As a research funding agency, the FNRS is a member of several ERA-Nets. Members of ERA-Nets organise and fund transnational calls for research projects, through which researchers from the designated countries can set up collaborative research projects.
ERA-Nets
The European Union supports the coordination of national research programmes at a European level through the ERA-Nets networks. The national funding agencies use these networks to organise transnational calls for research projects. Thanks to these calls researchers from the designated countries can set up collaborative research projects. In Horizon 2020, the European Commission co-funded as much as 33% of the budgets of these research projects through the instrument renamed ERA-Net COFUND.
All ERA-Net calls for projects in which the FNRS participates are open to researchers from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
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Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs)
Joint programming enables the Member States of the European Union and associates to pool their research programmes focused on major societal challenges, and whose themes are outlined by a national consultation and approved by the Council of the European Union.
Joint Programming aims to reduce costs incurred through fragmentation and research duplication in order to improve the cost-efficiency of research programmes and the return on public resources.
Joint Programming represents an opportunity for the F.R.S.-FNRS to pool its resources through a multilateral partnership, as part of a call for joint projects or some other joint action.
The F.R.S.-FNRS has joined all 10 of the current Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) and participates in some of the joint proposals:
- Neurodegenerative Diseases (Alzheimer’s)
- Agriculture, food security and climate change
- Cultural Heritage and Global Change: a new challenge for Europe
- A healthy diet for a healthy life
- Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe – Clik’EU
- More years, better lives – The potential and challenges of demographic changes
- Water challenges for a changing world
- The microbial challenge – An emerging threat to human health
- Healthy and productive seas and oceans
- Urban Europe: Global challenges – Local solutions
All JPI calls for projects in which the FNRS participates are open to researchers from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
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