Pre-Announcement - ERA Portal Austria

JPI MORE YEARS BETTER LIVES JOINT TRANSNATIONAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS
(2015)
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
Sub-header:
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EU Joint Programming Initiative – More Years Better Lives (JPI MYBL)
1ST CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS OF THE JPI MYBL IS EXPECTED TO BE LAUNCHED
ON APRIL 1ST 2015
JPI MYBL will launch its first joint transnational call for proposals in April 2015. This call will
enable a better coordination of national, European and Canadian R&D programmes and
activities relevant to Demographic Change (ageing societies) in order to address the most
urgent and demanding challenges defined in the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA1),
developed under the EC Funded Coordinated Action J-AGE.
The call will see more than 7 million Euros being made available by the 10 funding
organisations involved in the call.
The aim of the call is to support innovative and interdisciplinary research into the drivers to,
and constraints on, extending working life. Research is expected to cross the traditional
boundaries of government departments and occupational sectors and to examine the
implications of extending working life for older workers (50+), new labour markets, health,
wellbeing and intergenerational equity. This will be a 1-step call (i.e. no pre-proposals),
anticipated to be launched on April 1st 2015, with a submission deadline of June 2nd 2015.
Further detail will be provided on April 1st 2015.
Focus of the call:
Extended Working Life and its Interaction with Health, Wellbeing and beyond
This call invites proposals for funding research into one or more of four broad topics:
(i) Modern work factors
(ii) Longer working life & Inequality
(iii) Health challenges
(iv) Caring responsibilities
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http://www.jp-demographic.eu/about/documents/full-version-of-sra
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GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR APPLICATION:
Joint research proposals may be submitted by applicants belonging to one of the following
categories, according to national funding organization’s regulations for research funding*:
Public and Private scientific, research, technological and innovation Institutions;
Universities; Research active industry; NGOs; other institutions involved in research
activities as long as they are eligible for funding.
*Whilst applications will be submitted jointly by groups from several countries, individual groups
will be funded by the individual funding organization respective of the country from which
applicants have applied. The applications are therefore subjected to eligibility criteria of individual
funding organizations. Applicants are therefore strongly advised to contact their national
representative as soon as possible in order to confirm their eligibility with their respective funding
organizations.
Only transnational projects will be funded. Each proposal must involve a minimum of three
eligible applicants from at least three different countries participating in the call. The
maximum number of eligible participants in a project consortium is seven. Participants not
eligible to be funded (e.g. from non-funding countries or not fundable according to national
regulations of the participating funding countries) may participate in a project proposal if
they are able to secure their own funding. Such participants should state in advance the
source of funding for their part in the project. However, the majority of participant groups in
a consortium and the Principal Investigator must be eligible to be funded by participating
countries, according to the national regulations.
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PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES:
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and
United Kingdom.
Please Note:
The information provided in this pre-announcement is indicative, may be subject to changes
and is not legally binding to the funding organisations.
Additional funding organizations might join the call before the official publication.
Interested applicants are encouraged to initiate scientific contacts with potential project
consortium partners for applications.
Final call information is expected to be published on the JPI MYBL website (http://www.jpdemographic.eu) on 1st of April 2015.
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CONTACT POINT LIST
FUNDING ORGANISATION
COUNTRY
CONTACT DETAILS
Federal Ministry of Science,
Research and Economy
(BMWFW)
AUSTRIA
Matthias Reiter-Pázmándy
matthias.reiterpazmandy@bmwfw.gv.at
Phone: +43 (0)1 531 20-6411
Belgian Science Policy Office
(BELSPO)
BELGIUM
Aziz NAJI
Aziz.Naji@belspo.be
Phone: +32.2.238.36.46
Marieke Zwartjes
Marieke.Zwartjes@belspo.be
Phone: +32.2.238.36.99
Canadian Institutes of Health
Research (CIHR)
CANADA
Melody Sajedi
melody.sajedi@cihr-irsc.gc.ca
Phone: 613 960 9475
Innovation Fund Denmark
(InnoFond)
DENMARK
Camilla Riel
camilla.riel@innofond.dk
Phone +45 61 90 50 52
Academy of Finland (AKA)
FINLAND
Tiina Forsman
tiina.forsman@aka.fi
Phone: +358 29533013
Sirpa Nuotio
Sirpa.nuotio@aka.fi
Phone: +358 295 33 5082
Federal Ministry of Education
and Research (BMBF)
GERMANY
Marc Bovenschulte
Marc.bovenschulte@vdivde-it.de
Phone: +49(0)30/310078-108
Spanish Ministry of Economy
and Competitiveness
(MINECO)
SPAIN
Vicente Rodríguez Rodríguez
Teresa Jurado Guerrero
mybl@mineco.es
Phone: +34 91 602 24 06
Swedish Research Council for
Health, Working Life and
Welfare (FORTE)
SWEDEN
Tove Hammarberg
Tove.Hammarberg@forte.se
Phone +46-761151704
The Netherlands Organisation
for Health Research and
Development (ZonMw)
THE
Fleur Boulogne
NETHERLANDS Boulogne@zonmw.nl
Phone : +31(0)70 349 5047
Economic and Social Research UNITED
Council (ESRC)
KINGDOM
Helen Hunt
Helen.Hunt@esrc.ac.uk