Grants, Calls, and Applications
2010 Call for ESF Exploratory Workshops - NOW OPEN
Exploratory Workshops are small, interactive group sessions aimed at opening up new directions in research to explore new fields with a potential impact on developments in science. The workshops, which usually last 1-3 days, have a wide participation from across Europe and involve mature scientists as well as young, independent researchers and scholars with leadership potential. The relatively small scale (in terms of people involved) provides an ideal platform for focus on the topic and for all participants to contribute to discussions and plan follow-up collaborative work. Interdisciplinary topics are greatly encouraged.
Further information can be obtained here.
Deadline for submitting proposals: 29 April 2010 (16.00 CET)
2010 Call for EUROCORES Themes - NOW OPEN
EUROCORES Themes are "bottom-up" proposals for the creation of new collaborative research programmes dealing with broad and complex topics which are best addressed through multinational cooperation. Through its annual call for theme proposals, ESF solicits new ideas from the scientific community with a view to creating large-scale European Collaborative Research (EUROCORES) programmes in and across all scientific domains.
Deadline for applications: 21 May 2010 (noon CET)
The Call as well as further information can be obtained here.
EUROCORES Calls for Outline Proposals 2010
From the open Call for themes 2009, nine EUROCORES themes had been selected to be further developed into EUROCORES Programmes by the ESF Governing Council in October 2009.
Following receipt of Funding Organisations' commitments, the calls for outline proposals for seven EUROCORES programmes have been published in January 2010.
All three recommended EUROCORES programmes in the PESC domain have been launched and their Calls for outline proposals are currently open:
- Bio-inspired Engineering of Sensors, Actuators & Systems (EuroBioSAS)
Deadline for submission of Outline proposals: 29 March 2010 noon CET
Science Officer: Dr. Ana Helman - Molecular Science for a Conceptual Transition from Fossil to Solar Fuels (EuroSolarFuels)
Deadline for submission of Outline proposals: 26 March 2010 noon CET
Science Officer: Dr. Paul Beckers (LESC Unit) - Graphs in Geometry and Algorithms (EuroGIGA)
Deadline for submission of Outline proposals: 29 March 2010 noon CET
Science Officer: Dr. Aigars Ekers
ESF Research Conferences - Calls for applications and Conference Announcements
- Joint ESF-EMRS-EUCHEMS-EPS Conference
European Energy Conference
Barcelona, Spain, 20-23 April 2010
Call for applications NOW CLOSED (18 February 2010)
- ESF-FWF Conference in Partnership with LFUI
Putting our Solar System in Context: Origin, Dynamical and Physical Evolution of Multiple Planet Systems
Obergurgl, Austria, 25-30 April 2010
Call for applications NOW CLOSED (3 February 2010)
- ESF Mathematics Conference in partnership with EMS and ERCOM
Algebraic Methods in Dynamical Systems
Bedlewo, Poland, 16-22 May 2010
Call for applications NOW CLOSED (21 February 2010)
- ESF-FWF Conference in Partnership with LFUI
Quantum Engineering of States and Devices: Theory and Experiments
Obergurgl, Austria, 5-10 June 2010
(closing date: 14 March 2010)
- ESF-FMSH Entre-Sciences Conference in partnership with UPCAM
Global Change Research II: Environmental Crisis, Energy Issues and Global Regulation Policies
Ile de Porquerolles, France, 11-16 June 2010
(closing date: 19 March 2010)
- ESF Mathematics Conference in Partnership with EMS and ERCOM
Teichmüller Theory and its Interactions in Mathematics and Physics
Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, 28 June - 3 July 2010
(closing date: 5 April 2010)
- ESF-CERN Cargese Summer School in High Energy Physics and Astrophysics
String Theory: Formal Developments and Applications
Cargese, France, 21 June - 3 July 2010
Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy
Obergurgl, Austria, 4-9 July 2010
(closing date: 11 April 2010)
- ESF Mathematics Conference in partnership with EMS and ERCOM
Highly Oscillatory Problems: From Theory to Applications
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 12-17 September 2010
(closing date: 12 June 2010)
- ESF-COST High Level Research Conference
Future Internet and Society: Complex Networks Perspective
Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 3-8 October 2010
(closing date: 1 June 2010)
ESF Research Conferences Scheme - Call for Conferences to be held in 2011 now CLOSED
The Call for Conferences is currently closed.
Scientists were invited by 15 September 2009 to submit proposals for high-level research conferences to take place in 2011 within the framework of its Research Conferences Scheme
Assessment Process and Criteria
Proposals are currently being evaluated through international peer review and selected by review panels composed of members of the ESF Scientific Committees and scientists nominated by the Partner Organisations.
Assessment Criteria are:
- scientific scope and interdisciplinarity of the proposal
- scientific relevance in terms of novelty, originality & timeliness
- European dimension and added value
- scientific quality of the draft programme
2009 Call for Research Networking Programmes (RNPs) - NOW CLOSED
An ESF Research Networking Programme is a networking activity bringing together nationally funded research activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science.
2009 Call for RNP Proposals - text and guidelines - NOW closed
The deadline for submitting proposals was 22 October 2009, 16:00 CET. However, the text of the call remains accessible for information purposes.
Recommended and funded programmes resulting from the 2009 call will be launched in January 2011.
The next Call for Research Networking Programmes is expected to be launched in July 2010 with a deadline in October 2010.
Further information is available here
