ERC STARTING GRANTS: OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS

ERC Starting Grants support excellent researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD and having a scientific track record showing great promise. The ERC funds ground-breaking frontier research projects across all fields of science on the basis of scientific excellence.

Please note that researchers at Swiss host institutions are again fully eligible for ERC funding.

For more information, contact Mrs. Nancy-Lara Millàn.

Submission deadline: 3rd February 2015

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INNOVATIVE MEDICINE INITIATIVE

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is Europe's largest public-private partnership aiming to improve the drug development process by supporting a more efficient discovery and development of better and safer medicines for patients.

Within the framework of IMI, the third and fourth calls for proposals have been launched.

3rd call topics:

• Remote assessment of disease and relapse (RADAR), topic 1: central nervous system (CNS)
• Assessing risk and progression of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes to enable disease modification
• Linking clinical neuropsychiatry and quantitative neurobiology
• The consistency approach to quality control in vaccine manufacture
• Pertussis vaccination research
• Knowledge Repository to enable patient focused medicine development

4th call topic:

• Enabling platform on medicines adaptive pathway to patients

For more information, contact Mrs. Nancy-Lara Millàn.

Submission deadline: 4th call: 11th February 2015, 17:00 Brussels time 3rd call: 24th March 2015, 17:00 Brussels time

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ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS: OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS

ERC Consolidator Grants support excellent researchers of any nationality with over 7 and up to 12 years of experience since completion of PhD and having a scientific track record showing great promise.
The ERC funds ground-breaking frontier research projects across all fields of science on the basis of scientific excellence.

Please note that Switzerland is again fully eligible for ERC funding schemes.

For more information, contact Mrs. Nancy-Lara Millàn.

Submission deadline: 12th March 2015

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HORIZON 2020: INFORMATION EVENT ON ERC

In its efforts to support researchers in Southern Switzerland, Euresearch Lugano organizes an information event on ERC grant opportunities:

• the ERC Starting Grants (2-7 years after PhD) - deadline: February 3, 2015
• the ERC Consolidator Grants (7-12 years after PhD) - deadline: March 12, 2015
• the ERC Advanced Grants (over 10 years after PhD) - deadline: June 02, 2015

The event will take place on January 13, 2015 from 10:45 to 11:45 at USI, room 402.

Click here to see the detailed program and to register to the event (mandatory).

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ERC STARTING AND CONSOLIDATOR GRANT APPLICANTS TRAINING

Euresearch Lugano is pleased to invite you to a training for ERC grant application aiming to give information and tips on the different parts of the proposal.

Participants are expected to work on a submission to the 2015 Starting or Consolidator Grant call (deadline 3 February and 12 March 2015, respectively) and be familiar with the information contained in the Work Program and Information for Applicants.

The workshop will take place on January 13, 2015, from 13:00 to 16:30 at USI, room 402.

Click here in order to see the detailed program and to register to the event (mandatory).

Immediately after the meeting, there will be an opportunity to share privately with Dr. Zbinden your ideas. If you wish to benefit from those private sessions, please send an e-mail to Ms. Martina Pestoni in addition to registering to the event.

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H2020 TRANSPORT INFO-LUNCH

Euresearch Lugano is pleased to invite you to an info-lunch about transport-related topics within Horizon 2020, which will be held at SUPSI Manno (Galleria 2,Sala Primavera - ground floor, next to the Bar-Restaurant) on the 28th of January 2015, from 12.15 to 13.45.

As usual, our event is free of charge, but registration is mandatory. In order to register, please follow this link.

After the meeting, you will have the opportunity to share privately your project ideas with Dr. Wyss, the National Contact Point Transport & Security at Euresearch Head Office . If you wish to benefit from those private sessions, please send an e-mail to Ms. Martina Pestoni in addition to registering to the event.

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PRECOR - FUNDING PRECOMPETITIVE RESEARCH

precoR supports research projects with a focus on basic scientific achievements which enable the development of a future commercial application. In this sense, this initiative aims to encourage pre-competitive research.

The precoR initiative 2014/2015 is limited to proposals in materials science or fabrication technology.

For more information, contact Dr. Benedetto Lepori.

Submission deadline: 17th February 2015

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COTUTELLES DE THESE

A cotutelle de thèse is a doctoral project that is carried out within the framework of a formalised agreement between two universities (a Swiss and a foreign university).

The maximum amount of aid is CHF 10,000.

For more information, contact Ms. Valentina Masotti.

Submission deadline: 31st March 2015

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THE DALLE MOLLE FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY OF LIFE PRIZE

The Dalle Molle Foundation for quality of life wishes to reward those who suggest research projects concerning the fundamental problems of information processing and new technologies aiming to facilitate access to this information, on the purpose of improving everyday quality of life.

The competition is open to all research project proposals developed in Switzerland or in Italy.

For more information, contact Dr. Benedetto Lepori.

Submission deadline: 30th April 2015

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SINO-SWISS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION PROGRAM

The Sino-Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation (SSSTC) program aims to foster research cooperation between Swiss and Chinese institutions.

Funding schemes currently available are the following:

Stepping Stone Symposia or other Workshops: aiming to lay the basis for future Sino-Swiss cooperations. Call currently open.

Exchange Grants (EG): aiming to provide funding for personnel exchanges, which shall enable future research collaborations. The call will be open in December 2014.

Follow-up Grants: providing a small sum of funding (less than CHF 10’000.--) for personnel exchanges or publication costs for previous successful SSSTC projects. Call currently open.

For more information, contact Ms. Valentina Masotti.

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CZECH REPUBLIC - SWITZERLAND CALL FOR R&D EUREKA PROJECT OUTLINES

Czech Republic and Switzerland are jointly announcing a bi-lateral Call for outlines for joint innovation projects under EUREKA and Eurostars. The Call is open for all topics, but focuses on medical technologies (devices and medical diagnostics), Manufacturing (intelligent manufacturing, efficient design and modeling, automation) and ICT (software intensive systems, intelligent applications).

For Swiss partners, the main funding agency of reference is the Commission for Technology and Innovation.

For more information, contact Ms. Valentina Masotti.

Submission deadline: 31st December 2014

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BELGIUM – SWITZERLAND CALL FOR R&D PROJECT OUTLINES

Belgium and Switzerland are jointly announcing a bi-lateral Call for outlines for joint innovation projects under EUREKA and Eurostars. The Call is open for all topics, but focuses on health biotechnologies and medical technologies, manufacturing (advanced systems, sensors, automation, additive manufacturing) and aeronautic applications and systems.

For Swiss partners, the main funding agency of reference is the Commission for Technology and Innovation.

For more information, contact Ms. Valentina Masotti.

Submission deadline: 15th January 2015

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CELTIC-PLUS

Celtic-Plus is an industry-driven European research initiative to define, perform and finance through public and private funding common research projects in the area of telecommunications, new media, future Internet, and applications & services focusing on a new "Smart Connected World" paradigm. Celtic-Plus is a EUREKA ICT cluster.

Consortia have to be composed of at least two partners from two different countries.

For more information, contact Ms. Valentina Masotti.

Submission deadline: 10th February 2015

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EUROSTARS: PRE-CALL ANNOUNCEMENT

Eurostars is a transnational research programme that supports research-performing, innovative SMEs to gain competitive advantage.

Research projects funded within the framework of Eurostars have to involve at least three partners from at least two different Eurostars countries.

Moreover, within the framework of the next Eurostars call, the United Kingdom and Switzerland strongly invite R&D intensive SMEs to submit joint British-Swiss projects. Click here for more information.

For more information, contact Ms. Valentina Masotti.

Submission deadline: 5th March 2015

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EUROGIA

EUROGIA2020, as a EUREKA Cluster, is committed to enhancing the competitiveness of European industry through the promotion of cross-border, market-oriented industrial innovation, especially with reference to the development of Low-Carbon Energy Technologies.

Consortia must comprise at least two industrial companies-Large, Small or Medium sized enterprises- from two different EUREKA member countries. The active participation of research institutes or universities is strongly encouraged when not made mandatory (depending on different countries rules).

For more information, contact Ms. Valentina Masotti.

Submission deadline: for pre-proposals: 6th March 2015for full proposals: 29th May 2015

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KOREA-SWITZERLAND SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: CALL FOR JOINT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Joint Research Projects allow researchers in Switzerland to collaborate with a partner in South Korea. The projects, which last for up to three years, are funded on the Swiss side by the SNSF with a maximum grant of CHF 250,000.

Projects within the following thematic areas will be funded:

• Neuroscience
• Molecular physics
• Technologies and methodologies for big data science

For more information, contact Ms. Valentina Masotti.

Submission deadline: 16th March 2015

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