Projects
Call for Proposals
The goal of the National Research Platform for Zoonoses, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), is to intensify the networking between working groups of medicine, veterinary medicine and infection biology, researching on zoonoses at universities and non-university institutions in Germany. Simultaneously, the platform seeks to foster research on projects spanning across locations and topics, as well as the better usability and availability of results.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research offers 1.5 million euros to initiate innovative pilot projects and interdisciplinary cross-sectional projects in the field of zoonoses research during the first funding period of the Research Platform for Zoonoses.
In 2012 approximately 66.000 Euros are available.
Please send your application for these projects to the Berlin office of the National Research Platform for Zoonoses.
Description of the Projects
Innovative pilot projects:
Innovative, thematically defined projects to sound/explore the potential for deeper or larger follow-up projects.
Funding period: generally up to 12 months
Interdisciplinary cross-sectional projects:
Cross-sectional networking projects that involve two or more research locations in Germany; aim to develop structures that become usable and available, after the end of the funding, for all researches working on zoonoses.
Funding period: up to 24 months
Entitlement
All members of the National Research Platform for Zoonoses are entitled to submit a proposal. This call explicitly addresses young researches as well.
Deadline
To meet the deadline, the proposal can be sent by email, but a signed hardcopy has to be submitted too. Applications will be processed in chronological order. This call ends once the total volume of funding is reached. To present your project in front of the internal advisory board, you will be invited to a meeting of the internal advisory bord as soon as possible.
Next deadlines in 2012:
- February, 27 (meeting of the internal advirsory board: March, 13)
- August, 24 (meeting of the internal advirsory board: September, 10)
- November, 7 (meeting of the internal advirsory board: November, 23)
Please use this form for your proposal (in German).
Procedure:
1. Proposal submission at the National Research Platform for Zoonoses office in Berlin
2. Initial evaluation by the internal advisory board
3. Second approval by members of the external advisory board
4. Submission of the AZA (special form for funding by ministries) and final examination by the Project Management Agency of DLR.
Please do not hesitate to contact us before the submission of a proposal. We are pleased to help you design your proposal.
Contact:
National Research Platform for Zoonoses
Dr. Ilia Semmler
c/o TMF - Technologie- und Methodenplattform für die vernetzte medizinische Forschung e.V.
Neustaedtische Kirchstraße 6
10117 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: ilia.semmler@tmf-ev.de