Welcome

to the 3rd joint call for proposals of the ERA-NET on International Coordination of Research on Infectious Animal Diseases (ICRAD)

”Helminth infections and changing climate: tackling the challenges for animal health”

The 3rd call for research projects is open since 3^rd April, 2023.

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.

If you are interested in an application you can search for partners by using the Partnering Tool. Please click on the corresponding link in the right corner on the top of the page.

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

Submission deadline: June 1^st, 2023, 15:00 h (CEST)

A webinar for applicants was hold 20^th of April 2023. The slides of the presentation as well as a Q&A- document can be downloaded from this page on the left hand.

 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 June 1^st, 2023, 15:00 h (CEST).

• It is planned that the ICRAD Evaluation Team will inform the project coordinators of the results of the first assessment step via e-mail by end of September 2023. 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 Office under ptj-icrad-calls@fz-juelich.de.