Following agreement with ESF Member Organisations and funding agencies in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom, the European Science Foundation launched a Call for Proposals for research projects to be executed under the EUROCORES PROGRAMME on SMART STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES (S3T). The programme will run for three to five years and includes national research funding and a European networking component.
- For a detailed outline of the call click here
- Application Guidelines http://www.esf.org/articles/439/S3TOutlineProposalsGuidelines.doc
- EUROCORES Glossary
Participating Countries
20 AGENCIES IN 15 COUNTRIES
The participating agencies are:
AUSTRIA Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF); Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
BELGIUM Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS); Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)
CZECH REPUBLIC Grantová agentura Ceské republiky ; Czech Science FoundationAkademie ved Ceske republiky
FINLAND Academy of Finland
FRANCE Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
HUNGARY Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
IRELAND Enterprise Ireland ; Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)
ITALY Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
THE NETHERLANDS Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
POLAND Ministry of Scientific Research and Information Technology
PORTUGAL Fundação para e Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
SLOVAKIA Slovak Academy of Sciences
SPAIN Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); Oficina de Ciencia y Tecnologia (OCYT)
TURKEY Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
UNITED KINGDOM Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Some Funding Agencies have provided information on their national requirements. Please see the file
Process
The nature of a EUROCORES is that individual projects will be composed of groupings of national awards/grants. The participating funding agencies will take the rank order of proposals recommended by the S3T Review Panel and, subject to their financial circumstances, agree which projects they are able to support.
The participating agencies is informed of the rank order immediately after the Review Panel has met, and the Management Committee is arranged to discuss the overall position once the agencies have considered the implications of the recommendations of the Panel. ESF expects that it will take between 3 to 6 months after the Review Panel meeting to confirm the formal launch of any given project.
A list of S3T Review Panel members can be found here.
A list of S3T External Referees can be found here
