Funding avaliable to “A Giant Step for Ageing Research in Europe - call for multidisciplinary research applications”

The call is dedicated to the achievement of enhanced and healthy ageing and, in particular, to address the major priority established by the AHAIP (Active and Healthy Ageing Innovation Partnership) of a 2 year increase in healthy life expectancy in the European Union by 2020.

Twelve funders in nine countries have committed €4.2 million to fund research projects of up to three years. This is Europe’s first joint call for ageing research and follows the second round of ERA-AGE’s post-doctoral fellowship programme, FLARE (Future Leaders of Ageing Research in Europe).

Applications are invited from multidisciplinary research groups representing 3 to 5 funding countries. Stage-one pre-proposals can be submitted between 1 June 2011 and 3 October 2011 to investigate specific research questions related to these three objectives of the call:

Research in Europe – call for multidisciplinary research applications