Deadline: 24 October 2017
The Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Network has launched a new Joint Research Programme under the theme “Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe” (HERA JRP PS) in order to mobilize the wide range of multi-disciplinary perspectives necessary to understanding the relationships between “public space”, culture and other phenomena, such as e.g. European integration.
The aim of the HERA “Public spaces” programme will be to deepen the theoretical and empirical cultural understanding of public spaces in a European context. The programme has been designed to facilitate a broad range of cultural approaches to conceptualising public space, its structural and processual formations, and its possible outcomes in terms of integration, exclusion, disintegration, fragmentation, hybridization, amalgamation or transmission.
Grant Information
- The total budget requested from the HERA JRP must not exceed 1 M€ across all participating partners.
- CRPs must be between 24 and 36 months in duration. CRPs must start by May 2019 and finish by May 2022 at the latest.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only applicants eligible to the HERA JRP PS funding organisations in the below mentioned countries can apply.
- Each Collaborative Research Project (CRP) must comprise at least four Principal Investigators, each based in an eligible university or a research institute in a different HERA JRP PS country.
- Depending on the national eligibility requirements, each applicant must either be consider edeligible for funding by the HERA JRP PS country where (s)he works or apply on behalf of an organisation eligible for funding for a HERA JRP PS funder.
- A Principal Investigator (PI) can participate as a PI or Project Leader (PL) in a single HERA JRP PS proposal only. If a PI is participating in more than one proposal, all these proposals will be declared ineligible and will not be evaluated.
- The Project Leader (PL) will be one of the Principal Investigators (PI) in the CRP and will act as coordinating partner.
- Each CRP will be coordinated by a Project Leader (PL) who is responsible for the research leadership and administrative coordination of the CRP.
- The consortium partners in the participating countries in the CRP will each assign one Principal Investigator (PI) per institute to coordinate the administrative and financial responsibilities of the CRP at the institutional level.
- The team of each Principal Investigator (PI) may include a number of other senior and/or junior researchers (Project Team Members) carrying out the actual research planned.
- For each Associate Partner (AP) a letter of commitment must be submitted which specifies the contribution of the partner to the CRP. The contribution of these partners to the CRP’s knowledge exchange potential should be well integrated in the workplan. No CVs of Associate Partners may be included in the proposal.
- The contribution of Cooperation Partners (researchers from non-HERA JRP PS countries) to the project must be specified in the description and planning of the CRP. For each CP a letter of commitment must be submitted, specifying the contribution to the project. Note that CPs cannot function as PI; CVs may not be included.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply online via given website.
Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium (Wallonia), Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.
For more information, please visit HERA Call for Proposals.