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
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To contribute to the transformation of the global economy from a dependence
on fossil raw materials to a sustainable biobased economy.
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Project areas
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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.
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Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
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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.
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Timeline
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- 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.
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Official call documents
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