ERA-IB-2 7th joint call - Foster the competitiveness of industrial biotechnology research in Europe
The blog has just
become aware of a call for projects that can be very interesting for companies
and research institutions from the biorefining sector: ERA-IB-2 7th joint call.
Below, I present some notes summarizing the key points about this call (all the
information is available in www.era-ib.net/7th-call-documents):
- Organizers: ERA-NET Industrial Biotechnology in collaboration with the ERA-NET ERASynBio (synthetic biology) and ERA-MBT (marine biotechnology research).
- Total budget available: Approximately € 12M. Funding is granted according to national or regional regulations.
- Deadline for submitting proposals: 1st of February 2016.
- Participants: Minimum of three and maximum of eight participants from a minimum of three different ERA-NETs partner countries. The participation of an industrial partner in the consortium is recommended but not mandatory. Large companies, small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and academic research groups/organizations may be part of a consortium.
- Strategic objective: Foster the competitiveness of Europe´s industrial biotechnology research by supporting academic and industrial research and their strategic partnerships.
- Topics:
- Conversion of industrial by-products and biomass into value-added products.
- Novel systems for new or more sustainable processes using bio-catalysts from natural or synthetic origins.
- Compounds by understanding and engineering metabolic pathways including synthetic biology approaches.
- Process development, intensification and/or integration in existing industrial processes.
