1st CIRCLE Project joint call for Mediterranean

19 September 2007, 1:50pm

1st CIRCLE Project joint call

This 1st CIRCLE pilot joint call is to establish transnational collaborative research projects on a specific area within Climate Change Impact in the Mediterranean region: “Integrated Coastal Zones and Water Management”.

Deadline for applications

This pilot common call is being published by the below-mentioned funding institutions between 11 July and 12 October 2007 in their respective countries. Applications received after 12 October, 17h00 Brussels time, will be excluded from the evaluation process.

Funders

The following partner institutions from the CIRCLE consortium intend to finance the research projects initiated by this call:

Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea (IMELS), Italy
Ministry of the Environment (IME), Israel
Regional Ministry of Innovation and Industry of the Galician Government trough the Directorate General for Research, Development and Innovation (XUNTA), Spain
Ministry of Ecology, Development and Sustainable planning (MEDAD), France

Funding is granted according to countries. This means that each participating country funds its own national research institutions collaborating in the joint research projects according to national funding rules. They can on occasion, pay for other countries’ researchers, for instance by means of subcontracts of national laboratories. Restrictions apply for Italy for national funding of a trans-national project. No funding for other countries possible for Israel.

How to prepare a proposal

Each project must include participants from a minimum of two and an unrestricted maximum number of partner countries, and must in addition include at least one participant from a Mediterranean country outside the partner (contributing) group.
Others may also participate but must be independently financed. Participants must be eligible to participate in the normal funders' RTD programmes in the call partner countries, making use of the funders usual eligibility criteria.

In the view of available budget, we recommend that projects should not exceed 200.000 EUR and shall be no more than 24 months.

How to apply

The call will employ a single stage application. Submission requires the applicant to complete a proposal in English. A framework paper, presenting detailed information about the requirements for participants in this call should be downloaded before submitting an application.

A proposal has two parts:

SECTION 1 (Common Application Form) which presents the projects and its overall budget;

SECTION 2 (National Application Forms): to be filled by participants applying for funding. This section is specific to Contributing Countries as it introduces instructions related to their own regulations for funding research. Please consult your national call text for further details.

All applications must be sent to submission-med@circle-era.net

Visit http://www.circle-era.net/research-funding/ for full details.

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