The aim of the call is to enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project based on complementarities and sharing of expertise, with a clear translational research approach. Projects shall involve a group of rare diseases or a single rare disease following the European definition i.e. a disease affecting not more than five in 10.000 persons in the European Community, EC associated states and Canada.
The specific objective of this call is to promote research projects focusing on the pre-clinical development of therapeutic approaches in suitable existing animal or cell models.
Date of publication: December 5th
Deadline for proposal pre-registration: February 1, 2017
Deadline for proposal submission: June 2nd, 2017
More information here
Call document: here
Call forms: here
Guidelines: here