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MATERA+ CallERA-NET Plus on Materials Research

Preliminary information

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MATERA+ Call in a Nutshell• MATERA+ offers participants

– a simplified way to initiate and participate in R&D projects at the European level

– an opportunity to easily access international know-how and – an opportunity to integrate into international value chains

• The Call is open for industry, universities and research centres in 14 countries involved at the moment

• Planned total funding is 22.5 M€ - National/regional funding commitments 16.5 M€ - 6 M€ top up funding requested from EC

• More information from the funding agencies participating the Call and the website www.matera.fi

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MATERA+ Participating Countries and Regions

MATERA+ Call is planned to be open to industry, universities and research centers in these

Countries

Regions

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MATERA+ Funding Agencies 1/2

Belgium/ Flanders The Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology of Flanders (IWT)

Belgium/ Wallonia Walloon Public Service (DGOEER)Finland The Academy of Finland (AKA)Finland Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and

Innovation (Tekes)Iceland The Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS)Ireland Enterprise Ireland (EI)Israel Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport (MOST)Italy Ministry of University and Research (MIUR)Latvia The Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS)Luxembourg The National Research Fund (FNR)Norway The Research Council of Norway (RCN)Poland The National Centre for Research and

Development (NCBiR)

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MATERA+ Funding Agencies 2/2

Spain/ Basque The Industry, Trade and Tourism Department of the Basque Governement (ITT)

Spain/ Galicia Dirección Xeral de I+D+i. Consellería de Innovación e Industría. Xunta de Galicia (DXIDI)

Spain/ Madrid Region Fundación madrimasd para el Conocimiento

(fmi+d) Switzerland Federal Office for Professonial Education and

Technology (OPET)Turkey The Scientific and Technological Research Council

of Turkey (TÜBITAK)United Kingdom Technology Strategy Board (TSB)United Kingdom/ Invest Northern Ireland (Invest NI)Northern Ireland

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Focus of MATERA+ Call

• The goals of the Call are– to launch transnational, interdisciplinary, innovative, R&D

projects related to materials science and engineering– to narrow the gap between basic materials research and

applied problems– to shorten the time-to-market of scientific outcomes

• The projects must fulfil the criteria of the national/regional programmes involved in the Call

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Preliminary Thematic Topics of MATERA+ Call

• Multifunctional materials

• Engineering structural materials

• Biomaterials and bio-inspired materials

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Preliminary MATERA+ Call Deadlines

• 16th March 2009 Opening of the Call

• 15th May 2009 Pre-proposal deadline

• 15th October 2009 Invitation to submit Full Proposal • 15th January 2010 Full Proposal deadline

• March/April 2010 Funding decisions

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MATERA+ Call Procedure

• Two stage call procedure– First stage: checking of the national criteria, including

relevance and impact where appropriate– Second stage: external evaluation/panel according to EC

criteria

• Funding decisions are made on national/regional level

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Further Information on MATERA+

• www.matera.fi

• MATERA+ contact points of the national and regional funding agencies involved in the Call