FinCEAL+ Project Preparatory Funding Call will close on April 15th 2016 - Apply now!
The purpose of the preparatory funding is to offer support to applicants based in Finnish institutions who are in the process of preparing an application for collaborative research funding from Horizon 2020, ERA-NET or the EuropeAid funding schemes with partners from Africa, Asia or the LAC region. The Call will close on April 15th. We encourage interested teams to submit their applications as soon as possible!
The FinCEAL+ Rolling Call for Project Preparatory Funding was opened on March 9th2015 and will remain open until April 15th 2016. We encourage researchers from Finnish universities and research centres planning new EU-funded collaborative research projects with Africa, Asian and/or Latin American and Caribbean partners to apply as soon as possible!
Aim of the funding
The purpose of the preparatory
funding is to offer support to applicants based in Finnish institutions who are
in the process of preparing an
application for collaborative research funding from Horizon 2020, ERA-NET or
the EuropeAid funding schemes. Other EU
funding instruments can also be considered applicable if the applicant is able
to clearly demonstrate the relevance of the project in relation to FinCEAL
Plus thematic areas and regions. [1] The project should include
meaningful participation from partners in the target region, and in the case of
Horizon 2020 also Europe. The
applicant should have identified a relevant Call and topic, and at least some
of the consortium partners[2] prior to applying for the
preparatory funding, and provide this information in the application form. Please scroll down for examples of eligible funding calls that are currently open.
Preparatory
funding can only be issued to applications relevant to FinCEAL Plus regional
and thematic areas, which are:
Africa – Food security, Health, Climate Change, Renewable energy and
Information Society;
Asia – Health, Food Security and Safety, Water
Management, Renewable Energy, and ICT;
Latin America and the Caribbean – ICT for
societal challenges, Bioeconomy, Renewable Energy, Health, Biodiversity and
Climate Change.
The focus of
the project under preparation should directly concern the target region or
address global challenges through bi-regional cooperation.
Individual Principal Investigators or research groups from a Finnish institution involved in or forming a consortium with the intent of applying for research funding from the schemes mentioned above. Finnish institutions can include higher education institutions as well as research centers.
Priority is given to the following types of project proposals: (1) proposals where Finnish partners have a coordinator or other significant role in the consortium and in the project, (2) proposals involving the formation of a prominent international consortium, (3) proposals in later stages of development.
Eligible costs
Applicants can apply for grants between 2000€ - 5000€.
Eligible costs are those
related to the direct preparation of a funding application, i.e. personnel
costs, costs related to organizing a meeting or a workshop to develop the
application, travel costs related to a meeting with consortium partners etc.[3]
Note: For this Call, the planned Research Funding application preparation process must occur by the end of September 2016.
Applying for the Call
- Please read the Call for more detailed information on the Preparatory Funding.
- Fill in the Application Form. The Form should not exceed 5 pages. The Application Form has to be signed by Principal Investigator of the potential project.
- Save your application form in PDF format and send it by email to the Project Coordinator responsible for the regional component relevant for your application. Applications received in other formats than pdf or by post will not be accepted. Africa-related applications are sent to Eva Kagiri, Asia-related to Jarkko Mutanen and LAC-related applications to Kajsa Ekroos. Contact information is provided below.
The Rolling Call for Project Preparatory Funding is open until April 15th 2016.
Recipients of the preparatory grants will be notified via email within 30 days of submitting the application. The grantees will also be published on the UniPID/FinCEAL Plus website. Further instructions on disbursing funds will be sent with the grant award notification.
More
Information and Contacts
More information on the Preparatory Funding available in the Call.
For more
information on FinCEAL Plus visit: www.unipid.fi/finceal and subscribe to our newsletter.
Inquiries regarding the Preparatory Funding can be sent to:
Eva Kagiri (Africa): if.uyj@irigak.m.ave
Jarkko Mutanen (Asia): if.feu@nenatum.okkraj
Kajsa Ekroos (LAC): if.iknisleh@soorke.asjak
[1] Individual grants like ERC and Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions are not applicable. Erasmus + is not applicable. Any national or bi-lateral funding instruments are not applicable.
[2] Minimum one partner from a third country and one European partner.
[3] Meetings
or workshops to develop the application can be organized in Finland, elsewhere
in Europe or in the target region. The preparatory funding can be used to cover
the travel costs of any of the consortium partners.
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Examples of eligible European funding calls addressing 3rd country cooperation that are currently open
Africa
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Health
H2020: IMI2-2015-08: Ebola
and other filoviral haemorrhagic fevers (Ebola+) programme: future outbreaks. Multiple deadlines. More information
- Information Society
H2020: ICT-39-2016-2017: International partnership building in low and middle income countries,
Innovation action. Deadline 25th, April, 2016. More information
Asia
- ICT
5G PPP Research and Validation of critical technologies and systems: More information
EU-Japan cooperation on Novel ICT Robotics based solutions for active and healthy ageing at home or in care facilities: More information
EU Cooperation and International Dialogues in Cybersecurity and Privacy Research and Innovation: More Information
Latin America and the Caribbean
- Bioeconomy, renewable energy and climate change
ERA-Net LAC: The aim of the ERANet-LAC Joint Calls is to start new, sustainable and
multilateral research cooperation between researchers from Europe,
Latin-America and the Caribbean countries. The Academy of Finland will fund the
following topics: Topic 1: Ecosystem-based adaptation and resilience;
Topic 3:
Biorefinery – Fractionation and valorization of residual biomass to
intermediate and/or final high added value bioproducts; Topic 5: Wind
Energy –
Advancement of small/medium-scale wind turbines in EULAC countries;
Topic 6:
Solar thermal energy – Energy storage technologies.
Deadline for applications: 10 March 2016. More information on the
Academy of Finland website and the Call on the ERA-Net LAC website.
H2020: LCE-22-2016: International Cooperation with Brazil on
advanced lignocellulosic biofuels. Planned opening date is 11th May 2016, deadline 8th September 2016. More information
- Health
Pre-announcement of an upcoming H2020 Call to be
launched soon:
H2020: SC1-PM-XX–2016: Addressing the urgent research gaps against the Zika virus and other emerging threats in
Latin America.
The tentative deadline is 28th April 2016; a
draft of the call text is available upon request from NCP Antti Kalliokoski
(antti.kalliokoski[at]aka.fi)
- ICT for Societal Challenges
The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) has launched the 2016 T-AP Digging
into Data Challenge Call to support research projects that use "big data” to
address questions in the social sciences and humanities. FinCEAL Plus will only support the preparation of proposals that have partners from both Europe and Latin America, and that relate to the FinCEAL Plus LAC thematic priorities. More information
