Update: The 2nd meeting of the Group of Funding Parties (GFP) will be held on February 14/15 in Bonn, Germany. During the meeting or shortly afterwards the GFP will take the final funding decision about the individual projects to be funded. All project coordinators will be informed soon after the GFP-meeting in written form about the decisions taken. (January 30, 2012/ Joint Call Secretariat)
Background information
In the frame of the ERA.Net RUS project a Pilot Joint Call on Collaborative S&T Projects was launched on 16 March 2011 and applicants are invited to submit online proposals until 31 May 2011.
The participating countries are: Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey. Project consortia must comprise project partners from at least 3 different countries, of which at least one from Russia. These project partners must be eligible for funding by their respective national Funding Party which are members of the Group of Funding Parties. Applicants non-eligible for funding could join any consortium submitting a proposal in the context of this PJC, however on their own expenses.
By Collaborative S&T Project is meant a joint undertaking by a partnership of institutions ("consortium") designed to produce new knowledge through fundamental, experimental and/or theoretical scientific research, whereby each team of the partnership actively pursues specific objectives with a view to pooling the results to contribute to common, well-defined objectives. The goal of the PJC/STP is to create long-term research collaboration between EU MS/AC and Russia. Research collaboration of a high standard between teams from EU Member States and/or Associated Countries and Russia will be supported through open competition.
The duration of a project can be up to 24 months. The total indicative financial contribution of the call is € 5.930.000 plus an additional amount from INTAS donation. For funding contributions of each funding organisation and eligible costs please refer to the Terms of References and its Annex with internal eligibility criteria/ national rules of the funding parties.
Research proposals regarding the following thematic fields can be submitted:
Please submit your proposal online (in English) at: http://www.pt-it.de/ptoutline/application/stprojects
Please download the following documents to receive more information about the call and to prepare your proposal:
Terms of References
Guidelines for Applicants
Call Announcement
Project description template (to be completed and uploaded to the online application tool)
PJC Flyer
How to find partners?
Profiles have been collected with information on the academic background, research work, project ideas and the contact data of researchers that have expressed their interest in participating in the call and are thus open to be contacted by other researchers with the aim of forming a project consortium
Profiles of interested experts in:
Innovative materials and cutting edge technological processes (ca. 50 profiles, PDF)
Environmental research and climatic change (ca. 85 profiles, PDF)
Research on serious human health problems (ca. 35 profiles, PDF)
Contemporary socio-economic studies (ca. 30 profiles, PDF)
(last updated: 6 June 2011, 3pm CET)
Abstract book
(Abstracts of project ideas of Russian researchers interested to participate in the call on collaborative S&T projects)
In case you are interested to publish your profile, please fill in the form below and send it to the ERA.Net RUS Joint Call Secretariat
Template Profile Form
For more information on the ERA.Net RUS call in collaborative S&T projects, you may contact the National Contact Points or the the PJC Secretariat:
National Contact Points
ESTONIAN NCP
Estonian Science Foundation
Mr. Meelis Sirendi
E-mail: meelis.sirendi@etf.ee
Phone: +372 6996216
FINNISH NCP
Mr. Mikko Ylikangas
Academy of Finland (AKA)
E-mail: mikko.ylikangas@aka.fi
Phone: +358 40 5864729
FRENCH NCP
Mrs. Nathalie Frances
CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research
E-mail: nathalie.frances@cnrs-dir.fr
Phone: + 33 1 44 96 40 11
GERMAN NCP
For scientific issues:
Dr. Marion Mienert
International Bureau of the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research at the Project Management Agency c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR)
E-mail: marion.mienert@dlr.de
Phone : + 49 228 3821 1469
For administrative issues:
Mrs. Andrea Kröll
International Bureau of the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research at the Project Management Agency c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR)
E-mail: andrea.kroell@dlr.de
Phone : + 49 228 3821 1413
GREEK NCP
Mr. George Adamopoulos
Ministry of Education, Life Long Learning and Religious Affairs
General Secretariat for Research & Technology
International S & T Cooperation Directorate
E-mail: g.adamopoulos@gsrt.gr
Phone: +30 210 7458113
NORWEGIAN NCP
Mrs. Birgit Jacobsen
Research Council of Norway (RCN)
E-mail: bija@rcn.no
Phone: +4722037264
POLISH NCP
Mrs. Hanna Sroczynska
The National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR)
E-mail: h.sroczynska@ncbir.pl
Phone: +48 22 24 42 858
RUSSIAN NCPs:
NCP of Russian Academy of Sciences Central Branch:
Mrs. Elena Rovenskaya
Institute of Developmental Biology, RAS
E-mail: eroven@mail.ru
Phone: +7 499 135 8842/ +7 499 135 8842
NCP of Russian Academy of Sciences Ural Branch:
Mrs. Tamara Deeva
Email: deewa@prm.uran.ru
Phone: +7 343 362 33 23
NCP of Russian Academy of Sciences of the Far Eastern Branch:
Mrs. Marina Shtets
E-mail: ompp@hq.febras.ru
Phone: +7 4232 264997
NCP of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Mr. Yaroslav Sorokotyaga
E-mail: ysorokot@rfbr.ru
Phone: +7 4959525682
NCP of Russian Academy of Sciencs of the Siberian Branch:
Mrs. Irina Sharkova
E-mail: perevod@sbras.nsc.ru
Phone: +7 383 330 82 40
NCP of the Russian Foundation for Humanities
For scientific issues:
Mr. Yuri Vorotnikov
E-mail: info@rfh.ru
Phone : 8 (499) 702-85-52
For administrative issues:
Mr. Andrey Blinov
Russian Foundation for Humanities
E-mail: blinov@rfh.ru
Phone : 8(499) 702-85-64
SPANISH NCP
Mrs. María Colmenares Brunet
Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)
Email: maria.colmenares@micinn.es
Phone: +34 916038761
SWISS NCP
Mrs. Irina Niggli
University of Geneva - Swiss Leading House for Swiss-Russian scientific cooperation
E-mail: irina.niggli@unige.ch
Phone: +41 22 379 71 96
TURKISH NCP
Mr. Ilter Haliloglu
The Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK)
E-mail: ilter.haliloglu@tubitak.gov.tr
Phone: +90 312 468 53 00/ 2781
Turkish applicants are advised to visit the following website:
http://www.fp7.org.tr/home.do?ot=5&rt=1&sid=3438&pid=0&cid=21570
PJC SECRETARIAT
Mr. Andreas Kahle
International Bureau of the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research at the Project Management Agency c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR)
E-mail: andreas.kahle@dlr.de
Phone : + 49 228 3821 -1829
Mr. Máximo Casas-Gutierrez
E-mail: maximo.casasgutierrez@dlr.de
Phone: +49 228 3821-1491
