Spain: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness - ERANet-LAC

Spain: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, MINECO
Initial Funding Committment
Funding
Programme
Eligible
entities
Additional
eligibility
criteria
Eligible costs
500.000 Euro
Programa Estatal de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Orientada
a los Retos de la Sociedad in the framework of the Plan Estatal de
Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016
Universities, Public Research Institutions, Private non-profit Research
Institutions, Technological Centres (Centros tecnológicos).
Although enterprises cannot be funded through this Call by MINECO,
the Spanish private sector is very much welcome to associate with
Spanish research institutions in order to participate in this Call, using
own funds or funding from other National or Regional calls or
associated.
Eligible projects:
- Mandatory: minimum of four eligible partners from four different
participating countries with at least two countries from each
region. The consortium may not exceed a maximum of two
partners per country (see the list of funding organisations in the
call text).
- Not allowed: Overlapping funding from other ERA-NET, EU
National or Regional Calls.
- Not allowed: Applying for funding in more than one proposal.
Only excellent projects where international collaboration is a clear
added value will be funded.
- Personnel costs for temporary contracts (fellowships are not
eligible)
- Current costs such as those incurred in purchasing small scientific
equipment, disposable materials, travelling expenses and other
costs that can be properly justified as necessary to carry out the
proposed activities.
- Overheads are not eligible for funding.
- Maximum budgets:
100.000 € per project; 140.000 € if the Spanish institution leads
the project. In case two Spanish institutions participate, the
budget will be reduced to a maximum of 150.000 € for the two
institutions, unless one of them is the project leader.
To see general conditions of MINECO calls designed for
supporting ERANET participation please see the following link.
National funding rates
Type of research
Fundamental/Basic
Research
Industrial/Applied
Large
Medium
Enterprises Enterprises
Small
Enterprises
Universities
and research
organizations
N/A
N/A
N/A
100%
N/A
N/A
N/A
100%
Research
Experimental development
N/A
N/A
N/A
100%
Purpose of funding:
ERANet-LAC is a Network of the European Union (EU), Latin America and the
Caribbean Countries (CELAC) funded by the European Commission within FP7. The
project supports the implementation of joint activities to strengthen the bi-regional
partnership in Science, Technology and Innovation, including two joint transnational
calls.
On the first ERANet-LAC Joint Transnational Call MINECO will be jointly funding
with other EU-CELAC funding organisations research proposals on the following topics:
-
Small-scale self-sustainable biorefineries for multi-feedstock processing of
agro-industrial and urban wastes for advanced biofuels, bio-based chemicals
and biomaterials.
-
Towards Zero Carbon Energy Systems for heating and cooling in industrial
processes by means of solar technologies including the envelopes of the
buildings.
MINECO’s participation demonstrates its effort to support research on the Energy field
and accomplishes the main objectives described in the Programa Estatal de
Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad in the frame
of the Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016, that
fosters the participation of Spanish research groups in international cooperative projects,
particularly those related with the societal challenges of “secure, clean and efficient
energy”
Eligibility of applicants:
MINECO will support research institutions located in Spain and will be responsible for
taking the final decision regarding the award of funds to the Spanish partners that apply
to MINECO in this joint call. The final decision will take fully into account the
transnational evaluation of the cooperative project and the financial resources available.
The entities eligible for MINECO funding are universities and other public research
institutions (including hospitals and public foundations), as well as private non-profit
institutions that carry out R&D activities in Spain, including Technological Centres
(Centros Tecnológicos).
Although enterprises cannot be funded through this Call by MINECO, the
Spanish private sector is very much welcome to associate with Spanish research
institutions in order to participate in this Call, using own funds or funding from
other National or Regional calls.
Eligible consortia must be constituted by a minimum of four eligible partners from four
different participating countries with at least two countries from each region. The
consortium may not exceed a maximum of two partners per country (see the list of
funding organisations in the call text).
Important: Only excellent projects where international collaboration is a clear added
value will be funded.
It is not allowed either to apply for funding in more than one proposal of this call, or
to overlap funding in this call with other ERA-NET running projects. In any case,
MINECO will avoid double funding and will not finance projects or parts of
projects that have been funded through other national, regional or EU calls.
Funding policy:
Up to 100% of the marginal project costs may be financed within this programme in
the following categories:
 Personnel costs for temporary contracts (neither actual staff, nor fellowships are
eligible)
 Direct costs (consumables, small scientific equipment, travel, other costs)
Up to 50% of total costs for those institutions that can apply under total costs scheme,
and according to national regulations (Basic regulations: Orden de bases
ECC/1780/2013, published in BOE 02.10.2013).
Indirect costs (overheads) are not eligible for funding from MINECO.
Maximum funding is 100.000 € per partner (140.000 € if the Spanish partner is the
collaborative project coordinator). When two Spanish partners participate in the same
proposal, the maximum total funding for the Spanish part should not exceed 150.000 €.
If one of them is the project leader, this maximum could be higher than 150.000 €,
depending on the objectives.
Project budgets are expected to be well balanced in relation to the relative weight of
Spanish partners in the consortium and, for consortia with industrial partners, to the
presence of Spanish industrial associates.
Further instructions:
As stated in the Call text, the project leader of each consortium must submit the full
proposal electronically to the common Call Secretariat. Once the transnational
evaluation procedure has been completed and the researchers involved have been
notified, the Spanish applicants that are offered funding will be invited to formally apply
to the 2015 Call of Acciones de Programación Conjunta Internacional del
Programa Estatal de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Orientada a los
Retos de la Sociedad implemented by the Subdirección General de Proyectos
Internacionales, Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica. The
Spanish partners awarded in this call will be obliged by the regulations established in the
corresponding national call.
National Call Coordination and contact point:
Dr. Luis Guasch Pereira
Subdirección General de Relaciones Internacionales y con Europa.
E-mail: eranetlac@mineco.es