Deadline: 22-May-25
The EU-LAC Interest Group towards the Common Research Area launches a new Joint Call to enhance the bi-regional cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation.
The aim of the Joint Call is to initiate sustainable and multilateral research cooperation between researchers from Europe, Latin-America and the Caribbean countries. Transnational consortia are invited to submit proposals related to six topics in the thematic fields of Global Challenges, Bioeconomy, Health, Energy and Open Science.
- Topic 1 Biodiversity incl. Agriculture and Food Security
- Topic 2 Bioeconomy and Nature-based Solutions
- Topic 3.1 Global health
- Topic 3.2 Infectious diseases
- Topic 4 EU-LAC Cooperation for energy transition
- Topic 5 EU-LAC Cooperation in Open Science
Funding Information
- Austria: EUR 500.000.
- Brazil: 200,000.00 Euros
- Germany: EUR 1,000,000.00
- Perú: 600,000.00 Euros
- Poland: EUR 1,500,000.00
- Portugal: EUR 300,000.00
- Spain: EUR 400,000.00
- Türkiye: 500,000.00 Euros
- Uruguay: EUR 95,000.00
- Project partners are funded in accordance with their national and regional funding regulations. All funded projects must have passed the international evaluation and ranking proceedings as specified below.
- The overall budget of this Joint Call is the sum of the individual budgets allocated by each participating funding institution. If more than one funding institution from a given country participates in the Joint Call, the added amount of all institutions from this country is considered as the country’s overall Joint Call contribution.
- Some funding institutions may decide to set an upper limit for the budget that can be requested per project from the national funding agency. The upper funding limits may thus vary from one country to the other.
- Projects will be funded for up to 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Each participating funding institution applies its own national or regional funding regulations, which must be reviewed before submitting a proposal. Only researchers based in the participating countries are eligible for funding, and only for those topics supported by their funding agency.
- Each consortium submitting a proposal must involve a minimum of four eligible partners from four different participating countries with at least two countries from each region (EU and LAC). A maximum number of national partners applying for funding will be defined in the institutional rules of each funding organisation. Only transnational projects will be funded. Each collaborative consortium should have the optimal critical mass to achieve ambitious scientific and/or innovation goals and should clearly show an added value from working together. The coordinator must be eligible for the funding agencies participating in this call.
- Partners not eligible for funding/not from the participating countries may also be part of the consortia if they are able to clearly demonstrate an added value to the consortium and secure their own funding. The self-financed partners must provide the call secretariat with a signed official letter of support from their head of department or financial director.
- There should be a principal investigator (PI) for each of the national research groups. Each PI will act as contact person for his or her national funders. One of these PIs should be selected through the project consortium as coordinator to represent the consortium, submit the proposal, and establish any further communication with the call secretariat. A coordinator must not submit more than one proposal. However, one research institution – as a legal entity – is allowed to participate as a coordinator or partner in several project proposals.
Evaluation Criteria
- Excellence
- Clarity and pertinence of the objectives;
- Credibility of the proposed approach;
- Integration of diversity considerations in submitted proposals, as well as underrepresented populations in the planned research and/or innovation. This includes not only diversity in the consortium, but also the inclusion of diversity perspectives and analysis in the research and/or innovation itself, if relevant. A project is considered diversity (or gender) relevant when it concerns individuals or specific groups of people and/or when its findings may affect individuals or specific groups.
- Soundness of the concept, including trans-disciplinary considerations, where relevant;
- Extent to which the proposed work is ambitious, has innovation potential, and is beyond the state of the art (e.g. ground-breaking objectives, novel concepts and approaches).
- Impact
- Expected impacts listed in the description under the relevant topic;
- Enhancing research and innovation capacity and integration of new knowledge;
- Any other environmental and socially important impacts;
- Implementation of open science measures (early and open sharing of research;
- research output management;
- providing open access to research outputs i.e. publications, data, software, algorithms, etc.), participation in open peer review;
- involvement of relevant actors including citizens, civil society and end users in the co-creation of research and innovation contents and agendas;
- Effectiveness of the proposed measures to exploit and disseminate the project results (including management of IPR), to communicate the project and to manage research data where relevant;
- Added value for the EU-LAC cooperation in STI;
- Mobility, networking and training of human resources in both regions.
- Quality and efficiency of the implementation
- Coherence and effectiveness of the work plan, including appropriateness of the allocation of tasks and resources;
- Complementarity of the participants within the consortium (if relevant) and gender balance among them;
- Appropriateness of the management structures and procedures, including risk and innovation management.
- Economic impact, applicability and exploitation of results
- Potential for economic impact and exploitation/transfer of results;
- In case of industry and SME participation: Strengthening competitiveness and growth of companies by developing innovations that meet the needs of global markets and, where relevant, deliver such innovations to the market;
- Feasibility;
- involvement of stakeholders;
- Communication and dissemination of results;
- Exploitation and transfer of results;
- Management of intellectual property issues and consortium agreements.
For more information, visit EU-LAC Interest Group.
