Results of the QuantERA Call 2017
QuantERA Co-funded Call, announced in January and closed in July 2017, attracted unexpectedly high attention of the research community. 1087 applicants were involved in the preparation of 221 pre-proposals submitted in the first stage of the Call. Budget requested at this phase exceeded EUR 235 M. At the second stage of the Call, QuantERA Call Secretariat received 91 full proposals involving 490 applicants from 26 participating countries, requesting funding of about EUR 107 M. Thanks to the joint funding provided by the European Union and the QuantERA member organisations, in November 2017, the QuantERA Consortium finally recommended 26 excellent international proposals for funding of over EUR 32 M. The list of projects recommended for funding is available at: https://quantera.eu/news/35-results-of-the-quantera-call-2017(opens in new window). The projects involve 128 research teams from 23 countries. QuantERA Projects’ Launch Event will be organized on 24-25 April, 2018 in Bucharest, Romania to officialise the implementation of the projects. From the beginning of the Programme, QuantERA aimed at spreading research excellence across European Research Area by encouraging consortia to include partners from the widening countries participating in the network (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Turkey). Finally, 70% of the successful projects involve research teams from widening countries.
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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Türkiye, United Kingdom