Deadline: 21-Apr-22
The French National Research Agency, in partnership with Seven countries (Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom) is launching a call, named NUTRIMMUNE, for proposals under the JPI HDHL.
The initiative aims to promote international research on nutrition and health. The aim of this call is to support transnational, collaborative research projects that gain a better understanding of the interactions between nutrition and immunity within the context of its interplay between infectious diseases and diet-related metabolic diseases.
Topics
The proposals should address at least one of the following topics:
- Establishing the cause-and-effect relationship between nutrition, immune function and infectious diseases in the context of diet-related metabolic disorders.
- Development of innovative food solutions: Proof of principle studies are desired in order to support the development of effective health improvement strategies and/or food products to promote a healthy immune system in people with diet-related metabolic disease and their application at any stage of the infectious disease process.
Funding Information
10 funding agencies from 8 different countries (France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) have committed a budget of more than 8M €.
Expected Outcomes
- Funded projects will provide better insights in the optimal nutrition to promote a healthy immune system (clinical outcomes beyond deficiencies) and an optimise nutritional status to better cope with external immunological challenges such as future pandemics. Furthermore, there is the potential of specific foods or food- component based solutions to protect against infectious disease, reduce the severity of infections, and improve recovery.
- Results are expected to have a societal and translational impact for future nutritional guidelines.
- This call also aims to promote transnational collaboration, which is necessary for establishing multidisciplinary and complementary consortia that will allow the development of ambitious research projects that meet the identified needs of the JPI HDHL. Moreover, the coordination of the transnational research networks will also contribute to important research-related activities such as harmonisation of protocols, establishment and sharing of data and guidelines or/and sharing of research facilities and capacities. This call will contribute to the establishment of such research networks.
- Collectively, the research outcomes from projects funded through this Call are expected to contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 3 “Good Health and Well-being. Since the foundation of JPI HDHL, the political commitment to battle unhealthy lifestyles and achieve food and nutrition security has grown significantly. In 2016 the United Nations’ agenda “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” was published, containing 17 Sustainable Development. The governments of the 193 countries who adopted the agenda have agreed to work towards comprehensive, integrated and universal transformations.
Eligibility Criteria
- In general, joint research proposals may be submitted by applicants working in universities (or other higher education institutions), non-university public research institutes, hospitals and other health care settings. Participation of private parties is encouraged as well as commercial companies, in particular small and medium-size enterprises. However, the eligibility of these organisations and institutions are subject to the national/regional regulations of the individual funding organisations and may therefore vary.
- Only transnational consortia will be funded. The following conditions apply to the composition of consortia:
- Minimum of 3 partners from 3 different participating countries. These 3 partners should be eligible for funding by one of the participating organisations.
- No more than 2 eligible partners can originate from the same country.
- Maximum of 6 eligible partners per consortium.
- Total size of consortium cannot exceed 8 applicants (including researchers that participate as collaborators).
For more information, visit https://anr.fr/en/call-for-proposals-details/call/the-nutrition-responsiveness-of-the-immune-system-interplay-between-infectious-diseases-and-diet-re/