FLAG-ERA (the Flagship ERA-NET) will publish in March 2023 at www.flagera.eu and other sources of information its fifth Joint Transnational Call for collaborative research projects in synergy with the two large-scale European initiatives: Graphene Flagship and Human Brain Project – EBRAINS.
The purpose of this pre-announcement is to enable interested parties to start building their consortia and preparing a proposal. It provides a tentative timeline, the foreseen list of participating funding organisation and list of the call topics. Further information is provided in the FLAG-ERA JTC2023 Pre-announcement.
A JTC 2023-Partner(s) Search Tool for submitting Expressions of Interest (EoI) is currently open. Consult all the JTC 2023 EoI.
FLAG-ERA gathers national and regional funding organisations in Europe and beyond with the goal of supporting, together with the European Commission, the Graphene Flagship and Human Brain Project – EBRAINS initiatives. One of its main aims is to allow researchers to complement or leverage on the current initiatives and to jointly contribute towards the achievement of their vision using dedicated transnational calls.
Note that the present pre-announcement is for information purposes only: It does not create any obligation for the FLAG-ERA consortium nor for any of the participating funding organisations, and the official call announcement shall prevail.
Research areas
The FLAG-ERA JTC 2023 comprises two sub-calls supporting Graphene Flagship and one sub-call supporting Human Brain Project – EBRAINS. Each sub-call covers a specific list of research topics listed below and described in the following pages.
Graphene Basic Research JTC areas
1. Graphene-related materials-based scaffolds for living cells integration.
2. Graphene related materials for neuromorphic photonics.
3. Layered materials for quantum sensing.
4. Neuromorphic circuits based on layered materials.
5. Graphene-related materials-based field effect transistor sensors for viral surveillance.
6. Layered material-based antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal coatings.
7. Tunneling magnetoresistance in layered materials-based spintronic devices
Graphene Applied Research and Innovation JTC areas
1. Graphene-related materials-based scaffolds for living cells integration.
2. Graphene-related materials-enhanced industrial sensors.
3. Properties of graphene-related materials suspensions.
4. Flexible substrates with enhanced thermal dissipation enabled by layered materials.
5. Graphene-related materials-based field effect transistor sensors for viral surveillance.
6. Layered material-based antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal coatings.
HBP/EBRAINS Basic and Applied Research JTC areas *
This sub-call focuses on Preclinical and clinical neuroscience research through data reuse.
It targets research proposals using cross dataset analysis as well as the development of robust modelling and simulations to address ambitious and novel research objectives. Proposals should be primarily based on pooling, harmonisation, transformation and/or reanalysis of existing research datasets or a combination of them.
Ongoing projects funded through FLAG-ERA and other national, European or international initiatives such as the ERA-NET NEURON and the JPND are encouraged to broaden their initial objectives by exploring and making use of existing datasets.
This sub-call is intended to contribute to the transformation of neurosciences research landscape enabled by Open Science opportunities, such as EBRAINS. Applicants are encouraged to exchange with the EBRAINS infrastructure (flag-era.JTC2023@ebrains.eu). A non-exhaustive list of datasets which can be exploited and further analysed in the context of this sub-call, together with an overview of some of the available EBRAINS services are mentioned in Annex of the attached Call Pre-announcement. A complete list of FAIR data discoverable via EBRAINS is found here: Data and Knowledge – EBRAINS.
Tentative list of participating funding organisations
The table below provides the list of funding organisations participating to the call. Note that the list of participating organisations depends on the sub-call. Total call budget is approx. 9-10 M€.
| Country | Funding organisation | Graphene Flagship (basic research) | Graphene Flagship (applied research and innovation) | Human Brain Project – EBRAINS (basic and applied research) | Contact | |
| BE | Belgium | FNRS | Yes | No | Yes | international@frs-fnrs.be |
| BG | Bulgaria | BNSF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Milena.Aleksandrova@mon.bg |
| EE | Estonia | ETAg | Yes | No | Yes | Margit.Suuroja@etag.ee |
| FR | France | ANR | Yes | Yes | Yes | Lina.Bentakouk-Bernard@anr.fr |
| DE | Germany | DFG | Yes | No | No | Michael.moessle@dfg.de Martin.Winger@dfg.de |
| IL | Israel | InnovationAuth | No | Yes | Yes | Dan@iserd.org.il |
| LT | Lithuania | LMT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Saulius.Marcinkonis@lmt.lt |
| NL | The Netherlands | ZonMw | No | No | Yes | Durrani@zonmw.nl |
| RO | Romania | UEFISCDI | No | Yes | Yes | Cristina.Cotet@uefiscdi.ro Domnica.Cotet@uefiscdi.ro |
| SK | Slovakia | SAS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Panisova@up.upsav.sk |
| SI | Slovenia | MIZS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Andrej.Ograjensek@gov.si |
| SE | Sweden | VINNOVA | No | Yes | No | Maria.Ohman@vinnova.se |
| SE | Sweden | VR | Yes | No | No | Tomas.Andersson@vr.se |
| TW | Taiwan | NSTC | Yes | Yes | Yes | cmtom@nstc.gov.tw |
Tentative Timeline
| Early March 2023 | Call announcement publication |
| March 16th, 2023 | Information webinar for applicants |
| June 1st, 2023, 17:00 CET | Proposal submission deadline |
| November 2023 | Notification of accepted full proposals |
| Dec 2023 – Feb 2024 | Project start |