EU-LAC IG │ Multi-Thematic Joint Call 2022 │ Deadline 28.04.2022
As an outcome of the EU funded bi-regional ERANet-LAC project (2013-2017), the European Union (EU) – Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Interest Group (IG) was established: A group of funding agencies from LAC, EU Member States and Associated Countries wishing to cooperate in bi-regional science, technology and innovation (STI) collaboration. They pre-announced a call for proposals. The aim of the Joint Call is to initiate sustainable and multilateral research cooperation between researchers from Europe, Latin-America and the Caribbean countries.
The participating funding parties will provide funds and assistance of national and/or regional call contact points to support national beneficiaries in collaborative projects. The projects will be selected jointly. One of the specificities of this upcoming joint call is that it includes topics based on sharing large research infrastructures. Transnational consortia are invited to submit proposals related to the following topics:
- GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Global Challenges I – Interactions and integration between the climate science, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and other communities.
Global Challenges II – Cross-cutting digital research infrastructure. - HEALTH
Health I – Personalised Medicine.
Health II – EU-LAC Regional Hubs: Integrating research infrastructures for Health and Disease. - BIODIVERSITY
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Infrastructures. - ENERGY
Interoperability of energy data spaces for an optimized exploitation by producers and prosumers / Research Infrastructures.
Applicants can represent public and private scientific, research, technological and innovation institutions on national, federal or European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean regional level, research active industry and Non-Governmental Organizations and other institutions involved in research activities, as long as they are eligible for funding by their respective funding organizations according to their respective national regulations. The members of the EU-LAC IG will launch the joint call on 24 January 2022.
Each applicant has to check the project idea with the national contact point as early as possible in the pre-proposal phase, at the latest before submitting any applications. In Germany, the BMBF/ DLR are responsible. There will be a single-stage submission procedure for joint applications. The deadline for the submission of full proposals will expire on 28 April 2022.
Further information (EN)