Deadline: 14 July 2017
Applications are open for European Interest Group (EIG) CONCERT-Japan, an international joint initiative to support and enhance science, technology and innovation (STI) cooperation between European countries and Japan.
The primary function of the EIG CONCERT-Japan is to collaboratively implement multilateral joint funding with the objective of enhancing the cooperation and promoting the transnational mobility between European countries and Japan in various fields of STI. As far as it is relevant to that objective, the EIG CONCERT-Japan also aims to facilitate coordination between participating organisations in their activities relating to the programmes of the European Union (EU) and those undertaken within other international collaborative frameworks through the identification of common preferences, priorities and areas of mutual interest.
As a collaborative funding activity of the EIG CONCERT-Japan (the fourth of CONCERT-Japan, the second as an EIG activity), the core members representing France, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Lithuania, Norway, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Japan have decided to implement a Joint Call on the theme of “Efficient Energy Storage and Distribution”.
The overall aim of this call is to support research in developing more efficient, reliable, secure, flexible and sustainable technologies in energy storage systems and distribution of electricity.
Objectives
EIG CONCERT-Japan Joint Calls aim to support sustainable and multilateral research cooperation, especially promoting the transnational mobility between European and Japanese researchers, through:
- Enhancing inter-regional communication and cooperation
- Increasing and developing opportunities for high quality research networking between researchers
- Developing new partnerships and strengthening existing ones
- Exchanging existing knowledge and creating new knowledge
Awards and Benefits
Research networking and exchange projects selected for funding in this call will receive support for a period of 3 years totaling no more than approximately 18,000,000 JPY including direct and indirect costs. Examples of direct costs can include research materials, personnel costs, travel costs and events.
Eligibility Criteria
- Researchers
- Any independent researcher personally affiliated with (and actively conducting research at) a domestic Japanese research institution (or who would fulfill this requirement by the start of the research project if not currently affiliated with a research institution in Japan), regardless of nationality, is eligible to apply.
- Consortium
- In addition to the Japanese team, the project consortium must include members from a minimum of two different European countries listed as participating in the call. Researchers from countries not participating may also be included in the research consortium.
How to Apply
Proposals must be jointly drafted by a team and submitted electronically via online portal.
Eligible Countries: Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Lithuania, Norway, Slovakia and Czech Republic.
For more information, please visit EIG CONCERT-Japan.