Within the FET Flagships call, proposals are invited in 2016 against the topic: "Partnering environment for FET Flagships." The two FET Flagships, Graphene and the Human Brain Project, will be funded under Horizon 2020 jointly by the Commission and the Member States through a new and flexible partnering and governance model. This model is built around a large EU-funded Core Project and a number of Partnering Projects (PPs) funded at transnational, national or regional levels. The specific challenge of this call is to support funding and coordination of PPs of the two Flagships.

The aims of the call for proposals are to bring together national funding agencies from Member States and Associated Countries to fund such PPs, and to support these and other PPs in their networking, coordination and participation in Flagship activities.

Proposals should address one of the two following subtopics:

a. ERA-NET Cofund action: one follow-up action to the FLAG-ERA ERANET to bring closer coordination and greater mobilisation and pooling of resources between regional, national and EU research programmes for realising the research goals of the FET Flagships;

b. Coordination and Support Action: with the objective to create mutual benefit between the PPs and their Core Project, enhancing the impact of the Flagships on national and regional research programmes and fostering the role of PPs in the governance of the Flagships.

All detailed information can be found at the H2020 Participant Portal: "FET FLAGSHIPS – TACKLING GRAND INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES"

Call identifier: H2020-FETFLAG-2016
Publication date: 14 October 2015
Deadline 1 March 2016