Upload
jessie-doyle
View
214
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
12th of November 2008
MATERA+ CallERA-NET Plus on Materials Research
Preliminary information
12th of November 2008
MATERA+ Call in a Nutshell• MATERA+ offers participants
– a simplified way to initiate and participate in R&D projects at the European level
– an opportunity to easily access international know-how and – an opportunity to integrate into international value chains
• The Call is open for industry, universities and research centres in 14 countries involved at the moment
• Planned total funding is 22.5 M€ - National/regional funding commitments 16.5 M€ - 6 M€ top up funding requested from EC
• More information from the funding agencies participating the Call and the website www.matera.fi
12th of November 2008
MATERA+ Participating Countries and Regions
MATERA+ Call is planned to be open to industry, universities and research centers in these
Countries
Regions
12th of November 2008
MATERA+ Funding Agencies 1/2
Belgium/ Flanders The Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology of Flanders (IWT)
Belgium/ Wallonia Walloon Public Service (DGOEER)Finland The Academy of Finland (AKA)Finland Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and
Innovation (Tekes)Iceland The Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS)Ireland Enterprise Ireland (EI)Israel Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport (MOST)Italy Ministry of University and Research (MIUR)Latvia The Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS)Luxembourg The National Research Fund (FNR)Norway The Research Council of Norway (RCN)Poland The National Centre for Research and
Development (NCBiR)
12th of November 2008
MATERA+ Funding Agencies 2/2
Spain/ Basque The Industry, Trade and Tourism Department of the Basque Governement (ITT)
Spain/ Galicia Dirección Xeral de I+D+i. Consellería de Innovación e Industría. Xunta de Galicia (DXIDI)
Spain/ Madrid Region Fundación madrimasd para el Conocimiento
(fmi+d) Switzerland Federal Office for Professonial Education and
Technology (OPET)Turkey The Scientific and Technological Research Council
of Turkey (TÜBITAK)United Kingdom Technology Strategy Board (TSB)United Kingdom/ Invest Northern Ireland (Invest NI)Northern Ireland
12th of November 2008
Focus of MATERA+ Call
• The goals of the Call are– to launch transnational, interdisciplinary, innovative, R&D
projects related to materials science and engineering– to narrow the gap between basic materials research and
applied problems– to shorten the time-to-market of scientific outcomes
• The projects must fulfil the criteria of the national/regional programmes involved in the Call
12th of November 2008
Preliminary Thematic Topics of MATERA+ Call
• Multifunctional materials
• Engineering structural materials
• Biomaterials and bio-inspired materials
12th of November 2008
Preliminary MATERA+ Call Deadlines
• 16th March 2009 Opening of the Call
• 15th May 2009 Pre-proposal deadline
• 15th October 2009 Invitation to submit Full Proposal • 15th January 2010 Full Proposal deadline
• March/April 2010 Funding decisions
12th of November 2008
MATERA+ Call Procedure
• Two stage call procedure– First stage: checking of the national criteria, including
relevance and impact where appropriate– Second stage: external evaluation/panel according to EC
criteria
• Funding decisions are made on national/regional level
12th of November 2008
Further Information on MATERA+
• www.matera.fi
• MATERA+ contact points of the national and regional funding agencies involved in the Call