NORGES FORSKNINGSRAD

Description: Funded under the FP7 ERA-NET scheme, ERA-MarineBiotech is a consortium of national funding bodies seeking complementarities between national activities to pool resources to undertake joint funding of transnational projects in the area of Marine Biotechnology. Cooperation between the funding bodies has been initiated during the FP7 supported ERA-NET Preparatory Action in Marine Biotechnology. Through the ERA-NET in marine biotechnology the aim is to enable the marine environment's contribution to 'smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’, a core objective of the Europe 2020 Strategy.

Website http://www.marinebiotech.eu/


The funding model is the virtual common pot.

http://www.marinebiotech.eu/

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Project Acronym SUMFOREST

Project Title Tackling the challenges in sustainable and multifunctional forestry through enhanced research coordination for policy decisions




Participant Legal Name Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft

Description: SUMFOREST stands for: SUstainable forest management; Multifunctional Forestry, European Forest Policy. Climatic and environmental changes lead to socio-economic and land-use changes and pose challenges for multifunctional demands on European forest resources and their sustainable management.

European forests consist of a wide tree species and ecosystem diversity with different goods and services. Thus, they are affected differently by climate and land-use changes. The current forest policy environment in the European Union and the formulation of forest policies is fragmented, complex and sometimes contradictory.

The aim of this transnational ERA-NET is reinforcing scientific cooperation on European forests, which will also build new cooperation arrangements with EU neighbourhood regions, aiming at a reduced fragmentation and maximised impact of research activities on sustainable forest management and multifunctional forestry.

Website https://www.sumforest.org/

Status 1. joint call for research projects (strengthen the cooperation and coordination of forest research with Russia and the Eastern Partnership Countries) 2. Joint call with focus on networking activities and opening up of research infrastructure

https://www.sumforest.org/

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Project Acronym ARIMNET2

Project Title Coordination of the Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean




Participant Legal Name INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE

Description: ARIMNetsupports collaborative interdisciplinary projects based on complementarities between scientists, disciplines and countries. It promotes international collaborations to create research consortia in order to respond appropriately to the global stakes and challenges Mediterranean Agriculture is facing.

13 partners from 12 Northern, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries lead the initiative, from 2008. In January 2014, at the start of its second phase, ARIMNet welcomed new partners, and currently works with a network of 24 national funding agencies and research institutions from 15 countries. Among them: 9 are members of the EU (Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain), 2 are associated countries (Turkey, Israel), and 4 are Mediterranean Partner Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia).

The Network identifies scientific priorities, provides the funding and cooperation opportunities for researchers to work efficiently on a variety of transnational research projects that contribute to address the huge societal challenges related to food, rural development, water and natural resources that Mediterranean countries are facing today.

Website http://www.arimnet2.net/


http://www.arimnet2.net/

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Project Acronym ICT-AGRI 2

Project Title Information and Communication Technologies and Robotics for Sustainable Agriculture




Participant Legal Name STYRELSEN FOR FORSKNING OG INNOVATION

Description: ICT-AGRI is funded by the European Commission's ERA-NET scheme under the 7th Framework Programme for Research. The objective of an ERA-NET scheme is to develop and strengthen the European Research Area by facilitating practical initiatives to coordinate regional, national and European research programmes in specific fields.

ICT-AGRI-1 began on 1st May 2009 and ran for 65 months until 30th of September 2014. The follow-up project ICT-AGRI-2 started on the 1st of January 2014 and is scheduled to run for 4 years until the end of 2017.

The overall goal of ICT-AGRI is to strengthen the European research within the diverse area of precision farming and develop a common European research agenda concerning ICT and robotics in agriculture, and to follow up with calls based on funds from the participating countries’ national research programmes. The purpose is to pool fragmented human and financial resources, in order to improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of Europe’s research efforts.

More specifically the objectives of the ERA-NET ICT-AGRI are:

Mapping and analysis of existing research and future needs

Development of instruments and procedures for transnational funding activities

Development of strategic transnational research agenda and programmes

Establishing and maintaining of international collaborations and networks

ICT-AGRI will help to coordinate European research in ICT and robotics and develop a common research agenda based on shared priorities. New technologies are rapidly emerging and will be capable of revolutionising farming in the near future. ICT-AGRI is supporting the development and implementation of these new technologies for a competitive, sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture.

Website http://www.ict-agri.eu/


http://www.ict-agri.eu/

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Project Acronym FACCE ERA NET PLUS

Project Title Food security, Agriculture, Climate Change ERA-NET plus




Participant Legal Name INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE, France

Description: The main goal of the FACCE-ERA-NET+ Action is to organise, implement and fund a joint call for transnational research projects on the topic of climate change adaptation, which is a core research theme of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE–JPI) and thus to contribute to the delivery of the FACCE–JPI Strategic Research Agenda. It will thereby also contribute to the overall EU objective of building the European Research Area through enhanced cooperation and coordination of national research programmes. This FACCE-ERA-NET+ Action, in providing the means for a joint call, will be one of the actions of the JPI aimed at aligning research programming among its members over the long term so as to increase the efficiency of research funding, cover gaps, avoid duplications and provide high-level innovative research in Europe. It will contribute to the goal of FACCE–JPI to organise multiple simultaneous joint actions toward the achievement of its goals. The participating countries of FACCE – JPI have agreed that climate change adaptation is a research priority and the majority have committed funding to this ERA-NET Plus action.

Research fields covered by the network Food, agriculture and fisheries

Website http://www.faccejpi.com/


http://www.faccejpi.com/

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Project Acronym ERA-IB-2

Project Title Towards an ERA in Industrial Biotechnology 2

Project Programme

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR), Germany

Description: ERA-IB-2 is an ERA-NET supported by the ECs 7th Framework Programme and a follow-up of the project ERA-IB. In ERA-IB-2, partners (19) and observers (7) from 21 different countries join forces to reduce fragmentation of national research efforts in the area of Industrial Biotechnology as well as to foster the exchange of knowledge across borders, and to increase cost-effectiveness by pooling resources and optimising mechanisms for joint calls. Thereby ERA- IB-2 contributes to a European knowledge-based bio-economy (KBBE) with Industrial Biotechnology being one of the key technologies of this KBBE. ERA-IB-2 will ensure Europe makes full use of her potential by identifying IB-related research and development needs through stakeholder dialogue and responding to these needs with coordinated, joint actions/calls.

Research fields covered by the network Industrial Biotechnology

Website http://www.era-ib.net/


http://www.era-ib.net/

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Project Acronym FACCE SURPLUS

Project Title FACCE SURPLUS (Sustainable and Resilient agriculture for food and non-food systems)_SC2

Project Programme SC2 - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Call Office, hosted by Projektträger Jülich, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany,

Description: The Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) brings together 21 countries who are committed to building an integrated European Research Area addressing the interconnected challenges of sustainable agriculture, food security and impacts of climate change. FACCE-JPI provides and steers research to support sustainable agricultural production and economic growth, to contribute to a European bio-based economy, while maintaining and restoring ecosystem services under current and future climate change.

It aims to do so with a strong transdisciplinary research base, encompassing economic and social aspects in addition to scientific ones, and with a creative approach towards the alignment of national programmes and the input of multiple actors and stakeholders.

The integrated FACCE-JPI strategic research agenda defines 5 core research themes: 1• Sustainable food security under climate change, based on an integrated food systems perspective: modeling, benchmarking and policy research perspective 2• Environmentally sustainable growth and intensification of agricultural systems under current and future climate and resource availability 3• Assessing and reducing trade-offs between food production, biodiversity and ecosystem services 4• Adaptation to climate change throughout the whole food chain, including market repercussions 5• Greenhouse gas mitigation: nitrous oxide and methane mitigation in the agriculture and forestry sector, carbon sequestration, fossil fuel substitution and mitigating GHG emissions induced by indirect land use change These core research themes are gradually taken into account by national research agendas in view of aligning national programmes where much research is already undertaken, and inspire pilot joint actions on topics where research is lacking.

Website https://www.faccejpi.com/

Status Open to new partners for collaboration and cooperation across the European Research Area in the areas of food and non-food biomass production and transformation systems, including biorefining. The funding scheme will be the virtual common pot.

https://www.faccejpi.com/

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Project Acronym BiodivERsA3

Project Title Consolidating the European Research Area on biodiversity and ecosystem services


Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name French Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA)

Description: The Network provides the funding, focus and networking opportunities for biodiversity researchers to work efficiently on a variety of projects that contribute to the understanding of biodiversity dynamics. It also explores innovative solutions for the use, conservation and sustainable management of biological resources. The driving objective of BiodivERsA is to develop a sustainable mechanism to promote strategic cooperation in biodiversity research and related disciplines at a European scale.

Website http://www.biodiversa.org/


http://www.biodiversa.org/

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Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production

Technologies (NMP)

Project Acronym WOODWISDOM-NET+

Project Title WoodWisdom-Net+ Pacing Innovation in the Forest-Based Sector

Project Programme NMP



Participant Legal Name TEKES-TEKNOLOGIAN JA INNOVAATIOIDEN KEHITTAEMISKESKUS

Description: WoodWisdom-Net continues under the ERA-NET Plus scheme. Call definition process for a new call was started in 2012 (will run till Nov 2017), and based on the discussions and analysis of the outcomes, the WW-Net+ Consortium launched the 4th Joint Call for Proposals in February 2013. The overall scope of WoodWisdom-Net+ is to support the total transformation of the European forest-based industry and sustainable forest management to enable it to increase resource efficiency and develop a totally new products scope, while adapting to and mitigating the impacts of climate change.

Website http://www.woodwisdom.net/


http://www.woodwisdom.net/

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Project Acronym INCOMERA

Project Title Innovation and Commercialisation in the NMP thematic area




Participant Legal Name SERVICE PUBLIC DE WALLONIE, Belgium

Description: Towards Europe 2020, European Commission adopted a comprehensive innovation strategy to enhance Europe's capacity to deliver smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. This strategy concerns the so called concept of Smart Specialization Strategy. This is the challenge INCOMERA partners decided to take up by answering those three objectives: 1. To detect and financially support NMP research results likely to provide solutions for innovative products, processes or services, 2. To analyse and assess the lessons from the measures taken and supported in various Member States to exploit transform research results, 3. To provide operational guidance for supporting efficiently the successive steps between research and innovation, paying particular attention to the use of European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), in the context of Smart Specialization Strategies. INCOMERA is composed of 22 extremely experienced partners (including the associated partner), 13 countries and 11 regions, planning to: - Develop all synergy required for supporting SME's transnational/regional cooperation, within the context of each region's smart specialization strategy for enhancing the commercialization/productivity plans of NMP consortia, - Launch an Online Platform for innovation providing tailored made services to NMP research projects that reached TRL4, - Launch three joint calls for proposals to fund innovative industrial research projects close to the market.

Research fields covered by the network: Materials Nanosciences and nanotechnologies

Website http://www.incomera.eu/


http://www.incomera.eu/

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Project Acronym M-ERA.NET

Project Title From materials science and engineering to innovation for Europe


Project Total Cost 3.4M€


Participant Legal Name OESTERREICHISCHE FORSCHUNGSFOERDERUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH,

Austria

Description: M-ERA.NET is an EU funded network which has been established to support and increase the coordination of European research programmes and related funding in materials science and engineering.

Between 2012 and 2016, the M-ERA.NET consortium will contribute to the restructuring of the European Research Area (ERA) by operating as a single innovative and flexible network of funding organisations. M-ERA.NET will complement existing instruments and contribute to EU policies whilst supporting the exploitation of knowledge along the whole innovation chain from basic research to applied research and innovation. By stimulating scientific excellence and the creation of a new innovation oriented economy, M-ERA.NET will deliver lasting impact and significant breakthroughs.

M-ERA.NET started, in February 2012, as a network of 36 public funding organisations, of which 29 are national and 8 regional, from 25 European countries. M-ERA.NET aims to identify further relevant European programmes and develop links with partners outside Europe. It aims to develop a long-term cooperation between funding organisations across the EU.

A series of innovative joint calls will be operated in a variable geometry approach. They will reflect the priorities, needs and challenges identified at national and European levels, thus opening an attractive and efficient tool for transnational RTD with low administrative efforts.

This will help to overcome barriers to enter transnational cooperation, in particular for SMEs. An interdisciplinary approach will enable knowledge transfer not only along the innovation chain, but also across application fields.

Website https://www.m-era.net/

Status Communication with the coordinator (Roland Brandenburg) in process in order to collect information.

It is unlikely that another call will be open as the project ends in January 2016.

https://www.m-era.net/


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Project Acronym EURONANOMED II

Project Title EUROpean network for transnational collaborative RTD projects in the field of NANOMEDicine




Participant Legal Name AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE, France

Description: Nanomedicine, the application of nanotechnology to health, is a fast-growing field with a large potential for improving diagnostics and therapeutic solutions in many diseases. The EuroNanoMed II (ENM II) consortium, with 20 partners from 17 countries and regions, aims to foster the competitiveness of European nanomedicine actors through the support of translational research projects enhancing transnational and multidisciplinary collaborations between academia, clinical/public health communities and industry.

ENM II will be a follow-up of the ERA-NET EuroNanoMed I (ENM I), which launched three joint transnational calls for proposals in three years. The increasing number of submitted proposals in the successive ENM I joint calls and their quality show the need amongst the nanomedicine scientific community for such a targeted initiative.

ENM II will be built on the basis of the ENM I accomplishments, and will continue to support transnational innovative RTD projects in nanomedicine through the launch of yearly joint calls for proposals.

In addition, ENM II aims to extend the cooperation among its partners through the development of other activities:

(i) foster the participation of young European researchers to ENM II activities;

(ii) develop a strategic agenda for ENM II in close cooperation to the ETP Nanomedicine;

(iii) create more interactions within the European nanomedicine community and improve

communication on nanomedicine to the public;

(iv) frame and address regulatory, safety and ethical issues associated with nanomedicine;

(v) monitor the results of the ENM I & ENM II funded research projects and the activities

of the ENM II network; and,

(vi) develop a long-term cooperation framework for European nanomedicine research.

Website http://www.euronanomed.net/

Status Project Manager contacted (Dr. Guillaume Pons): A Joint Call is currently open for “European Innovative Research & Technological Development Projects in Nanomedicine”. Participants form EaP countries can apply on own funds.

A new proposal for a new project ENM III is in preparation (Spanish Coordination). If this proposal is selected for funding, new calls will be open: at least 3 Joint Calls, the first one at the end of 2016. EaP countries are very welcome to join the consortium, even after the project is selected to participate in Joint Call

http://www.euronanomed.net/


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The contribution from the national funding agency should be consistent

with the research community in the country, but no minimum amount is

required. The funding model is the virtual common pot.

Topics do not change much from one call to the other: Regenerative

medicine, Diagnostics, Targeted delivery systems.

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Science in Society

Project Acronym GENDERNET

Project Title Promoting gender equality in research institutions and the integration of the gender dimension in research contents

Project Programme SiS



Participant Legal Name CNRS, France

Description: Despite more and more solid indicators, extensive research, policy initiatives at European and national levels, and wide awareness-raising on the issues linked to gender and science, the European Research Area is still confronted to structural obstacles within its research institutions which prevent the ERA from reaching its objectives on the full participation of women in research and innovation at all levels (while women comprise >50% of PhD graduates, they still occupy less than 20% of Grade A positions) as well as to a lack of integration of the gender dimension in research contents and programmes which hinders their quality and potential for innovation.

With the aim of collectively addressing these issues, the GENDER-NET ERA-NET proposal brings together national ministries and research programme owners and managers from 11 countries with synergistic expertise in gender issues in research. Partners will join forces to:

1) map and analyse existing national/regional programmes and initiatives aimed at a) promoting gender equality in research and higher education institutions through structural change, b) gendering research contents;

2) identify priority activities for strategic transnational implementation; 3) design and optimise transnational transferability;

4) implement these joint activities. GENDER-NET thus consists of 4 work packages which build on one another to propose a pilot transnational research policy initiative which will allow for a global vision of the best practices and conditions for success, innovative assessment and knowledge-transfer methods, as well as concrete engagement of partners in the implementation of joint activities, thus breaking new ground at EU-level and contributing to the realisation of ERA. Expanding outcomes by relying on the shared expertise and insight gained by partners, widening the consortium to reach a critical mass of institutions and stakeholders, and disseminating results, will be ongoing concerns of this ERA-NET.

Website http://www.gender-net.eu/?lang=en

Status Coordinator contacted (Anne Pépin): No joint call is planned before the end of the project, but participation to a strategic seminar on 12 Sept. 2016 and to the final conference of the project is possible. This is a great opportunity for countries who want to develop a gender equality policy both in research institutions and in research content.

However, the project will lead to an ERA-NET Cofund – Promoting Gender equality in H2020 and the ERA. Deadline: 30 August 2016. All countries interested are very much welcome to join.

http://www.gender-net.eu/?lang=en


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Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH)

Project Acronym ERANID

Project Title European Research Area Network on Illicit Drugs - Towards integrated European research in illicit drugs: cause and nature of drug problems; interventions and policies

Project Programme SSH



Participant Legal Name ZORGONDERZOEK NEDERLAND ZON, The Netherlands

Description: ERANID, the European Area Network on Illicit Drugs, aims to improve cooperation in drug research in order to allow well-founded policy decisions.

ERANID works both in the demand field and in the supply field. ERANID will promote multidisciplinary research activities in the field of socio-economic sciences and humanities. This may cover e.g. emerging drugs, vulnerable groups, changing demographics of drug using populations, and the impact of drugs on health inequalities and social deprivation. It may also cover patterns in drug markets and the drug- crime nexus. Closer cooperation between researchers in different countries will also lead to a further development of research methodologies, which can be of special importance for the evaluation of policies and programmes.

Overcoming fragmentation in drug research and developing a common Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) are key objectives of ERANID. To do this, ERANID will first take stock of research programmes and research projects. By making the results of this exercise easily accessible, ERANID will help researchers and policy makers to find information and avoid unnecessary duplication of research. ERANID will consult stakeholders (e.g. scientific community, treatment centre organisations, patient organisations, police and justice). Analysis of the results will help to find gaps and to set priorities for research that will profit most from an international and interdisciplinary approach. Bringing together funding bodies in EU Member States and other countries, involving policy makers and other stakeholders will help to create consensus about the research priorities. These issues will all inform the SRA, from which the priorities for two joint research calls will be selected.

ERANID starts as a consortium of eleven partners from six EU Member States. Other organisations from a number of European and other countries will be kept closely informed and associated to this initiative. ERANID is meant as first step towards longer term cooperation in the field of drugs research.

Website http://www.eranid.eu/home/

Status Communication with the coordinator (Els Van Gessele) in process in order to collect information.

Two Joint Research calls are to be launched during the project lifetime. The first Joint Research Call on “Understanding Drug Use Pathways” closed on 24 Nov. 2015.

http://www.eranid.eu/home/


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Project Acronym HERA JRP CE

Project Title HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters

Project Programme SSH



Participant Legal Name NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK, The Netherlands

Description: The HERA Joint Research Programme Cultural Encounters (HERA JRP CE) consortium will establish a single joint transnational programme for multi-disciplinary research into the causes and consequences of cultural encounters. To understand cultural encounters is to understand the history and meaning of Europe itself, from the earliest periods of human settlement to the present day. Its effects impact on the activities of everyday life to the broader arenas of ideology and societal institutions.

The proposed JRP will invite transnational project proposals that address general historical and theoretical issues, as well as those that investigate more focused aspects of cultural encounters. The programme will investigate the phenomenon of cultural encounters in spatial terms as well as temporal terms. The new knowledge generated by the HERA JRP Cultural Encounters will be disseminated to inform and develop effective European policies in all these areas.

Research Funding Organisations from 18 countries have pooled a substantial amount of their national funding (€ 13.955.935) for this transnational funding scheme thus increasing the efficiency and impact of public research funding. EC support is requested to the level of 33% of the total contribution to the joint call budget. Commission support will be used to top-up research funding alone. All other costs will be carried by the HERA JRP CE partners.

The selection phase for the HERA JRP CE involves the final preparatory activities for the Call for Proposals, capacity building activities to inform researchers in all participating countries and a commonly-agreed two-stage evaluation process involving an independent, international Review Panel and remote assessments by experts. In the research phase, the HERA JRP CE also supports scientific networking activities in order to foster new innovative research and implement knowledge transfer activities to stimulate wider public awareness about the important contributions of new humanities research.

Website http://heranet.info/hera-joint-research-programme

Status Communication with the coordinator (Peter Evegroen) in process in order to collect information.

No open or upcoming Joint Calls are published on the website.

http://heranet.info/hera-joint-research-programme


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Transport (TPT)

Project Acronym INFRAVATION

Project Title ERA-NET Plus on Infrastructure Innovation

Project Programme TPT



Participant Legal Name MINISTERIE VAN INFRASTRUCTUUR EN MILIEU, Netherlands

Description: Transport ministries across Europe are facing ever tougher challenges to cope with the need to accommodate increased traffic growth, minimise congestion, maintain services in the face of increasing climate change effects, as well as deliver on environmental and societal objectives. This is the time when innovation for road infrastructure is an absolute imperative, to reduce costs without compromising on quality. To deliver this objective on a transnational basis, an ERA-NET PLUS action is being initiated that will enable national and regional bodies to take on tasks collectively that otherwise could not be taken forward. This scheme will allow for bringing together the efforts of member states, EC and industry. The first call of Infravation will be issued in 2014 and is expected to be supported through the FP7 2013 Work Programme. This call will address the needs of member states for joint research on road infrastructure. The funding for the call will be based on a common pot enabling the best expertise to be used, regardless of nationality and thereby minimising programme management allowing the maximum use of resources for pan-national research cooperation.


Transport

Website http://www.fehrl.org/index.php?m=340

Status There is no possibility for countries to join. In the future they intend to launch a similar transnational call on Infrastructure innovations with a bigger volume of funding. This will however not take place in

the next two years.

http://www.fehrl.org/index.php?m=340

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Project Acronym ENTIII

Project Title ERA NET TRANSPORT III

Project Programme TPT

Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands

Description: ERA-NET TRANSPORT (ENT) has evolved since 2004 into a service platform for Programme Owners and Managers, providing the required framework for initiating and implementing transnational research and innovation funding collaborations ENTIII will further strengthen the foundation of the ERA, engaging 20 partner countries and regions, represented by Europes most relevant national transport research and innovation programmes. ENTIII will: Prepare and launch large-sized annual flagship initiatives, coordinated with the SST programme, with a size of ideally some 10 million EURO. Within ENTIII the launch of 2 flagships is envisaged. A flagship might include multiple topics; Prepare and launch small- and medium-sized transnational research and innovation funding initiatives. Within ENTIII the launch of at least 4 such funding initiatives is envisaged; Explore and if possible- deploy new ways, geometries and settings for transnational cooperation and funding, e.g. through deployment of Structural and Cohesion funds; Enlarge the visibility of national research and innovation funding activities, their results and achievements and of the added value of transnational collaborations through ENT and thereby increased impact in the ERA. ENTIII will build on the achievements, networks and tools of the previous ENTs and on the acquired experiences and know-how. ENTIII will step beyond through: Expanding the network of European countries and regions and intensify the support for (new) ENT partners; Launching more large-scale funding initiatives involving budgets of up to 10 million EURO; Enhancing the support for programme owners and managers in partner countries and regions to better fit their funding schemes and procedures to transnational funding collaborations.

Research fields covered by the network Transport

Website http://transport-era.net/


http://transport-era.net/

Project Acronym ENSCC

Project Title ERA-NET Smart Cities and Communities


Project Total Cost


Participant Legal Name Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT)

Description: JPI Urban Europe has launched the third call: ERA-NET COFUND Smart Cities and Communities.

Consortia of member states can present proposals for four topics:

1. Smart integrated urban energy and transport systems

2. Smart tools/services for integrated urban energy & transport systems

3. Smart data, big data

4. Smart governance and smart citizens

Website http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/new-launch-call-era-net-cofund-smart- cities-communities/


http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/new-launch-call-era-net-cofund-smart-cities-communities/

http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/new-launch-call-era-net-cofund-smart-cities-communities/

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Thematic COFUND

ERANETs List of new Calls for ERANETs

(2016 – 2017)

IncoNet EaP is a project funded under the 7th European Framework Programme for

research-Project number 609528

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Table of Contents

SC1 - Health, demographic change and wellbeing .............................................................. 4

HCO-03-2017: To implement the Strategic Research Agenda on Personalised Medicine [RTD] .... 4

HCO-04-2016: Towards globalisation of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial

resistance [RTD] ....................................................................................................................... 6

HCO-06-2016: Towards an ERA-NET on public health research [RTD] ......................................... 8

SC2 - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland

water research and the bioeconomy ................................................................................. 9

OTHER-1-2017: Specific Grant Agreements (SGAs) for ERA-NET Cofund actions supporting Joint

Actions towards Public-Public Partnerships in the Bioeconomy (p.172) ...................................... 9

SFS-19-2016: ERANET COFUND: Public-Public Partnerships in the bioeconomy A. Organic

farming and food production B. Sustainable food production and consumption C. A knowledge

platform for the intestinal microbiome ................................................................................... 10

SFS-25-2016: Support Action to a common agricultural and wider bioeconomy research agenda

.............................................................................................................................................. 12

BG-5-2016: ERA-NET Cofund on marine technologies .............................................................. 13

SC3 - Secure, clean and efficient energy .......................................................................... 14

EE-21-2016: ERA-NET Cofund actions supporting Joint Actions towards increasing energy

efficiency in industry and services .......................................................................................... 14

LCE-26-2016: Cross-thematic ERA-NET on Applied Geosciences ............................................... 15

LCE-35-2016: Framework Partnership Agreement supporting Joint Actions towards the

demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions ................................................. 16

SFS-36-2017: Co-fund on "One Health" (zoonoses - emerging threats) ..................................... 17

LCE-34-2016: Joint Actions towards the demonstration and validation of innovative energy

solutions ................................................................................................................................ 18

ERA-NET Cofund .................................................................................................................... 18

OTHER-62: Specific Grant Agreements (SGAs) for ERA-NET Cofund actions supporting Joint

Actions towards the demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions .................. 19

SC4 - Smart, green and integrated transport ................................................................... 20

ERA-NET Co-fund on electromobility....................................................................................... 20

SC5 - Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials ....................... 21

Supporting international cooperation activities on water ........................................................ 21

Food systems and water resources for the development of inclusive, sustainable and healthy

Euro-Mediterranean societies ................................................................................................ 22

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ERA-NET Co-fund on Raw materials ........................................................................................ 23

Transformations to sustainability ........................................................................................... 24

Framework Partnership Agreement supporting Joint Actions towards a sustainable green

economy in Europe and beyond ............................................................................................. 25

Specific Grant Agreements (SGAs) for ERA-NET Co-fund actions supporting Joint Actions towards sustainable green economy in Europe and beyond .................................................................. 26

Sustainable urbanisation ........................................................................................................ 27

SC6 - Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies .............. 28

Dynamics of inequalities across the life-course ....................................................................... 28

OTH 30. COST ......................................................................................................................... 29

Culture, integration and European public space ...................................................................... 30

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Excellent Science/ Future and Emerging Technologies ..................................................... 31

FETPROACT-03-2016: FET ERANET Cofund in Quantum Technologies ....................................... 31

FETPROACT-02-2017: FET ERA-NET Cofund CHIST-ERA ............................................................. 32

FETFLAG-01-2016: Partnering environment for FET flagships ................................................... 33

Innovation in SME .......................................................................................................... 34

Eurostars Joint Programming Initiative: Interim Evaluation ..................................................... 34

Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and

Processing ...................................................................................................................... 35

NMBP-11-2016: ERA-NET on Nanomedicine ............................................................................ 35

NMBP-21-2016: ERA-NET on manufacturing technologies supporting industry and particularly

SMEs in the global competition .............................................................................................. 36

BIOTEC-01-2016: ERA-NET Cofund on Biotechnologies ............................................................ 37

EMPIR interim and EMRP final evaluation ............................................................................... 38

Science with and for society ........................................................................................... 39

SwafS-2-2016: ERA-NET Cofund - Promoting Gender equality in H2020 and the ERA ................ 39

Spreading excellence and widening participation ............................................................ 40

WIDESPREAD-2-2016: Support to JPI Urban Europe ................................................................. 40

Spreading excellence and widening participation ............................................................ 41

OTH-2: COST .......................................................................................................................... 41

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Topic identifier

SC1 - Health, demographic change and wellbeing Title HCO-03-2017: To implement the Strategic Research Agenda on

Personalised Medicine [RTD]

Instrument ERA-NET Cofund

Budget 5M€

Call closure 11 Apr 2017

Description: By providing the right intervention to the right person at the right time, personalised medicine[[Personalised medicine refers to a medical model using characterization of individuals’ phenotypes and genotypes (e.g. molecular profiling, medical imaging, lifestyle data) for tailoring the right therapeutic strategy for the right person at the right time, and/or to determine the predisposition to disease and/or to deliver timely and targeted prevention. The term "personalised medicine" is used throughout this Work Programme with this definition in mind.]] can improve quality of life and contribute to more sustainable healthcare at Member State level. It may drive new and faster development processes and products, providing European life sciences industries with a competitive edge that can secure growth and jobs. Today, development is uneven across and within sectors, regions and Member States due to fragmented activities, insufficient communication and lack of commonly accepted solutions and standards. The FP7 funded coordination and support action "Personalised Medicine 2020 and beyond – Preparing Europe for leading the global way (PerMed)[[www.permed2020.eu]]" was launched in 2013 with the objective to develop a Strategic Research Agenda to progress personalised medicine in Europe. PerMed partners have strived to focus their strategy on concrete research actions, many of which should be addressed through transnational collaborative health research. An ERA-NET Cofund action is therefore a suitable and timely tool to implement relevant parts of PerMed's Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda[[Available at http://www.permed2020.eu/1428.php]], which will be published in 2015.

Scope: Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to implementing a joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with co-funding in this area. This call should aim at implementing a key area of the PerMed Strategic Research Agenda and be complementary with other funding programmes and activities at European and international level. Proposers are encouraged to include other joint activities including additional joint calls without EU co-funding. This work should be informed by the output of the coordination and support action envisaged in topic SC1-HCO-05-2016 - Coordinating personalised medicine research, without duplicating any of its work. The proposed ERA-NET should demonstrate the expected impact on national and transnational programmes as well as the leverage effect on European research and competitiveness, and should plan the development of key indicators for supporting this. Participation of international partners is highly encouraged. The Commission considers that a proposal requesting a contribution from the EU of EUR 5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Expected Impact: Projects are expected to contribute to:

http://www.permed2020.eu/

http://www.permed2020.eu/1428.php

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Deepened and extended coordination of national and transnational research in the field of personalised medicine.

Streamlined national/regional and international practices in organising research funding. Increased interoperability of national research programmes. Increased sharing of data and knowledge. Increased networking of infrastructures and databases such as ESFRI infrastructures.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuni ties/h2020/topics/3066-sc1-hco-03-2017.html

Status Forthcoming

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Topic identifier SC1 - Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Title

HCO-04-2016: Towards globalisation of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial resistance [RTD]

Instrument CSA

Budget 2M€


Description: The Joint Programming Initiative on antimicrobial resistance (JPIAMR) was established in 2011 to enable the participating EU Member States and other countries supporting this initiative to work together to address the rise in antibiotic resistance that threatens human and animal health. Throughout the past four years, the JPIAMR has proven to be an important tool for the establishment of a European Research Area in this field. The JPIAMR launched its strategic research agenda (SRA) in 2014. The JPIAMR is currently implementing this SRA via alignment of national activities and launching transnational research calls. Scope:

Proposals should support the development and extension of the JPIAMR capacities. In particular,

resources should be used to:

Explore possible scenarios for long-term sustainability by Member States, implement the

most appropriate scenarios to ensure full self-sustainability at the end of this project, and

create political awareness for implementation.

Extend the capacities of the JPIAMR to the Members States which are not yet

participating in the initiative. For this purpose, the proposal should dedicate resources to

develop a strategy to attract and raise awareness of the missing EU Member States. This

should include identification of available national research and innovation resources in

the area of antimicrobial resistance;

Attract global capacities towards JPIAMR and dedicate resources to implement its global

strategy. This should include awareness raising and the development of a strategy to

attract non-EU countries to join the initiative including low and middle income countries.

In addition to this, the JPIAMR should play a key role in supporting the implementation

of the WHO global action plan on antimicrobial resistance and the development of a

global SRA.

Develop and implement current and new strategies for further coordination of national

AMR action plans, research agendas and activities, and in particular for the take-up of

JPIAMR strategies and policies at national level. This should clearly demonstrate the

leverage effect of the JPIAMR. In this context, the proposal should dedicate resources to

develop and implement initiatives for knowledge management, brokerage and transfer,

as well as establishing collaborations with other initiatives or partners at European and

global level;

Provide innovative strategies for the creation of infrastructures and tools to facilitate

more rapid uptake of data and methodologies for research on antimicrobial resistance in

the EU and beyond;

Expected Impact:

Expected Impact:

Reinforcing the JPI scheme as a major tool for the achievement of the European Research

Area;

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Implementing a stronger global dimension of the JPIAMR, aligned with the WHO global

action plan on antimicrobial resistance;

Increased multiannual commitment of JPIAMR members, long-term sustainability of the

JPIAMR research and innovation strategy, and long-term structuring effect and critical

mass mobilization;

Achieving coordination and integration of national research and innovation programmes

with the JPIAMR research strategy in coherence with Horizon 2020 objectives;

Faster international progress for research and innovation on antimicrobial resistance

through the development of novel research tools and infrastructures;

Increasing efficiency of research and innovation investments by European Member

States by avoiding duplication of research and infrastructure investment at national level;

Awareness and potential extension of the JPIAMR to missing EU Member States, as well

as non-EU Member States;

Further establishing the JPIAMR as a reference for European and global knowledge and

innovation platform in the area of antimicrobial resistance.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuniti es/h2020/topics/3059-sc1-hco-04-2016.html

Status Open



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Topic identifier SC1 - Health, demographic change and wellbeing

Title HCO-06-2016: Towards an ERA-NET on public health research [RTD]

Instrument CSA

Budget 2M€


Description: Currently, public health-related research, whether population health or health services research, is fragmented, not coordinated and not aligned across the European Union. There is a need to render investments in public health research more efficient, learn from each other and better capitalise on the on-going so called 'natural experiments' in Europe. While some public health problems are specific to countries, and health care systems are different. Member States still face many similar challenges. There are many public health problems common to most countries, such as the burden posed by chronic diseases, multi-morbidity or obesity, and mental health issues. Scope:

To pave the way to an ERA-NET co-fund action for building sustainable and resilient health systems models, this coordination and support action (CSA) will develop a structured system of exchange of information between public health research funders and other relevant bodies, as well as academia, in order to establish synergies and avoid duplication. It will further facilitate the development of a strategic research agenda taking into account the diversity which exists within Europe. This agenda will identify at least a number of measurable, performance enhancing, scientific-technological or socio-economic objectives, supported by an appropriate analysis. Expected Impact:

Build on the communalities of existing knowledge gathering in past EU and national level

studies, thus ensure a better use of limited resources.

Identification of common research priorities and research needs, also taking into account

developments at the international level where relevant.

Development and alignment of national and regional plans.

Sharing of data, metadata, knowledge and best practice.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuniti es/h2020/topics/3058-sc1-hco-06-2016.html

Status Open



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Topic identifier

SC2 - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy

Title OTHER-1-2017: Specific Grant Agreements (SGAs) for ERA-NET Cofund actions supporting Joint Actions towards Public-Public Partnerships in the Bioeconomy (p.172) A. Sustainable crop production B. Innovative forest-based bioeconomy C. GMO research D. Nutrition and epigenome E. Plant Molecular Factory

Instrument Specific Grant Agreements for ERA-NET Cofund

Budget 29M€

Call closure 3rd quarter 2017

Description See page 172 in the pdf below: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020- wp1617-food_en.pdf

Website https://www.era-learn.eu/h2020-calls-for-p2p/calls-2017

Status Forthcoming

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-

https://www.era-learn.eu/h2020-calls-for-p2p/calls-2017

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Topic identifier SC2 - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy

Title SFS-19-2016: ERANET COFUND: Public-Public Partnerships in the bioeconomy A. Organic farming and food production B. Sustainable food production and consumption C. A knowledge platform for the intestinal microbiome


Budget 15M€

Call closure 17 Feb 2016

Description: Agriculture and the agri-food sector are integral parts of the economy and society in Europe. They are subject to multiple external pressures, such as rising demand for food, feed, fuel and fibres, globalisation, environmental changes and public health considerations. They are also constrained by physical limits such as the availability of land and water. Demand for animal food products and competition for natural resources are expected to increase. This implies that agriculture and agri-food sector will need to become more efficient and sustainable. A. [2016] Organic farming and food production

Scope: In recent years the organic market in the EU, driven by steadily increasing demand, has developed significantly (EUR 19.7 billion with a 9% growth rate in 2011). While demand for organic products tends to exceed production, during the last decade, the number of organic producers and the surface area under organic production have grown rapidly. Expected Impact: More sustainable agricultural production systems, food processing and food value chains through the further development of organic products and fulfilment of the rising demand for organic products, support for the Common Agricultural Policy and organic farming regulations and other relevant policy areas. B. [2016] Sustainable food production and consumption Scope: Achieving a sustainable food supply that incorporates new food processing technologies and that is supported by consumer acceptance, is an innovation priority for the food industry and civil society organisations. A SUSFOOD (“SUStainable FOOD production and consumption”) ERA- NET Cofund will seek to increase collaboration and coordination on national research into the sustainability of food production and consumption, with the main focus on the food supply chain beyond the farm gate. Expected Impact: Innovation in food processing technologies; redesign of input, waste and side flow strategies to increase resource efficiency and provide added value in food products and processing, manufacture etc.; interdisciplinary research approach to innovation in food products and use of new raw materials for food products; harmonisation of the methods and metrics for the integrated assessment of the sustainability of food products and food patterns; link between stakeholders and food systems; greater understanding of consumer behaviour and food choices; integration of information systems for personalized, sustainable choices. C. [2016] A knowledge platform for the intestinal microbiome Scope: For many years it has been known that the composition and function of the intestinal microbiome affect the conversion and availability of some dietary components. There is a growing body of evidence on complex host-diet-microbiota interactions, highlighting the need to consider these interconnections as a triad that will define the success of dietary interventions and European policies. Expected Impact: This ERA-NET Cofund should generate new knowledge to support health maintenance, prevention strategies and/or new treatments. It should shed light on the human diet-gut microbiota interaction in relation to health and disease. It should also create a knowledge base for intervention studies aimed at promoting health and/or preventing the

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onset/development of non-communicable chronic disease through diet-dependent modulation of the intestinal microbiota.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuniti es/h2020/topics/6075-sfs-19-2016.html

Status Open

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Title SFS-25-2016: Support Action to a common agricultural and wider bioeconomy research agenda

Instrument CSA

Budget 1-2M€


Description: To consolidate a common agricultural and wider bioeconomy research agenda that enhances cooperation, coordination, and information exchange between the Member States. Scope:

Improve the alignment and interoperability of national research programmes in the Societal

Challenge 2 domains; broaden the participation of the different strategic and collaborative

working groups, ERA-NETs, and JPIs; stimulate and maintain the interest of relevant countries not

yet fully involved; improve the overall organisation communication and dissemination activities

underpinning a common agricultural and wider bioeconomy research agenda.

Submission of a single proposal is highly encouraged. In terms of geographical coverage, the consortium should be representative of the EU Member States and Associated Countries. Entities in EU Member States and Associated Countries not covered by the consortium should be identified and the reasons for not participating in the Consortium explained in the proposal. Expected Impact:

The research agenda should support the development of the bioeconomy in the European

Research Area, based on a comprehensive analysis of EU wide national and regional financial and

human bioeconomy capacities, including the barriers to greater alignment and interoperability

across borders for the benefit of building up:

A detailed and robust picture of the EU strengths and weaknesses in the common

agricultural and wider bioeconomy research and innovation fields;

identification of potential measures to support the development of the bioeconomy in

the European Research Area;

a more efficient European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Agricultural Productivity and

Sustainability and Agricultural/Bioeconomy Knowledge and Innovation Systems.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuniti es/h2020/topics/6072-sfs-25-2016.html

Status Open



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Title BG-5-2016: ERA-NET Cofund on marine technologies


Budget 10M€


Description: Innovation related to seas and oceans can play a key role in tackling global challenges such as the scarcity and vulnerability of strategic resources and can unlock the potential of a sustainable blue economy, while factoring in environmental and climate change risks. EU intervention is needed to create the conditions for mobilising investments while avoiding the costly duplication of work. Scope:

Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view of implementing a joint call for proposals with EU co- funding resulting in grants to third parties. In addition, proposals may involve, publicly-funded research performing organisations that will contribute with their own resources (in-kind contributions). In this case, the joint call should include a separate topic for the participating research performing organisations, so that they will implement the resulting transnational projects themselves. Their participation in the ERA-NET Cofund action must be mandated by the national/regional authorities in charge (usually the responsible ministry). Expected Impact:

To contribute to the implementation of the European Blue Growth Agenda and marine and

maritime-related Directives, proposals will:

Bring new knowledge-intensive products and services for marine and maritime activities to

the market.

Increase the resource efficiency, security, safety and environmental compliance of maritime

activities.

Help implement the European strategy on Key Enabling Technologies (KETs), in particular with

regards to advanced materials and manufacturing.

Support trans-national, pan-European research networks and synergies among

national/regional and EU research programmes.

Facilitate economies of scale and research investment efficiency by better aligning

national/regional research programmes, in particular within the Joint Programming Initiative

"Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans".

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuniti es/h2020/topics/5118-bg-05-2016.html

Status Open

https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/5118-bg-05-2016.html

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Topic identifier Societal Challenges

SC3 - Secure, clean and efficient energy Title EE-21-2016: ERA-NET Cofund actions supporting Joint Actions

towards increasing energy efficiency in industry and services


Budget 5M€

Call closure 15 Sep 2016

Description: The EU-funding alone will not be sufficient to ensure an increase in energy efficiency in the process industry by 20% in 2020 and to radically reduce the energy content of production, leading to more flexible, less costly manufacturing processes and for self-consumption. Therefore the Member States and Associated Countries are invited through this action to identify Joint Actions in this field, to implement joint activities, and to systemically address the non-technology barriers for wider uptake of energy efficiency. Scope: The proposed ERA-NET action aims at development and launch of a joint call for proposals in the field of energy efficiency in Industry and Services. Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to implementing a joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding in this area. The joint call should focus around a limited number of industrial sectors, not covered under SPIRE. The projects financed by the joint call should cover either industrial sectors with very energy intensive industrial processes or industrial sectors with large energy consumption due to their market presence, though their industrial processes are not highly energy intensive. They should cover industrial sectors with innovative potential and willingness, readiness to implement energy efficiency measures at a meaningful scale. Finally, the size of the addressed industrial sectors in EU and/or their benefits for the EU economy need to be taken into account. The joint call should address IA and include the elements related to persistent market barriers. Proposals should demonstrate how the proposed activities will be continued commercially beyond the project lifetime. Involvement of relevant multiplier organisations is encouraged. The ERA-NET action will be implemented according to the three reporting periods scheme. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of around EUR 5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. This does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Expected Impact: The ERA-NET action will indicate the specific impact resulting from the transnational nature of the action and the European added value. Deliverables of each of the projects financed by the joint call will be included in the reports of the ERA-NET action to the EC. The projects financed by the joint call are expected to demonstrate the impacts in terms of primary energy savings triggered by the project within its duration . They are expected to contribute to the objectives of the EU En. Eff. policies, initiatives. They will include ad-hoc indicators to measure the progress against specific objectives of their choice.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal4/desktop/en/opp ortunities/h2020/topics/4090-ee-21-2016.html

Status

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Topic identifier Societal Challenges SC3 - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Title LCE-26-2016: Cross-thematic ERA-NET on Applied Geosciences


Budget 10M€


Description: The increasing use of subsurface resources resulting from growing energy needs and the growing demand for water and raw materials represent key challenges, requiring a more integrated, efficient and sustainable use of these resources, and the minimisation of any negative health and environmental impacts. Synergies should be nurtured, while conflicts of use should be avoided. This creates significant opportunities in terms of growth and job creation in advanced technology sectors related to the optimal management and use of the resources. This topic addresses three specific challenges: Geo-energy, Groundwater and Raw Materials. Scope: Proposals should pool the necessary resources from national (or regional) research programmes with a view to implementing a joint transnational call for proposals with EU co-funding. The action is targeted at publically funded research performing organisations. Their participation must be mandated by the national/regional authorities in charge (normally the responsible Ministry). The co-funded call for proposals must be based on in-kind contributions from their institutional funding and the beneficiaries will carry out the transnational projects resulting from their call for proposals fully or partially themselves. GIS-based databases shall be developed with a view to, in the longer term, the operation and maintenance of an integrated database and map of the European underground, its resources (geo-energy, groundwater and raw materials) and its potential uses. Where appropriate, synergies and compatibility with the EPOS research infrastructure is required and will ensure that developed databases, tools and models can serve the largest communities. The database shall be INSPIRE compliant and be compatible with energy minerals data and marine maps (EMODnet) for the proper land planning and use of both surface and sub-surface. Furthermore, databases should have the technical specifications so that they can be potentially hosted by the European Commission. Expected Impact: Improved interoperability of information, thus allowing a uniform, unbiased and independent insight in the distribution of identified and prospective geo-energy, groundwater and raw materials resources. Better understanding and management of the water-energy-raw materials nexus through a more integrated and efficient management and exploitation of subsurface resources for the various uses, while reducing any associated potential impacts and risks. Delegation Exception Footnote: This activity directly aimed at supporting public-public partnerships with MS and AC, technology platforms with industrial partners and earth observation networks is excluded from the delegation to INEA and will be implemented by the Commission services.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppo rtunities/h2020/topics/2167-lce-26-2016.html

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Title LCE-35-2016: Framework Partnership Agreement supporting Joint Actions towards the demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions

Instrument Framework Partnership

Budget Agreement for ERA-NET Cofund


Description: One of the objectives of the SET Plan is to create funding synergies on such a big scale by organising joint programming actions between the entities responsible for public funding programmes and the Commission. ERA-NETs are the main instrument for joint programming actions within the SET Plan, and they also contribute to achieving the objectives of the European Research Area (ERA). In addition, they can play a key role in achieving the goal of the Energy Union of moving away from a fragmented system characterised by uncoordinated national policies and towards a new European R&I approach which accelerates the transformation of the energy system. Scope: The purpose of this call is to create a single Framework Partnership Agreement to strengthen and simplify cooperation between the EC and MS’/AC1 programme managers and programme owners in the field of energy. This will allow MS/AC to develop and implement a long-term action plan addressing this specific challenge with a set of ERA-NET Cofund actions. The Commission will subsequently invite submission of proposals for Specific Grant Agreements under this Framework Partnership Agreement as grants to identified beneficiaries. Expected Impact: The simplification of ERA-NET Cofund actions is an important milestone in stepping up long-term collaboration with and between MS/AC. The following benefits are expected: Increased involvement of programme managers and programme owners in ERA-NET Cofund actions. Establishment of long-lasting joint programming research efforts between MS/AC in areas of common interest.Increased involvement of the Commission in the preparatory phase of joint programming initiatives. Acceleration of the time to market of innovative, affordable, cost- effective and resource-efficient technology solutions. Simplification of ERA-NET administrative arrangements: proposal submission, evaluation and grant preparation. Measurable contribution to the political objectives of the Energy Union, the SET Plan, and the ERA. The Framework Partnership Agreement will cover the remaining duration of Horizon 2020. The proposal submitted to this call should include all legal entities that intend to participate in future energy ERA-NET co-funding actions during that period. Delegation Exception Footnote: This activity directly aimed at supporting public-public partnerships with Member States and Associated Countries, technology platforms with industrial partners is excluded from the delegation to INEA and will be implemented by the Commission services.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppor tunities/h2020/topics/2163-lce-35-2016.html

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http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppor

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Title SFS-36-2017: Co-fund on "One Health" (zoonoses - emerging threats)

Instrument EJP Cofund

Budget 35M€


Description: Coherence in research is needed to better understand processes triggering and propagating zoonoses, their routing in the animal–human-environment triangle and their impact on public health. The means to control these diseases can be improved with a "one health" approach involving synergies in various areas of research: human health, animal health food safety and environmental health. Action is needed at European level to identify and characterize risks in the field of food and feed safety, by developing capacity to collect and analyse information, and supporting research on state-of-the-art reference and surveillance tools, taking into account the harmonisation of existing and new diagnostic tests. National research programmes in the area need to be further integrated and aligned and related policy activities, including forecasting activities for emerging threats, need further support. There is also a need for research-based recommendations to prevent and control such zoonoses. Scope: The overall objective is to create a European joint programme to deal with zoonoses with an emphasis on zoonotic food-borne microbial infection and intoxication, including natural toxins and the risks associated with domesticated and wild animal reservoirs and their exposure routes towards human infection, including possible illegal imports of animal products, in order to improve preparedness against future 'one health' risks. The aim is to construct a sustainable framework for an integrated community of research groups including reference laboratories in the fields of life sciences, medicine, veterinary medicine, animal sciences and environmental sciences. The activities will need to be coordinated with related European research related projects, initiatives, International Research on animal health,and entities and take into account relevant international statutory bodies. Considering the budget available, the scope covered and the potential entities for this EJP, the Commission considers that an EU contribution to a maximum 50% of the total eligible costs of the action or up to 35 million EUR for the expected 5 year duration of the action would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Up to one project will be funded. Expected Impact: The project will lead to significant long term alignment of research strategies and activities at national and EU level, thus reducing unnecessary duplication of work on (especially food-borne) zoonoses. It will foster lasting transdisciplinary cooperation in the fields of life sciences, medicine, veterinary medicine, animal sciences and environmental sciences. It will advance understanding of the risks associated with zoonoses, their origin and pathways towards human infections. It will support risk management as regards zoonoses. It will facilitate knowledge dissemination, making beneficiaries aware of the risks and more responsible for their health.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppor tunities/h2020/topics/6070-sfs-36-2017.html

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Title LCE-34-2016: Joint Actions towards the demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions


Budget 30.8M€


Description: One of the objectives of the SET Plan is to create funding synergies on a big scale by organising joint programming actions between the entities responsible for public funding programmes and the Commission. ERA-NETs are the main instrument for joint programming actions within the SET Plan, and they also contribute to achieving the objectives of the ERA. They can aslo play a key role in achieving the goal of the Energy Union of moving away from a fragmented system characterised by uncoordinated national policies and towards a new European R&I approach which accelerates the transformation of the energy system. Scope: Proposals should aim at coordinating the research efforts of the participating MS, AC and Regions in the areas and challenges targeted in the Renewable Energy Technologies, Decarbonising Fossil Fuels and Socio-Economics sections of the Competitive LCE call. Individual topics suitable for ERA- NETs will be identified and discussed in close collaboration with MS'/AC' representatives through the SET Plan governance bodies and with representatives of the Energy configuration of the H2020 Programme Committee. Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to implementing a joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding in this area. Proposers are encouraged to implement other joint activities, including additional joint calls without EU co- funding. Participation of legal entities from international partner countries is encouraged in the joint call as well as in additional joint activities, on the basis of common interest and mutual benefit. Participants from countries which are not automatically eligible for funding may nonetheless request an EU contribution to cover the coordination costs of additional activities on the basis of the ERA-NET unit cost. Expected Impact: Establish long-lasting joint programming research efforts between MS/AC in areas of common interest. Accelerate the time to market of affordable, cost-effective and resource-efficient technology solutions. Encourage industrial participation and leverage private sector investment. Strengthen the European industrial technology base, creating economic growth and jobs in Europe. Reduce the environmental impact of the energy system. Make a measurable contribution to the political objectives of the EU, the SET Plan, and the ERA. Delegation Exception Footnote: This activity directly aimed at supporting public-public partnerships with Member States and Associated Countries, technology platforms with industrial partners is excluded from the delegation to INEA and will be implemented by the Commission services.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppor tunities/h2020/topics/2165-lce-34-2016.html

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Title OTHER-62: Specific Grant Agreements (SGAs) for ERA-NET Cofund actions supporting Joint Actions towards the demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions (Comment: the Programme Committee has been informed that the Commission plans to update the WP and replace this topic with ERA- NET Cofund actions under the section calls.)

Instrument Specific Grant Agreements for ERA-NET Cofund

Budget 31M€

Call closure

Description: Once the Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) resulting from the call for topic LCE-35 is concluded between the Commission and the consortium of programme owners and programme managers, each individual ERA-NET Cofund action will be implemented as a Specific Grant Agreement (SGA) linked to the FPA. Individual topics suitable for SGAs will be identified and discussed in close collaboration with MS’/AC' representatives through the SET Plan governance bodies and with representatives of the Energy configuration of the H2020 Programme Committee. The actual submission of the simplified ERA-NET Cofund proposals will only be possible after the Commission services have agreed with the scope and budget of each ERANET to be co-funded. Proposals will have to pay particular attention to tackling the following challenges: Focusing on demonstration projects and on bringing innovative low carbon energy solutions closer to commercial deployment; Encouraging industrial participation to leverage private sector investment; Strengthening the European industrial technology base, thereby creating economic growth and jobs in Europe; Reducing the environmental impact of the energy system. This action will only support ERA-NET Cofund actions in areas covered by the Renewable Energy Technologies, Decarbonising Fossil Fuels and Socio-Economics sections of the Competitive LCE call. Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes, with a view to implementing a joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding in this area. Proposers are encouraged to implement other joint activities, including additional joint calls without EU co-funding. Participation of legal entities from international partner countries is encouraged in the joint call, as well as in additional joint activities. Participants from countries which are not automatically eligible for funding may nonetheless request an EU contribution to cover the coordination costs of additional activities on the basis of the ERA-NET unit cost. The following activity is an example of SGA which could be supported in 2017: Commercial-Scale Demonstration of CCS: The project should support the operation of a CO2 capture plant demonstrating the application of post-combustion CCS technology to a commercial-scale coal- fired power plant with the subsequent transport and permanent offshore geological storage of the CO2. The project should intend to demonstrate the full CCS system in the real-life operational environment, i.e. bring the technology at a TRL of 7.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016 _2017/main/h2020-wp1617-energy_en.pdf (p.178)

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Topic identifier GV-12-2016

SC4 - Smart, green and integrated transport Title ERA-NET Co-fund on electromobility

Instrument ERA-NET Co-fund

Budget 10M€

Call closure 26 Jan 2016

Description: Research on quantum technologies in Europe is currently funded through several targeted initiatives at European, national and regional level. The aim is to foster synergy between these initiatives in the area of quantum technologies in order to create collaborations among the best groups in Europe and fostering broader partnerships around them to spread excellence and to broaden the European footprint of this emerging technology area.

Scope: The proposed scope of the ERA-NET Co-fund on Electric Urban Mobility reflects the progress that was made in previous years and consequently sets a specific focus on urban areas, where the next important steps in the innovation cycle will take place. Proposals will aim at the innovation and deployment needs for 2020 and the years after. Activities should focus on demonstrating and validating solutions that have already reached sufficient maturity for deployment. These should be complementary to, and not duplicate the scope of, the other projects of the European Green Car and European Green Vehicle Initiatives. Appropriate user and general public acceptance, regulatory, market up-take, social, environmental and resource efficiency aspects should be included. In principle all modes of surface transport are relevant. Urban freight and logistics is in scope (e.g. smart urban delivery fleets), but the focus will rather be on passenger transport (e.g. car sharing with EVs).

Expected Impact: This action will result in: ―Acceleration of the time to market of affordable, cost-effective and socially acceptable solutions to integrate electric mobility in Europe's urban transport systems. ―Reduction of the environmental footprint and the energy payback time. ―Strengthening the industrial technology base, thereby creating growth and jobs in Europe. ―Tangible and practical guidance to the decision makers in the relevant authorities and support industry as well as the service sector to provide suitable and feasible solutions for electric mobility in European urban areas. ―Contribution to climate action and sustainable development objectives.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppo rtunities/h2020/topics/2066-gv-12-2016.html

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https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2066-gv-12-2016.html

https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2066-gv-12-2016.html

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Topic identifier SC5-11-2016

SC5 - Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials Title Supporting international cooperation activities on water

Instrument CSA

Budget 2M€

Call closure 8 Mar 2016

Description: The outreach and opening of the Water JPI to third country partners is increasingly raising interest among the latter. Building on this momentum, the challenge is to further enhance the opening of the Water JPI to international cooperation and thus contribute to creating a coherent European Research Area that is open to international cooperation in the area of water – a global research and innovation challenge par excellence. In addition, it is foreseen that this topic would consolidate the alignment of national, EU and international water research and innovation programmes, which is one of the key objectives of Joint Programming Initiatives. Finally, there is a need to support the post-2015 global goal for water, building on related international activities taking place at United Nations level.

Scope: Proposals should aim to create a framework and permanent dialogue to encourage the opening in a structured and strategic manner of the Water JPI to international cooperation with key international water research and innovation programmes and funding and investment institutions. Proposals should also investigate activities to align with and support the post-2015 sustainable development agenda, in particular the Sustainable Development Goal on water and its impact on other goals, such as nutrition, education, health, etc. Flagship actions for possible joint funding between the members of the JPI Water, international cooperation partners and international programmes of strategic importance for the EU should be identified and prepared for.

Expected Impact: Projects are expected to contribute to: increasing the scale and ambition of water research and innovation activities beyond the level

that would otherwise be sustainable, increasing the overall coherence and efficiency of the use of European resources and valorising European know-how on water solutions at global level in the context of the post-2015 sustainable development agenda;

making the Water JPI, in collaboration with the European Commission, a privileged and attractive partner for global cooperation in research and innovation, notably in the context of the Belmont Forum;

a strengthened role of the Water JPI for underpinning knowledge and evidence for supporting the implementation of related EU policies and for fostering the EU's position in global water- related negotiations and fora.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunit ies/h2020/topics/2213-sc5-11-2016.html

Status

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2213-sc5-11-2016.html

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2213-sc5-11-2016.html

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Topic identifier SC5-12-2016 SC5 - Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Title Food systems and water resources for the development of inclusive, sustainable and healthy Euro-Mediterranean societies

Instrument CSA

Budget 2M€


Description Rapid demographic, socio-economic, and climate changes are threatening the sustainable development of the Mediterranean region, especially the capacity of its agriculture to cope with increased demand for food production in a scenario of water scarcity and increasing competition for water use between different sectors. To address this challenge, it is recognised that a significant and well-coordinated research effort at regional scale is needed to find innovative solutions to sustainable food production and water use.

Scope: The objective of this action is to bring together the main national research funding owners and/or managers involved in the PRIMA joint programming process, including the non-European participating states and their institutions, around a jointly designed Strategic Research Agenda with appropriate governance and implementation structures. A critical mass of players and increased synergies between all relevant stakeholders (e.g. relevant ministries responsible for sustainable agricultural production systems and water resources management, research institutions and universities, farmers' organisations) will be key elements for addressing the challenge.

Expected Impact: Projects are expected to contribute to: reinforced cooperation and coordination of food systems and water research programmes

within a long term partnership involving research funding bodies, universities, ministries or any other stakeholders from the two sides of the Mediterranean area;

reducing fragmentation of efforts and enhance a collective ownership; facilitating consultation, awareness and commitment; supporting structural, long-lasting progress toward sustainable economic and social

development in the Mediterranean; Projects are expected to contribute to: reinforced cooperation and coordination of food systems and water research programmes

within a long term partnership involving research funding bodies, universities, ministries or any other stakeholders from the two sides of the Mediterranean area;

reducing fragmentation of efforts and enhance a collective ownership; facilitating consultation, awareness and commitment; supporting structural, long-lasting progress toward sustainable economic and social

development in the Mediterranean;

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuniti es/h2020/topics/2187-sc5-12-2016.html

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https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2187-sc5-12-2016.html


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Title ERA-NET Co-fund on Raw materials


Budget 5M€


Description In order to secure sustainable supply of raw materials to the EU society, the raw materials sector needs to strengthen its performance and competitiveness through research and innovation. Stronger integration of national and regional R&I programmes across the whole EU is needed to tap the potential of available funding and to reach the critical mass pushing the EU raw materials sector to the forefront in the sustainable production of primary and secondary raw materials and scarce materials substitution.

Scope: The objective of the ERA-NET is to strengthen co-ordination of national and regional research programmes in the field of non-energy non-agricultural raw materials, while building on the experience of ERA-MIN ERA-NET. This should be achieved in line with the integrated strategy proposed in the EU Raw Materials Initiative (RMI) and the Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Raw Materials. The ERA-NET should cover the whole raw materials value chain including exploration, extraction and processing technologies and recycling, as well as substitution.

Expected Impact: Actions are expected to lead to: achieving the objectives of the EIP Raw Materials, particularly in the area of research and

innovation co-ordination; reduced fragmentation of raw materials research and innovation efforts across Europe; improved synergy, co-ordination and coherence between regional, national and EU funding in

the relevant research fields through transnational collaboration, and where appropriate international collaboration;

improved use of human and financial resources in the area of raw materials research and innovation.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuni ties/h2020/topics/2206-sc5-17-2016.html

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Title Transformations to sustainability


Budget 3M€


Description: Climate change, environmental degradation and resource pressures have created unprecedented situations for societies worldwide. Today’s urgent challenges of global environmental change will require not only scientific advances and technological adjustments but also deep and enduring social change. A comprehensive new approach to research and action on global environmental change and sustainability is needed that promotes solutions that are at the same time ecologically sound, economically viable and socially just. A new approach to sustainability research from the angle of social transformation will require the active contribution and pro-active leadership from social sciences and humanities disciplines, in terms of bringing relevant existing knowledge, framing the research questions, designing and implementing the research, and helping to derive effective, equitable and durable solutions to global sustainability challenges with a genuine involvement of relevant societal stakeholder groups at all stages of the research and policy process.

Scope: Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national regional, or international research programmes with a view to implementing a joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding in this area. Proposers are encouraged to include other joint activities including additional joint calls without EU co-funding.

Expected Impact: Projects are expected to lead to: alignment of EU Member States' and international partners' research programmes towards the

objectives set by the Sustainable Development Goals; strengthened research capacities in low- and middle income countries around the world; transformed research on global environmental change by fostering transdisciplinarity, bringing

together disciplines, practitioners and societal stakeholders, with the ultimate objective of bringing about transformative shifts to a more sustainable and just world.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuni ties/h2020/topics/2204-sc5-28-2016.html

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Title Framework Partnership Agreement supporting Joint Actions towards a sustainable green economy in Europe and beyond

Instrument Framework Partnership Agreement

Budget


Description: The European Environment Agency's 2015 State of the Environment Report[[http://www.eea.europa.eu/soer#tab-synthesis-report]] finds that Europe is making progress in reducing environmental pressures, but that current environmental policies and technology efficiency gains are not likely to be sufficient to address the substantial challenges it faces in protecting its natural capital, stimulating resource-efficient, low-carbon economic and social development and safeguarding its population from environmental health risks. It recommends fundamental, systemic transitions in the systems of production and consumption and profound changes in dominant institutions, lifestyles, practices, policies and technological solutions.

Scope: The purpose of this topic is to create a single Framework Partnership Agreement to strengthen and simplify cooperation between the European Commission, Member States' and other national/regional programme managers and owners in the fields of relevance of the Societal Challenge 5. This will enable these actors to develop and implement a long-term action plan addressing the specific challenge with a set of ERA-NET Co-fund actions. It is expected that the proposal submitted to this call will provide a broad coverage of countries and their different programme managers and owners. Up to one proposal shall be selected under this topic.

Expected Impact: In areas of common interest within the scope of Societal Challenge 5, the Framework Partnership Agreement is expected to: establish long-term and more strategic collaboration among programme managers and

owners so as to create a globally attractive European Research Area that underpins the transformation towards sustainable development in line with the post 2015 sustainable development agenda;

establish long-lasting joint programming research efforts with structural impacts between Member States and with international partners, capitalising on the experience of networks such as the Belmont Forum, in areas of common interest within the scope of Societal Challenge 5;

increase the involvement of programme managers and owners in jointly addressing sustainability challenges, inter alia through ERA-NET Co-fund actions, thereby improving the synergy at European and global levels between JPIs and ERANETs within a common strategic framework.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuniti es/h2020/topics/2197-sc5-29-2016.html

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Topic identifier OTH-7 SC5 - Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Title Specific Grant Agreements (SGAs) for ERA-NET Co-fund actions supporting Joint Actions towards sustainable green economy in Europe and beyond

Instrument Specific Grant Agreements for ERA-NET Co-fund 2017

Budget 25M€

Call closure 2nd quarter 2017

Description: This action is connected to topic SC5-29-2016 'Framework Partnership Agreement supporting Joint Actions towards a sustainable green economy in Europe and beyond'. Once the Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) resulting from topic SC5-29-2016 is concluded between the Commission services and the consortium of programme owners and programme managers, each individual ERA-NET Co-fund action will be implemented as a Specific Grant Agreement (SGA) linked to the FPA. Individual topics suitable for SGAs will be identified and discussed in close collaboration with Member States' representatives. For 2017, topics will predominantly address the areas covered by the activities of the JPI Climate, the JPI Water and the BIODIVERSA ERA-NET, without excluding the possibility that the use of the FPA may be proposed for topics in other areas during this period. The actual submission of the simplified ERA-NET Co-fund proposals will only be possible after the Commission services have agreed with the Programme Committee configuration for Societal Challenge 5 the scope, budget and type of each ERA-NET to be co-funded. Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to implementing a joint call for proposals (normally resulting in grants to third parties) with EU co-funding in this area. Proposers are encouraged to implement other joint activities, including additional joint calls without EU co-funding. Participation of legal entities from international partner countries is encouraged in the joint call as well as in other joint activities. Participants from countries which are not automatically eligible for funding may nonetheless request a Union contribution to cover the coordination costs of additional activities on the basis of the ERA-NET unit cost. Proposals will have to pay particular attention to tackling the following challenges: adhering to the specific challenges identified for the Framework Partnership Agreement;

reinforcing synergy at international level, particularly building upon the cooperation initiated with relevant fora such as the Belmont Forum, Future Earth etc, contributing to the implementation of the post 2015 agenda for sustainable development;

realising systemic and integrated step changes towards a 'green economy' as a vector for sustainable development;

focusing on projects developing innovative solutions and/or bringing them closer to deployment;

encouraging business and other stakeholder participation to leverage investment in innovative solutions;

strengthening the knowledge base for transformative innovation and technology, thereby creating sustainable economic growth and jobs.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017 /main/h2020-wp1617-climate_en.pdf page 88

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Topic identifier SCC-04-2016

SC5 - Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials

Title Sustainable urbanisation


Budget 5M€


Description: In a globalised world, cities all over the world are facing broadly similar challenges. Finding solutions and defining optimal pathways towards sustainable urbanisation receives high priority in the Research and Innovation (R&I) policy of the majority of the countries worldwide. In this context, aligning R&I agendas to underpin sustainable urbanisation and implementing them through international collaboration will promote synergies, and thus an optimal use of the available expertise, capacity and resources, avoid duplication and ensure robust outcomes of global relevance. The opening of JPI Urban Europe to third country partners is increasingly finding interest among its members and among third countries. The Belmont Forum provides an excellent platform for international collaboration in the area of sustainable urbanisation.

Scope: Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to implementing a joint call for proposals resulting in grants to third parties with EU co-funding in this area. Proposers are encouraged to include other joint activities including additional joint calls without EU co-funding. Actions should build on the international strategy of the JPI Urban Europe and launch in collaboration with the Belmont Forum at least one international call on sustainable urbanisation.

Expected Impact: Actions are expected to lead to: the alignment of research and innovation agendas in the area of sustainable urbanisation and

co-ordinated streamlining of the implementation of the respective calls; enhanced excellence and global relevance of research and innovation activities on sustainable

urbanisation and increased visibility at international level; strong and lasting alliance with the funding agencies of key international partners for research

and innovation actions on sustainable urbanisation (e.g China, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, USA etc.); link of possible European and international demonstration actions on re-naturing cities to induce

a wider, worldwide application of nature-based solutions.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunitie s/h2020/topics/4083-scc-04-2016.html

Status

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/4083-scc-04-2016.html

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/4083-scc-04-2016.html

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Topic identifier REV-INEQUAL-2016-3

SC6 - Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies

Title Dynamics of inequalities across the life-course


Budget 5M€


Description: Existing and rising inequalities pose fundamental challenges to European societies and economies. The sources of inequalities in contemporary societies are complex and highly intertwined. A key concern and indeed challenge is the increasing gulf between rich and poor exacerbated by the financial and economic crises and ensuing high unemployment rates, especially among the young and marginalised groups. The action should address the underlying mechanisms behind existing inequalities in general and the development of inequalities across the life-course in particular. In this context, time is a significant and often neglected key resource. The evolution of disposable time over the life-course can be an important indicator of intergenerational inequalities and raises questions of intergenerational justice and solidarity.

Scope: Activities under this topic should contribute to exploring the underlying dynamics, structures processes and measurement of inequality across life-courses and contribute to better understanding some of the most pressing problems of present-day society related to inequality and social cohesion. They aim to engage, bring together and broaden the research community including in Southern and Central and Eastern Europe, and facilitate capacity-building for research into inequalities and life-courses on a comparative, multi-disciplinary and cross-national basis which has to take account of the variety of situations, including in Southern and Centrals and Eastern Europe. The participation of disciplines such as sociology, education, law, demography, population health, political science, economics, history, anthropology and psychology is anticipated and encouraged.

Expected Impact: Effective trans-national, pan-European research networking and synergies among national/regional and EU research programmes in the area, including in Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, will increase the knowledge base on the dynamics of inequality over life-courses and especially the role of time with regard to inequalities, realities and conceptualisations of life- courses and intergenerational justice. It will lead to sustainable approaches to work/ family/ recreation balances. Research is expected to draw conclusions and make recommendations on sustainable future interactions between human capital and social capital in order to help reversing inequalities. The projects should provide practical solutions to reverse inequalities across the life course. A survey of approaches to inter-generational justice systems, projections of future scenarios as well as recommendations on the feasibility and extent of European convergence should be provided.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities /h2020/topics/2292-rev-inequal-03-2016.html

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https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2292-rev-inequal-03-2016.html

https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2292-rev-inequal-03-2016.html

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Topic identifier OTH 30. COST

SC6 - Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies

Title OTH 30. COST

Instrument Specific Grant Agreements

Budget 2016: 20.68M€ 2017: 20.68M€

Call closure 2016 and 2017

Description: COST, as an integral part of the Innovation Union and the European Research Area shall contribute to the delivery of the Europe 2020 agenda and the Innovation Union goals through efficient implementation of the COST networking activities. COST has a long experience in networking European researchers and a high leverage power. In fact, a recent review concluded that the COST Action portfolio corresponds to nationally funded research inputs estimated in excess of EUR 2 billion. Furthermore, through its openness and inclusiveness policies, COST has a significant role in bringing new partners, notably outstanding younger researchers or researchers from less research-intensive countries, into contact with excellent researchers elsewhere in Europe.

Scope: COST will contribute to fostering inclusive research and innovation policy by bringing together "pockets of excellence", outstanding researchers who are not yet well integrated in European and global research, also enhancing capacity building. Moreover, COST will include a set of measures aimed at providing structural support to ERA, widening the European research base and promote S&T cooperation with other countries, beyond COST current membership.

Expected Impact: This second component will be funded under the “Widening Participation” heading, available under Horizon 2020 which will be spent at the benefit of participants from countries with relatively low research and innovation performance according to the definition outlined in the work programme on Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation 2016-2017.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/ main/h2020-wp1617-societies_en.pdf page 128

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Topic identifier CULT-COOP-10-2017 SC6 - Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies

Title Culture, integration and European public space


Budget 5M€


Description: “Europe” has existed as a cultural, political and economic identity for centuries, although the nature and coherence of that identity has been contested greatly over time. One of the major challenges for Europe since the mid twentieth century has been the challenge of linking European identity to forms of integration that produce mutual benefit through tolerance, respect and creative interaction, and avoid the devastating conflicts of the past. Culture plays an essential role in this process, since the realm of culture is where values, belief-systems, memories, languages, educational systems, artistic practices and social lives operate and evolve. Culture is where forms of creativity and diversity can be modelled or practiced; it is also a place where separateness, difference and specificity can be asserted and maintained in productive ways that enhance our quality of life. The cultural, political and economic spheres exist in dynamic relation to each other, and the coherence of Europe at the political and economic levels is closely related to and impacted by events and practices at the level of culture.

Scope: The proposed ERA-NET Co-fund will have a wide geographical coverage, including Southern and Central and Eastern Europe. It aims at coordinating the research efforts of the participating Member States, Associated States and Regions in the field described. Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes and implement a joint transnational call for proposals with EU co-funding (resulting in grants to third parties) to fund multinational innovative research initiatives in this domain. Proposers are encouraged to implement other joint activities, including additional joint calls without EU co-funding.

Expected Impact: The ERA-NET Co-fund Action will mobilise the wide range of transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives necessary to understanding the relationships of culture, European integration and “public space”, including in Southern and Central and Eastern Europe. The research is expected to lead to a richer, more complex and comprehensive understanding of the cultural dimensions of European integration; to discover and analyse historical models and precedents for integration in Europe; to give new insights that promote the full potential of citizens’ engagement with European public and cultural spaces; to stimulate public, political and scholarly debate about the future prospects of European integration; to provide a platform for changes to existing structures, policies and practices, such as the development of new modes of interactive and reciprocal engagement between users, academics and those working in the media, creative industries, and heritage sectors.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities /h2020/topics/3086-cult-coop-10-2017.html

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Topic identifier

Excellent Science/ Future and Emerging Technologies Title

FETPROACT-03-2016: FET ERANET Cofund in Quantum Technologies


Budget 10M€


Description: Research on quantum technologies in Europe is currently funded through several targeted initiatives at European, national and regional level. The aim is to foster synergy between these initiatives in the area of quantum technologies in order to create collaborations among the best groups in Europe and fostering broader partnerships around them to spread excellence and to broaden the European footprint of this emerging technology area. Scope:

Proposals should coordinate national and regional programmes for research in the area of quantum

technologies by implementing a call jointly funded by the participating states with EU cofunding

resulting in grants to third parties. This call shall address the following topics:

New principles, experiments, technologies, devices and systems that exploit quantum

phenomena like entanglement and superposition to achieve new of radically enhanced

functionalities.

Demonstration and critical assessment of these advancements in comparison to classical or

other quantum-based technological options.

Exploration of advanced quantum enabled applications in areas of scientific, industrial or

societal interest, linked to a critical assessment of feasibility beyond the technical (e.g., in

terms of innovation potential, acceptability and industrial/societal take-up).

Expected Impact: Closer coordination and greater mobilisation and pooling of resources between regional,

national and EU research programmes in the area of quantum technologies.

Increased transnational collaboration on quantum technologies, especially on topics that

are complementary to the EU work programmes in this area.

Spreading of excellence on quantum technologies across Europe.

Establishment and alignment of national and regional research and innovation plans and

initiatives in the area of quantum technologies.

Identification of promising directions for future research programming through a

comprehensive overview on multiple lines of development across Europe.

Increased awareness of national and regional research and innovation interests, synergies

and complementarities in the area of quantum technologies and their applications.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportuniti es/h2020/topics/2216-fetproact-03-2016.html

Status Open

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Topic identifier Excellent Science/ Future and Emerging Technologies

Title FETPROACT-02-2017: FET ERA-NET Cofund CHIST-ERA


Budget 5M€


Description: To support the maturation of novel research topics and structuration of the corresponding communities in the FET domain, in complementarity and synergy with the FET actions directly funded by the Commission, and while fostering cross-fertilisation and synergies between the supported topics and communities. This reflects that the participating funding organisations share the objectives of the FET programme and would amplify its funding and activities through this ERA- NET. The overarching goal is to enhance the construction of the European Research Area in the FET domain, by sharing a common vision of the various efforts in Europe in this domain and fostering cooperation towards the coordinated development of these technologies.

Scope: Proposals should coordinate national and regional programmes for research in the FET domain by implementing a joint transnational call for proposals (resulting in grants to third parties) with EU cofunding. Proposers are encouraged to implement other joint activities related to the coordination of public research and innovation programmes, such as transnational networking, meetings and technology transfer activities, as well as additional joint calls without EU cofunding. These activities should in particular cover the following areas:

• Share information on existing research programmes, strategic research agendas and technological roadmaps, among research funding organisations and with the relevant other stakeholders;

• Jointly identify emerging topics where transnational cooperation and support to community structuration is most needed, in complementarity with the FET programme;

Develop strategic agendas for these topics and accompany the structuration of the related communities though workshops and support to transversal activities.

Expected Impact: Projects are expected to contribute to:

• Amplification of the support to FET topics at the national level; • Faster emergence of technologies through enhanced coordination; • Identification and emergence of candidate FET Proactive and FET Flagship topics and

communities; • Enhanced complementarities and synergies in Europe in the FET domain.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppo rtunities/h2020/topics/2215-fetproact-02-2017.html

Status Forthcoming



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Topic identifier Excellent Science/ Future and Emerging Technologies

Title FETFLAG-01-2016: Partnering environment for FET flagships


Budget 8M€


Description: PPs are projects supported by national/regional funding agencies and/or by private funding. They are addressing areas relevant for the Flagships and contribute to their objectives. The aim is to bring together national funding agencies from Member States and Associated Countries to fund such PPs, as well as supporting these and other PPs in their networking, coordination and participation in Flagship activities. Scope:

Proposals should address a single of the two following subtopics:

a. ERA-NET Cofund action: one follow-up action to the FLAG-ERA ERANET (http://www.flagera.eu/)

aiming to coordinate national and regional research programmes to fund PPs of the two Flagships

through a joint transnational call for proposals (resulting in grants to third parties) between several

such programmes complemented by EU co-funding, possibly followed by further calls for proposals

without EU co-funding. The action may also organise additional joint activities between the

participating funding agencies in support of the two Flagships.

b. Coordination and Support action: one action will be funded which will support all of the following

points, for both Flagships:

the participation of PPs in meetings, workshops or other relevant activities organised by the Core

Project of each Flagship;

the participation of PPs in the governance activities of each of the Flagships;

The networking and coordination of the PPs for helping them contribute to the research roadmaps

of each Flagship and for disseminating their activities to promote Flagships at the regional/national

level.

Proposals under this subtopic need to demonstrate how they add value beyond the activities already

foreseen in the Flagships to liaise with PPs.

The action under this subtopic should be driven by (one or more) stakeholders representing relevant scientific communities. Expected Impact: a. ERA-NET Cofund action Closer coordination and greater mobilisation and pooling of resources between regional, national and EU research programmes for realising the research goals of the FET Flagships; b. Coordination and Support Action Creating mutual benefit between the PPs and their Core Project, enhancing the impact of the Flagships on national and regional research programmes and fostering the role of PPs in the governance of the Flagships.

Website https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/ h2020/calls/h2020-fetflag-2016.html#c,topics=callIdentifier/t/H2020- FETFLAG- 2016/1/1/1&callStatus/t/Forthcoming/1/1/0&callStatus/t/Open/1/1/0&callSt atus/t/Closed/1/1/0&+identifier/desc

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Topic identifier Industrial Leadership

Innovation in SME Title Eurostars Joint Programming Initiative: Interim Evaluation

Instrument EXP

Budget 0.12M€

Call closure

Description: An interim evaluation shall be carried out by the Commission in accordance with article 15 of the Decision n°553/2014/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of 15 May 2014. The interim, mid-term evaluation should examine the Eurostars-2 Joint Programme at programme and project level. Special emphasis will be put on the implementation and the economic impact of the programme. The evaluation shall also audit the governance of the programme and access its evolution in particular as far as its impact in the market is concerned. An expert group shall be set up to carry out the evaluation of the market-oriented collaborative R&D programme supported by the EUREKA network. A special allowance of EUR 450/day will be paid to the experts appointed in their personal capacity who act independently and in the public interest. The experts will be competent in the field of evaluating collaborative science and innovation support programs, and support to marketoriented innovation in SMEs. The results of the mid-term evaluation of Eurostars-2 Joint Programme will be taken into account in the Interim Evaluation of Horizon 2020.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016 _2017/main/h2020-wp1617-sme_en.pdf (p.57)

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Topic identifier Industrial Leadership

Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing

Title NMBP-11-2016: ERA-NET on Nanomedicine


Budget 30M€


Description: Strengthening Europe’s position in nanomedicine research requires concentrated action on common European research priorities in view of implementing joint initiatives. The Nanomedicine Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda gives a strategic and perspective frame for increasing uptake of nanomedical research and innovation through joint undertakings notably with large pharma or diagnostics companies, thereby contributing to the emergence of a nanomedicine industrial sector.

Scope: The proposed ERA-NET Cofund aims at coordinating the research efforts of the participating Member States, Associated States and Regions in the field of nanomedicine, continuing the activities started by the ERA-NET EuroNanoMed and fostering the competitiveness of European nanomedicine actors, and to implement a joint transnational call for proposals (resulting in grants to third parties) with EU co-funding to fund multinational innovative research initiatives in this domain. The action will link with existing PPP or Joint programming initiatives such as IMI to leverage public funding and increase joint projects with Industries and to create a positive environment for the uptake of innovation nanomedicine. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 8 and 10 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. No more than one action will be funded.

Expected Impact: Synergies and coherence in key fields of nanomedicine research at national and regional level;

Implementation of relevant parts of the Nanomedicine Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda;

Favourable conditions for an increased uptake of nanomedical technologies into industrial medical products.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppor tunities/h2020/topics/2390-nmbp-11-2016.html

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Topic identifier Industrial Leadership Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing

Title NMBP-21-2016: ERA-NET on manufacturing technologies supporting industry and particularly SMEs in the global competition


Budget 30M€


Description: Pooling resources can foster the competitiveness of Europe’s advanced manufacturing industry, by the co-funding of manufacturing research projects performed by transnational consortia involving enterprises and their strategic partners. A strategic and industry relevant approach is needed in order to address key manufacturing priorities, covering the entire value chains and gathering national and regional research and innovation capacities, thereby mobilising all relevant European stakeholders and in particular SMEs. Scope: The proposed ERA-NET aims to coordinate the research and innovation efforts of the participating Member States, Associated States and Regions in the field of advanced manufacturing, continuing the activities started by MANUNET and followed by MANUNET II, supporting in particular SMEs and with a special focus on the key areas of new production processes, adaptive manufacturing systems and technologies for the factory of the future, and to implement a joint transnational call for proposals (resulting in grants to third parties) with EU co-funding to support multi-national innovative research initiatives in this domain. Coordination with the relevant players at European level such as those in the Factories of the Future cPPP and relevant European Technology Platforms is expected and the strong involvement in the transnational projects of SMEs with innovation potential is encouraged. International cooperation on R&I issues on manufacturing at global level should be properly addressed and the potential participation in the proposed ERA-NET of regions from third countries with local funding programmes on manufacturing is encouraged. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 8 and 10 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Prospective participant organisations should note that the impact of this ERA-NET could be enhanced by using resources coming through the European Structural and Investment Funds. In such a case, participants should understand that ESI Funds cannot replace partly or wholly the expected national contribution(s) for matching the expected Horizon 2020 grant. However ESI Funds (together with national funds) can be used for enhancing the impact of the ERA-NET mobilising additional national funds for this purpose. No more than one action will be funded. Expected Impact:

Synergies and coherence in key fields of advanced manufacturing research at national and regional level; Input to strategy and policy in the domain of advanced manufacturing; Creation of a sustainable cooperation structures at regional, national and transnational level supporting research and innovation in key priority areas of the manufacturing sector in Europe.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppor tunities/h2020/topics/2389-nmbp-21-2016.html

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Title BIOTEC-01-2016: ERA-NET Cofund on Biotechnologies


Budget 30M€


Description: Innovation in biotechnology provides opportunities to transform the global economy from an extensive dependence on fossil raw material to a sustainable “bio-economy”. In order to increase the competitiveness of EU industries, broader and deeper collaboration across relevant sectors and Member States is necessary. It will also be necessary to better use research advances in areas such as systems and synthetic biology for applications and demonstration in industrial biotechnology. Scope: Proposals should gather a critical number of relevant programme managers and funders in the field, and implement a joint transnational call for proposals with EU co-funding, focusing on Technology Readiness Levels in the range of 3 to 6. They should build on the previous success of ERA-IB-2, ERASysAPP, ERASynBio under FP7 together with the bioinformatics area and be complementary to related health initiatives. The ultimate aim is to speed-up research and innovation in industrial biotechnology, establishing systems biology and synthetic biology as technology drivers while focusing on downstream industrial applications. The significant involvement of industry in the activities developed up to the exploitation of results will be an important element to achieve this goal. The proposals will address Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) elements, in particular for outreach activities and in terms of the public perception of biotechnologies for industrial uses. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 8 and 10 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. No more than one action will be funded. Expected Impact:

Better align current EU and national biotechnology initiatives with the goals of the KET Biotechnology area under Horizon 2020, in particular by focusing on application-oriented research and demonstration activities and by developing a European Biotechnology hub, acting as a facilitator and multiplier in this regard.

Improved use of synergies and coherence of current research funding activities in particular through the launch of calls for proposals and the use of existing research infrastructures.

Increase the financial commitment of participating countries and additional private sector resources compared to the three previous ERA-NET projects.

Increase the visibility of the potential benefits of a bio-based economy for the society, in particular through dissemination and exploitation of results.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppor tunities/h2020/topics/2391-biotec-01-2016.html

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Title EMPIR interim and EMRP final evaluation

Instrument EXP

Budget 0.11M€

Call closure

Description: Two research metrology initiatives are currently running under article 185 TFEU. EMRP started in 2009 with the last year of calls for collaborative projects in 2013, while its successor EMPIR implemented its first call for proposals in 2014. The decisions No 912/2009/EC and No 555/2014/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council for the Art.185 initiatives on Metrology under FP7 (EMRP) and under Horizon 2020 (EMPIR) require the Commission to carry out a final evaluation of EMRP and an interim evaluation of EMPIR with the assistance of independent experts, and deliver reports on these evaluations to the European Parliament and to the Council, including the Commission's conclusions of the evaluation and observations. Furthermore, the decision No 555/2014/EU requires that the result of the interim evaluation of EMPIR shall be taken into account in the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020.

The evaluations will assess the progress of EMRP and EMPIR programme towards achieving their objectives. The expert panel will assist the Commission in the ex-post evaluation of EMRP, as well as in the mid-term evaluation of EMPIR. The related Commission reports will need to be submitted by 2017 to the European Parliament and the Council. A special allowance of EUR 450/day will be paid to the experts appointed in their personal capacity who act independently and in the public interest.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016 _2017/main/h2020-wp1617-leit-nmp_en.pdf (p.110)

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Topic identifier

Science with and for society

Title SwafS-2-2016: ERA-NET Cofund - Promoting Gender equality in H2020 and the ERA


Budget 5M€

Call closure 30 Aug 2016

Description: European research still suffers from persistent barriers and constraints to gender equality in the recruitment, advancement and mobility of scientists in the European scientific system, as well as the lack of women in decision-making and the unbalanced representation in the evaluation process of research projects. Statistical evidence suggests that research funding success rates are higher for male than for female researchers. The gender dimension also needs to be further integrated in research programmes and contents. The challenge is to improve on all these points and advance towards completing the ERA in the field of gender equality in research and innovation. Scope: On the basis of the priorities identified by GENDER-NET, collaboration will be supported between MS and AC, their research programmes and their initiatives addressing the shared challenges described above. The ERA-NET Cofund action shall extend the partnership to other MS and AC, and enlarge the mapping and analysis to these new partners. Moreover, joint assessments will be extended to the quantitative and qualitative analysis of gender differences and bias in access to research grants. The ERA-NET Cofund action will launch, co-fund, and monitor strategic transnational cooperation/ actions in support of the implementation of the ERA objectives and based on the priorities identified by GENDER-NET. Priorities may include initiatives such as support to gender equality plans, and development of monitoring systems and of evaluation strategies. Monitoring arrangements, including indicators, shall be further developed and used. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of the order of EUR 5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. This action allows for the provision of financial support to third parties in line with the conditions set out in Part K of the General Annexes Expected Impact: The ERA-NET Cofound action is expected to strengthen the development of gender equality measures in research and innovation across the EU and consequently improve the overall research productivity. Through mutual learning, it will improve the implementation of research and innovation programmes and monitoring of gender equality policies. It will help overcome the disparities among countries and implement appropriate conditions for equal opportunities in the research programmes of the participating countries. It will foster closer cooperation and greater pooling of resources between regional, national and EU-wide research programmes.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/oppor tunities/h2020/topics/2253-swafs-02-2016.html

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Topic identifier

Spreading excellence and widening participation

Title WIDESPREAD-2-2016: Support to JPI Urban Europe

Instrument CSA

Budget 1.25M€


Description: Strong evidence exists that the largest urban areas are developing into 'global cities as knowledge hubs' that function in the worldwide networks of economic activities and innovation, communication. City regions in the Widening countries are facing specific challenges. In order to respond to these challenges, actors from the Widening countries should be actively involved in relevant R&I networks and activities having a strong policy-informing ambition. JPI Urban Europe initiative enhances the knowledge and capacities in order to support urban transition towards sustainability in Europe and beyond. In doing so, it develops innovative solutions and reduces the fragmentation of urban-related research and innovation funding as well as builds critical mass and visibility. Scope: Proposals should contribute to achieving an increased participation of countries and actors from the Widening countries in the JPI Urban Europe. The proposals should build on the coordination action ‘BOOST – Cooperation in Urban Science, Technology and Policy’ in support to the JPI Urban Europe that is expected to result in a SRIA and in a related Implementation Plan. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU in the range of EUR 1.25 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Expected Impact: Increased country participation of the JPI Urban Europe from the Widening countries by relationship building with actors, and by ensuring that the SRIA properly addresses the specific priorities and needs of these countries. Improved overall uptake of the SRIA in national programmes and activities through alignment. Contribution to the development of specific instruments for the SRIA implementation such as urban observatories or data warehouses, and involving actors from the Widening countries in these developments. Improved professionalization of the programme management including knowledge exchange, capitalization of generated knowledge as well as implementation of new innovative solutions and concepts. Enhanced positioning of the JPI Urban Europe in terms of research approach, research areas and instruments in the context of existing national and European activities and beyond including the outreach to cities, city networks and other urban actors. Delegation Exception Footnote: This activity directly aimed at supporting public-public partnerships with MS and AC, is excluded from the delegation to REA and will be implemented by the Commission services.

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Spreading excellence and widening participation

Title OTH-2: COST

Instrument Specific Grant Agreements

Budget 2016: CSA 20.28M€ 2017: CSA 20.28M€

Call closure 2016 and 2017

Description COST has now established its own dedicated implementation structure (COST Association, an AISBL under Belgian law) under the direct governance of the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) in order to handle directly EU support to COST activities. It is therefore through this entity that support to COST under Horizon 2020 is expected to be channelled. Such governance is expected to lead to increased efficiency in management and lower administrative expenditure levels. Support to COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) COST, as an integral part of the Innovation Union and the European Research Area shall contribute to the delivery of the Europe 2020 agenda and the Innovation Union goals through efficient implementation of the COST networking activities. COST has a long experience in networking European researchers and a high leverage power. In fact, a recent review concluded that the COST Action portfolio corresponds to nationally funded research inputs estimated in excess of EUR 2 billion. Furthermore, through its openness and inclusiveness policies, COST has a significant role in bringing new partners, notably outstanding younger researchers or researchers from less research-intensive countries, into contact with excellent researchers elsewhere in Europe. During Horizon 2020, COST will receive EU funding from two Work Programme parts, but shall manage it in an integrated manner to consistently contribute to both: A) Scientific and Technological Cooperation: COST will reinforce its networking activities carried out by COST actions. This part will be funded under “Societal Challenge 6 – Inclusive Societies”. B) Widening Activities: COST will contribute to fostering inclusive research and innovation policy by bringing together "pockets of excellence", outstanding researchers who are not yet well integrated in European and global research, also enhancing capacity building. Moreover, COST will include a set of measures aimed at providing structural support to ERA, widening the European research base and promote S&T cooperation with other countries, beyond COST current membership. This second component will be funded under the “Widening Participation” heading. It is expected that both components are implemented in an integrated manner whereby half of the overall COST budget available under Horizon 2020 will be spent at the benefit of participants from Widening countries.

Website http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016 _2017/main/h2020-wp1617-sewp_en.pdf (p.22)

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Joint

Programming

Initiatives (JPIs)

IncoNet EaP is a project funded under the 7th European Framework

Programme for research-Project number 609528

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Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs)

FACCE JPI – Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change ............................................... 3

JPI AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance) ................................................................................... 4

JPI Climate........................................................................................................................ 5

JPI HDHL (a healthy diet for a healthy life) ........................................................................ 6

JPI Cultural heritage (A Challenge for Europe) ................................................................... 7

JPI MYBL (More Years Better Lives) ................................................................................... 8

JPI Oceans (JPI Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans) ................................................. 9

JPI Urban Europe ............................................................................................................ 10

JPI Water – Water challenges for a changing world ......................................................... 11

JPND - Neurodegenerative Disease Research .................................................................. 12

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Title

FACCE JPI – Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: The Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) brings together 21 countries who are committed to building an integrated European Research Area addressing the interconnected challenges of sustainable agriculture, food security and impacts of climate change. FACCE-JPI provides and steers research to support sustainable agricultural production and economic growth, to contribute to a European bio-based economy, while maintaining and restoring ecosystem services under current and future climate change. It aims to do so with a strong transdisciplinary research base, encompassing economic and social aspects in addition to scientific ones, and with a creative approach towards the alignment of national programmes and the input of multiple actors and stakeholders.

Goals: The integrated FACCE-JPI strategic research agenda defines 5 core research themes:

1. Sustainable food security under climate change, based on an integrated food systems

perspective: modeling, benchmarking and policy research perspective

2. Environmentally sustainable growth and intensification of agricultural systems under current and future climate and resource availability

3. Assessing and reducing trade-offs between food production, biodiversity and ecosystem services

4. Adaptation to climate change throughout the whole food chain, including market repercussions

5. Greenhouse gas mitigation: nitrous oxide and methane mitigation in the agriculture and forestry sector, carbon sequestration, fossil fuel substitution and mitigating GHG emissions induced by indirect land use change

These core research themes are gradually taken into account by national research agendas in view of aligning national programmes where much research is already undertaken, and inspire pilot joint actions on topics where research is lacking. An implementation plan will be launched in the Summer 2013, setting out short-term and mid- term priority actions to implement the FACCE-JPI strategic research agenda, in coherence with the first Work-Programme of Horizon 2020.

Website http://www.faccejpi.com/

http://www.faccejpi.com/Strategic-Research-Agenda

http://www6.inra.fr/faccejpi/FACCE-activities/FACCE-MACSUR

http://www.faccejpi.com/

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Title

JPI AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance) Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: In the past seventy years, since their discovery, antibiotics have saved millions of lives from once- deadly diseases. For instance, antibiotics have paved the way for interventions that were previously impossible due to the high risk of patients succumbing to post-operative infections. Also, many treatments in modern medicine, such as organ transplants or cancer treatment, would be impossible without the use of antibiotics to prevent infections that can occur due to immunosuppression. Through use and misuse, bacterial resistance has and continues to spread rendering antimicrobial drugs (including antibiotics) nigh on useless. This is the situation we are facing today. A British Committee, on behalf of the UK Government, found that today in the US and Europe alone, 50,000 deaths per year can be connected to resistant antibiotics. And these figures are set to rise. The prediction is that in 2015, only 35 years in the future, 10 million people will die each year to an astronomical cost of 100 billion dollars to society.

Goals: The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) joins forces across nations to fight AMR through effective collaborative actions in areas of unmet needs. A shared common research agenda enhances multi-disciplinary collaboration and ensures that knowledge gaps are quickly identified and filled. At the moment, European AMR funding is skew towards research in therapeutics, largely ignoring other areas such as transmission dynamics and the impact of the environment, crucial areas to understand in order to reduce resistance. The gap between research funding into chronic diseases and antimicrobial resistance is large but difficult to document. However, national AMR funding does exist but is relatively small and targeted. In addition, countries with low national AMR prevalence allocate more money towards research than countries with greater needs for AMR solutions. This suggests a need for greater coordination across Europe in order to fill knowledge gaps. JPIAMR coordinates national funding and supports collaborative action to fill existing knowledge gaps. The goal is to shape cohesive and coordinated AMR funding and actions that maximise on resources and reduce duplication of research. Mobilising existing and new resources will create a greater critical mass and attract new researchers into the AMR field. A Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), which outlines key [neglected] areas to tackle, guides JPIAMR and focuses research actions. JPIAMR cannot address all aspects of the AMR problem, but can show a way forward by producing new research, engaging new researchers and creating networks that create long-term momentum for other areas in society. There is an urgent need for interdisciplinary and public- private partnerships to support research in the antimicrobial resistance area. Exchanges between industry, public health bodies, and academic bodies will entail not only sharing costs, but also coordination of the respective research activities. This is where JPIAMR will make a difference.

Website https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/networks/jpiamr

http://www.jpiamr.eu/activities/strategicresearchagenda/

http://www.jpiamr.eu/activities/strategicresearchagenda/

https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/networks/jpiamr

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JPI Climate Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: Europe aspires to be the most competitive and dynamic knowledge‐based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic development with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. Climate change alters the conditions under which these ambitions are to be realized. This generates new challenges, including the need to transform energy systems away from a dependence on fossil fuels and the need to protect European citizens, business and nature from climate risks. Research, knowledge dissemination and innovation are crucial in helping to confront these challenges and generate new opportunities for sustainable development. Climate change is a complex reality, which affects European society at large. Understanding and responding to climate change requires coordinated and large‐scale European efforts, in research, innovation and governance. The JPI Climate provides the platform where these objectives can be met, aligning national research priorities according to a jointly agreed Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) with the aim of complementing and supporting initiatives at the European level (ERANETs, FP8, Climate KIC, ESFRI Projects). JPI Climate facilitates the coordination, collaboration and exploitation of synergies while working against fragmentation and duplication of efforts. Coordination of the research base secured through national resources will help underpin European efforts to confront climate change. JPI Climate aims to respond to the needs of policy and decision makers and the European society at large for knowledge‐based information and services to address climate change.

Goals: The main objective of this JPI Climate programme is bringing together existing and developing new excellent scientific knowledge that is needed to assist practitioners to adequately transform society towards climate resilience and consequently providing integrated climate knowledge and decision support services for societal innovation. The JPI Climate is built upon four modules (themes): improving climate projections, climate services, societal transformation, and decision‐support tools. It is innovative in its interdisciplinary approach in connecting natural‐ with socio‐economic sciences and it is guided, coordinated and managed through a flexible collaborative governance mechanism.

Website http://www.jpi-climate.eu/home

http://www.jpi-climate.eu/jpi-themes/research-agenda

http://www.jpi-climate.eu/jpi-themes/themes

http://www.jpi-climate.eu/home

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JPI HDHL (a healthy diet for a healthy life) Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: The grand challenge is to understand the most effective ways of improving public health through selected specific interventions targeting dietary and physical activity behaviours. In this respect, it is of paramount importance to address people’s needs, to understand how the healthy choice could be made the easy choice and to act on this knowledge. To meet this challenge, research is needed to increase the understanding of health-impacting behaviour with respect to making food choices and engaging in physical activity, to create insight in how the social and physical environment influence this behaviour and to raise consumer understanding of healthy foods and healthy diets. The European consumer population embraces diverse ethnic groups and immigrant populations, whose eating habits and diets may vary considerably and are currently only relatively poorly examined. The variety of foods and drinks consumed across Europe provides a major opportunity to study the relationship between food intake and health. Joint programming will contribute significantly to the construction of a fully operational European Research Area on the prevention of diet-related diseases and strengthen leadership and competitiveness of the food industry by effectively integrating research in the food-, nutritional-, social- and health sciences to increase knowledge and deliver innovative, novel and improved concepts.

Goals: Joint programming of research in the field of nutrition, food and health will provide for coordination of research on the impact of diet and lifestyles on health, contribute significantly to the construction of a fully operational European Research Area on prevention of diet-related diseases and strengthening leadership and competitiveness on the research activities in this field. The ambitious major goals of JPI HDHL are as follows:

1. The coordination of the scope of research programmes across Europe and reducing duplication of efforts.

2. The allowance for easier to address common challenges developing suitable solutions with the same objective concerning food, nutrition and active life policy in the international arena while taking into consideration cultural diversities among countries.

3. The promotion of scientific excellence through joint activities with common funding and peer-review processes to minimise fragmentation of research activities and to use public resources more efficiently and effectively improving the accountability and transparency of public research programmes.

4. The support of cross-border collaboration and facilitation of data pooling and their collection in a uniform and standardised way.

5. The sharing expertise scattered across countries or throughout Europe as a whole promoting creation of a critical mass, cross-border mobility and training to facilitate timely dissemination and translation of research results to inform public health practice and policy.

6. The increase of the scientific, technological and innovative impacts of public investments in research by strengthening the coordination with other related policies through greater programme visibility and promotion of cross-border policy learning.

Due to the strong commitment of the participating Member and Associated States, the JPI HDHL is overly sure to reach these ambitious goals.

Website https://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/

https://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/

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JPI Cultural heritage (A Challenge for Europe) Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: Apart from natural ageing, Europe’s cultural heritage is exposed to many threats such as climate change and pollution, increasing urbanization, mass tourism, human negligence, vandalism and even terrorism. Protection of cultural heritage in the face of global change is thus becoming a major concern for decision-makers, stakeholders and citizens in Europe. Research into strategies, methodologies and tools is needed to safeguard cultural heritage against continuous decay. Before irreversible damage is done, concerted actions, based on sound science, are needed to protect, strengthen and adapt Europe’s unique cultural patrimony. A concerted research action is needed to allow Member States to maximize and exploit at best their research efforts. Joint Programming provides a framework within which Member States address jointly areas where public research programmes can respond to major societal challenges.

Goals: European policy development To develop joint foresight capabilities, through concerted research actions and policy coordination, in order to identify common gaps, which threaten cultural heritage sustainability. European cohesion To support the creation of a common action framework to reduce fragmentation of cultural heritage research while creating networks between centres that allow to exchange information on national programs. Growing the European research community To develop and apply new measures for assessing the carrying capacity of cultural heritage in dynamic and evolving conditions, and to support standardization in different sector branches, by addressing the significant scientific challenge of implementing new digital management systems. Quality and leadership among research communities To develop high quality and interdisciplinary research aimed at addressing the twin challenges of new cultural heritage assessment and management systems, as well as to encourage better collaboration between public and private sectors. Human resource development To develop structured programmes to underpin mobility and integration of new researchers and established researchers in academic, research and heritage institutions, SMEs and industry. Infrastructure To develop new protocols for sharing existing regional research infrastructure. International impact To develop a strategy that involves major European personalities in promoting European research excellence outside the EU by raising public awareness of research. Long term development of the Cultural Research Area To identify converging areas of research activities within a management framework that reflects the complexity faced by heritage managers, and to promote the development of digital technologies.

Website http://www.jpi-culturalheritage.eu/

http://www.jpi-culturalheritage.eu/

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JPI MYBL (More Years Better Lives) Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: The Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) “More Years, Better Lives – The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change” seeks to enhance coordination and collaboration between European and national research programmes related to demographic change.

Areas affected by demographic change cover a wide range of research fields and policy topics ranging from health to social welfare, education & learning, work & productivity to housing, urban & rural development and mobility. The JPI “More Years, Better Lives” therefore follows a transnational, multi-disciplinary approach bringing together different research programmes and researchers from various disciplines in order to provide solutions for the upcoming challenges and make use of the potential of societal change in Europe. Currently 14 European countries and Canada are participating in the JPI “More Years, Better Lives”.

Goals: All approaches to tackle the implications of demographic change and to provide guidance in shaping the transition towards a human, socially inclusive society need an active participation of politics, economy, and research. It is necessary to focus on individual lives in conjunction with the perspectives of our societies. Enhanced coordination and collaboration between researchers in Europe is most essential to address demographic change in the best possible way. In its conclusions from 3rd of December 2008, Research Ministers of the European Union recognised the need for a new and strategic approach in coordinating European research activities to address societal challenges of common interest on a European or even global scale. The Council welcomed the new approach of Joint Programming proposed by the European Commission in Mid 2008 and encouraged Member States to make use of it.

Website http://www.jp-demographic.eu/about-us/

http://www.jp-demographic.eu/about-us/

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JPI Oceans (JPI Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans) Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: In its role as a coordination platform, JPI Oceans will focus on making better and more efficient use of national research budgets, which represent 88% of the research funding within Europe. One of JPI Oceans’ goals is to develop joint research programmes in which countries can be involved on a voluntary basis (variable geometry). Participating countries also decide what contribution to make: this may include institutional, project-related or new funding. While bringing together the interested Member States and Associated Countries, JPI Oceans aims to add value by:

avoiding fragmentation and unnecessary duplication, planning common and flexible initiatives, facilitating cooperation and foresight, and establishing efficient mechanisms for interaction and knowledge transfer between the

scientific community, industry & services, and policy makers at high level in order to solve the grand challenges more effectively.

Goals: Enable the advent of a knowledge based maritime economy, maximizing its value in a

sustainable way Ensure Good Environmental Status of the seas and optimize planning of activities in the

marine space Optimize the response to climate change and mitigate human impacts on the marine

environment Foster enabling cross-cutting marine technologies across the maritime sectors. Foster the marine bio economy in relation to new products, services and jobs. Create the best enabling environment to maximise the development of marine renewable

energy. Develop the necessary knowledge and technologies to conquer the new deep-sea frontier. Understand and mitigate the impacts of climate change and the pressure from human

activities on the marine environment, to reach GES (Good Environmental Status) of our seas by 2020.

Improve the understanding of marine ecosystems and their processes, in particular delivery of ecosystem services and the impacts of human activities.

Understand climate change impact on coastal areas and design marine and maritime structures and activities, to optimise mitigation and significantly reduce costly damages.

Develop and sustain infrastructures to support an integrated data and information base enabling industrial development and supporting maritime governance.

Develop a research to policy mechanism, in particular to support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Marine Spatial Planning and Management.

Foster the inter-disciplinary human capacities that are necessary to the JPI goals.

Website http://www.jpi-oceans.eu/

http://www.jpi-oceans.eu/

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JPI Urban Europe Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: Through JPI Urban Europe, member countries can generate European solutions by means of coordinated research. The aim is to create attractive, sustainable and economically viable urban areas, in which European citizens, communities and their surroundings can thrive. JPI Urban Europe aims to coordinate research and make better use of Europe’s public funds in order to:

Transform urban areas to centres of innovation and technology Realise eco-friendly and intelligent intra- and interurban transport and logistic systems Ensure social cohesion and integration Reduce the ecological footprint and enhance climate neutrality

Goals: Urban Europe represents a forward-thinking and long-term oriented, coordinated research initiative to

shape urban development in times of global shift.

is an integrative, interdisciplinary and horizontal approach across the interfaces of economy, society, mobility, and ecology, serving society by raising public awareness and acceptance, and consequently putting expertise into practice.

promotes intensive interactions between researchers, policy makers, business and civil society, resulting in an innovative and impact-oriented approach.

endeavours to become recognisable as the EU entry point open to all relevant stakeholders with an interest in urban development, in order to access, generate and share innovative knowledge, to provide pilot initiatives for innovations and link resources to regional and structural funds.

Website http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/

http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/

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JPI Water – Water challenges for a changing world Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: The Water JPI (Water Challenges for a Changing World) aims at tackling the grand challenge of “achieving sustainable water systems for a sustainable economy in Europe and abroad”. The physical domain of the Water JPI is coincident with that of the Water Framework Directive (WFD): “inland surface waters, transitional waters, coastal waters and groundwater”. This JPI was endorsed by the High Level Group (GPC) in May 2010, and currently includes 19 partner countries, in addition to the European Commission, and 5 observer countries

Goals: In order to address the overall challenge indicated above, the Water JPI has set out six specific objectives: 1. Involving water end-users in effective uptake of RDI results; 2. Attaining critical mass of research programmes. The goal is to involve at least two-thirds of the public water RDI investment in Europe; 3. Reaching effective, sustainable coordination of European water RDI; 4. Harmonising national water RDI agendas in partner countries; 5. Harmonising national water RDI activities in partner countries. Joint programming activities will amount to at least 20% of the total budget of partners’ national water RDI programmes; 6. Supporting European leadership in water science and technology.

Website http://www.waterjpi.eu/water-jpi/

http://www.waterjpi.eu/water-jpi/

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JPND - Neurodegenerative Disease Research Instrument Joint Programming Initiative

Description: The EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) is the largest global research initiative aimed at tackling the challenge of neurodegenerative diseases. JPND aims to increase coordinated investment between participating countries in research aimed at finding causes, developing cures, and identifying appropriate ways to care for those with neurodegenerative diseases. The ultimate goal of JPND is to find cures for neurodegenerative diseases and to enable early diagnosis for early targeted treatments. However, it is not possible to give definitive predictions on how long this might take to happen. In the interim, JPND has identified through its Research Strategy common research goals that would benefit from joint action between countries in order to accelerate progress on solutions that can alleviate the symptoms, and lessen the social and economic impact for patients, families and health care systems.

There are three main components to this work: Improve the scientific understanding of the disease. Improve the medical tools available to doctors to identify and treat the disease. Improve the social care and structures available to assist patients, their families, and

health service providers so that patients can receive optimum care at all stages of their illness.

Goals: JPND aims to confront the growing challenge posed by neurodegenerative diseases in our ageing population by bringing together researchers, existing research evidence and national funding bodies to investigate the key research questions and barriers to progress in this area. This will be achieved by coordinating current and future approaches, collaborating where appropriate and by sharing tools, techniques and other resources more efficiently among participating countries. Our current strategy is to increase coordinated investment in neurodegenerative disease (ND) research aimed at finding causes of disease, developing cures, and identifying appropriate ways to care for those with ND. In this our immediate goals are:

To add value to national investments through coordinated action To encourage the development of national research strategies in ND To engage in partnership to reach the full potential of JPND

Website http://www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu/

http://www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu/

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