Transnational Cooperation

BiodivERsA2

BiodivERsA2 is a project funded by ERA-Net Scheme of the EU FP7 (2010-2014). This network is a partnership of 21 funding agencies and research agencies on biodiversity, coordinated by the Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB), France.

Open Call for Transnational Cooperation Projects 2011-2012

The BiodivERsA2 Pan-European Call for International Research Proposals on Biodiversity Dynamics: Developing Scenarios, Identifying Tipping Points and Improving Resilience was launched on 1st November 2011.

For this call the 11 co-funding agencies from 10 participant countries defined a joint investment of about € 6 M.

All the thematic fields of biodiversity are covered by the call, which ambition is to promote a transnational cooperation for the generation of knowledge that embodies a predictive comprehension of biodiversity systems and its evolution over the next decades.

Scientific teams from the participating countries will be invited to form transnational research consortia, with a total of at least 3 different countries participating in the call.

Eligibility and other National Regulation

Research themes, application and evaluation process will follow as described in the BiodivERsA2 call announcement. The final decision of funding will be undertake by FCT’s Board of Directors and in case of a positive funding decision Portuguese applicants will be asked to submit a formal national application. National regulations will be applied for Portuguese participant institutions.

Please notice that Portuguese researchers participating in ongoing R&D projects funded by FCT cannot be funded if they exceed 100% of time dedicated to the sum of all the funded projects.

FCT encourages the participation of companies in proposals submission. Companies will be eligible for a maximum of 50% funding and should be integrated in consortia with R&D institutions.

Mandatory pre-registration deadline

Until 15th of December 2011 (17:00 CET)

Period for full proposal submission

Until 16th February 2012 (17:00 CET)

Participant countries

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Turkey.

Detailed information on this Call

http://www.biodiversa.org/290

The BiodivERsA2 project main objectives are:

To develop an efficient agenda-setting mechanism for joint activities (including joint calls), taking into account existing research strategies and agendas at international levels along with national and institutional priorities;
To instate a recurrent and visible funding opportunity for transnational biodiversity research projects;
To play an active role in the processes and interfaces to inform policy and users;
To prepare the establishment of a sustainable, independent funding platform for biodiversity research.

The first generation 2005-2010 of BiodivERsA, with the participation of 19 European research funding agencies seek best practice as a basis for coordination in order to strengthen European research.