SAF€RA launched its seventh joint call for
transnational, collaborative research projects on May 19th 2022. The call title is Industrial
safety implications of platform work, the Green Deal, and advanced materials for energy storage,
with three topics:
Topic 1: Industrial safety in the context of the sustainability imperative
Topic 2: Safety of advanced materials in energy conversion and storage applications
Topic 3: Evolving workplaces and safety in the platform economy
Funding available
The total available budget for the 2022 call is approx. 1.8 M€. Two forms of funding are
available:
“in cash”: research grants for researchers from universities, institutes, research organizations and
public firms;
“in kind”: person-months for personnel from certain participating institutes and research organizations.
Most projects funded within this call will include 2 to 4 partners, for a duration between
12 and 36 months and funding between 20 and 150 k€ per project partner. The call aims to fund mainly
applied research carried out in universities or research institutes, though
contributions from industry are also eligible. Interdisciplinary research is
encouraged. Cooperation and joint activities between different consortia funded within the call will
be encouraged.
Call timeline
The 2022 joint call will use a two-stage application process with a pre-proposal
mechanism for the first stage. The calendar of the various stages is shown below.
Publication of the call
19 May 2022
Deadline for submissions of pre-proposals
(please note the deadline extension, initial deadline was September 5th)
22 September 2022 at 16:00 CEST
Information sent to applicants on results of the first stage. Requests for full proposals
are sent to selected applicants, and collaborations proposed to single-nation applicants.
29 September 2022 (initially 20th September)
Deadline for submission of full proposals (initially 1 December)
8 December 2022
National funding decisions transmitted to applicants
28 February 2023
Projects start
March to April 2023
Documents
The Guidelines for proposers
contains a description of the topics covered by the 2022 joint call, information
on the participating funding organizations and the budgets available, and other
important information for researchers wishing to submit a proposal.
The pre-proposal form to use to
prepare pre-proposals in the first stage of the call.
The Guidelines for evaluators are
written for the experts who will evaluate the projects, but will be useful to researchers who wish
to understand the evaluation criteria.
Templates for the SAF€RA progress reports, which must be sent to the SAF€RA Call Secretariat by
the project coordinator on behalf of the project consortium. The
mid-term reporting template should be
submitted halfway through your project, assuming the project has a duration greater than 18
months. A final administrative report should
be sent by all projects, within three months of the end of the project. (This report is distinct
from the final scientific report which most projects will be producing as one of their
deliverables.)
A web-based matchmaking facility is available to help
researchers wishing to submit projects as a consortium to find partners.
Contact information
For general queries concerning the 2022 joint call, please email the call secretariat at
call-secretariat@safera.eu.
If you have questions concerning the eligibility criteria of specific funding
organizations, please check the contact information provided in the Guidelines for proposers
document, which can be downloaded above.