Background
We are looking for experienced scientists and researchers, who are interested in supporting the peer review of applications to be submitted in response to the recent ERA.Net RUS Plus Joint Calls for Proposals.
The ERA.Net RUS Plus is a FP7 initiative aiming at at promoting a unified European approach to collaborating with Russia in the fields of innovation and science & technology research. ERA.Net RUS Plus forms part of the 7th Framework Programme suite of European research initiatives, and boasts as primary objective the enhanced coordination of research programmes carried out at national or regional level in the EU Member States and Associated Countries to FP7 towards the target country Russia.
ERA.Net RUS Plus has published a Joint Call for proposals in the two funding lines ‘Innovation’ and ‘S&T’.
Please read more on the ERA.Net RUS Plus website http://www.eranet-rus.eu/en/196.php
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The following topics are supported under the ERA.Net RUS Plus S&T call:
1. Nanotechnologies
1.1 Advanced nano-sensors for environment and health
1.2 Novel functional nanomaterials based on design and modelling
1.3 Nanomaterials for efficient lighting
2. Environment/climate change
• 2.1 Increasing the reliability of regional climate projections: models and measurement
• 2.2 Environmental impact and risk of raw materials extraction and transportation
• 2.3 Extreme climate events and their impact on the environment
3. Health
• 3.1 Molecular mechanisms of brain function and pathology
• 3.2 Regenerative medicine and biomaterials
• 3.3 Drug discovery for cancer, cardiovascular and infectious diseases
4. Social sciences and the humanities
4.1 Understanding conflict, identity, and memory: past and present
4.2 Demographic change, migration and migrants
4.3 Opportunities for and challenges to regional development and social cohesion
Countries that are participating in the ERA.Net RUS Plus Joint Calls are: Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland and Turkey.
