📋🔬 International Projects - IIS Aragón (November 2023)
November 2023
The international projects office of the IIS AragĂłn 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.
Open calls
Open as long as funding remains available
ISIDORE project: call for proposals
ISIDORe can support your research project by providing you free access to their services. Consult our scientific strategy and apply to one of our calls for proposals below.
1. Vector borne diseases: The geographic and host ranges of vector-borne diseases are expanding, mostly due to anthropogenic factors. With rising temperatures and changing weather patterns, the risk of these diseases affecting increasingly large areas of the world will continue to rise, as reflected by the record number cases of dengue (including non-imported ones) and West Nile virus observed in Europe in 2022 The proposal has to be focused on at least one eligible vector-borne pathogen (see below and full full ISIDORe PPP list).
2. Respiratory pathogens: A large number of pathogens target the human respiratory tract, resulting in a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations including life-threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). While serious respiratory infections are predominantly caused by RNA viruses, other types of pathogens can be involved. The modes of transmission of respiratory pathogens often give them a significant epidemic potential. The proposal has to be focused on at least one eligible respiratory pathogen, excluding SARS-CoV-2 (see below and full full ISIDORe PPP list).
3. Other pathogens with epidemic potential: Will the next global infectious threat be an orthopoxvirus, or an enterovirus? Will it be even caused by a known pathogen? Can we be ready for the next pathogen The ISIDORe consortium supports scientists with an interest in epidemic-prone pathogens, including pathogen
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HORIZON EUROPE – ERC STARTING GRANTS
Call for Proposals for ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2024-STG).
The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of their research proposal.
The Principal Investigators shall have successfully defended their first PhD at least 2 and up to 7 years prior to 1 January 2024. However, this period can be extended beyond 7 years in certain properly documented circumstances.
Starting Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 1 for a period of 5 years.
Please note that the deadline for the ERC-2024-STG call has been postponed from 24/10 to 07/11/2023.
IHI Call 4 (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-04-02-two-stage) is a two stage call for proposals with the following topics:
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.
Topic 3: Inclusive clinical studies for equitable access to clinical research in Europe.
Topic 4: Establishing novel approaches to improve clinical trials for rare and ultra-rare diseases.
Topic 5: Safe & Sustainable by Design (SSbD) packaging and single use device solutions for healthcare products.
Topic 6: Sustainable circular development and manufacturing of healthcare products and their quantitative impact assessment.
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HORIZON EUROPE – ERC SYNERGY GRANTS
Call for proposals for ERC Synergy Grant (ERC-2024-SyG).
The aim is to provide support for a small group of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly addressambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone.
Synergy projects should enable substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, stemming, for example, from the cross-fertilization of scientific fields, from new productive lines of enquiry, or new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines . The transformative research funded by Synergy Grants should have the potential of becoming a benchmark on a global scale.
Please note that the deadline for the call ERC-2024-SyG has been postponed from 15/11/2023 to 15/11/2023.
MSCA Doctoral Networks will implement doctoral programmes, by partnerships of universities, research institutions and research infrastructures, businesses including SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from different countries across Europe and beyond. Type of actions:
Through this call it is intended to finance preclinical and/or translational research projects to optimize the use of cancer immunotherapy in clinical practice.
Requirements:
Applicant candidates, regardless of their nationality, must:
Be linked as a doctoral assistant professor (or higher), with a non-profit institution in any country in the world.
Be qualified scientists with an interest in exploring clinically relevant questions aimed at improving the effectiveness of immunotherapies in the treatment of cancer.
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HORIZON EUROPE - ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANT
Call for proposals for ERC Consolidator Grant (ERC-2024-COG)
This call is aimed at researchers who are at the stage of their career, in which they are still consolidating their own team or independent research program and continuing to develop a successful career in Europe.
It is open to research personnel of any nationality with 7 to 12 years of experience from the completion of the doctorate, as long as your host institution is located in a Member State or Associated Country. The reading of your thesis must have been carried out between 01/01/2012 and 31/12/2016. It can be obtained extension of this eligibility window in specific cases.
In this call, projects on the frontier of knowledge are financed with a budget of up to 2 million euros for a period of 5 years.
Preproposal
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2024
Full proposal MAY
2024
ERA4Health: Modulation of brain aging through nutrition and healthy lifestyle (NutriBrain)
The Partnership “Fostering a European Research Area for Health” (ERA4Health) aims at establishing a flexible and effective coordination between funding organizations in the European Research Area (ERA) for Health and Well-being.
The Aim of the NutriBrain call is to support transnational research projects that focus on the improvement of cognitive brain aging through nutrition and other lifestyle factors.
Research projects should gain further insights into the modulation of brain aging by lifestyle factors and/or pilot test interventions based on the existing evidence in the literature or upscale existing pilot interventions that will help to reduce the risk of cognitive impairment manifestations related to a pathological brain aging.
- Funding organization: ISCIII.
- Webinar of the call: 10/11/2023.
-This call will be announced 03/11/2023 and submission system will be open from 10/11/2023.
IHI – Call 5 (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05) is a single-stage call for proposals with the following topics:
Topic 1: Accelerating the implementation of New Approach Methodologies and other innovative non-animal approaches for the development, testing and production of health technologies.
Topic 2: Development and proof of principle of new clinical applications of theranostics solutions.
Topic 3: Improved prediction, detection, and treatment approaches for comprehensive stroke management
Topic 4: Maximizing the potential of synthetic data generation in healthcare applications
Preproposal
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2024
Full proposal SEP
2024
ERA4Health: Nano and advanced technologies for disease prevention, diagnosis and therapy (NANOTECMEC)
The Partnership “Fostering a European Research Area for Health” (ERA4Health) aims at establishing a flexible and effective coordination between funding organizations in the European Research Area (ERA) for Health and Well-being. NANOTECMEC project proposals will address multidisciplinary and translational research. The participation of Medical Doctors and clinicians is strongly encouraged. SMEs (Small and Medium-size Enterprises) are also strongly encouraged to participate.
The applications must cover at least one of the following nanomedicine areas that are of equal relevance for this call:
a) Regenerative medicine
b) Diagnostics
c) Nanotherapy
- Funding organization: ISCIII and AEI. - This call will be announced 14/11/2023 and submission system will be open from 21/11/2023. - Webminar of the call: 21/11/2023.
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HORIZON EUROPE – MSCA COFUND 2023
Call for proposal MSCA COFUND (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-COFUND-01-01) 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.
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HORIZON EUROPE – MSCA STAFF EXCHANGES 2023
Call for proposal MSCA Staff Exchanges (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01-01) 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.
Events
Eleventh EDCTP Forum November 7-10, 2023 | Rregistration
From November 7 to 10, 2023, the 11th will take place in Paris EDCTP Forum, with the following theme: “Partnering for Global Health Research Innovation and Impact in Africa - Celebrating EDCTP: two decades and beyond”. This Forum will mark the 20th anniversary of EDCTP and will take place in France. It will be jointly supported by the second EDCTP program (EDCTP2) and the Global Health Joint Undertaking EDCTP3 (EC GH EDCTP3). 600 participants are expected in Paris and in some sessions online participation will be possible.
INCISIVE: “Artificial intelligence and cancer: Boosting opportunities and overcoming challenges” // “AI and Cancer: Unleashing Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges” November 7, 2023 | Rregistration
El INCISIVE European project, dedicated to improving cancer diagnosis and prediction through the use of artificial intelligence and the use of cancer imaging data, organizes an event in which the partners that are part of the “AI for Health Imaging cluster (AI4HI)” will meet, that is, those partners that currently participate and work in the European projects: INCISIVE, CHAIMELEON, EuCanImage, ProCancer-I, PRIMAGE y EUCAIM, related to said topic. It will be a dynamic session in which all types of stakeholders will participate (clinicians, legal and artificial intelligence experts, pioneering companies, patient associations...) and in which It will address how Artificial Intelligence can transform the challenges of cancer into great opportunities for global health.
This event will take place on the morning of November 7 in hybrid format (in person at TheCUBE Madrid).
The next day November 11th, from 15:00 p.m. to 17:00 p.m.,there will be a infoday to publicize the ERA4HEalth NutriBrain call, coinciding with the opening of the system for the presentation of preproposals: Info session on the Joint Transnational Call “Modulation of brain aging through nutrition and healthy lifestyle (NutriBrain)”.
Webinar infoday: ERA4Health calls: Nanotecmec November 21, 2023 | More Information
The next day November 21th there will be a infoday to publicize the ERA4HEalth Nanotecmec call, coinciding with the opening of the system for the presentation of preproposals.
ERA-LEARN Partnership Stakeholder Forum 2023 December 5 and 6, 2023 | More Information
The General Directorate of Research and Innovation of the EC, with the support of ERA-LEARN, is organizing the “Partnership Stakeholder Forum 2023” which will take place on December 5 and 6 in Brussels. The event, focusing on Horizon Europe partnerships, will bring together all interested parties to discuss policy and practical aspects, and will provide an avenue for networking and sharing experiences.
Objectives of the event: Review the current status of the implementation of the European partnerships launched within the framework of the first Strategic Plan, as well as the first lessons learned from the mid-term evaluation of Horizon Europe.
Present and discuss the expansion of the partnership portfolio within the framework of the second Strategic Plan.
Maintain a first exchange of opinions regarding the next Framework Programme.
On the agenda there will be a combination of plenary and parallel sessions. Networking opportunities will also be provided.
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