M-ERA.NET, material research: planned international call

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Please, read the RECENT NEWS ABOUT THIS CALL.

The European Partnership M-ERA.NET plans a call for proposals of international projects addressing materials research and innovation. Call announcement is planned early March 2025.
Participation of Czech entities should be funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR).

If you plan to participate in a project proposal, please, contact well in advance, 1 month before the deadline at the latest, the Project Management Department (Martina Holíková, martina.holikova@natur.cuni.cz), so that all the administrative requirements of the application can be prepared in time.

If you consider coordinating a project, please contact us as soon as possible, ca. 2–3 months before the deadline at the very latest.

• Webpage of the planned call.
• Projects supported in the 2023 call (source) – Projects supported in the 2024 call (source) – titles, participating entities, abstracts.
• TA CR webpage for this programme: in English (not always up to date), in Czech.

The call will support materials research and innovation to support the European Green Deal and Sustainable Development Goals. Attention will be paid to clean energy technologies and future batteries, circular economy as well as the integration of digital technologies.

The project consortium usually must consist of at least 3 partners from 3 different countries participating in the call, out of that at least 2 must be EU member states or Horizon Europe associated countries. Recommended consortia size usually is 3–5 partners.
Each partner must fulfil the eligibility criteria of their national funding body.

Countries participating in the previous call: Bulgaria, Canada – Québec, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany – Saxony, Hungary, Italy – Calabria, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Türkiye.

Funding of participation of Czech entities is usually linked to the TA CR programme Sigma (Sub-objective 4 – International collaboration), which means that only applied research is supported and the maximal funding rate for the Czech part of a project is 80 %.

News published by Ludmila Součková on 19. 2. 2025.
Updated 27. 2. 2025 (link to projects supported in the 2024 call).

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