The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) as a partner of the ERA-Net BiodivERsA is pleased to announce the launch of the 2018–2019 transnational call for research proposals on “Biodiversity and its influence on animal, human and plant health”. 16 funding organisations from 12 countries (Austria, Belgium (including specific participation of Wallonia and Flanders), Bulgaria, Estonia, France (including specific participation of Région Guadeloupe), Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland) are joining this call and have provisionally reserved more than 9 million Euros for this call.
This call aims at supporting transnational research projects jointly addressing issues at the nexus of biodiversity and animal, human and/or plant health across the different relevant spatial and temporal scales in an effort to support evidence-based decision-making. Projects addressing only biodiversity issues or only health issues will not be considered within the scope of the call.
The Call addresses the following major themes:
- Relationship between biological diversity and animal, human and/or plant health: effects and underlying mechanisms
- Understanding and predicting the integrated effects of global change factors on biodiversity-related health issues
- Valuing/qualifying biodiversity benefits to animal, human and plant health, and promoting health-friendly biodiversity status as well as biodiversity-based health status
In addition, the intention is also to fund proposals specifically focusing on biodiversity-health relations in European overseas (for areas eligible to this call).
This call will include two actions, supporting two different types of research projects:
- Action A will support collaborative research projects, gathering different research teams generating new knowledge in particular based on the production of new primary data.
- Action B will support research synthesis projects, gathering individuals forming a working group which perform research and answer research questions using existing data sets.
Schedule:
- Deadline for submission of pre-proposals (mandatory): 16 November 2018, 16:00 CET (local time in Brussels)
- Deadline for submission of full-proposals: between early February and mid-March 2019 (depending of the number of received pre-proposals)
