International Projects - IIS Aragón 📋🔬
February 2023
 
 
The international projects office of the IIS Aragón has created this monthly newsletter through which it will inform about the calls for projects that are open, the events and the conferences that may be interesting in this regard for the research and management staff. 

If you want to contact the international projects office you can do so through this email address
: international@iisaragon.es 
 
Current calls

Open until funds run out
ISIDORe: Preparedness program calls for proposals

The ISIDORe project proposes to fund Research & Development into preparedness and responsiveness, by giving scientific communities, free-of-charge transnational access (TNA) to the full extent of our state-of-the-art facilities, cutting-edge services, advanced equipment and technologies, made available through our catalog of services.

Calls available:
- SARS-CoV-2 & COVID-19: Open as long as funding remains available.
Risk Group 4 Pathogens: 07 February 2023, 23.59 CET (for access to BSL-4 capacities)
Respiratory Pathogens: Open as long as funding remains available.
Vector-Borne Pathogens and their Vectors: Open as long as funding remains available.
Other Pathogens with epidemic potential: Open as long as funding remains available.

For more information:
•    List of ISIDORe Priority Preparedness pathogens
•    Research scope
•    Limitations
•    Preparedness calls for proposals


 

Preproposal


FEB



Full proposal


SEP
European Join Programs on Rare Diseases (EJP RD)

European Join Programs on Rare Diseases (EJP RD)
Call for Proposals 2023: «Natural History Studies addressing unmet needs in Rare Diseases»
The objective of this call is to conduct efficient, innovative and high-quality natural history studies which will facilitate understanding of the disease's or group of disorders' progression throughout the lifespan of a patient. The goal of these studies is to collect and analyze comprehensive patient data to define targets for future therapies, taking into consideration innovation, safety, and efficacy.
Research proposals should cover at least one of the following areas:
  1. Estimation of disease prevalence;
  2. Identification of biomarkers/companions for the diagnosis/prognosis of a RD;
  3. Identification of biomarkers/indicators/predictors of a rare disease or group of disorders (eg having the same aetiology) onset/progression (including collection of genetic, physiological, environmental data or variables….);
  4. Identification of relevant endpoints for future studies that include potential biomarkers, querying patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and quality-of-life measures;
  5. Identification of biomarkers/variables for therapeutic approaches (pharmacology, drug repurposing, gene therapy, RNA therapy, cell therapy, medical devices...).

For more information, click here.


FEB
Horizon Europe – MSCA COFUND 2022 (HORIZON-COFUND-2022-01-01)

MSCA COFUND co-finances new or existing doctoral programs and postdoctoral fellowship schemes with the aim of spreading the best practices of the MSCA including international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as international and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.
In practice, MSCA COFUND provides complementary funding for doctoral or postdoctoral programs managed by entities established in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries. Those co-funded programs must follow MSCA's good practice in terms of international recruitment and minimum standard of employment for the recruited fellows as described in the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.

For more information, click here.


FEB
EU4HEALTH Work Program 2022 (EU4H-2022-PJ)

EU4H-2022-PJ-15: Call for proposals to support structured dialogue at national or regional level on public procurement in the health sector - HERA

For more information, please find here the EU4H Work Program 2022.


FEB
EU4HEALTH Work Program 2022 (EU4H-2022-PJ)

EU4H-2022-PJ-11: Call for proposals on prevention of NCDs - cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and other NCDs
EU4H-2022-PJ-12: Call for proposals on cancer and other NCDs prevention – action on health determinants
EU4H-2022-PJ-14: Call for proposals to support the roll-out of the second cohort of the inter-speciality cancer training program

Preproposal


TUE


Full proposal



SEP
ERA-NET NEURON JTC2023
 
Call for proposals for Mechanisms of Resilience and Vulnerability to Environmental Challenges in Mental Health.
The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative research projects that will address critical translational questions to improve our knowledge concerning neurobiological mechanisms involved in resilience or vulnerability to environmental challenges in mental health.

For more information, click here.

Preproposal


TUE


Fullproposal



JUL
JPIAMR 16TH CALL AMR Diagnostics and Surveillance 2023

Proposals should aim to address unmet needs in the AMR diagnostics and surveillance sectors beyond the current state of the art, by focusing on one of the topics of the call:
•    Topics 1: To develop novel, or improve existing, diagnostics, including point of care diagnostics, that can rule out antimicrobial use or help identify the most effective antimicrobial treatment.
•    Topics 2: To develop or improve existing strategies, technologies or methods, or data use strategies to support One Health AMR surveillance.

For more information click here.


TUE
 
Horizon Europe – MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01-01

MSCA Staff Exchanges promote innovative international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in research and innovation through exchanging staff and sharing knowledge and ideas at all stages of the innovation chain. The scheme fosters a shared culture of research and innovation that welcomes and rewards creativity and entrepreneurship and helps turn ideas into innovative products, services or processes. It is open to research, technical, administrative, and managerial staff supporting R&I activities.

For more information, click here.


 


TUE
 
Horizon Europe – Research infrastructure services to support health research, accelerate the green and digital transformation, and advance frontier knowledge (2023)
(HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01

HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01-01: Research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing main challenges and EU priorities.

For RI services for improving clinical research in the pediatric area
• advancement of pediatric medicines and other therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for this population group to markets and towards clinical use;
• accelerated availability of solutions and products to pediatric patients in need;
• wider access to rationally designed RI services across Europe to underpin the competitiveness of the European industry and of biotech SMEs developing pediatric medicines and treatment and diagnostic devices;
• joining forces of research infrastructures and pediatric competence networks in EU Member States and Associated Countries, to facilitate pediatric research in the context of pertinent EU regulatory environment;
• availability of innovative tools to conduct pediatric clinical trials, for the re-use of population and historical data, and for enhanced data sharing across actors at different care levels and across regions in Europe.


 


TUE
 
ERA4Health JTC1 HealthEquity

ERA4Health Call for transnational research proposalsIncreasing health equity through promoting healthy diets and physical activity (HealthEquity)"

The aim of this call is to develop novel strategies and targeted approaches to identify, understand, and modify determinants and mechanisms of diet-related behavior and physical activity as well as sedentary behavior, which have the potential to break through the cycles maintaining unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles and to reduce health inequalities.

Deadline of full-proposal: 14/03/2023.

See the call text and proposal application form here

 


TUE
 
Horizon Europe – Innovative Health Initiative call 3 (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2022-03-single-stage
 

•    HORIZON-THU-IHI-2022-03-01: Screening platform and biomarkers for prediction and prevention of diseases of unmet public health need
•    HORIZON-THU-IHI-2022-03-02: Patient-generated evidence to improve outcomes, support decision making, and accelerate innovation
•    HORIZON-THU-IHI-2022-03-03: Combining hospital interventional approaches to improve patient outcomes and increase hospital efficiency
•    HORIZON-THU-IHI-2022-03-04: Strengthening the European translational research ecosystem for advanced therapeutic medicinal products (ATMPs) for rare diseases
•    HORIZON-THU-IHI-2022-03-05: Digital health technologies for the prevention and personalized management of mental disorders and their long-term health consequences.

Applicant consortia must ensure that at least 45% of the total budget is covered by contributions from project participants.
 
 


TUE
 
EU4HEALTH Work Program 2022
(EU4H-2022-PJ)
 

•    EU4H-2022-PJ-16: Call for proposals to support Member States and other relevant actors to implement relevant results of innovative public health research in relation to vaccination against COVID-19.
 
 


APR
 
Horizon Europe – Mission on Cancer
(HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01)

•    HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01-01: Addressing poorly-understood tumor-host interactions to enhance immune system-focused treatment and care interventions in childhood, adolescent, adult and elderly cancer patients.
•    HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01-02: Enhance primary cancer prevention through sustainable behavioral change.
•    HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01-03: Pragmatic clinical trials on minimally invasive diagnostics
•    HORIZON-MISS-2023-CANCER-01-04: Establish best practices and tools to improve the quality of life for childhood cancer patients, survivors and their families in European regions.

 
 


APR
 
Horizon Europe – Cluster 6 FARM2FORK

•    HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-10: Eradicate micronutrient deficiencies in the EU.

 


APR
 
Horizon Europe – Health Cluster

Staying Healthy (Single stage -2023) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-STAYHLTH-01)
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-STAYHLTH-01-01: The Silver Deal – Person-centred health and care in Europe regions.

Environment and health (Single stage -2023) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02)

•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02-01: Planetary health: understanding the links between environmental degradation and health impacts.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02-02: Evidence-based interventions for promotion of mental and physical health in changing working environments (post-pandemic workplaces)
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02-03: Health impacts of endocrine-disrupting chemicals: bridging science-policy gaps by addressing persistent scientific uncertainties.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02-04: Global coordination of exposome research.

Tackling diseases (Single stage – 2023) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023 DISEASE-03)

•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-01: Novel approaches for palliative and end-of-life care for non-cancer patients.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-03: Interventions in city environments to reduce risk of non-communicable disease (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases – GACD)
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-04: Pandemic preparedness and response: Broad spectrum anti-viral therapeutics for infectious diseases with epidemic potential.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-05: Pandemic preparedness and response: Sustaining established coordination mechanisms for European adaptive platforms trials and/or for cohort networks.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-06: Towards structuring brain health research in Europe.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-07: Relationship between infections and non-communicable diseases.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-17: Pandemic preparedness and response: Understanding vaccine induced-immunity.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-18: Pandemic preparedness and response: Immunogenecity of viral proteins of viruses with epidemic and pandemic potential.

Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care (Single stage -2023) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-CARE-04)

•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-CARE-04-01: Maintaining access to regular health and care services in case of cross-border emergencies.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-CARE-04-02: Resilience and mental wellbeing of the health and care workforce.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-CARE-04-03: Environmentally sustainable and climate neutral health and care systems.

Tools and technologies for a healthy society (Single stage – 2023) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05)

•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05-01: Clinical trials of combined Advance Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs)
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05-03: Integrated, multi-scale computational models of patient patho-physiology ('virtual twins') for personalized disease management.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05-04: Better integration and use of health-related real-world and research data, including genomics, for improved clinical outcomes.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05-05: Harnessing the potential of real-time data analysis and secure Point-of-Care computing for the benefit of person-centered health and care delivery.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05-08: Pandemic preparedness and response: in vitro diagnostic mechanisms to tackle cross-border health threats.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-TOOL-05-09: Developing a Data Quality and Utility Label for the European Health Data Space.

A competitive health-related industry (Single stage – 2023) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06)

•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06-01: Supporting the uptake of innovative Health Technology Assessment (HTA) methodology and advancing HTA expertise across EU.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06-02: Expanding the European Electronic Health Record exchange Format to improve interoperability within the European Health Data Space.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06-04: Modeling and simulation to address regulatory needs in the development of orphan and pediatric medicines.
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06-05: Mapping the hurdles for the clinical applications of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs).
•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-IND-06-07: Development and harmonization of methodologies for assessing digital health technologies in Europe.

 
 

Forthcoming
 
Horizon Europe – Innovative Health Initiative call 4 (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2022-04-two stages)

•    Topic 1: Expanding translational knowledge in minipigs: a path to reduce and replace non-human primates in non-clinical safety assessment
•    Topic 2: Patient-centric blood sample collection to enable decentralized clinical trials and improve access to healthcare

 


MAY
NEURON ELSA JTC 2023 (NEUROETHICS)

Multinational Research Projects on Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects (ELSA) of Neuroscience.

Research proposals may address, among others, the following topics:

* Consequences of the development of neuroscientific diagnostic methods.
* Diagnosis in the absence of treatment options; interactions between socioculturally diverse patients and healthcare personnel; (equitable) access to novel and expensive methods; unintentional use and/or misuse).
* Aspects of clinical research with patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric diseases.
* Intelligent technologies and close interaction between human and machine.
* Biobanks of neuronal tissues.
* Use of brain data; Brain interventions in legal contexts.
* Impact of modern neuroscience on traditional philosophical questions, concepts and theories about fundamental aspects of human nature.
* Social and cultural changes induced by neuroscientific knowledge and its application.
* Responsible research and innovation in neurotechnology and neuroscience.

Learn more this article.

 


MAY
ERC ADVANCED GRANTS

•    ERC-2023-ADG: ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognized track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. 

 


SEP
Horizon Europe – Partnerships in Health (2023) (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-07)

•    HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-07-01: European Partnership on Rare Diseases. Program Cofund Actions.

 


SEP
Horizon Europe – Missions

•    HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-01-03: Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions to build resilience towards health risks caused by the effects of climate change.

 
Events

TMEX – Translational Medicine Explained 5 Day Winter School 2023
February 13, 2023 | Konsulta'm
 
EJP RD – European Joint Program on Rare Diseases – 13/17-02/2023 12:00 – 17:00 Barcelona, ​​Spain

Registration is now open to the yearly 5-day course on “Translational Medicine Explained (TMex) ” on 13-17 February 2023 in Barcelona. The course is intended for PhD/MD students, postdocs and other young scientists who are involved in biomedical research and want to learn more about Translational Medicine.
The TMex (“Translational Medicine Explained)” Winter School consists of an introductory e-learning (~12 hours student investment time) followed by a 5-day face-to-face workshop. The course is intended for PhD/MD students in the second half of their PhD and postdocs who are involved in biomedical research.
The full fee is €650. Special discounted fees of €475 applies for EATRIS members and I2TRON students, and of €250 for VHIR students and EUPATI fellows.
There are only 30 seats, so we recommend applying early (first come, first served).

The registration will close when all seats have been filled. You will need to submit a biosketch and a motivation letter which will be reviewed by a selection committee.


 


Save the date!
POCTEFA 2021-2027 launch event in Vitoria

March 08, 2023 | Konsulta'm | Registration
 
The launch event of POCTEFA 2021-2027 will take place on March 8 in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Europe Congress Palace). It will be a one-day event (morning and afternoon) in which the news of POCTEFA 2021-2027 will be announced. The objectives, territory, FEDER allocation, the new SIGEFA and priorities, among other topics related to this new period, will be explained.

The POCTEFA program offers financing possibilities for cross-border projects led by public and private sector actors in the cooperation area. The beneficiary entities may be public organizations, companies, development agencies, groups, associations, foundations, chambers of commerce or educational centers, among other types of entities or groups.

The 1st call for POCTEFA 2021-2027 projects will also be presented, which is expected to open on dates close to the event. Topics such as dates, characteristics, the application form, etc. will be addressed.

The text of the POCTEFA 2021-2027 Program was approved by the European Commission on November 23, 2022 and is available here.

The allocation from the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) granted to POCTEFA 2021-2027 is 243 million euros. The program is organized into seven priorities; four political objectives and one INTERREG objective; and fifteen specific objectives.


 


Europe, let's cooperate!
March 15, 2023 | Konsulta'm | Registration
 
Interregional cooperation forum – 15 March 2023 – Stockholm, Sweden

The 9th edition of Europe, let's cooperate! interregional cooperation forum takes place on 15 March 2023 in Stockholm (Sweden)

The day focuses on launching the second call for project proposals in 2021-2027 and helping you get ready for new interregional cooperation projects.

What to expect: 
•    Inspiration and ideas for new projects
• Information about the second call
•    Networking opportunities to find cooperation partners
•    Individual meetings with the joint secretariat to discuss your call-related questions 

Register now to be part of the event and meet policymakers, experts and people involved in regional development from all across Europe.


 



Contact
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