The 14th ERA-SME Call for proposals is open from December 02, 2013 with deadline March 28, 2014, noon. ERA-SME calls follow a bottom-up approach, i.e. research topics are not pre-defined and can be decided by applicants themselves. Funding is made available through national and regional programmes.
The participating countries/regions in this call are:
- Austria (under condition of ministry decision)
- Belgium-Flanders
- Belgium-Wallonia
- Germany
- Russia
Czech Republic is not participating in the 14th call for proposals but plans on joining again from the 15th call.
EraSME enables consortia of SMEs and RTOs (not mandatory) from at least 2 participating countries to work together in transnational projects. If you need a partner from Russia, you are welcome to address the Russian Technology Transfer Network.
For more details, see the web-site ERA-SME