ERA-CAPS Third Transnational Call for Proposals
BBSRC funding for this call is not affected by the outcome of the UK referendum on EU membership.
New participation rules: some countries allow only 1 PI from their country per proposal – full details are provided in the National Annexes below.
The ERA-NET Coordinating Action in Plant Sciences (ERA-CAPS) issued its third Transnational Call for Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects on June 23rd 2016.
The following agencies have confirmed their participation in the call: FWF (Austria)*, F.R.S.-FNRS (Belgium - FWB), ANR (France)*, DFG (Germany)*, NCN (Poland)*, MPNTR (Serbia)*, SNSF (Switzerland), BBSRC (U.K.)*, NSF (USA)* (*indicates participation in data sub-call).
- Main Call Theme: all areas of molecular plant science
- Sub-Call Theme: addressing Data Challenges in Plant Sciences
- Consortium composition: min. of 3 partners from 3 different countries
- Call launch pre-proposals: 23 June 2016
- Call closure pre-proposals: 28 September 2016
- Call launch full proposals: 7 January 2017
- Call closure full proposals: 31 March 2017
- Results expected: autumn 2017
- Start selected research projects: spring 2018
The following documents are available for this call:
Full proposal stage
General questions can be addressed to the Call Secretariat: ERA-CAPS.CallSecretariat@dfg.de
Or contact your national contact person (details available in the National Annexes).
Partner Search Tool: In order to facilitate the search for partners in the framework of the Third ERA-CAPS Call, a Partner Search Tool has been launched:
See also: ERA-CAPS search for collaborations page: http://www.eracaps.org/search-collaborations