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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:

ESF Research Conferences - Calls for applications and Conference Announcements

 

  • 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
    (closing date: 3 February 2010)


Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy
Obergurgl, Austria, 4-9 July 2010
(closing date: 11 April 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 (copy 1)

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

 


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