The Call for Pre-Proposals opens on 26th September 2008. Pre-Proposals are to be submitted by a deadline of Friday 24th October 2008 12.00 hrs central European Time. It is expected that Full Proposals will be invited at the beginning of December 2008 with early March 2009 as the expected deadline for submission of Full Proposals.

The EUROPOLAR ERA-NET Consortium is launching the first Pilot Call for Pre-Proposals leading to potential Joint Projects to be undertaken within the PolarCLIMATE Programme. Following agreement with 20 ministries and funding organisations from 18 European Countries in Austria, France, Belgium, Bulgaria*, Czech Republic, Denmark*, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom*, the PolarCLIMATE Programme is expected to run for 3-4 years supported by national research funding. The Programme aims to support high quality transnational research at the European level in the Arctic and Antarctic. The Total commitment to the Call by the agencies is estimated to be 10 Million Euros (total includes direct financial commitment and estimated in-kind logistical and infrastructure support*). (*denotes counties with only in-kind support subject to scientific assessment results)