The ”la Caixa”
Foundation launches the fourth
edition of the Call for biomedical and health research projects with the aim of
identifying and giving support to the most promising initiatives of scientific
excellence with potential value and high social impact, whether in basic,
clinical or translational research.
The fundamental aim of this Call is to foster research in
groundbreaking and highly relevant projects that lead the advancement of
knowledge and offer solutions related to some of the most important health
problems of our century.
The ”la Caixa”
Foundation seeks research projects
of scientific excellence in its field, with potential value and a high social
impact. The Foundation encourages projects with an innovative focus that cross
the boundaries between different areas of research, aimed at new and emerging
research fields and/or including unconventional approaches to problems of
health.
Objectives
- Basic research provides
knowledge to understand nature and its laws.
- Clinical research is the
research conducted with human subjects (or on material of human origin
such as tissues, specimens, and cognitive phenomena) for which the
research team (or colleagues) directly interacts with human subjects.
- Translational research fosters
the bidirectional integration of basic research and clinical research,
with the long-term aim of improving the health of the public. It expedites
the movement between basic research and clinical research that leads to:
- Stimulate a robust scientific
understanding of human health and disease.
- New or improved scientific
understanding or standards of care, better patient outcomes, the
implementation of best practices, and improved health status in
communities.
Thematic Areas
Proposals must be submitted in the following
thematic areas:
- Neuroscience.
- Infectious diseases.
- Oncology.
- Cardiovascular and associated
metabolic diseases: projects in cardiovascular diseases and metabolic
diseases associated with cardiovascular risks or alterations.
- Enabling technologies: projects
focused on the creation and development of healthfacilitating technologies
coming from fields as micro and nanoelectronics, computational science,
big data, photonics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, advanced materials or
advanced manufacturing, among others.
Funding Information
For the Call, project proposals, to be executed
over up to 3 years, may be:
- Individual projects: submitted
by a single research organization (Host Organization, HO), requesting up
to a maximum of €500,000.
- Research consortium projects:
submitted by at least two and no more than five research organizations and
coordinated by the HO. Research consortium projects may request up to a
maximum of €1,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Host Organization must be a
Research Performing Organization (a non-profit organization dedicated to
research in accordance with the definition of section 0) based in Spain or
Portugal. In case of Research Consortiums Projects or of Individual
Projects including CSOs, the Host Organization will act as the
coordinating organization.
- Organizations are defined by a
unique identification number (NIF in Spanish Organizations or VAT number,
NIPC in Portuguese Organizations) for all purposes (e.g. submissions of
proposals, constitution of Research Consortiums, etc).
- Both Individual Projects and
Research Consortium Projects proposals must include a Project Leader (PL).
In the case of Research Consortium Projects, the Application must also
include one Principal Investigator (PI) for each of the Research
Performing Organizations (RPO) of the Research Consortium. Only one PI per
RPO is allowed.
- People who act as PL and PI must
be of legal age and may be of any nationality.
- The PL must have a minimum of 7
years of experience in postdoctoral research.
- Within the same Call, each PL
can only submit a single proposal as a PL; however, they can collaborate
on other Projects as PI of a RPO of the Research Consortium or as a Team
Member.
- The PLs of Projects awarded
with a grant from the Health Research Call will not be allowed to submit
new Proposals as PLs in the three editions following the same call.
- The PL must be linked, either
by statute, work contract or other type of collaboration, within the
framework of this Project, to the Host Organization when applying for the
grant.
- The Project Leader needs the
agreement of the Host Organization to be able to submit the Proposal.
- The Host Organization shall
represent all the Organizations of the Project before the ”la Caixa”
Foundation.
- The PL and the Host
Organization are responsible for guaranteeing the implementation of the
- Project in accordance with the
initial conditions stated in the Application and the Agreement.
- There is no limit to the number
of Projects that a Host Organization can submit or for which it may
receive grants as a Host Organization or as a member of a Research
Consortium.
Post Date - 22-Oct-2020