The ERA-Net EUROTRANS-BIO’s 3rd Transnational Call is open

EUROTRANS-BIO’s objective is to foster economic and academic biotech players in sharing risks, costs and skills related to innovation in order to develop new products, technologies or supply services that could reach the market more efficiently. EUROTRANS-BIO is an initiative supported by the European Commission.
In the two first calls (2006 & 2007), EUROTRANS-BIO received 125 pre-proposals and 41 were successfully evaluated and recommended for funding. Selected projects cover various fields of economic interest (health, agro/food and environment). The total cost of supported projects is 69 M€.
The 3rd call for international projects has been launched on November 9th 2007.
Topic:
The ETB call 2007 is a generic call including all fields of biotechnology: red, green, grey/white and blue biotechnology.
Supported projects follow a bottom-up approach.
Who can apply?
EUROTRANS-BIO is dedicated to support SMEs and their academic partners.
Consortia consisting of at least two SMEs from two different participating countries can apply for EUROTRANS-BIO funding (Austria, Basque Country (Spain), Flanders (Belgium), Finland, France, Germany, Italy*, The Netherlands* and Spain). SMEs forming a consortium can include large companies on a case-by-case basis, academic research groups and organisations which belong to their countries. Consortia can involve as many partners as necessary to achieve the projects goals. The coordinator of the consortium has to be a SME (European definition).
Application Procedure:
The application process is two-phased. Pre-proposals and full-proposals are submitted electronically.
The deadline for submitting the pre-proposals is February 15th 2008. The results of the pre-proposal check are expected to be communicated to the applicants by early April. For those projects that pass the pre-proposal phase, the dead-line for full proposal submission is May 30th. The funding decisions are expected to be made in September 2008.
All the material is available on line www.eurotransbio.net.
EUROTRANS-BIO employs national resources. Each applicant is highly encouraged to contact his/her national contact to check national criteria before submission.
A specific electronic tool is now available to help proposers in consortium building www.etbsubmission.eu/etbsubmission/partner/.
It will help matchmaking projects looking for partners and partners looking for projects. This tool is complementary of your usual approach for finding partner.
(*) Participation of The Netherlands and Italy is very probable but has to be formally confirmed.