This event aims to inform potential applicants about the funding opportunities of the 2024 calls of Horizon Europe Cluster 4 'Digital, Industry and Space' Work Programme 2023-2024.

During the 2-day event, speakers from the European Commission will present the call topics, the evaluation and the award process. Potential applicants will have an opportunity to ask questions.

Under the pillar II of Horizon Europe, Cluster 4 focuses on digital, industry and space and aims to deliver on the following:

Climate neutral, circular and digitised production

Increased autonomy in key strategic value chains for resilient industry

World leading data and computing technologies

Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the Green Deal

Open strategic autonomy in developing, deploying and using global space-based infrastructures, services, applications and data

A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies.

The ERC-Portugal Pre-Assessment program, launched in June of this year, continues to support ERC applicants who choose entities from the National Science and Technology System as host institutions. Please note that the deadline for submitting proposals to the ERC-PT Pre-Assessment program, referring to the "ERC Consolidator Grant 2024" Call, is October 12, 2023, about 2 months before the deadline for submitting applications established by the ERC for this typology, set for December 12, 2023.

This procedure allows applicants who submit their proposals to the ERC-PT Pre-Assessment program to receive the pre-assessments and respective reports with recommendations for improvement about a month before the deadline for submitting their application to ERC-COG-2024. For more information, including a set of frequently asked questions, see the ERC-PT Pre-Assessment program page.

ERC-PT Pre-Assessment: Call ERC StG 2024

For the first cycle of the ERC-PT Pre-Assessment program corresponding to the Call ERC Starting Grant 2024, the reports drawn up by the College of Evaluators, both in STEP 1 and STEP 2, will be submitted to the researchers by September 25.

Additional information

A set of additional information is also presented, useful for all researchers who are preparing applications for the ERC Consolidator Grant 2024:

As recently announced, the ERC will organize a public session to present Calls for the 2024 work program on September 20, where candidates will be able to find out about the new application procedures and evaluation criteria, including the new structure of CVs. The session will be broadcast on YouTube;

On September 22, at 10 a.m., the FCT will organize a session to clarify doubts about the Calls of the 2024 ERC. Anyone interested should register here;

Since September 12, applicants to Call ERC-COG-2024 have been able to start the process of preparing proposals and accessing the respective documentation on the Funding and Tenders Portal. The application guide for this Call can also be consulted here.

FCT is the entity responsible for promoting national participation in the ERC and for creating the ERC-PT Pre-Assessment program. Since the start of Horizon Europe in 2021, the framework program for European research and innovation funding, research carried out in SNCT institutions has managed to attract around 78 million euros from the Calls of the European Research Council.

The European Research Council ( ERC ) Executive Agency is hosting a dissemination session for the "ERC Grant Competitions 2024" to provide information on the Calls for the 2024 Work Programme.

The webinar,  is scheduled for 20 September at 11:15 AM (Lisbon time), and will announce the application submission deadlines for the last quarter of 2023 and 2024. The session will also introduce new features (see annex) of the Call, including the narrative CV and the simplified costs pilot project. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions regarding the current and future Calls. The session will feature interventions by the Head of the Scientific Management Department of the European Research Council, Angela Liberatore, the Head of Unit "Support to the Scientific Council", Jose Labastida, and the Head of Communications, the moderator Anthony Lockett.

FCT ensures national representation and coordination of the promotion of research and innovation activities under the Scientific Excellence Pillar of Horizon Europe, within the context of the PERIN network. In this way, it coordinates support to the scientific and technological community for initiatives such as the ERC. The session can be followed here.

”la Caixa” Foundation grants 15 postdoctoral fellowships for researchers of any nationality to carry out a research project in a STEM discipline at any university or research centre in Spain or Portugal.

Key dates

Status: Open End: 5 October 2023, at 2 pm Peninsular Spain

Pre-selection results and call for interviews: 25 January 2024

Selection interviews: 21 and 22 February 2024

Publication of results: 19 March 2024

Key points

15 fellowships to carry out a postdoctoral research project at any university or research centre in Spain or Portugal. STEM disciplines (life sciences, experimental sciences, physics, chemistry, engineering, technology and mathematics).

Maximum duration: 3 years.

Maximum amount: €305,100.

Programme of training in multidisciplinary skills.

”la Caixa” Foundation grants 25 postdoctoral fellowships for researchers of any nationality to carry out a research project in a STEM discipline at universities and research centres of accredited excellence.

Key dates

Status: Open

End: 5 October 2023, at 2 pm Peninsular Spain

Pre-selection results and call for interviews: 25 January 2024

Selection interviews: 5 and 6 March 2024

Publication of results: 19 March 2024

Key points

25 fellowships to carry out a postdoctoral research project at Spanish centres accredited as excellent by the Severo Ochoa, María de Maeztu or Carlos III Health Institute seals of excellence, or at Portuguese centres accredited as excellent by the Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).

STEM disciplines (life sciences, experimental sciences, physics, chemistry, engineering, technology and mathematics).

Maximum duration: 3 years.

Maximum amount: €305,100.

Programme of training in multidisciplinary skills.

The programme aims to inspire and encourage young women to pursue a career in nuclear related field, by providing highly motivated female students with scholarships for Master’s programmes and an opportunity to pursue an internship facilitated by the IAEA. Scholarships are awarded annually, to 100+ female students, subject to availability of funds. In the selection of students, consideration is given to geographic and field of study diversity, in addition to eligibility requirements and other criteria.

The selected students are awarded up to €20,000 for tuition costs and up to €20,000 for living costs for their Master’s programme. Upon completion of their studies, students are also given an opportunity to pursue an internship for up to 12 months at the IAEA, its partner organizations or industry. 

Additionally, students are provided with opportunities to attend and participate in various educational, professional and networking  events. MSCFP recipients will also have a chance to become a part of the MSCFP LinkedIn Student and Alumni Group where they can exchange knowledge and experience, find out about technical events and career opportunities as well as connect to their peers.   

Since its launch in 2020, MSCFP has received 1563 applications, selecting 360 students from 110 nationalities studying in 65 countries worldwide. By end of 2022, 100 students have already completed their Master’s programme with support of MSCFP, embarking on internships facilitated by the IAEA or pursing PhD or employment in the nuclear field.  The programme is envisaged to grow each year to ensure more women have an opportunity to pursue advanced education in nuclear related fields.

The next application call is scheduled to open in mid-July 2023 and will close by end of September 2023.

To read more about the programme and eligibility requirements, please visit the link:  IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme | IAEA and Information for applicants | IAEA.

MSCA PostdoctoralFellowships 2023 |2024

Open: 10 April 2023 | 10 April 2024

Deadline: 13 September 2023|11 September 2024

MSCA Doctoral Networks 2023 | 2024

Open: 30 May 2023 | 29 May 2024

Deadline: 28 November 2023 | 27 November 2024

MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 |2024

Open: 05 October 2023 | 10 October 2024

Deadline: 27 February 2024 | 05 March 2025

The ERC Scientific Council has agreed on a tentative calendar, which may be subject to change. For the 2024 ERC calls, there will be two cut-off dates for the Proof of Concept grant call.

Starting Grants | ERC-2023-StG Open: 11-07-2023 Deadline: 24-10-2023

Consolidator Grants | ERC-2023-CoG Open: 12-09-2023 Deadline: 12-12-2023

Advanced Grants | ERC-2023-AdG Open: 29-05-2024 Deadline: 29-08-2024

Synergy Grants | ERC-2023-SyG Open: 12-07-2023 Deadline: 08-11-2023  

The 2024 ERC Work Programme is expected to be formally adopted in July 2023 and some of the planned changes that the ERC Scientific Council has proposed to introduce have been made public last December (evaluation forms and processes) and in March this year (new panels and lump sum funding). This announcement gives further detail on research assessment, the evaluation process, lump sum funding, as well as the tentative schedule of the upcoming grant competitions.  

Research assessment: focus on the project

The proposals for ERC grants will continue to be evaluated based on the sole criterion of scientific excellence. ERC panels will primarily evaluate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of the research project. At the same time, they will evaluate the intellectual capacity, creativity, and commitment of the applicant principal investigator, with a focus on the extent to which the applicant has the excellence and required scientific expertise to successfully execute the proposed project.  

Broad assessment of the applicant

The ERC Work Programme will no longer include detailed prescriptive profiles of principal investigators. In the application, the Curriculum Vitae and Track Record will be merged into one document of up to four pages. The applicant will be expected to include – apart from standard biographical information – a list of up to ten research outputs that demonstrate how they have advanced knowledge in their field, with an emphasis on more recent achievements, and a list of selected examples of significant peer recognition (for example, prizes). A short explanation of the significance of the selected outputs, the applicant’s role in producing each of them, and how the applicant has demonstrated their capacity to successfully carry out the proposed project can also be included. The applicant may also include relevant information on, for example, career breaks, unusual career paths, as well as any particularly noteworthy contributions to the research community. These will not in themselves be evaluated but are important to provide context to the evaluation panels when assessing the principal investigator’s research achievements and peer recognition in relation to their career stage.  

Evaluation procedure

In Starting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants calls, ERC panels will be able to admit at most 44 proposals to step 2 of the evaluation. A distinction in the scoring at step 1 will be made between proposals obtaining a score of A and invited to step 2 of the evaluation, and proposals obtaining a score of A but not ranked among the 44 proposals admitted to step 2. A candidate whose proposal is scored A at step 1 of the evaluation, but not taken to interview, will be free to submit a proposal in the following year’s calls.

Lump sum funding in Advanced Grants

2024 Advanced Grants will be awarded as a single lump sum contribution for the entirety of the project, for a sum approved by the ERC panel. The payment of the lump sum will be based on the work carried out and reported, irrespective of the actual costs incurred for the project or the successful outcome of the project activities. Additional funding, for example to purchase major equipment or get access to research facilities, can be applied for and will be made part of the lump sum. Successful applicants will still be able to benefit from portability, meaning that they will be able to request to transfer their entire grant, or a part of it, to a new beneficiary, as has been the case under the funding based on the actual costs until 2023.

Prevê-se uma nova edição desta Bolsa para o ano académico de 2024/2025. Os requisitos necessários à candidatura são os seguintes: Ter nacionalidade portuguesa. Não ter beneficiado anteriormente de uma bolsa do Programa Fulbright. Não ter residido nos EUA durante um período igual ou superior a 5 anos, nos 6 anos anteriores à data do concurso. Não ter dupla nacionalidade, portuguesa e norte-americana. Não possuir autorização de residência (green card) nos EUA. Não possuir visto para os EUA válido entre a altura do concurso à bolsa e o início do período de estadia nos EUA. Ser detentor(a) de uma Bolsa de Doutoramento diretamente financiada pela FCT. Os(as) candidatos(as) que reúnam estas condições, têm ainda que apresentar uma affiliation letter, isto é, uma carta  de aceitação por parte da instituição norte-americana de acolhimento, duas cartas de recomendação e o diploma ou certificado de notas dos graus académicos concluídos.

For the 2023 – 2024 edition, the European Innovation Council and the European Institute for Innovation & Technology have teamed up to create a bigger and bolder European Prize for Women Innovators, with no fewer than 9 prizes to be awarded.

Applications are open until 27 September 2023 at 17:00 CET.

The European Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind Europe's most ground-breaking innovations. The prize awards women from across the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe, whose disruptive innovations are driving positive change for people and planet. The prize is managed jointly by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency and the European Institute for Innovation & Technology. The winners are chosen by an independent expert jury.

FCT launched this Monday, June 19, a new axis of the ERC-Portugal program, called ERC Portugal Pre-Assessment. This is a peer review service that FCT will provide to researchers from the national scientific community who are in the preparation phase of applications to Calls of projects of the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC Portugal Pre-Assessment will follow international peer review best practices, in which the pre-assessment model will mirror ERC's assessment criteria and assessor profiles. This new program is intended to be an important tool to improve the quality of national proposals and their preparation processes. Its ultimate goal will be to increase the number of national applications to the ERC's Calls and a greater naturalization in the submission of proposals to this leading European research funding agency. Proposals will be evaluated according to the ERC evaluation criteria for the respective Call, and evaluations will be carried out by international experts, with profiles of high experience in evaluation processes, preferably as panel members at Calls ERC. This program will support submissions for the next Call ERC Starting Grants, with an application deadline on October 24, 2023. To this end, the first round of ERC Portugal Pre-Assessment proposals will run until 20 July 2023 (Thursday). Pre-Assessment reports will be sent to researchers by 25 September 2023, approximately one month before the end of the period for submission of proposals to Call ERC Starting Grants, in order to constitute an effective contribution to the completion of the application preparation process to be submitted to Call ERC. In order to guarantee the timely submission of reports to the researchers, the program's calendar model will be as follows: (i) submission of application proposals up to about 2 months before the ERC deadline for submission of applications; (ii) submission of pre-evaluations and reports to the researchers up to about one month of the same deadline.

The Open Call 2023 is now open. The next collection date will be 25 October 2023 at 12.00 (noon) CEST. The following collection date is expected in Autumn 2024. Participants are invited to submit COST Action proposals contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of Europe. Multi- and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged. The Open Call Action proposal submission, evaluation, selection and approval (SESA) procedure is fully science and technology-driven and will ensure a simple, transparent and competitive proposal evaluation and selection process, reflecting the bottom-up, open and inclusive principles of COST. Participants planning to submit a proposal for a COST Action will need to refer to the SESA guidelines and to the Open Call Announcement available on the Documents and Guidelines page.

For further information: https://www.cost.eu/funding/open-call-a-simple-one-step-application-process/

This online COST Info Day is open to all researchers and innovators at any career stage and from any field of research, especially young researchers, as well as R&I staff. The aim is to inform researchers and innovators about how to connect with COST Actions or submit a COST Action proposal, the role and impact of the COST programme, and the benefits of participating in COST for researchers’ careers, with a focus on young researchers.

For organisational reasons, registration through this webpage is necessary to receive the link timely to join on 24 May. Registration: https://www.cost.eu/registration-checkout/?uts=1681228192#checkout  

Programme overview

10:00 | Welcome and introduction | Director of the COST Association

10:10 | What is COST and how to participate in a COST Action? | COST Policy Officer

10:30 | How to submit an application? Tips & tricks | COST Science Officer

10:40 | Which activities are funded? | COST Administrative Officer

11:00 | What are the benefits of participating in COST? | COST Action Chair

11:15 | Q&A 11:30 | End of the session

Ao abrigo do Acordo de Cooperação, a FCT e o Campus France lançam o concurso para o financiamento de projetos internacionais de mobilidade de investigadores. O acordo de cooperação científica e tecnológica entre Portugal e França, estabelecido em 2004, prevê que os dois países estabelecem um programa destinado a promover a cooperação entre professores e investigadores, incluindo jovens investigadores em estabelecimentos de ensino superior e instituições de investigação afins em Portugal e França. Um dos objetivos previstos passa por fomentar ações de intercâmbio de investigadores através do apoio à sua mobilidade no âmbito de projetos internacionais.

Os projetos terão uma duração máxima de 24 meses, sendo renováveis anualmente nos termos do Artigo 13º e 14º do regulamento. O financiamento anual da FCT por projeto é de 2.000 euros.

As candidaturas devem ser elaboradas conjuntamente pelos investigadores responsáveis dos dois países e submetidas aos organismos executores do Acordo. Assim, a equipa portuguesa deverá remeter a sua candidatura à FCT e a equipa estrangeira ao organismo do seu país.

A candidatura a apresentar à FCT deverá ser submetida no portal de submissão de candidaturas até às 17:00 do dia 26 de junho de 2023, hora de Lisboa.

Informative session focused on the MSCA Doctoral Networks upcoming 2023 Call. Date: 09th May 2023  10h00 - 11h00

Link for registration

Informative session focused on the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 Call organized by FCT

Date: 04th May 2023 10h00-11h00

Link for registration

For your Information, especially for those who know young researchers who might be interested in coming to LIP

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (2023/24) The goal of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality. The scheme also encourages researchers to work on research and innovation projects in the non-academic sector and is open to researchers wishing to reintegrate in Europe, to those who are displaced by conflict, as well as to researchers with high potential who are seeking to restart their careers in research. Through the implementation of an original and personalised research project, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships aim to foster excellence through training and mobility and to equip researchers with new skills and competences in order to identify solutions to current and future challenges. Postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to engage with society at large to make the results of their research visible to citizens and to involve citizens, civil society and end-users in co-creation of research content when relevant.

The Individual Call is aimed at PhD holders of any nationality or stateless with a background in any scientific area who wish to develop their scientific research or technological development activity in Portugal.

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A Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) publicou o aviso de abertura da 6.ª edição do Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico Individual (CEEC Individual), cujas candidaturas vão decorrer de 4 de abril de 2023 até às 17:00 (hora de Lisboa) de 3 de maio de 2023. Este concurso prevê a contratação de mais 400 investigadores doutorados ao abrigo do Regulamento do Emprego Científico (REC). O CEEC Individual é um concurso anual que apoia diretamente a contratação de investigadores doutorados, em todas as áreas científicas, que pretendam realizar a sua atividade de investigação científica ou de desenvolvimento tecnológico em Portugal, nas instituições que integram o Sistema Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (SNCT). Os contratos do CEEC Individual têm a duração até 6 anos e são atribuídos, nesta edição, em função de três categorias: Investigador júnior, Investigador auxiliar e Investigador principal.

The programme eligible area covers the whole European Union territory with its 27 Member States,
including insular and outermost regions. In addition, Norway and Switzerland are full members of the
programme and organisations from these countries are eligible1 to participate in projects. Partners from
other countries can participate at their own costs.

The IAEA Lise Meitner Programme provides early and mid-career women professionals with opportunities to participate in a multiweek visiting professional programme and advanced their technical and soft skills.

Qualified female professionals are invited to submit the application with the required supporting documents at the following link. The first professional visits under the IAEA Lise Meitner Programme are expected to take place in June 2023, in the United States of America. Candidates interested in this professional visit should submit their applications no later than Sunday, March 19, 2023 (11:59pm, Vienna time).

For eligibility and application requirements, please click here.

Consulte todas as oportunidades de parceria da Enterprise Europe Network AQUI 

We are looking for entrepreneurial scientists from research centres, hospitals and universities with a health innovation project that can have an impact on society. There will be an information session on March 2. Find out more here

Infoday organizado pela Comissão Europeia dedicado ao Cluster 1: Saúde - este evento não é organizado pela Rede PERIN - 19 de janeiro de 2023 -  8:00 – 16:00

Cluster 2: Cultura, Criatividade e Sociedade Inclusiva

Link aqui - 9 de fevereiro de 2023 - 10:00 – 12:30

Cluster 3: Segurança Civil para a Sociedade

Link aqui - 23 de fevereiro de 2023 - 11:00 – 12:30

Cluster 4: O Digital, a Indústria e o Espaço

Link aqui - 18 de janeiro de 2023 - 10:00 – 12:00

Cluster 5: Clima, Energia e Mobilidade

Link aqui - 19 de janeiro de 2023 - 14:30 – 16:30

Cluster 6: Alimentação, Bioeconomia, Recursos Naturais, Agricultura e Ambiente

Link aqui - 19 de janeiro de 2023 - 10:00 – 12:00

Pilar 3: Europa Inovadora

• European Innovation Council
• European Institute of Innovation and Technology
• European Innovation Ecossystems
• EUREKA
• Enterprise Europe Network

Link aqui - 17 de janeiro de 2023 - 10:00 – 16:00

Questões Legais e Financeiras

Link aqui - 20 de janeiro de 2023 -  10:00 – 12:00

A Agência Nacional de Inovação (ANI), em colaboração com as restantes agências da Rede PERIN, está a promover a Infoweek anual de apresentação dos tópicos a concurso em 2023 e 2024 do Programa Horizonte Europa, que decorre de 16 a 20 de janeiro de 2023. Esta Infoweek será celebrada com uma sessão de abertura presencial, em Lisboa, nas instalações do IAPMEI (sitas em Estrada do Paço do Lumiar, Campus do Lumiar, Edifício A, 1649-038 Lisboa), no dia 16 de janeiro de 2023, entre as 10:00 e as 16:00, seguida de sessões online organizadas pelos diversos Clusters do Pilar 2 e pelo Pilar 3, que irão decorrer durante a semana e nas semanas seguintes. Não perca esta oportunidade de reencontrar os seus Pontos de Contacto Nacional. A participação é gratuita, mas o registo é obrigatório.

Por favor, consulte a agenda aqui e registe-se aqui.

The Research Infrastructures Work Programme 2023-2024 is published, there you’ll find all the funding opportunities within this programme for 2023 and 2024.

Until the 9th March 2023, there are 4 calls open with 18 topics which will fund approximately 61 projects:

INFRADEV – Developing, consolidating and optimizing the European research infrastructures landscape, maintaining global leadership

INFRA-2023-DEV-01-01: Concept development for a RI to manage, integrate & sustain large medical cohorts

INFRA-2023-DEV-01-02: Early phase implementation of ESFRI Projects entering the ESFRI Roadmap in 2018

INFRA-2023-DEV-01-03: Consolidation of the RI landscape – Individual support for evolution and long term sustainability of pan-European research infrastructures

INFRA-2023-DEV-01-04: Consolidation of the RI landscape – development of complementarities, synergies and/or integration between a set of pan- European RIs

INFRA-2023-DEV-01-05: Preparation of common strategies for future development of RI technologies and services within broad RI communities

INFRA-2023-DEV-01-06: Strengthen bilateral cooperation on RI with Latin America

INFRA-2023-DEV-01-07: Strengthening the international dimension of ESFRI and/or ERIC RIs

INFRA-2023-DEV-01-08: Preparatory phase of new ESFRI RI projects

INFRAEOSC – Enabling an operational, open and FAIR European Open Science Cloud ecosystem

INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-01: Build on the science cluster approach to ensure the uptake of EOSC by RIs and research communities

INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-02: Development of community-based approaches for ensuring and improving the quality of scientific software and code

INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-03: Planning, tracking, and assessing scientific knowledge production

INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-04: Next generation services for operational and sustainable EOSC Core Infrastructure

INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-05: EOSC Architecture and Interoperability Framework

INFRA-2023-EOSC-01-06: Trusted environments for sensitive data management in EOSC

INFRASERV – Research Infrastructures services to support health research, accelerate the green and digital transformation, and advance frontier knowledge

INFRA-2023-SERV-01-01: RI services to enable R&I addressing main challenges and EU priorities

INFRA-2023-SERV-01-02: RI services advancing frontier knowledge

INFRA-2023-SERV-01-03: RI services advancing frontier knowledge: co-fund pilots with pan-European RIs and/or national RIs

INFRATECH – Next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools, methods, and advanced digital solutions for RIs

INFRA-2023-TECH-01-01: New technologies and solutions for reducing the environmental and climate footprint of RIs

Grants for research internships in the USA designed for master’s students, doctoral students, and junior researchers (with a PhD for no longer than 3 years) from Portuguese institutions.

Deadlines – 2023 Open Calls

Internships starting between January 1st and June 30th, 2023:

Applications: until October 31st, 2022.

Results: until December 31st, 2022.

Internships starting between July 1st and December 31st, 2023:

Applications: until April 30th, 2023.

Results: until June 30th, 2023. More details here:

https://www.flad.pt/en/rd-usa/

https://www.flad.pt/papers-usa/

Bolsas para apresentação de comunicações em conferências nos EUA.

A bolsa Papers@USA tem como objetivo internacionalizar o conhecimento científico produzido em Portugal e apoiar o desenvolvimento académico dos participantes. A bolsa terá um valor máximo de 1.200 euros. As candidaturas devem ser realizadas 4 meses antes da data de início da conferência norte-americana para o qual o participante foi aceite. Desta forma, os prazos de candidatura para apresentação de comunicações em conferências nos EUA com início em:

Janeiro de 2023: Candidaturas até 30 setembro 2022

Fevereiro de 2023: Candidaturas até 31 outubro 2022

Março de 2023: Candidaturas até 30 novembro 2022

Abril de 2023: Candidaturas até 31 dezembro 2022

Maio de 2023: Candidaturas até 31 janeiro 2023

Junho de 2023: Candidaturas até 28 fevereiro 2023

Julho de 2023: Candidaturas até 31 março 2023

Agosto de 2023: Candidaturas até 30 abril 2023

Setembro de 2023: Candidaturas até 31 maio 2023

Outubro de 2023: Candidaturas até 30 junho 2023

Novembro 2023: Candidaturas até 31 julho 2023

Dezembro de 2023: Candidaturas até 31 agosto 2023

Os resultados serão comunicados até 60 dias após o encerramento do prazo das respetivas candidaturas.

The link will be updated regularly by FCT

During its December plenary meeting the ERC Scientific Council decided on changes to the ERC’s application forms and evaluation procedures for the 2024 calls. The current CV and Track Record templates will be combined and simplified and applicants will be able to add short narrative descriptions to explain the information provided. Applicants will also be invited to explain career breaks or unconventional career paths and to describe exceptional contributions to the research community. One effect of these changes is that the Profiles of the ERC Principal Investigators which appeared in previous Work Programmes will no longer be necessary. The Scientific Council has furthermore decided to explicitly weigh the project proposal more than the past achievements of the applicant during the evaluation. Full details will be found in the ERC Work Programme 2024 and the associated guidance documents. The Scientific Council recognises that maintaining the quality of the ERC’s evaluation is critical to its success and has always been prepared to adapt and update the ERC’s specific processes and procedures as necessary. Proposals will continue to be evaluated by peer review panels composed of leading scientists and scholars using the sole criterion of scientific excellence. In a related development, the Scientific Council also decided to sign the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment published in July this year.

Applicants submit proposals for new or existing doctoral or postdoctoral programmes with an impact on the enhancement of human resources in R&I at regional, national or international level. These programmes will be co-funded by MSCA COFUND. Proposed programmes can cover any research disciplines ("bottom-up"), but exceptionally can also focus on specific disciplines, notably when they are based on national or regional Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3 strategies). In this case, the range of covered disciplines should allow reasonable flexibility for the researchers to define their topic. Funding synergies with Cohesion policy funds and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) are strongly encouraged[1],[2].

A Career Development Plan must be jointly established by the supervisor and each recruited researcher upon recruitment. In addition to research objectives, this Plan comprises the researcher's training and career needs, including training on transferable skills, teaching, planning for publications and participation in conferences and events aimed at opening science and research to citizens.

The Plan must be established at the beginning of the recruitment and should be revised (and updated where needed) within 18 months. COFUND takes the form of:

A) Doctoral programmes

Doctoral programmes offer research training activities to allow doctoral candidates to develop and broaden their skills and competences. They will lead to the award of a doctoral degree in at least one EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. The training activities should be based on the EU Principles on Innovative Doctoral Training.

Substantial training modules, including digital ones, addressing key transferable skills and competences common to all fields and fostering the culture of Open Science, innovation and entrepreneurship will be supported. They will include, inter alia, training on the use of collaborative tools, opening access to publications and to research data, FAIR data management, public engagement and citizen science.

On top of compulsory international mobility, applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Collaboration with a wider set of associated partners, including from the non-academic sector, will be positively taken into account during the evaluation. These organisations may provide hosting or secondment opportunities or training modules in research or transferable skills. Particular attention is paid to the quality of supervision and mentoring arrangements as well as career guidance. The selection procedure for doctoral candidates must be open, transparent and merit-based, in line with the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The vacancy notice (to be widely advertised internationally, including on the EURAXESS[3] website) must include the minimum gross salary (not including employer’s social contributions) offered to the researcher.

B) Postdoctoral Programmes

Postdoctoral Programmes fund individual advanced research training and career development fellowships for postdoctoral researchers. The programmes should offer training to develop key transferable skills and competences common to all fields, foster innovation and entrepreneurship and promote and (where appropriate) reward Open Science practices (open access to publications and to research data, FAIR data management, public engagement and citizen science, etc.). Postdoctoral Programmes should have regular selection rounds following fixed deadlines or regular cut-off dates, allowing fair competition between researchers. The selections should be open, widely advertised (including on the EURAXESS website), competitive, merit-based and with a transparent international peer review, in line with the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The vacancy notice must include the minimum gross salary (not including employer’s social contributions) offered to the postdoctoral researcher. On top of compulsory international mobility, applicants are encouraged to include elements of cross-sectoral mobility and interdisciplinarity into their programmes. Researchers will be able to freely choose a research topic and the appropriate organisation to host them, fitting their individual needs.

MSCA Staff Exchanges involve organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors (including SMEs) from across the globe. Support is provided for international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility of R&I staff leading to knowledge transfer between participating organisations. Mobility through secondments The organisations constituting the partnership contribute directly to the implementation of a joint R&I project by seconding and/or hosting eligible staff members. Such a project must explore activities that can be based on previous work but should go beyond and generate or strengthen long-term collaborations. Secondments must always take place between legal entities independent from each other. MSCA Staff Exchanges can address three dimensions of mobility: inter-sectoral, international and interdisciplinary. While exchanges between organisations within EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries should mainly be inter-sectoral, same-sector exchanges are also possible under the condition that they are interdisciplinary. Interdisciplinarity is not required for same-sector exchanges with non-associated Third Countries. Secondments between institutions established in non-associated Third Countries or within the same EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country are not eligible. The collaborative approach of MSCA Staff Exchanges should exploit complementary competences of the participating organisations and create synergies between them. The secondments should be essential to achieve the joint project’s R&I activities.

The project should inter alia enable networking activities and the organisation of workshops and conferences, to facilitate sharing of knowledge and testing of innovative approaches for specific R&I topics. Skills’ development For participating staff members, the project should offer new skills acquisition and career development perspectives. Participating organisations must ensure that the seconded staff are adequately mentored. Interdisciplinarity means the integration of information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts or theories from two or more scientific disciplines. These aspects will be assessed during the evaluation.

Starting Grants | ERC-2023-StG

Open: 12-07-2022

Deadline: 25-10-2022

Consolidator Grants | ERC-2023-CoG

Open: 28-09-2022

Deadline: 02-02-2023

Advanced Grants | ERC-2023-AdG

Open: 08-12-2022

Deadline: 23-05-2023

Synergy Grants | ERC-2023-SyG

Open: 13-07-2022

Deadline: 08-11-2023

Proof of Concept Grant | ERC-2023-PoC

Open: 20-10-2022

Cut-off dates or deadline for applications:  24-01-202, 20-04-2023, 14-09-2023

Apply for "la Caixa" Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships by 7th October

The "la Caixa" Foundation is now accepting applications for its annual Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship call, aimed at researchers interested in conducting research projects in Spain or Portugal.

Researchers of any nationality working in the STEM disciplines can apply in the call.

There are two frames within the programme:

- Incoming: 25 fellowships for researchers coming to Spain or Portugal from abroad

- Retaining: 15 fellowships for researchers residing in Spain or Portugal

Find out more and apply: https://fundacionlacaixa.org/en/postdoctoral-fellowshipsjunior-leader-call

Date: 14th June 2022, 10h00-11h00 Informative session focused on the Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks 2022 Call.  

Link for Registration:  https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItcuivqzosE91uZ1ygxx3SDx25VhDu5CFy

Date: 9th June 2022, 10h00 - 11h00

Informative session focused on the Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 Call

Link for Registration: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuf-mqqzsiGtcsctU0QXiANhErYi-7qYmF

Date: 7^th June 2022, 10h00-11h00

Description: Informative session focused on the funding opportunities for 2023 on the Horizon Europe Research Infrastructures Programme, which are expected to open in December 2022. Link for Registration: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYoce-vqDosE9ZrW0v0mOeW1xZwUpXrZVdw

Date: 2^th June 2022, 14h00-15h30

Informative session focused on the Horizon Europe ERC Calls for the Work Programme 2023, ERA Talents 2022 Call, and an introduction to the Pilar I and Widening&ERA WP2023-2024 Link for Registration: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qceurpj0pGtTdie3zTVdG-P5VnS44FlA2  

MSCA Doctoral Networks will implement doctoral programmes, by partnerships of universities, research institutions and research infrastructures, businesses including SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from different countries across Europe and beyond. MSCA Doctoral Networks are indeed open to the participation of organisations from third countries, in view of fostering strategic international partnerships for the training and exchange of researchers. These doctoral programmes will respond to well-identified needs in various R&I areas, expose the researchers to the academic and non-academic sectors, and offer training in research-related, as well as transferable skills and competences relevant for innovation and long-term employability (e.g. entrepreneurship, commercialisation of results, Intellectual Property Rights, communication). Proposals for doctoral networks can reflect existing or planned research partnerships among the participating organisations.

The selection procedure for doctoral candidates must be open, transparent and merit-based, in line with the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The vacancy notice (to be widely advertised internationally, including on the EURAXESS website) must include the gross salary (not including employer’s social contributions) offered to the researcher. MSCA Doctoral Networks are encouraged to lead to Industrial or Joint Doctorates. The MSCA Doctoral Networks aim to train creative, entrepreneurial, innovative and resilient doctoral candidates, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit. The MSCA Doctoral Networks will raise the attractiveness and excellence of doctoral training in Europe. They will equip researchers with the right combination of research-related and transferable competences and provide them with enhanced career perspectives in both the academic and non-academic sectors through international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility combined with an innovation-oriented mind-set.

Other Calls

•          Research Infrastructures: Funding&Tenders_Ris

•          Widening: Funding&Tenders_Widening

•          ERA Calls (former SWAFS): Funding&Tenders_ERA_Calls

•          Find these and other calls open or forthcoming here

The goal of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality. The scheme also encourages researchers to work on research and innovation projects in the non-academic sector and is open to researchers wishing to reintegrate in Europe, to those who are displaced by conflict, as well as to researchers with high potential who are seeking to restart their careers in research. Through the implementation of an original and personalised research project, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships aim to foster excellence through training and mobility and to equip researchers with new skills and competences in order to identify solutions to current and future challenges. Postdoctoral researchers are encouraged to reach out to society at large to make the results of their research visible to citizens.

Fellowships will be provided to excellent researchers, undertaking international mobility either to or between EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries, as well as to non-associated Third Countries. Applications will be made jointly by the researcher and a beneficiary in the academic or non-academic sector. Postdoctoral Fellowships either can take place in Europe (i.e. in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe Associated Country) or in a Third Country not associated to Horizon Europe: European Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in R&I projects by either coming to Europe from any country in the world or moving within Europe. The standard duration of these fellowships must be between 12 and 24 months. Global Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to European nationals or long-term residents who wish to engage in R&I projects with organisations outside EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries. These fellowships require an outgoing phase of minimum 12 and maximum 24 months in a non-associated Third Country, and a mandatory 12-month return phase to a host organisation based in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe Associated Country. Specific eligibility conditions apply to MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships in the research areas covered by the Euratom Research and Training Programme 2021-2025.

HORIZON-EIC-2022-TRANSITIONOPEN-01

ExpectedOutcome: EIC Transition aims at maturing both your technology and business idea thus increasing its technology and market readiness. The expected outcomes of an EIC Transition project are a) a technology that is demonstrated to be effective for its intended application and b) a business model, its initial validation and a business plan for its development to market. It is also expected that the intellectual property generated by your EIC Transition project is formally protected in an adequate way. For more details, see the WP 2022. Objective: This topic has no predefined thematic priorities and is open to proposals in any field of science, technology or application. For any chosen field, EIC Transition projects should address, in a balanced way, both technology and market/business development, possibly including iterative learning processes based on early customer or user feedback. These activities should include, subject to the level of maturity of the technology, a suitable mix of research, technology development and validation activities to increase the maturity of the technology beyond proof of principle to viable demonstrators of the technology in the intended field of application (i.e. up to Technology Readiness Level 5 or 6). The activities must in all cases address market readiness towards commercialisation and deployment (market research, business case, prospects for growth, intellectual property protection, competitor analysis etc.) and other relevant aspects of regulation, certification and standardisation, aimed at getting both the technology and the business idea investment-ready. Scope: EIC Transition funds innovation activities that go beyond the experimental proof of principle in laboratory. It supports both the maturation and validation of a novel technology from the lab to the relevant application environments (by making use of prototyping, formulation, models, user testing or other validation tests) as well as explorations and development of a sustainable business case and business model towards commercialisation. Expected Impact: At the end of the EIC Transition project, it should be ready for the next stage, which can be to apply for EIC Accelerator (if you are a SME, including start-ups or spin-offs), to seek other investors or sources of funding, to enter licensing or collaboration agreements with third parties, or other routes to market deployment. In case the project is not led by an SME or commercial partner, the formation and spin out of a new company can be included as part of the activities. It will be expected to describe the intended pathway and route to market in the proposal, and to specify milestones and KPIs during the implementation of your project to assess progress towards the market.  

You should apply to this call if you are looking for support from EIC Pathfinder Open to realise an ambitious vision for radically new technology, with potential to create new markets and/or to address global challenges. EIC Pathfinder Open supports early stage development of such future technologies (e.g. various activities at low Technology Readiness Levels 1-4), based on high-risk/high-gain science-towards-technology breakthrough research (including ‘deep-tech’). This research must provide the foundations of the technology you are envisioning.

EIC Pathfinder Open may support your work, especially if it is highly risky: you may set out to try things that will not work; you may be faced with questions that nobody knows the answer to yet; you may realise that there are many aspects of the problem that you do not master. On the contrary, if the path you want to follow is incremental by nature or known, EIC Pathfinder Open will not support you.

Before applying you should verify that your proposal meets all the following essential characteristics (‘Gatekeepers’): Convincing long-term vision of a radically new technology that has the potential to have a transformative positive effect to our economy and society. Concrete, novel and ambitious science-towards-technology breakthrough, providing advancement towards the envisioned technology. High-risk/high-gain research approach and methodology, with concrete and plausible objectives.

1. Admissibility and eligibility conditions: This call is open for collaborative research. Your proposal must be submitted by the coordinator, on behalf of a consortium that includes at least three independent legal entities, each one established in a different Member State or Associated Country and with at least one of them established in a Member State. The legal entities may for example be universities, research organisations, SMEs, start-ups, industrial partners or natural persons. The standard admissibility and eligibility conditions are detailed in Annex 2, and the eligibility of applicants from third countries in Annex 3 of the EIC Work Programme 2022.

2. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System Sections 1 to 3 of the part B of your proposal, corresponding respectively to the evaluation criteria Excellence, Impact, and Quality and Efficiency of the Implementation, must consist of a maximum of 17 A4 pages. Excess pages will be automatically made invisible, and will not be taken into consideration by the evaluators. Please also consult Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2022.

3. Financial and operational capacity :described in Annex 2 of the EIC Work Programme 2022.

4. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes: described in Section II.1 of the EIC Work Programme 2022 and the Online Manual.  

A rebuttal procedure after the remote phase will provide you with the opportunity to reply with a strict page limit (maximum two A4 pages) to the evaluators’ comments, which you will receive about 1.5-2.5 months after the call deadline via the EU Funding & Tender Opportunities Portal. The deadline for sending your replies will be eight calendar days (at 17h00 Brussels local time) after you have received the evaluators’ comments.

Your replies cannot be used to alter or add to the content of the proposals, but must strictly focus on responding to potential misunderstandings or errors by the evaluators.

Your replies will be made available to the evaluation committee. Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in Section II.1 of the EIC Work Programme 2022. Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in Section II.1 of the EIC Work Programme 2022.    

You will be informed about the outcome of the evaluation within 5 months from the call deadline (indicative), and, if your proposal is accepted for funding, your grant agreement will be signed by 8 months after call deadline (indicative).

 5. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: Please refer to the Model Grant Agreement (MGA) used for EIC actions under Horizon Europe  

Documents Call documents:

EIC Work Programme 2022

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Standard Application Form (EIC Pathfinder Open 2022)

Call

Next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools and methods (2022) (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-TECH-01)  

Type of action HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

Type of MGA HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]  

Deadline model single-stage

Planned opening date 19 January 2022

Deadline date 20 April 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time  

Partnerships in Health (2022) (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-03)

Types of action    HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions

Deadline model    single-stage

Opening date    12 January 2022

Deadline date    21 April 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

Expected Outcome:

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination 3 “Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden” and destination 1 “Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are contributing to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Based on a trusted governance and effective working modalities, research funders, health policy-makers and the research community work together in order to identify and prioritise topics of common interest and European benefit;
• Research funders and policy-makers:

Caros Investigadores e Gestores de Ciência,   Gostaríamos de vos convidar para uma sessão online no dia 21 de dezembro, terça feira, pelas 14h00. Iremos abordar várias questões relacionadas com o Pilar I e WIDERA (Widening&ERA) do Horizonte Europa, em particular o ERC e os concursos do WIDERA que têm deadlines no primeiro trimestre de 2022. A sessão será em formato de reunião zoom, limitado a 300 participantes. É necessário registo, e poderão fazê-lo aqui: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf-yppzsqH9UPtlx4oQzpqMWtNRKywpCs Melhores cumprimentos, A Equipa de NCPs do Pilar I e WIDERA do Horizonte Europa

Estando a decorrer os concursos do Programa de Infraestruturas de Investigação do Horizonte Europa, biénio 2021-2022, cujo programa pode ser consultado aqui, com vista à preparação dos próximos concursos, estão a ser organizadas sessões de divulgação do Programa de Infraestruturas de Investigação do Horizonte Europa:

- 15 de novembro de 2021 às 14h00: Sessão de informação centrada nos concursos INFRAEOSC e INFRATECH. Para assistir a esta sessão por favor registe-se aqui.  

Estando a decorrer os concursos do Programa de Infraestruturas de Investigação do Horizonte Europa, biénio 2021-2022, cujo programa pode ser consultado aqui, com vista à preparação dos próximos concursos, estão a ser organizadas sessões de divulgação do Programa de Infraestruturas de Investigação do Horizonte Europa:

- 12 de novembro de 2021 às 14h00: Sessão de informação centrada no concurso INFRADEV. Para assistir a esta sessão por favor registe-se aqui.    

The 2nd edition of the Al Moonshot Challenge was launched this Thursday, November 4th, during the last day of Web Summit. As part of the launch, the application submission period was also opened. It will run until the end of May 2022 and proposals will be evaluated between June and October of the same year. The finalist teams will have the opportunity to pitch during the 2022 edition of Web Summit, during which the winner(s) will be known.

https://ptspace.pt/the-second-edition-of-the-ai-moonshot-challenge-observes-the-earth-but-also-looks-to-space/

Vimos por este meio divulgar a sessão de esclarecimento sobre o concurso do Horizonte Europa “Excellence Hubs”, que será organizada pelos NCPs do Widening, Rui Munhá e David Marçal. Portugal, como país do Widening, encontra-se numa posição privilegiada neste concurso já que serão exigidas propostas em Co-Coordenação entre pelo menos 2 Ecossistemas de 2 países Widening. Um “Ecossistema” está definido como um conjunto de entidades com 4 tipologias diferentes (Instituições de I&D, Empresas, Autoridades Locais ou Regionais e Sociedade Civil). Neste concurso serão financiados projetos de 3-5 M€ com uma duração de 4 anos. O concurso irá abrir no início de novembro e com prazo de submissão em março de 2022. Poderão aceder ao texto do concurso aqui. O “Excellence Hubs” complementa as atividades do Widening que são do vosso conhecimento, nomeadamente Twinning, ERA-CHAIRs ou Teaming. Está também relacionado com a iniciativa dos “ERA Hubs” (info adicional LINK1 e LINK2), mas centrada na componente do Widening. A tipologia das candidaturas é particularmente indicada ao nosso Sistema Científico e Tecnológico, e os projetos incluem financiamento para atividades de I&D para além das tradicionais atividades financiadas no âmbito de Ações de Coordenação e Suporte. A Equipa PERIN na FCT

STRATEGIC AUTONOMY IN DEVELOPING, DEPLOYING AND USING GLOBAL SPACE-BASED INFRASTRUCTURES, SERVICES, APPLICATIONS AND DATA 2022 (HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01)

Topic description

Expected Outcome:

Projects are expected to contribute to the following outcomes: Enable breakthroughs in technologies and scientific instrumentation for space science and exploration missions including those described in the Global Exploration Roadmap from the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG).

Validation of novel space/planetary robotic technologies and instrumentation through analogue tests. Increased collaboration of scientific, engineering and industrial teams both within and outside Europe across different domains.

To strengthen European scientific excellence and support the development of leading edge scientific and technologic research in Europe  Scope:

The development of innovative instrumentation (payload) and technologies enabling space science and exploration missions requires timely technology development associated with future space science and exploration missions, including robotic exploration technologies, early stage scientific instrumentation and component technologies for space resources utilisation and space observatories.

The development of new and innovative approaches, such as instruments for Cubesats and other small space platforms, including planetary entry probe, or the use of Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components is encouraged as long as it contributes to the implementation of space science and exploration missions with significant scientific outputs.

Advances are expected in support to on-site activities such as innovative measurement techniques, increased sensitivity, increased robustness, faster and more accurate data processing or in-situ sample and data analysis.

The proposed activities should target primarily European and European-led space science and exploration missions or international missions where the participation of European partners provides demonstrated added value in technological development and scientific output.

In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.  

Space Weather TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL4-2022-SPACE-01-62

Planned opening date 28 October 2021

Deadline date 16 February 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

Budget 2022: 2 000 000 EUR

Topic description

Expected Outcome:

Commonly occurring space weather events (SWE) have the potential to affect the performance of critical space and ground infrastructure by disrupting operations and communications in multiple sectors of society. In addition, “extreme SWE” could have devastating societal and economic consequences with potential costs for disruptions and damages estimated in tens or even hundreds of billions of Euros. Space weather technological research for new precursor services: the worldwide goal of space weather activities should be to monitor and forecast SWE just like terrestrial weather. However, direct physical simulation is currently not achievable for an operational Sun to Earth system, due in part to the lack of measurements and to the complexity of the involved processes, as well as different timescales involved. Current space weather models are generally not capable of forecasting events over several days. A longer forecasting horizon would require access to data from new observation infrastructure coupled with new and improved modelling capabilities. Research and innovation activities should address application domains that may include space as well as terrestrial infrastructure. Proposals should include architectural concepts of possible European space weather services in relation to the application domains addressed and they should demonstrate complementarity to Space Weather services developed through the Space Situational Awareness component of the EU Space Programme. . Prepare Europe for a full exploitation of space weather data by a renewed effort on modelling and forecasting using currently available data. . Develop concepts to provide space weather data, forecasts and warnings with criteria on (timely) availability, harmonized (data) standards and quality control similar to the best-practices of meteorological services (as e.g. documented by the World Meteorological Organisation WMO). . Improve scientific understanding of the origin and evolution of space weather phenomena. . Improving SWE restitution and prediction capabilities using artificial intelligence / deep learning techniques. . Develop new services for both scientific purposes and terrestrial infrastructure monitoring. . Acceleration innovation of enabling technologies (maturing, prototyping, on ground tests including exploratory ground based instrumentations research) . Identified and matured concepts up to TRL 3-4

Scope:

New modelling including ab-initio simulations to understand fundamental Sun-Earth physical mechanisms and their sensitivity to parameter change for improved forecasting skills, and forecasting techniques capable of improving the restitution quality and extending the time horizon of a future space weather forecasting capability to several days. .

Proposals should address the development of modelling capabilities and/or the delivery of prototype services able to interpret a broad range of observations of the Sun’s corona and magnetic field, of the Sun-Earth interplanetary space and of the Earth magneto/iono/thermo-sphere coupling relying on existing observation capacities. .

Validate and harmonize the currently available data from existing services and identify gaps in data and model availability. .

Training of models using deep-learning techniques based on existing large aggregated databases from space measurements.

. Inventory of potential early indicators of extreme space weather events.

. Complementary and coherent activities with the ESA on-going or future activities in particular those decided at the last ESA Ministerial held in November 2019. .

On ground demonstration tests .

Ground instruments: densification of ground instrument networks and development/improvement of new instrument concepts .

Complementary and coherent activities with existing space weather services with a significant involvement of European and national scientific institutions and stakeholders.

O Nuclear Innovation Prize, que pretende destacar e premiar a excelência em inovação nuclear neste campo de investigação, bem como a qualidade de investigadores e empresas envolvidas. Existem duas categorias específicas para este prémio: 1. Nuclear Innovation Prize in safety of reactor systems; e 2. Nuclear Innovation Prize in radioactive waste management. As candidaturas já se encontram a decorrer até 15 de dezembro de 2021.

MSCA Doctoral Networks 2021 - 2022 T

Two calls:

Open: 22 June 2021 Deadline: 16 November 2021

Open: 03 May 2022 Deadline: 15 November 2022

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 - 2022

Two calls

Open: 22 June 2021 Deadline: 12 October 2021

Open: 13 April 2022 Deadline: 14 September 2022

MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 - 2022

Two calls

Open: 07 October 2021 Deadline: 09 March 2022

Open: 06 October 2022 Deadline: 08 March 2023

MSCA Researchers at Risk 2021

Open: 02 September 2021 Deadline: 06 January 2022

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ERA-01-60

Type of action
HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
Type of MGA
HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]

Deadline model
single-stage

Planned opening date
19 January 2022
Deadline date
20 April 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area - Work Programme 2021-2022  

A pallet of different funding instruments aimed at i) individual and institutional connectivity (COST and Twinning), ii) balanced brain circulation in Europe (ERA-Chairs, and ERA Policy linked to MSCA), iii) institutional and regional reform and transformation (Teaming and Excellence Universities), iv) linking science and business (Excellence Hubs and EIC Accelarator), and v) capacity building and inclusiveness (NCP Support, "Hop On", Seal of Excellence). Main widening actions described below.

Twinning stands for institutional networking, aimed at strengthening a specific research field. Widening organisation linked to at least 2 leading research organisations. Projects of 1.5M€ for 3 years.

Teaming to create new (or significant update of existing) centres of excellence in Widening countries through a coupling process with a leading scientific institution. Projects of 6-8 years with around 15 M€ funding.

ERA-CHAIRs: bringing excellence to institutions by attracting outstanding scientists and their teams as game changers to universities or research organisations. Projects of around 2.5M€ for 5-6 years.

Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST): bottom-up and open networking projects aimed at individuals, and in all domains of knowledge. Each thematic network runs for 4 years with an average budget of 0.5 M€.