FET Proactive opens first 2016 calls
FET Proactive has published its first calls for 2016.
The FET Proactive call ‘Boosting emerging technologies’ consists of three topics: ‘Emerging themes and communities’, ‘FET ERANET Cofund in Quantum Technologies’, and ‘FET ERANET Cofund’.
The aim of ‘Emerging Themes and Communities’ is to mature four novel areas by working towards structuring emerging communities and supporting the design and development of transformative research themes.
Each of the four areas has been divided into a number of related subprojects. The first area, future technologies for societal change, looks at being human in a technological world and new science for a globalised world, while the second, biotech for better life, focuses on intra and intercell biotechnologies, bioelectronic medicines and therapies, and cognitive neurotechnologies.
A third area, disruptive information technologies, centres around new computing paradigms and their technologies, quantum engineering, and hybrid opto-electro-mechanical devices at the nanoscale. The final area, new technologies for energy and functional materials, is divided into ecosystem engineering and complex bottom-up construction.
Multiple projects may be funded in each subtopic, depending on the budget requested by the proposals and on the evaluation results in all the other subtopics.
The call deadline is 14 April 2016. It has a total budget of €80m, with a maximum of €20m for areas one and four, and a maximum of €30m for areas two and three. More information is available on the Participant Portal; an information day will also be held on 25 January in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss the subtopics.
The ‘FET ERANET Cofund in Quantum Technologies’ topic is open only to proposals from organisations managing research funding programmes. It has a deadline of 12 April 2016 and a budget of €10m. More information can be found on the Participant Portal.
The final topic, ‘FET ERANET Cofund’, has a deadline in January 2017.
The second FET Proactive call centres on ‘High Performance Computing’, the first topic of which has a deadline in September 2016.
