2nd transnational ERA CoBioTech call – Biotechnology for a sustainable bioeconomy



Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.

ERA CoBioTech has just announced the second call for transnational research projects in the field of biotechnologies. The Joint Call, with an indicative budget of approximately 15.3 M€, brings together 18 funding organisations from 14 countries.

Figure 1. ERA CoBioTech has just announced the second call for transnational research projects (extracted from the cover of the call announcement)

Aim
To contribute to the transformation of the global economy from a dependence on fossil raw materials to a sustainable biobased economy.
Project areas
Applications must be multidisciplinary and address one of this two topics:
Topic A – Microbial communities (natural or synthetic), co-cultures and cascades of microorganisms for new products, value-added products and supply services as well as sustainable industrial processes.
Topic B – Pure cultures, cell free systems and enzymes for new products, value-added products and supply services as well as sustainable industrial processes.
Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
Projects are expected to have a TRL ranging between 2 and 6 and should increase their initial TRL by 2 levels during the lifetime of the project.
Timeline
- October 16, 2018: Official call announcement.
- December 14, 2018 (13:00 CET): Deadline for proposal submission.
- April 5, 2019: Information letters to the coordinators of project consortia.
- April 26, 2019: Rebuttal (deadline for submission comments to issues raised by the reviews of the international evaluation panel).
- June-July, 2019: Communication of the evaluation outcome to the applicants and start of grant negotiations.
- September 2019 - February 2020 at the latest: Start of the selected projects.
Official call documents

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