ERA-NET CHIST-ERA call to open in December

The CHIST-ERA ERA-NET is a consortium of research funding organisations supporting joint transnational research on multidisciplinary long-term Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and ICT-based challenges with the potential to lead to significant breakthroughs. The consortium is supported by the EU’s FET programme.

Every year, the participating funding organisations (incl. SNSF) launch annual calls to support high risk, high impact transnational projects.

The 2019 Call promotes projects on:

• Explainable Machine Learning-based Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
• Novel Computational Approaches for Environmental Sustainability (CES)

Applications should follow and address the SNSF policies on open access and open data.

Who can apply:

• International consortia composed of researchers from at least 3different participating countries (with minimum 2 EU Member States and EU Associated Countries). Consortia are encouraged to include partners from enlargement countries or non-EU countries participating in European research programmes. Additional partners from other countries may be part of a consortium if they can secure their own funding. The standard consortium size is 3-6 partners.

• Swiss-based applicants: all Swiss applicants must be eligible for SNSF Project Funding (see EPFL Instructions for SNSF Project Funding). Please contact [email protected] to verify your eligibility for the call.

Look for partners using the Partner Search Tool.

For Swiss-based applicants and co-applicants:

• proposals with overlapping funding periods with ongoing SNSF grants are only approved if the research projects pursue different goals in the context of this programme.
• Swiss applicants may participate in at most one CHIST-ERA proposal.
• The SNSF exclusively funds research conducted for purposes that are not directly commercial.

Funding & Duration: to be communicated on 1 December 2019

Timeline of the call:

• Launch of the call: 1 December 2019
• Deadline for pre-proposals: 14 February 2020 at 17:00 CET
• Notification of acceptance pre-proposals: April 2020
• Deadline for full proposals (by invitation): June 2020
• Decision: October 2020
• Earliest start of the project: 1 December 2020

Note: Swiss-based applicants must submit pre-proposals and proposals via mySNF.

For further information, please have a look at the call webpage, pre-announcement and the information available on the SNSF website. The call guidelines and application form will be made available on 1 December 2019. To contact the SNSF: [email protected].

Register this call in your calendar with the EPFL Memento.