The Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness published last June 13 in the BOE the call for granting R&D projects corresponding to the State Program of Research and Technique of Excellence and the Program of Research oriented to the challenges of society.
– R&D PROJECTS 2017. Call for funding three or four year projects, without predefined thematic orientation consisting of experimental or theoretical works undertaken with the main objective of obtaining results that represent a significant advance of knowledge. Projects may be led by one or two principal researchers and may be carried out under individual or coordinated project modalities. Directed to research projects that are relevant, ambitious, with high socio-economic impact and a clear international orientation.
– PROJECTS R&D&I CHALLENGE INVESTIGATION 2017. Call for funding of three or four-year projects aimed at finding scientific-technical solutions to solve the problems posed by the challenges of society like Health, demographic change and well-being. The projects may be led by one or two principal researchers and may be carried out under the individual project or coordinated project modalities.
MODALITIES:
A) Type A: R&D projects: led by young researchers with relevant and innovative scientific and technical contributions who have not conducted research projects for the calls for proposals of the State Plan for R&D&I 2013-2016 or the National R&D&I Plan 2008-2011.
B) Type B: R&D projects: Projects led by one or two main consolidated researchers.
Both types may be led by one or two principal researchers and projects may be carried out under the individual project modalities, with a research team, or coordinated project, consisting of several subprojects, each of which will have a research team.
Submission of applications: open from June 19 to July 13, 2017 at 15:00 h (the deadline for submission of applications will depend on the thematic area in which the project is submitted).
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