Welcome

to the 2nd international call of the ERA-NET on International Coordination of Research on Infectious Animal Diseases (ICRAD) Joint Call for Proposals!

The 2^nd ICRAD call for research projects is open since 1^st October, 2021.

Applications for funding within this call can only be submitted through this platform.

If you want to register as a coordinator for a transnational research project, please read the CALL ANNOUNCEMENT thoroughly. It will ascertain that your planned project fits to the aim of this call. Please take a special look on the national/regional regulations stated in Annex I of the same document. The contact details of your National Contact Person(s) can be found in Annex I, too. You can download the CALL ANNOUNCEMENT from this page in the left corner below! Please check regularly if a new Version is available.

Non-coordinating partners of a project will be invited by the respective coordinator to enter their profile data and get access to the automatically generated project fact sheet. For the invitation by the coordinator, the platform creates a password which is sent automatically by email to the partner and which allows access.

Pre-Proposals must be submitted electronically via this ERA-Net ICRAD submission tool

Submission deadline: December 15^th, 2021, 15:00 h (CET)

 The application process consists of two separate and consecutive steps: Pre-proposal and Full-proposal.

• Pre-proposal: This first step is now opened and will be closed on December 15^th, 2021, 15:00 h (CET). Funders get access to the platform by electronic invitation from the call secretariat to do the eligibility check of proposals received from their county.

• The ICRAD Call Secretariat will inform the project coordinators of the results of the first assessment step via e-mail by end of March 2022. The coordinators of the selected pre-proposals will be invited to submit a full-proposal on behalf of their consortium.

• Eligible Pre-proposals will be evaluated and ranked by an international panel of experts. The ICRAD Funders Consortium will select proposals for the second application step based on this ranking and the availability of funding.

If you have questions or any technical problems with your login or the platform, please don´t hesitate to contact the ICRAD Call Secretariat under ptj-icrad-calls@fz-juelich.de.