The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding

Funding details

Call : Call for transnational, collaborative, inter-/transdisciplinary research projects on ICT-enabled agri-food systems

Country specific: Funding is restricted to organisations from Romania

Funding: €500,000

Conditions full:

Eligibility criteria:

Legal entities established in Romania are eligible to get funding, i.e. public and private accredited universities, national R&D institutes, other research organizations, SMEs, large industrial enterprises with R&D activity within their domains. We can fund only Romanian research teams. For universities, public institutions, R&D national institutions funding is 100%, and for SMEs and Large companies, financing is under the permit NASR Decision no 9281/8.13.2015 approving the scheme of State aid for Program 3: European and international cooperation.

The Principal Investigator of Romanian team must hold a Ph.D. degree. This condition does not apply if the Romanian host institution is an enterprise according with the specific European and national laws.

One research team leader will participate only one time in a proposal within the trans-national call as responsible or coordinator.

No simultaneous funding is possible for more than one application under the same call.

The Principal Investigator of Romanian team is full time employed within the host institution with permanent position, with fixed term contract covering at least the duration of the project or has an agreement with the host institution for his/her employment at least for the duration of the contract;

It is forbidden to submit a proposal which seeks to fund activities already funded by other public sources;

The host institution does not have a seizure on its accounts; it has not been declared bankrupt or wound up; it has not made false declarations concerning its economic and legal statute; it has not broken other contract previously signed with a public contracting authority; The host institution agrees to ensure the necessary administrative support, to provide access to all necessary resources/infrastructures, to support the project implementation in good conditions and to employ the members of the Romanian team, in respect of all legal provisions in force, if the project is selected for funding.

BUDGET:

The maximum funding for one project from the public budget is 250.000 Euro if Romania is the coordinator of the transnational project.

The maximum funding for one project from the public budget is 200.000 Euro if Romania is partner in the transnational project.

The following categories of expenses are eligible:

A.     Staff costs (researchers, technicians and support staff, including all corresponding state and social contributions; these contributions are subject to national regulations in force);

B.     Consumables (materials, supplies or similar);

C.      Equipment (in full compliance with state aid regulations), no more than 30% of the total funding from the public budget;

D.     Subcontracting (max. 25% of the total funding from the public budget); The subcontracted parts should not be core/substantial parts of the project work;

E.     Travel expenses (in Romania or abroad, only for project teams members);

F.      Overheads (calculated as a percentage of direct costs: staff costs, travel expenses and logistics costs - excluding capital costs).

Indirect costs will not exceed 20% of direct costs, excluding subcontracting.

Expenses are eligible if incurred after signature of the contract.

Maximum project duration: proposed participations may last up to 36 months

 

National/regional topic priorities:

The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) funds research projects within all topics of the call, 

 

More details in the national/regional call announcement:

The guideline according to the National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation 2015‐2020, for ERA-NET Cofund projects has to be consulted and respected by applicants.

Contact person(s):
Luciana Bratu
Domnica Cotet
Cristina Cotet