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    <title><![CDATA[INCONTACT: Horizon 2020 calls]]></title>
    <link>http://incontact.etag.ee</link>
    <description><![CDATA[Horizon 2020 calls targeted to International Co-operation Partner Countries (ICPC)]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ERC: ERC Starting Grant
ERC-StG-2014]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/339#339</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ERC Starting Grant
ERC-StG-2014

ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[FET: Global Systems Science (GSS)
FETPROACT-1-2014]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/341#341</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Global Systems Science (GSS)
FETPROACT-1-2014

The ambition is to improve the way scientific knowledge can help inform and evaluate policy and societal responses to global challenges like climate change, global financial crises, global pandemics, and growth of cities – urbanisation and migration patterns. These challenges entangle actions across different sectors of policy and society and must be addressed by radically novel ideas and thinking for producing, delivering, and embedding scientific evidence into the policy and societal processes.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LEIT: Releasing the potential of EGNSS applications through international cooperation
GALILEO-3-2014]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/307#307</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Releasing the potential of EGNSS applications through international cooperation
GALILEO-3-2014

Although Galileo is a European programme, it has a strong international dimension. International cooperation in the field of Galileo-enabled applications is therefore an essential element facilitating its breakthrough to new and emerging markets and strengthening Europe's position as a major space player.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[MC: MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTION: INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORKS (ITN)]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/343#343</link>
      <description><![CDATA[MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTION: INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORKS (ITN)

The Innovative Training Networks (ITN) aim to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit.
 
ITN will raise excellence and structure research and doctoral training, extending the traditional academic research training setting, and equipping researchers with the right combination of research-related and transferable competences. It will provide enhanced career perspectives in both the academic and non-academic sectors through international, interdisciplinary and inter-sector mobility combined with an innovation-oriented mind-set. 
ITN supports competitively selected joint research training and/or doctoral programmes, implemented by partnerships of universities, research institutions, research infrastructures, businesses, SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from different countries across Europe and beyond.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[MC: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/302#302</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

The RISE scheme will promote international and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges, and sharing of knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa) for the advancement of science and the development of innovation.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ERC: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANT]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/342#342</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANT

ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. This action is open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any Member State or Associated Country.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ERC: ERC Proof of Concept Grant
ERC-PoC-2014]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/340#340</link>
      <description><![CDATA[ERC Proof of Concept Grant
ERC-PoC-2014

Frontier research often generates unexpected or new opportunities for commercial or societal application. The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim to maximise the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects. Proof of Concept Grants are therefore on offer only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SwafT: Ethics in Research: Promoting Integrity
GARRI-5-2014]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/335#335</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ethics in Research: Promoting Integrity
GARRI-5-2014

Research misconduct mainly became a focus of attention in the 1980's with a few publicised cases in the US. This progressively led to adoption of guidelines and codes of conduct by the scientific community as well as to the set-up of governmental structures. The complexity and diversity of research misconduct, amplified by the expansion of electronic communication still raises serious questions on the capacity of the actors concerned to adequately address the issue.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SwafT: Reducing the risk of exporting non ethical practices to third countries
GARRI-6-2014]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/334#334</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Reducing the risk of exporting non ethical practices to third countries
GARRI-6-2014

Taking into account the progressive globalisation of research activities, there is a rising risk of research with sensitive ethical issues being conducted by European organisations outside the EU without proper compliance structures and follow-up. The risk of ethics dumping - the exportation of research practices that would not be accepted in Europe on ethical grounds - and the mechanisms to mitigate this risk shall be actively addressed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[MC: COFUND - CO-FUNDING OF REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/378#378</link>
      <description><![CDATA[COFUND - CO-FUNDING OF REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES

The COFUND scheme aims at stimulating regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.

This will be achieved by co-funding new or existing regional, national, and international programmes to open up to, and provide for, international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as transnational and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ERC: CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ERC ADVANCED GRANT]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/379#379</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ERC ADVANCED GRANT

Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. This action is open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any Member State or Associated Country.
The ERC's frontier research grants operate on a 'bottom-up' basis without predetermined priorities.
The call 'ERC-2014-AdG' consists of one call with a single deadline applying to each of the three main research domains:
• Physical Sciences & Engineering (Panels: PE1 – PE10),
• Life Sciences (Panels: LS1 – LS9),
• Social Sciences & Humanities (Panels: SH1 – SH6).
The deadline for all domains of this call is 21 October 2014, 17:00:00 (Brussels local time).
The budget indicated above is the total budget covering all domains.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Food: Sustainable food chains through public policies: the cases of the EU quality policy and of public sector food procurement]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/375#375</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Sustainable food chains through public policies: the cases of the EU quality policy and of public sector food procurement

Expected impact:
- provide insight into the effects of the EU quality policy and public sector food procurement policies on sustainability and on the promotion of a healthy diet
- allow to better design and implement these policies and to foster their delivery to the overall sustainability of agriculture and the rural economy
- clarify how these approaches, through the creation of new quality markets, can foster the development of local food chains.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Food: Strategies for crop productivity, stability and quality]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/373#373</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Strategies for crop productivity, stability and quality

Specific Challenge: Crop productivity is determined by genetic variability and the complex interactions of the genotype (G) with its environment (E) in the context of specific management interventions (M). Understanding and capturing the dynamic of these above and below ground interactions in breeding programmes and farm management is considered as critical to address concerns over stagnating yields and yield gaps, building resilience to biotic and abiotic threats and further progress in crop improvement.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Food: Genetic resources and agricultural diversity for food security, productivity and resilience]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/374#374</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Genetic resources and agricultural diversity for food security, productivity and resilience

B. [2015] Management and sustainable use of genetic resources
Proposals should implement comprehensive actions to improve the status and use of (in particular European) ex-situ and in-situ genetic collections. More specifically, they should support acquisition, conservation, characterisation/evaluation and especially the use of specific genetic resources in breeding, farming and forestry activities. Furthermore, proposals should undertake broader dissemination and awareness raising activities. In doing so, they should closely liaise with relevant on-going initiatives e.g. seeking to harmonise, rationalise and improve management of existing collections and databases.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Health: Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases: 2015 priority]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/356#356</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases: 2015 priority

Topic details will be provided in line with the timetable of the GACD priority setting process and will included at the same time as the financing decision for 2015 is adopted... Proposals should nevertheless be of a similar type (Research and Innovation Actions) and size (EUR 1 to 3 million) to those called for in HCO 5.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LEIT: Materials for severe operating conditions, including added-value functionalities]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/364#364</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Materials for severe operating conditions, including added-value functionalities

Specific challenge: The need to develop materials which can perform well in severe operating environments is increasing with advances in technology and requirements for higher efficiency in all areas such as manufacturing, energy, transport and communications, deep-sea technologies etc. Another important driver for advanced functionalities, e.g. self-diagnosis and self-healing, comes from the incorporation of nanoscale and molecular materials components. This poses a major challenge for materials science, and requires a fundamental understanding of how the processing, microstructure, nanostructure and properties of such material interact in order to enhance their response under more severe conditions.
The general aim is to develop new products or components with a step change in efficiency or performance compared to existing ones, for operation in e.g. high radiation environments, highly corrosive environments, low temperature environments, deep sea or space environments, or other extreme climate conditions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LEIT: Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/367#367</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Accelerating the uptake of nanotechnologies, advanced materials or advanced manufacturing and processing technologies by SMEs

Specific challenge: Research results should be taken up by industry, harvesting the hitherto untapped potential of nanotechnologies, advanced materials and advanced manufacturing and processing technologies. The goal is to create added value by creatively combining existing research results with other necessary elements,12 to transfer results across sectors where applicable, to accelerate innovation and eventually create profit or other benefits. The research should bring the technology and production to industrial readiness and maturity for commercialisation after the project.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LEIT: Next generation tools for risk governance of nanomaterials]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/368#368</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Next generation tools for risk governance of nanomaterials

Specific challenge: The conventional risk assessment approach, i.e. deriving no-effect levels or limit values from dose-effect relationships is inadequate for enabling safe use for newly developed materials in the fast moving market of nanomaterials. The challenge is to build a state-of-the art and flexible risk banding tool to keep pace with developments in innovation and risk research by harvesting and implementing results from concluded, ongoing and planned research in next generation risk governance frameworks. For nanotechnology, as with any new and rapidly evolving technology, analysis of risk is technically and methodologically limited, and thus associated with a high degree of uncertainty which should be understood and quantified. Stakeholders' concerns, including those of the insurance sector, and risk perception should be understood and communicated. Risk acceptance is strongly affected by a clear understanding of the risks, the benefits and the uncertainties perceived on equity and trust.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LEIT: Robotics]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/360#360</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Robotics

Specific Challenge: Continuous and consistent support to roadmap-based research will be essential to attain a world-leading position in the robotics market. The priorities in this specific challenge are based on input from the Public-Private partnership in Robotics, also building on the results of previous calls.
Collaborative projects will cover multi-disciplinary R&D and innovation activities like technology transfer via use-cases and industry-academia cross fertilisation mechanisms. PCP will further enable prototype development and stimulate deployment of industrial and service robotics.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Environment: Towards near-zero waste at European and global level]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/369#369</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Towards near-zero waste at European and global level

Specific Challenge: The complexity and heterogeneity of waste streams require coordination and networking between researchers, entrepreneurs and public authorities to harmonise technologies, processes and services, to profit from benchmarking, sharing best practices, and gender mainstreaming, and to use or develop standards. Insufficient cooperation between different value chain players in several raw materials sectors results in lower recycling rates or suboptimal use of raw materials from an environmental and socio-economic point of view. Improved cooperation within or along different value chains and among stakeholders, including a participatory role of citizens, representing the wider society, and civil society organisations, can lead to more efficient use of raw materials and to waste reduction.
The global nature of the waste management challenge requires coordination, pooling of resources and support to the definition of global objectives and strategies, and holds a potential for export of eco-innovative solutions and seizing new markets. Dissemination at international level of knowledge on waste management, including environmental regulations and standards, can contribute to turning waste into a resource at global level and to setting up resource efficient waste management systems and technologies and services, particularly in developing countries and emerging economies. To this end, enhanced forms of participatory processes for all stakeholders are needed.
Raw materials partnerships: Creation of a common multi-stakeholder platform focused on a limited number of key raw materials across their whole value chain. This should involve partners from across the value chain, including mining, processing, recycling, application, public sectors (national/regional/local) and civil society, while respecting the conditions of each value chain. The action shall support implementation of the EIP on Raw Materials.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Security: DRS-1-2015: Crisis management topic 1: Potential of current and new measures and technologies to respond to extreme weather and climate events]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/380#380</link>
      <description><![CDATA[DRS-1-2015: Crisis management topic 1: Potential of current and new measures and technologies to respond to extreme weather and climate events

Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead to disasters. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), some types of extreme events (e.g. flash floods and related landslides, storm surges, heatwaves, fires, including vegetation fires) have increased in frequency or magnitude, and in the meantime populations and assets at risk have also increased, leading to enhanced disaster risks. In order to better forecastand manage the immediate consequences of weather- and climate-related disasters, in particular regarding emergency responses, improved measures and technologies are needed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Security: DRS-3-2015: Crisis management topic 3: Demonstration activity on large scale disasters and crisis management and resilience of EU external assets against major identified threats or causes of crisis]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/381#381</link>
      <description><![CDATA[DRS-3-2015: Crisis management topic 3: Demonstration activity on large scale disasters and crisis management and resilience of EU external assets against major identified threats or causes of crisis

Governance regimes tend to lack integration when facing large-scale disaster events. State-civil society relationships, economic organization, and societal transitions have implications for disaster management. Various measures can be employed to assess management and resilience of major natural and man-made disasters. However, more research is needed in this field of study on factors that contribute to effective management of major disasters and crisis, including risk analysis and cost modelling. In particular, demonstration is needed to further improve on-field management of international and humanitarian crises operations, civil protection assistance, including deployment (before and after a crisis) of EU teams, materials and services (humanitarian logistics), possibly repatriation of EU citizens.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Security: DRS-4- 2014: Crisis management topic 4: Feasibility study for strengthening capacity-building for health and security protection in case of large-scale pandemics – Phase I Demo]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/382#382</link>
      <description><![CDATA[DRS-4- 2014: Crisis management topic 4: Feasibility study for strengthening capacity-building for health and security protection in case of large-scale pandemics – Phase I Demo

Emerging diseases and their pandemic potential pose a great security threat at national and EU level, particularly in the era of globalization when disease can spread more rapidly than in previous eras. Thirty four percent of all deaths worldwide are now attributable to infectious disease, while war only accounts for 0.64 percent of those deaths. Improving capacity-building is key to fight epidemics and the European Union must increase its efforts to improve domestic and global risk assessment, surveillance, communication capability and governance. Additionally, reducing disease transmission through public education and related measures is also crucial to minimizing pandemic impacts, i.e. for health security and protection in case of large-scale pandemics, further capacity-building is essential.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:20:32 +0300</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Transport: Safe and connected automation in road transport]]></title>
      <link>http://incontact.etag.ee/topic/376#376</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Safe and connected automation in road transport

Expected impact: Projects should contribute to:
- Reduction of the automated driving systems’ development costs, as well as raising competitiveness of the European industry in developing breakthrough technological solutions.
- Enhanced robustness and performance of sensor and data analysis systems and optimised HMI and advice strategies together with unobtrusive methods for measuring workload, distraction and fatigue.
- Improved efficiency, safety and traffic flow through better use of the existing infrastructure capacity, and reduction of emissions.]]></description>
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