NANOTECMEC - ERA4Health 2024 Call
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10.11.2023
● Information and promotion sessions: two information sessions will be held online regarding the NANOTECMEC joint transnational call.
The first session (Infoday), on 21 november 2023, between 9:00 and 11:00 (Lisbon time). You can register here, until 20 November at 12:00am (Lisbon time).
The second session (matchmaking event), to support the formation of new consortia, on 7 December 2023, between 13:00 and 16:00 (Lisbon time). You can register here.
On 14th November 2023, the European Partnership ERA4HEALTH launched the NANOTECMEC call under the topic “Nano and advanced technologies for disease prevention, diagnostic and therapy”.
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The co-funded European Partnership ERA4Health - Fostering a European Research Area for Health - aims to establish a flexible and effective coordination between funding agencies of the European Research Area to fund and implement joint research and innovation programs, in Europe, in priority areas of public health and well-being.
ERA4Health brings together the success and experience of several previous European initiatives such as ERA-CVD, EuroNanoMed and the ERANet cofunds developed within the framework of JPI HDHL.
The aims of the call are:
– to support translational research projects that combine innovative approaches in the field of nanomedicine;
– to encourage and enable transnational collaboration between academic research and clinical/public health research or R&D activities from industrial enterprises (all size).
Project proposals will address multidisciplinary and translational research. The applications must cover at least one of the following nanomedicine areas that are of equal relevance for this call:
- Regenerative medicine
- Diagnostics
- Nanotherapy
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The following are individual or co-promotion beneficiaries:
a) Non-entrepreneurial entities of the R&I system, namely:
- Higher education institutions, their institutes and R&D units;
- State or international laboratories with head office in Portugal;
- Non-profit private institutions whose main object is R&D activity;
- Other non-profit public and private institutions developing or participating in scientific research activities.
b) Companies of any type and under any legal form.
The information contained in this section does not exempt you from consulting Article 3 of the "Regulation of projects financed exclusively by national funds".
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The NANOTECMEC Call 2024 of ERA4Haealth is a two-stage call for proposals: the pre-proposal submission stage (stage 1) and the full proposal submission stage (stage 2). Only the pre-proposals submitted in stage 1 and selected by the Call Steering Committee (consisting of the national/regional funding agencies of the call) based on the ranking lists prepared by the evaluators will be invited to proceed to the stage 2 and submit full proposal.
The NANOTECMEC Call will fund projects submitted by transnational consortia. Applicants may only apply for funding to their respective national/regional funding agencies of the call (consult the document “Call Text”, in the “Call Documents” area, to know the funding agencies of the call) and each funding agency will only fund projects submitted by team(s) from their countries/regions that are part of transnational consortia.
Please access the “Call Text” to consult the general eligibility criteria, the rules applicable to the size and composition of consortia and the rules of eligibility to consult the specific eligibility conditions of each funding agency.
- Consult the “Call Documents” area.
- Consult the national and/or regional rules of the countries participating in the consortium (including the Portuguese) in the document "Call Text”.
- The consortium coordinator must submit the pre-proposal template in the submission system (see “Important links”).
- Complete and submit, within 10 working days after the deadline for submitting the pre-proposal, a Statement of Commitment duly signed by the Researcher in Charge (partner and/or coordinators) and by the legal representant of the Portuguese Proposing Institution. The Statement of Commitment must be sent to the call National Contact Point.
NOTES:
- Only Portuguese Proposing Institution that are part of a transnational consortium and applying for FCT funding should complete and submit a Statement of Commitment (in pre-proposal stage only).
- The stamp or seal of the Portuguese Proposing Institution and, if applicable, of the R&D unit, will not be required in a digitally signed Statement of Commitment, provided that it is signed, in the Autenticação.gov application, with professional attributes that identify the functions performed by the signatory.
The information contained in this page constitutes only a summary of the joint call information and does not exempt the candidates from carefully reading all the joint call documents available on this page and on the call website (see “Important links”). Likewise, the information contained in this page refers only to the participation of FCT in this call, unless if/when expressly indicated.
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Eligibility
The eligibility check of proposals is carried out at both stages of the call (pre-proposal submission stage and full proposal submission stage):
- National/Regional Funding Agencies check national eligibility of pre-proposals and full proposals, ensuring compliance with the formal requirements in the applicable national/regional regulations (see “FCT’s regulation” and “Financial Execution Rules” in the “Call Documents” area).
- Transnational eligibility check of pre-proposals and full proposals will be performed by the Call Secretariat, according to the transnational eligibility criteria presented in the “Call Text” in the “Call Documents” area.
- For a proposal to be declared eligible it must fulfil both the national and transnational criteria.
Evaluation
The call includes two evaluation phases: a pre-proposal evaluation stage and a full proposal evaluation stage.
Proposals will be evaluated according to the evaluation criteria described in the "Call Text" in the "Call Documents" area.
The Call Steering Committee (CSC) will decide which 1) pre-proposals to invite to submit a full proposal and 2) proposals to recommend for funding, depending on the stage of the call. For this purpose, the CSC will follow the order of the ranking list established by the Expert Panel according to the available budget.
The final formal funding decision will be taken by each Funding Agency afterward, following its national/regional procedure.
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- FCT financial commitment for the call: 500.000,00 €
- Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese coordination: 250.000,00 €
- Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese participation: 150.000,00 €
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- Portuguese institutions funding must follow FCT's “Regulation on projects funded solely by national funds” (see “FCT’s regulations” in the "Call Documents" area), as well as “Financial Execution Rules” (also available in the "Call Documents" area).
- If more than one Portuguese applicant participating in the same consortium applies for funding by FCT, the combined funding demanded by all the Portuguese applicants may not exceed the maximum financial threshold for projects with Portuguese coordination (250 000,00 €) or Portuguese participation (150 000,00 €). Portuguese coordinaters and/or partners in the same consortium will therefore have to share the funding that will be granted by FCT.
- The dedication (FTE) in transnational projects is not considered for the 100% (FTE) dedication to national projects.
- Under the terms of number 2 of Article 7 of the Regulation on projects funded solely by national funds, payments made directly or indirectly to companies through the Proposing Institution cannot exceed 50% of the total cost of the company’s participation.
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Rita Cavaleiro and Joana Pinheiro
