ERA4HEALTH - NutriBrain call

Research

What?

The aim of the call is to support transnational research projects that focus on the improvement of cognitive brain aging through nutrition and other lifestyle factors. Thereby it enables scientists from different countries to build a valuable collaboration on interdisciplinary research projects based on complementarities and sharing of expertise in the field of brain aging, its related disorders, nutrition and lifestyle factors.

Research projects should gain further insights into the modulation of brain aging by lifestyle factors and/or pilot test interventions based on the existing evidence in the literature or upscale existing pilot interventions that will help to lower the risk of cognitive impairment manifestations related to pathological brain aging. At least one of the following lifestyle factors should be investigated: nutrition (particularly improvements in the dietary pattern), physical activity, sleep pattern (quantity, quality and timing), social interaction and stress. Researchers should apply a perspective of prevention and public health, taking into consideration large population groups such as age cohorts or relevant subgroups.

Funding will come via FWO through the fundamental (FO) or Strategic Basic Research (SBO) channel. The type and scope of the proposed research project will determine the choice of funding channel for the research performed within Flanders (more fundamental in nature, or more aimed at economical/societal valorisation). Non-compliance with the specific requirements per funding channel might lead to non-eligibility.

The FWO is able to support 2 projects for a 36 months duration, with an available maximum applicable budget of 350.000 EUR (overhead included) per project/consortium.
  

Application?

Project proposals have to be submitted by European and international consortia through the ‘HealthEquity’ call secretariat, by making use of the submission platform, and respect the general and  ‘national/regional’ eligibility criteria, as taken up in the call text (from p. 26 onwards). 

The FWO requires pre-registration on a national/regional level as well by filling in an application form on the FWO e-portal before the deadline for submission of the pre-proposals. When you're logged on to the e-portal, you can find it under "Researcher".
It is strongly recommended to contact the FWO administration about your pre-registration at the latest one week before submission in order to verify admissibility.

For the fundamental funding channel the respective regulation applies. For the SBO channel the SBO regulation has to be taken into account: these imply projects with a primarily economic and/or societal finality, of which ‘valorisation’ is a key - and mandatory - aspect.

Given the pre-proposal already has to be OK in terms of budget, OBI has an internal deadline to check your proposal.
Internal deadline: 8 January 2024

In case the consortium includes more than one partner requesting funding from FWO, a single online form should be submitted containing all relevant information from the different Flemish partners.

More information?

You can find more information about the call text, the submission and necessary documents on the ERA4Health website and on the FWO website

Deadline intern

08.01.2024, 15.01.2024

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail sarah.szyr@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211269052