CIRCLE MED webpage launched
CIRCLE-MED is a geographical group in the frame of CIRCLE ERA-Net. It addresses issues of common interest to the Mediterranean countries. It aims at creating a Mediterranean research community network through collaborative research projects on Climate Change Impact Research, with the objective to bring the results of this research to policy and decision-makers. The first CIRCLE-MED pilot joint call is dedicated to integrated coastal zone management and water management. (see Call Text). Eight projects were selected for a total budget of 1,65 M€ and associating research bodies from France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, Croatia, and Albania.
The CIRCLE MED webpage has been launched in March 2009 and can be viewed via the following link.
The first CIRCLE MED call newsletter (March 2009), the second CIRCLE MED call newsletter (July 2009)and also the third CIRCLE MED call newsletter (November 2009) are available.
All information on funded projects and is available at http://www.circle-med.net/.
CIRCLE MED kick-off meeting
The CIRCLE MED kick-off has successfully be carried out in Rome from November 13 – 14 2008. The purpose of the CIRCLE MED kick-off meeting was to have a first presentation of the 8 funded projects within the CIRCLE project.
Read more about the CIRCLE MED kick-off.
Funded projects and summary Med Call
Summary of the funded Projects within the CIRCLE MED Call (PDF-Download, 159 K)
CIRCLE MED call, closed since Oct 12 2007
Topic of the call
This 1st CIRCLE pilot joint call is to establish transnational collaborative research projects on a specific area within Climate Change Impact in the Mediterranean region:
“Integrated Coastal Zones and Water Management”.
Deadline for applications
This pilot common call is being published by the below-mentioned funding institutions between 11 July and 12 October 2007 in their respective countries. Applications received after 12 October, 17h00 Brussels time, will be excluded from the evaluation process.
Funders
The following partner institutions from the CIRCLE consortium intend to finance the research projects initiated by this call:
- Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
- Italian Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea (IMELS), Italy
- Ministry of the Environment (IME), Israel
- Regional Ministry of Innovation and Industry of the Galician Government trough the Directorate General for Research, Development and Innovation (XUNTA), Spain
- Ministry of Ecology, Development and Sustainable planning (MEDAD), France
Funding is granted according to countries. This means that each participating country funds its own national research institutions collaborating in the joint research projects according to national funding rules. They can on occasion, pay for other countries’ researchers, for instance by means of subcontracts of national laboratories. Restrictions apply for Italy for national funding of a trans-national project. No funding for other countries possible for Israel.
How to prepare a proposal
Each project must include participants from a minimum of two and an unrestricted maximum number of partner countries, and must in addition include at least one participant from a Mediterranean country outside the partner (contributing) group.
Others may also participate but must be independently financed. Participants must be eligible to participate in the normal funders' RTD programmes in the call partner countries, making use of the funders usual eligibility criteria.
In the view of available budget, we recommend that projects should not exceed 200.000 EUR and shall be no more than 24 months.
How to apply
The call will employ a single stage application. Submission requires the applicant to complete a proposal in English. A framework paper, presenting detailed information about the requirements for participants in this call should be downloaded before submitting an application.
A proposal has two parts:
SECTION 1 (Common Application Form) which presents the projects and its overall budget;
SECTION 2 (National Application Forms): to be filled by participants applying for funding. This section is specific to Contributing Countries as it introduces instructions related to their own regulations for funding research. Please consult your national call text for further details.
All applications must be sent to submission-med@circle-era.net.
Common Downloads needed for applications
- call text (pdf)
- call framework (including applicant's guide and list of eligible countries) (pdf)
- common application form (doc)
National contact points and national call links
Clarifications on national rules and funding must be obtained from the National Contact Persons listed below. Clarifications on other aspects can be obtained via Email to secretariat-med@circle-era.net.
France
Laurence Colinet
Ministère de l'écologie du développement et de l’aménagement durable
Bureau de la prospective et de la recherche en sciences humaines
D4E/SRP20 avenue de Ségur
75302 PARIS SP 07FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 01 42 19 17 51
laurence.colinet@ecologie.gouv.fr
national call link: http://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/Appel-a-propositions-de-recherche,8565.html
Italy
Claudio Rapicetta
Ministero dell'Ambiente della tutela del Territorio e del Mare – Direzione RAS -
via Cristoforo Colombo 44
00147 Roma
ITALY
Tel: (+39) 06 57228165
rapicetta.claudio@minambiente.it
national call links:
Israel
Racheli Yehoshua
MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
5 Kanfei Nesharim
P.o.Box 34033
Jerusalem 65464
ISRAEL
Tel (+972)+2+6553754
Rachelye@sviva.gov.il
national call links:
Portugal
Luisa Henriques and Telmo Carvalho
Senior Advisors
FCT- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Av. D. Carlos I, 126 – 2
1249-074 Lisboa
PORTUGAL
Tel (+351) 21 392 44 54 /-95
Fax (+351) 21 392 44 98
lh@fct.mctes.pt / telmo.carvalho@fct.mctes.pt
funding regulations are available for download at the FCT institutional website:
www.fct.mctes.pt
national call links:
Spain (Galicia)
Fernando Rodríguez Espasandín
Oficina de Programa Internacionais de I+D+i
Dirección Xeral de I+D+i
Consellería de Innovación e Industria – Xunta de Galicia
Rúa dos Feáns, 7 – Local C
15706 Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña)
SPAIN
Tel (+34) 981 957 873
Fax (+34) 981 541 039
fernando.rodriguez@sxid.org
national call link:
http://www.conselleriaiei.org/ga/dxidi/index.php?mod=des&idc=131
The announcements and national call links (cp. above) are supplied in the sequence of national publications within the partner countries that will start on 11 July 2007.
Call Steering Committee
CIRCLE-MED has a Call Steering Committee (CSC), which will manage the co-ordinated call, and a call secretariat which will provide administrative support to the call. The objective of the evaluation process is to select and fund those transnational research proposals which meet the needs of both CIRCLE as a funding consortium, and the research funders as individual organisations. Proposals will thus be evaluated for scientific quality, policy relevance and priority to the research funders.
More information in the framework paper.