ERA-NET MATERA 2010 Call for Proposals for Transnational European Projects in Materials Sciences and Engineering

Tuesday 16 February 2010

FNR contact: Christiane Kaell

MATERA is an ERA-NET action under FP6 instrument designed to provide a simple mechanism for the initiation of transnational projects in the field of materials science and engineering.

The goal of the MATERA Call is to launch transnational, interdisciplinary, innovative projects and to narrow the gap between basic materials research and industrial applications in the following areas:

  • Biomaterials for Human Health Improvement
  • Materials with Tailored Properties
  • High Performance Engineering Materials

The Call is open to industry, universities, institutes and research centres. The project consortia are challenged to demonstrate the whole chain from basic research to application-oriented research.

Funding is via national/regional funding programmes. Therefore applicants must verify their eligibility with their relevant national/regional programme agency.

The National Research Fund (FNR) will provide the funding for Luxembourg public research institutions. The FNR has earmarked a budget of 1.000.000 EUR for this call through the INTER programme (International Cooperation).

Please note that the salaries of PhD students who are involved full-time and from the beginning on the project are eligible for MATERA 2010 project funding (AFR or institutional funding are also an option).

Luxembourg applicants should inform Ms Christiane Kaell at the FNR about their participation prior to the application deadline. The Luxembourg applicants need to submit their national budgets to the FNR directly by using the attached FNR Excel sheet.

Call Information:

Further details on the call and the evaluation criteria and submission deadlines are available in the documents attached and on the ERA-NET MATERA homepage:

http://projects.tekes.fi/opencms/opencms/Projects/MATERA/Call_2010.html.

To find partners for your project a tool for partner search is available.

Call Deadlines:
  • 15 February 2010: Opening of the Call
  • 26 April 2010: Pre-proposal deadline; please note the the MATERA Pre-Proposal will be submitted via the on-line submission system (ESS) which will be available at the end of February 2010. The submission of the pre-proposal is mandatory.
  • 31 May 2010: Invitation to submit Full Proposal
  • 19 July 2010: Full Proposal deadline. The submission of full-proposals is upon invitation only.
  • October-December 2010: Funding decisions
Call Documents: