Research funding opportunities in the field of EuroSCOPE

Following agreement with ESF Member Organisations in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, and Spain, the European Science Foundation is launching a first Call for Outline Proposals click here  for research projects to be undertaken within a EUROCORES on the Science of Protein Production for Functional and Structural Analysis (EuroSCOPE). The programme will run for a minimum of five years and includes national research funding and a European networking component.

Programme structure and management

The programme will run for a minimum of five years with an expected start to research funding in 2005. The programme will be overseen by a Management Committee formed from representatives of each national funding agency taking part. 

The actual funding of the applications recommended by the international Review Panel will depend on the total amount of money made available in each country by the national funding agencies supporting the programme.  The use of funds will be subject to the national laws of each country as well as to the internal rules of each national funding agency.

Once the Collaborative Research projects are launched, the ESF will support successful applicants involved in this EUROCORES Programme by networking them.  This is expected to facilitate the exchange of information, communication and discussion of the results. Towards this aim, targeted workshops will be organised during the programme’s lifetime. Web-based resources will also be developed to support the exchange of technical information, reagents and expertise and to promote collaborative interactions between European researchers working in this area.