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"European research projects on neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system"
13 funding organizations participated in the first ERA-Net NEURON joint call for proposals "European research projects on neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system". They consented on a joint implementation process, which is depicted in the following summary.
Topic
Neurodegenerative diseases are a growing burden to each industrialized country. Support of research into this field is thus of the utmost urgency for funding organizations, and the ERA-Net NEURON partners decided to launch their first joint call for proposals in this area. This plan was further shaped during a scientific workshop with renowned international experts in the area and the NEURON Scientific Advisory Board.
Timeline
| October 15-16th, 2007 | Scientific workshop 'Neurodegeneration' |
| January 18th, 2008 | Call for proposals published |
| April 7th, 2008 | Deadline for submission |
| June 16-17th, 2008 | Peer Review Panel meeting, selection of a short list of 19 projects |
| September 10th, 2008 | Funding decision |
| February 1st, 2009 | Start of projects |
Proposal submission
Research consortia were to consist of 3 - 5 research groups from at least 3 NEURON partner countries. The one-step process required submission of full proposals only. Proposals had to be submitted by the coordinator electronically and in a few paper copies. A proposal template and guidelines were provided by the Joint Call Secretariat in order to support the applicants in terms of the proposal format.
59 collaborative proposals were submitted comprising 234 subprojects (Principal Investigators).
Peer Review
In order to properly cover all aspects of the broad topic 'neurodegeneration' about 40 experts were recruited from NEURON partner countries and beyond. Of these, 16 served on the Peer Review Panel PRP. Each proposal was assessed in writing by at least 2, most of them by 3 evaluators. The assessments were based on the criteria listed in the call for proposals and consisted of a global score of 1-10 (10 being best) and additional comments. They were used as a basis for the PRP meeting. Proposals with clearly negative and consistent comments and scores were rejected without further discussion (23). The remaining 36 proposals were discussed in detail, resulting in a short list of 19 excellent to very good proposals, which were recommended for funding.
Funding decision
The final funding decision was made by the funding bodies participating in the joint call for proposals. Starting with the best proposal and following the ranking list, as many proposals were selected for funding as the budgetary constraints of each funding organization allowed for.
In result of this step, 12 projects comprising 45 subprojects (Principal Investigators) from 10 countries were successful. The total funding volume amounted to about 10 million euros for 3 years.
In the last step, the Principal Investigators were to contact the respective funding body in their country and to fulfil the legal and administrative requirements in order to receive the grant.
The projects started in February 2009.
Call statistics
Proposals
Submitted: 59 proposals, 234 subprojects (Principal Investigators), 69.3 million ¤
Successful: 12 proposals, 45 subprojects, 10 - 11 million ¤
Topics of successful proposals: 2 Alzheimer's Disease, 5 Parkinson's Disease, 5 other neurode-generative diseases or generic topics
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Coordinators (submitted proposals) |
Coordinators (successful proposals) |
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- Germany (19) |
- Germany (7) |
