Description de l’appel

Programme : Water4All 2024 Joint Transnational Call
Organisation : F.R.S.-FNRS
Deadline : 13/11/2024 - Pre-proposal
Deadline2 : 29/04/2025 - Full-proposal
Type d'information : Financement
Type de programme : Appels à projets de collaboration internationale
Description courte : In collaboration with the European Union, 36 Funding Agencies from all over Europe and abroad are pleased to announce the Joint Transnational Call for research and innovation projects on “Water for Circular Economy”.
Description complète : Introduction:

The Joint Transnational Call (JTC) is launched in the framework of the European partnership Water4All and supports research and innovation projects to improve water security in the long term. In line with the strategic objectives of Water4All, the results should contribute to the implementation of evidence-based, global, EU and national water management policies and strategies, within the frameworks of the Green Deal, Water Framework Directive, Just Transition and the Water Action Agenda for UN Sustainable Development Goals. Proposals should show cognisance of appropriate legislation and policy frameworks at national and international levels while addressing policy actions and steering mechanisms needed to foster the paradigm shift to Circular Economy.

Topics:

The general theme of the call is “Water for Circular Economy”.
Research & innovation proposals submitted under the Water4All 2024 Joint Transnational Call are required to address at least one of the following themes:

Topic 1: Enhancement of water circularity in industries.
Topic 2: Urban water circularity.
Topic 3: Resource recovery and valorization.
Topic 4: Economic, environmental and social implications of water reuse and recovered products
Critères d’admission/attribution : Eligibility of the consortia

To be eligible, research consortia must:

- Each consortium must be composed of a minimum of three eligible partners that request funding from participating Funding Partner Organisations from three different countries.
- In addition to the abovementioned condition, the projects must involve at least two independent legal entities from two different EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries as recipients of the financial support.

Applications will be submitted by the coordinator. Each consortium participant will be funded by the Funding Organisation from their country/region participating in the JTC 2024. Participants are therefore subject to eligibility criteria of national/regional funding organisations.

See call document for more details.

Regional eligibility criteria

Eligibility for belgian partners (F.R.S. - FNRS):

Applicants requesting funding from F.R.S. FNRS must comply with the following rules.
The applicant must be affiliated to a university from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB).
At the closure of the call, the applicant should also:
- Be a permanent researcher of F.R.S-FNRS (Chercheur qualifié, maître de recherches ou Directeur de recherche) or;
- Hold a tenure track position (or an assimilated position including pending tenure track) with a research institution from the FWB
After the submission of applications, the F.R.S.-FNRS and the research institutions are required to verify the eligibility of the candidates. The F.R.S.-FNRS reserves the right to refuse those whose eligibility criteria would not comply with the Regulation. In order the check the compliance with these eligibility criteria, please contact your contact person at ULB-TTO (see details below). The complete F.R.S-FNRS rules for international research projects is available at the following link: https://www.frs-fnrs.be/docs/Reglement-et-documents/International/FRS-FNRS_PINT-Multi.pdf
Financement : Each partner is funded separately by the national/regional funding organisation they are applying to. They must fulfil the conditions of their funding organisation. 
The maximum amount of requested funding per project is 300.000 EUR for a total period of thee years. If the project involves the recruitment of a PhD student, the project duration of the F.R.S.-FNRS sub-project could be up to four years.

Eligible costs items

Personnel costs: 80,000€ EUR per year on average for the duration of the project. The usual duration of ERA-NET research programmes is three years. However, when the project involves a PhD student, the principal investigator can apply for an additional one year funding in order to complete the four years PhD programme. Since this programme is co-funded by the European Commission, this final year should not be included in the budget submitted to this call.

Equipment: can be eligible up to 20% of the total budget of the project

Running costs: travel expenses; organisation of small scientific events in Belgium; consumables and the following support costs: consumables Publication Designing (conception d’ouvrage) Dictionary Production (réalisation de dictionnaire) Purchase of Books Encoding Software Access Rights Congress Registration Fees Purchase of Computer Scanning Travel costs Visa costs Open Access publication of an article up until 500 euros (see F.R.S-FNRS Open Access policy).

Overhead” is not an eligible cost for FNRS. If the project is selected for funding, these costs will be subject to a separate agreement between the institution of the beneficiary and the F.R.S.-FNRS.
Pour postuler / aide du Département Recherche : Transnational level

The application process consists of two consecutive steps. The submission of a pre-proposal in Step 1 is mandatory. It is not possible to enter the application procedure at a later stage.



National/regional level


Applicants must provide basic administrative data by submitting an administrative application on e-space within 5 working days after the general deadline of the  call to be eligible. Please select the “PINT-MULTI” funding instrument when creating the administrative application.

Deadlines

Pre-proposals: 13 November 202415:00 CET (local time in Brussels)
e-Space administrative form: 20 November 1 4:00 CET
Full proposals: 29 April 2025, 15:00 CEST
Contact interne ULB : Nemeghaire Stéphanie
0478630969
stephanie.nemeghaire@ulb.be
https://www.water4all-partnership.eu/joint-activities/water4all-2024-joint-transnational-call
Contact externe : Joël Groeneveld
025049270
international@frs-fnrs.be
https://www.frs-fnrs.be/fr/fnrs-a-l-international/97-fr/infos-europe/3549-water4all-partnership-2024-water-for-circular-economy
Vous souhaitez recevoir de l’information destinée à quel type de profil : Chercheurs
Discipline(s) scientifique(s) de l’appel : Economie/ gestion, Environnement/ Aménagement du territoire/ Développement durable
Documents :
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call text Call_Announcement_Water4All_JT.pdf
pre-proposal form Pre_Proposal_template_Water4Al.pdf
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