ERA-NET on Cardiovascular Diseases Joint Transnational Call for Proposals 2018 (Pre-Proposals)

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Deadlines

Academic Unit:

Memorial Deadline: Inquire with RGCS

External Deadline: Thursday 15th, March 2018

Description

CIHR’s Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH) is happy to announce that it will make funding available for Canadian researchers to join the European Research Area Network on Cardiovascular Diseases (ERA-CVD) Joint Transnational Call for Proposals 2018 (JTC2018) for Transnational Cardiovascular Research Projects driven by Early Career Scientists.

Funded under Horizon 2020, ERA-CVD is a relatively new consortium comprising 23 partners from 18 countries/regions (Austria, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey). CIHR-ICRH is partnering with the ERA-CVD partners to fund Canadian researchers through JTC2018. The aim of ERA-CVD is to foster transnational collaboration of European countries and beyond, and to coordinate research efforts and funding programmes of its partner countries.

Eligibility

Canadian researchers awarded their first doctoral degree at least 3 and up to 10 years prior to the pre-proposal submission deadline and within 0 – 60 months of first academic appointment will be eligible to apply in consortia with international colleagues.

Specifically, for a Canadian application to be eligible:

The Nominated Principal Applicant must be an independent researcher
The Nominated Principal Applicant must be an Investigator (early career) within 0 and 60 months of first appointment at an eligible institution; and
Under JTC2018 applicants must have been awarded their first doctoral degree at least 3 and up to 10 years prior to the pre-proposal submission. (See JTC2018 call text and applicant guidelines for full details).

Funds available

The CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health is partnering with the ERA-CVD partners to provide more than 9.49 M € for JTC2018. The total amount available for Canadian applications is $585,000 CAD, which is enough to fund two (2) grants. The maximum amount available per grant to Canadian participants in transnational consortia is $97,500 CAD per year for up to three (3) years for a total of $292,500 CAD, per grant.

Anticipated timelines

Launch: January 11, 2018
Deadline for submitting the pre-proposals: March 15, 2018, 17:00 CET
Notification of invitation of pre-proposals to full proposal: Mid-May 2018
Deadline for submitting invited full proposals: June 15, 2018, 17:00 CET
Funding start date: early in 2019

Of note, no documents need to be submitted to CIHR for the pre-application stage.

Contact and further information

Further information on ERA-CVD and the Preliminary Announcement on ERA-CVD JTC2018 is available at the ERA-CVD website. The JTC2018 Call Text and Guidelines for Applicants will be available there following the launch.

The Canadian Request for Applications will be published on ResearchNet in early 2018.