Supporting the Future of Animal Health and Welfare

Description

The purpose of this call is to support the future of the health and welfare of terrestrial and aquatic animals through research and innovation and the advancement of fundamental and socio-economic science. The call also aims to contribute to the main objectives of the EUPAHW, as outlined in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), and the research objectives of the partner FOs. The Call Topics defined in the next section have been chosen to support fifteen of the SRIA Research Actions, identified as priorities by partner FOs. A list of these Research Actions is available in the call text. This Call Topics have been chosen to be complementary and distinct from the research being carried out as part of the EUPAHW internal activities. A list of the internal projects is available on www.eupahw.eu. These objectives are aligned with the aims and provisions of Horizon Europe, Cluster 6, Intervention Area 3, and wider initiatives of the European Commission, as described in the SRIA. Moreover, improving AH&W as planned by EUPAHW will have both direct and indirect impacts on the main pillars of sustainable development, and on most, if not all, of the UN’s 17 SDGs.

Beneficiary & submission

Universities and other higher education institutions, public research institutions, non-profit organisations, consumers/citizens and civil society representatives and private companies can apply, subject to the national/regional regulations and eligibility criteria. General eligibility criteria ●Proposals must be written in English. ●Proposals must be submitted before the submission deadline using the submission website (https://eupahw.ptj.de/). ●The project duration must not exceed 3 years. ●Researchers can contribute to more than one research proposal submitted to the co-funded call, provided there is no double funding of the same work or cost item, and the same work is proposed only once, and that FO national regulations allow it. In case of participation in more than one project, partners must name the proposals, in which they are involved and explain clearly how their work within the respective proposals differs in the section “Partners” (via Partner Login) under “Tasks within the project”. ●The proposed research project must be consistent with the scope of this call and with the national/organisational thematic priorities of the countries/regions involved in the proposed project. National/regional/organisational priorities are described in the national/regional regulations and can be communicated by the Funding Contact Persons. ●The applicants must also respect the national/regional eligibility criteria defined by the FO they are requesting funding to. Please consider that some FOs also request the submission of a national/regional application. ●The submission of a pre-proposal is compulsory. Applicants cannot submit a full-proposal at a later stage without having submitted a pre-proposal and having been invited for full-proposal submission. ●Projects must follow the rules outlined under “consortium structure”. ●Full proposals must submit a Communication and Dissemination Plan and a Data Management Plan. ●Consortia must include a minimum of three partners from a minimum of three different countries being eligible and requesting funding from funding organisations (FOs) participating in this call and a maximum of eight partners requesting funding. ●Applicants from countries not participating as funders in this call are welcome in research consortia, but cannot receive funding. Those associated partners should clearly demonstrate an added value to the consortium and secure their resources. The coordinator should ensure that sufficient resources are secured from these associated partners. The letter of commitment must be provided together with submitting the pre-proposal (letter of commitment template; Annex V). The same applies to all partners who are not eligible or not applying for national/regional funding from the FOs participating in the call. The associated partners will not count towards the maximum or minimum number of partners required. An associated partner can only be a partner in a proposal, not coordinator of a proposal. ●Total funding of partners in one country must not exceed 60% of the total funding budget of the proposal in order to achieve balanced partnerships and ensure that responsibility and risks are shared. ●If a consortium does not meet the minimum number of partners, or exceeds the maximum number of partners, or if one or more of the partners requesting funding is not eligible according to the national/regional funding criteria, the proposal will be rejected without being evaluated. ●Some beneficiaries of the Partnership are allowed to be part of an applying consortium (Annex II). However, the majority of funding for this call should be allocated to external parties. Therefore, the total funding allocated to parties that are beneficiaries of the EUPAHW should be at most35%. The application process is a two-step process (pre- and full-proposal steps). Throughout the whole process, the CO will be the central communication point for all applicants. The entire application procedure will be carried out online using the EUPAHW call management tool templates and online forms (https://eupahw.ptj.de/). Eligible pre and full proposals will be evaluated by at least three animal health and welfare experts following excellence, impact and quality and efficiency of the implementation criteria.

Further information

www.EUPAHW.eu, https://eupahw.ptj.de/