[ ERA-NET NEURON - Research funding on Sensory Disorders and the nervous system | Research funding ]

The ERA-NET NEURON is a consortium of research funding organizations supporting basic, clinical and translational research in the diverse fields of disease-related neuroscience. Supported research aims to better understand brain diseases and their progression in order to pave the way for new or improved routes for diagnosis and therapy. The consortium is supported by the EU’s H2020 programme.

Every year, the participating funding organizations (incl. SNSF) launch annual calls to support multinational, collaborative research projects on disease-related neuroscience.

NEURON has launched a call for basic, pre-clinical and clinical research on Sensory Disorders and their impact on the nervous system. A focus on chronic pain is excluded from the present call.

Who can apply:

• International consortia composed of maximum 5 researchers (including partners) from universities, research institute, hospitals, foundations and/or companies from at least 3 different participating countries (besides the partners). No more than two researchers can be from the same country. Partners from other countries may be part of a consortium if they can secure their own funding.

• Swiss-based applicants: must be eligible for SNSF Project Funding (see EPFL Instructions for SNSF Project Funding) and cannot participate in more than one proposal per call. Please contact [email protected] to verify your eligibility for the call. Proposals with overlapping funding periods with ongoing SNSF grants are only approved if the research projects pursue different goals in the context of this programme. The SNSF exclusively funds research conducted for non-commercial purposes.

• Deadline for pre-proposals: 10 March 2020 at 14:00 CET
• Swiss applicants must submit pre-proposals and full proposals via mySNF at the same deadline as the consortium application is submitted to the Call Secretariat via the electronic submission system.
• Invitation to submit a full proposal: 18 May 2020
• Deadline for full proposals: 22 June 2020 at 14: CET
• Decision: October-November 2020
• Project start: early 2021