Main Characteristics

Under the umbrella of ERA-CVD, the fourth joint transnational call JTC2019 is now launched to promote co-operation and interchange between Early Career Scientists1 and thus enable international collaboration and new consortia establishment in all cardiovascular areas.

Aim

The ERA-CVD funding organizations particularly wish to promote multi-disciplinary work and translational research proposals. The individual components of joint applications should be complementary and contain novel, ambitious ideas to answer key questions or lead to a stepwise change in understanding of cardiovascular diseases. There should be a clear added value in funding the collaboration over individual projects by sharing of resources (models, databases, diagnosis etc.), harmonisation of data, sharing of specific know-how and/or innovative technologies.

Topics

Eligible research topics in this call can comprise hypertensive, ischaemic, pulmonary heart diseases and diseases of pulmonary circulation, other forms of heart disease, diseases of arteries, arterioles and capillaries and congenital malformations of cardiac chambers and connections, rheumatic diseases and cardiac septa (analogues to ICD-10).The following types of research are excluded from the call:

• Interventional clinical trials (phase 2, 3 and 4);
• Building up of new cohorts, registries and/or biomaterial banks;
• Cerebrovascular diseases;
• Research that primarily leads to cardiovascular risk management. Risk management is understood as long term health improvement and/or coronary artery disease (CAD) prevention;
• Conducting screenings.

Eligibility

*Early Career Scientists

ERA-CVD aims to promote Early Career Scientists, therefore only one senior/established scientist applicant per consortium is allowed. This senior/established scientist cannot be the coordinator of the consortium.

Each national/regional funding organisation has its own definition for an "Early Career Scientist" that is embedded in its national/regional education- and labour structures and organisation. However, an Early Career Scientist (ECS) could generally be described as a scientist who has received his or her doctoral degree within 2 to 10 years prior to the application submission deadline of this call. This Early Career Scientist should have been awarded his/her doctoral degree relevant for the proposed research at least 2 and up to 10 years prior to the application submission deadline of the ERA-CVD JTC2019 call. An Early Career Scientist can apply in only one consortium.

This definition applies for the Spanish funding agency ISCIII.

* Eligibility of the consortium

- Each consortium submitting a proposal should be led by an Early Career Scientist;

-Each consortium has to comprise of a minimum of three (3) Early Career Scientists’ research partners - the applicants - from at least three (3) different countries. In the case of Spain, two (2) research partners from Spain may participate in the same research consortium.

-The total number of applicants in a consortium is in general limited to five (5) Early Career Scientists.

* Participating countries:

Austria; Belgium; Canada; Estonia; France; Germany; Israel; Italy; Latvia; Poland; Romania; Slovakia; Spain; Taiwan; The Netherlands; Turkey.

Budget

For Spanish participants, up to 100,000 € per partner (overheads included) or up to 175,000 € per coordinator (overheads included).

Duration

Up to 3 years

AVÍS IMPORTANT

The call is made at European level but each partner of the consortium is funded by its national funding agency and must follow its national funding rules. Spanish participants are funded by ISCIII. There are eligibility requirements for the institutions and principal investigators funded by ISCIII. For Spanish applicants funded by ISCIII: after the evaluation at European level, successful applicants will be invited to submit an application to ISCIII. Due to the complexity of the call, if you are interested in submitting an application we strongly recommend that you contact lnorton@fsjd.org well in advance of the deadline.