
New open call for AECC Clinical Training Aids
20 June, 2024Career Development Award 2024
20 June, 2024The purpose of these grants is to create research networks to promote complementarity of capabilities and optimize existing research resources. In this way, synergies are generated between research groups from different institutions. The scientific-technical activities to which these networks are directed have to demonstrate their added value based on the achievement of common and shared objectives and the carrying out of activities that could not be financed through other instruments.
The aid covered by this call will finance activities for the creation and development of networks of research groups aimed at:
a) Promote collaboration, coordination and creation of synergies and complementarity between research groups funded in previous calls for projects of the State R&D&I Plan, as well as increase the impact of the research results obtained in said projects (Modality: Thematic networks ). Thematic networks will preferably have a transversal character in a certain area or subarea of knowledge, favoring the creation of synergies therein.
b) Promote internal coordination and activities of the networks of Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS) and distributed ICTS included in the current ICTS map, approved by the Scientific, Technological and Innovation Policy Council (Modality: ICTS Networks).
c) Contribute to the management and national coordination of the following national or international R&D&I strategic initiatives (Modality: Strategic networks):
1.º Partners must R&D&I alliances recognized as such by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (or the Ministry responsible for R&D&I at the time of their constitution).
2.º Partners must European Infrastructure Consortia (ERIC).
3.º Partners must Associations or groups of researchers or groups of researchers, formally constituted or not, that cover a significant representation of a certain area, discipline or segment of the research community, with the purpose of developing strategies, roadmaps or proposals of strategic interest that allow advising political authorities.
4. Groupings of research groups that participate in joint activities in large infrastructures or international organizations with the aim of facilitating and promoting relevant Spanish participation in it.
Deadline: July 2, 2024