Deadline: 17-May-25
The Sidaction and Aidsfonds are pleased to jointly launch a 2 million euros call for scientific proposals for the year 2025, dedicated to accelerating advances in HIV cure research.
This initiative aims to mobilise researchers from France, the Netherlands and African countries around this crucial issue for global health.
Goal
- With this call, they aim to fund research ultimately leading to biomedical breakthroughs, social acceptance of cure interventions and promotion of an HIV cure available to the maximum of people living with HIV worldwide. The candidate projects may explore mechanisms to target the viral reservoir or enhance immune driven control, the development of new therapeutic concepts as well as all the social sciences around HIV cure or remission.
- Preferential (not mandatory) aspects of the research are:
- multidisciplinary approach involving cooperation between researchers from different specialities (basic science, clinical science, humanities and social sciences);
- research that pursues interventional strategies, even if preliminary stages, is preferred over approaches that are purely descriptive:
- involvement of communities that live with HIV
- impact focused on a combination of insights and interventions that build on existing research on HIV cures and/or by new approaches and insights that have not been used before;
Funding Information
- The available budget for this Call for proposals is a total of €2,000,000. The funders strive to fund 4 to 6 projects. Proposal should have a budget between € 300k-600k. Although the standard upper limit is €600k, this threshold may be exceeded if the project benefits from co-funding and is truly outstanding, while proposals with budgets below €300k will not be considered.
Selection Criteria
- Proposals that pass the threshold will be ranked based on the preferential characteristics: Quality of science and method;
- Interdisciplinarity aspects of the research;
- Minimum of 2 countries collaborating;
- The innovative and integrated nature of the research;
- Feasibility and appropriateness of the proposed research plan;
- Operational and financial choices in the project budget;
- Strong prospects for biomedical, social and economic impact
- Budget 300k (minimum) – 600k maximum
- Early Career Lead Investigators, defined as a researcher whose career spun less than 8 years between the date of the PhD/doctorate (or similar experience) and the date of involvement in the research project and/or involvement of young researchers in the project (PhD students and/or postdoc);
- Collaboration of research teams from Netherlands, France, and African countries
- Project governance, division of tasks and roles within the team
- Connection strategy to engage relevant stakeholders and involve end-users.
For more information, visit Aidsfonds.