Call identifier: ERC-2017-StG

ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. Principal Investigator shall have been awarded his or her first PhD ≥ 2 and ≤ 7 years prior to 1 January 2017.

More information in the 2017 ERC Work Programme (see pp. 21-22 for Starting Grants)

The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim to maximise the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects. Proof of Concept Grants are therefore on offer only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.

More information in the ERC Work Programme 2017 (pp. 36-42)

Topic identifier: SC1-PM-19-2017
Types of action: PPI Public Procurement of Innovative solutions

Proposals should address as primary aim public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI) to facilitate the deployment of an eHealth infrastructure taking into consideration the European eHealth Interoperability Framework and EU guidelines adopted by the eHealth Network. The PPI(s), and any accompanying innovation activities in particular by participating procurers themselves to facilitate the uptake of newly developed solutions, should focus on clear target outcomes such as allowing the sharing of health information, the use of semantically interoperable Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for safety alerts, decision support, care pathways or care coordination. The scope of the PPI(s) is to specify, purchase and deploy innovative ICT based solutions which can deliver sustainable, new or improved healthcare services across organisational boundaries while implementing eHealth interoperability standards and/or specifications (e.g. EN13606, HL7, Continua Alliance, IHE...).

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 3 and 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

More information and call documents here

Topic identifier: SC1-PM-17-2017
Types of action: RIA Research and Innovation action

More information and call documents here

The next session will take place 5-9th June 2017 in Barcelona.  The deadline for applications is 30th November 2016.

Info and registration here

COST is the longest-running European framework supporting trans-national cooperation among researchers, engineers and scholars across Europe.

You can submit your COST Action proposal at any time throughout the year via the new e-COST online submission tool. The next Collection Date is set for December 7, 2016. 

There will be a next collection date in September 2017.

All information on COST Action here

Call documents and guidelines to submit a proposal here