International Cooperation

ERA-NET NEURON Cofund2

FCT is a partner of the network NEURON Cofund2, an ERA-NET that aims to promote and support research in neurosciences related diseases and has the participation of 25 partners from 22 different countries (Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, and United Kingdom).

Highlights

The Excellent Paper in Neuroscience Award 2022 with the thematic focus on Sensory Disorders is now open.

Submission deadline for applications: September 30, 2022

Excellent Paper in Neuroscience Award 2022

The ERA-NET NEURON partner countries are issuing the Excellent Paper in Neuroscience Award to recognise the remarkable and outstanding scientific publications by early-career researchers in the field of disease-related, translational, neurosciences.

Eligibility: sole First author of original research articles published between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021 and affiliated with the following call partner countries: Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom.

The EPNA AWARD 2022 focuses on Sensory Disorders. The article should contribute progress on important questions related to sensory disorders of neural origin and their impact on the nervous system, including all the sensory modalities as well as multisensory dysfunctionc diseases.

An award of EUR 3 000 will be granted to the best proposal. The winner will be invited as an “Excellent Paper in Neuroscience” special lecturer during the NEURON Midterm Symposium taking place in Madrid, Spain, on 18th /19th of January 2023.

Check the EPNA AWARD 2022 webpage for more information about the call and the submission process.

Note: the information contained in this page does not exempt from reading the call text, nor the other documents related to the call or the application process, constituting only a summary of them. No information contained in this page replaces or supersedes what is stipulated in the call text, in its procedures or in any other document of the call presented in the EPNA AWARD 2022 webpage.

Previous Joint Calls – Results and funding granted

2021 Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Title of the project: DevInDS – Development of over-inhibition of cortical circuits in Down syndrome (DevInDS)
- Participating countries: France, Spain, Portugal
- Coordination: Alberto Bacci, ICM – Institut du Cerveau, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris (France)
- Portuguese researcher: Patrícia Espinheira de Sá Maciel, University of Minho, School of Medicine, Gualtar Campus
- Financing granted by FCT: 140.174,06€ (one hundred and forty thousand, one hundred and seventy-four euros and six cents)
- Title of the project: SHANKAstro – Astrocytes dysfunctions in Phelan-McDermid syndrome: from mechanisms towards new therapeutic strategies
- Participating countries: Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium
- Coordination: João Peça, Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Financing granted by FCT: 109.825,94€ (one hundred and nine thousand, eight hundred and twenty-five euros and ninety-four cents)
- Please check more information about financed projects on the 2021 call webpage.
2015 ELSA Call – Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects (ELSA) of Neuroscience
- Title of the project: Ensure – Enhancing the Informed Consent Process: Supported decision-making and capacity assessment in clinical dementia research
- Participating countries: Germany, Spain, Portugal
- Coordination: Julia Haberstroh, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt Forum for Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (FFIA), Frankfurt (Germany)
- Portuguese researcher: Ana Sofia Carvalho, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), Institute for Bioethics
- Financing granted by FCT: 96.000,00€ (ninety-six thousand euros)
- Please check more information about financed projects on the 2015 ELSA call webpage.
2014 Neuroinflammation
- Title of the project: NEUINF – Master regulators of neuroinflammation in parasitic brain infections
- Participating countries: Sweden, France, Portugal, Germany
- Coordination: Martin Rottenberg, Karolinska Institutet, Dept. Microbiology Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Portuguese researcher: Carlos Augusto Gomes Barbosa da Penha Gonçalves, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
- Financing granted by FCT: 125.000,00€ (one hundred and twenty five thousand euros)
- Please check more information about financed projects on the 2014 call webpage.
2013 Mental Disorders
- Title of the project:: CBGC – Discovering genetic risk factors for neuropsychiatric disorders and their consequences using dogs, humans and mice
- Participating countries: Finland, Canada, Portugal
- Coordination: Hannes Lohi, University of Helsinki, Helsinki (Finland)
- Portuguese researcher: Rui Costa, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown
- Financing granted by FCT: 199.368,00€ (one hundred and ninety-nine thousand, three hundred and sixty-eight euros)
- Title of the project: TYMON – Uncertainty monitoring vs. inhibition of action in obsessive-compulsive disorder: role of the subthalamic nucleus and effects of stimulation in humans and rodents
- Participating countries: France, Germany, Portugal
- Coordination: Luc Mallet, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Paris (France)
- Portuguese researcher: Rui Costa, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown
- Financing granted by FCT: 195,768.00€ (one hundred and ninety-five thousand, seven hundred and sixty-eight euros)
- Please check more information about financed projects on the 2013 call webpage.
2012 Novel Methods
- Title of the project: F4T – FOODforTHOUGHT: The epigenomics of eating disorders
- Participating countries: Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland
- Coordination: Andreas Ladurner, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Faculty of Medicine, Munich (Germany)
- Portuguese researcher: Rui Costa, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown
- Financing granted by FCT: 199,068.00€ (one hundred and ninety-nine thousand and sixty-eight euros)
- Please check more information about financed projects on the 2012 call webpage.