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European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD)

 

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What is the EJP Rare Diseases?

The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) is network of national or regional funding organizations from interested countries that join forces to support research activities in field of rare diseases by launching joint calls. The aims of the calls are to support of translational research projects and to encourage and enable translational collaboration between public and private research groups from academia and enterprises that combine innovative approaches. The MEYS supports participation of the Czech teams. Call is open for Research projects that accelerate diagnosis and/or explore disease progression and mechanisms of rare diseases. See more details in the EJP RD Call Summary  

 

Who can apply for the EJP Rare Diseases?

Consortium consisting of 4-6 partners (up to 8 partners with participation of partner/s from under-represented countries) from at least 4 different countries represented by a coordinator. Max. 2 partners from the same county in one consortium.

 

Why to apply for the EJP Rare Diseases?

  • Strengthening existing & building new international research collaborations.
  • Project team members can develop their professional career & improve their skills.
  • Take advantage of the opportunity that the participation of Czech research groups in a project can be funded by the MŠMT grant.

 

When to apply for the EJP Rare Diseases?

The nearest call deadline for EJPRD JCT 2020 and parallel the MEYS call is on Tue 18 Feb 2020 2:00 PM CET Pre-proposals (IOCB deadline Fri12 Feb 2020).

 

  Please inform the Project Office about your intention.  
  Do not hesitate anytime to contact us for consulting, discussion or help.  

 

How to apply for the EJP Rare Diseases?

 

Role of the Project Partner

 

P1) Discuss the proposal with all project partners and prepare your parts for the joint pre-proposal EJP Rare Diseases application form - use template  .
  • Your name and affiliation;
  • Your financial plan (total costs per category);
  • Your CV (short CV, list of 5 relevant publication for last 5 years);
  • Participate on preparation of the joint project description part.

 

Role of the Project Coordinator
  1. Find and read programme guidelines:
  2. Identify relevant project partners and further team members you would like to work with. Negotiate and justify roles, activities and responsibilities of all partners in the project. Designate the main Project Coordinator of the consortium, who will be responsible for a submission of the joint proposal via electronic submission system.
  3. Contact the host institutions and negotiate the institutional support. For IOCB official agreement is necessary to complete the project request form   . Please, contact the Project Office.
  4. Together with other PIs elaborate the research idea. Work tightly with the other PIs and allow time for others to review the draft proposal. The information given in the pre-proposal is binding.
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C1) Register the joint project proposal in the electronic submission system and fill in online sections of the application.
  • General project information
  • Lay summary (max. 1 600 characters)
  • Suggestion of reviewers
  • Personal/institutional information per partner
  • Budget items requested per partner

C2) Coordinate the preparation of the offline joint proposal - use template  :

  • Checklist for the coordinator
  • General project information (project title, acronym, duration, total funding, keywords and medical domain)
  • Lay summary (max. 1 600 characters)
  • Project description (max. 5 pages in PDF)
  • Diagram of work plan (max. 1 page)
  • Budget plan of the project (total costs per category each partner)
  • CV for each partner (incl. a description of the main domain of research and a list of the 5 most relevant publications within the last 5 year) – max. 1 page per partner in PDF

C3) Finalize the offline application form (respect the format and length limitation of each section) and convert all parts in a single PDF document and upload it to the project account into the electronic submission system. Be sure that the data provided to the electronic system are identical with data in the offline application form. Please take into account that the online data entry may be overloaded on the days of the deadlines. It is therefore recommended to transfer all obligatory data in good time.

Be aware that eligible costs and funding provisions may vary according to the respective national/regional funding organizations regulation.
  1. Complete mandatory national application to the MEYS
    • Eligible Costs Specification (in EUR) (applicant & Project Office)
    • Statutory Declaration (Project Office)

Deadline for submission of the joint Pre-proposal (done by the Project Coordinator) and national application to the MEYS is on Tue 18 Feb 2020 2:00 PM CET Pre-proposals (IOCB deadline Fri 14 Feb 2020).

 

 

Timetable of the next steps:
  • Results of Pre-proposals assessment by the end of Apr 2020 (the application template and guidelines for the Full-proposal stage will be provided only to the project coordinators of successful consortia).
  • Deadline for Full-proposal submission is on Tue 16 Jun 20202:00 PM CEST Full-proposals (IOCB deadline Fri 12 Jun 2020).
  • Rebuttal stage is in 3-4 week of July 2020.
  • Final results will be announcement in Nov 2020.
  • The grant start date is expected to star in the first half of 2021 (common project start date).