Funding, News and Announcements

The European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 program serves as the main financial tool through which the EU supports research and development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines. Though projects and other activities funded by Horizon 2020 must be led by EU institutions, international collaboration with third countries such as Canada is actively encouraged. (Please note, however, that Canadian participation is usually undertaken on a self-funded basis.)

It is expected that early in the new year, the first series of calls related to Horizon 2020’s thematic areas will be announced for 2014-15. Thematic areas include: 1) ICT; 2) Health; 3) Researcher Mobility (Marie Curie Actions); 4) Space; 5) Climate Action, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials; 6) Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture, Marine & Maritime Research and the Bio-Economy; 7) Secure Clean and Efficient Energy; 8) Smart Green and Integrated Transport; and 9) Secure Societies.
 
Draft details of the Work Programmes related to these areas were recently “unofficially” published on-line, and are available on the Science|Business website. 

Dal faculty members working in the above areas who have existing collaborative relationships with colleagues in the EU are, at this stage, encouraged to contact their European counterparts to signal their interest in collaborating on these future calls.  They are also invited to contact the International Research Facilitator (jennifer.morawiecki@dal.ca), to register their interest and obtain additional information on the specific calls, as they are launched.