Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology announces the beginning of the fifth Call for proposals in the framework of ERA-IB.

Aim: to promote and bring together researchers and scientists from different countries, including Russia, specializing in biotechnology for close scientific cooperation and the promotion of innovative projects in the framework of participation in a joint competition for tech support and knowledge.

Themes:

Processes:

• Conversion of industrial by-products and biomass into value-added products Novel systems for new, more sustainable processes (bio-catalysts such as enzymes, micro-organism and cell-free biosynthesis systems)
  
  
• New compounds from existing, but not well studied biological systems, by understanding their metabolic pathways
  
  
• Modelling and optimization of biological unit operations / modelling for the improvement of cellular bio-processes
  
  
• Process development, intensification and/or integration in existing industrial processes (e.g. downstream and scale-up, process design, scalability)

Products\markets:

• Development of new functional materials / properties from renewable resources
• Development of platform chemicals including bio-monomers, oligomers and polymers
• Biomaterials, pharmaceuticals, functional food/feed ingredients

Function-based bio-products: from function to process:

• Function-based bio-products: from function to process

Eligible Countries: Austria, Belgium, UK, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Finland, France

Conditions and terms: Joint projects must have a minimum of three and maximum of eight participants from a minimum of three different ERA-IB-2 and/or EuroTransBio partner countries. The participation of an industrial partner in the consortium is mandatory. Submissions of proposals will be in two steps: pre-proposal and full proposal. The deadline for submitting pre-proposals is the 31st of March 2014 and full proposals must be submitted by the 30th of June 2014. Projects are expected to start in early 2015.

Guides, forms: all necessary information in the link

Partners search: to find the relevant international partners, you should to complete the partners search template (2014_PS_template) and send it to Petryaev Dmitry’s email address, Head of International Department, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.