"New Knowledge Partnerships“ - the slogan of ERAfrica points out its central message: Africa and Europe acting as equal partners in a new approach towards joint funding in S&T. ERAfrica aims to serve as a model for future cooperative ventures between Africa and Europe and offers a new opportunity for joint research and innovation partnerships.
On January 15, 2013, Funding Parties from 15 African and Europeancountries launched a joint call for collaborative activities in threethematic fields and in three types of collaborative activities:
- Renewable Energies: funding projects addressing renewable energy topics.
- Interfacing Challenges: funding projects which are conducted at the interface of key societal challenges where African and European collaboration stands to have added value.
- New Ideas: funding outstanding idea-driven projects generated in a bottom-up approach, where the emphasis is placed on clearly evidenced originality and novelty of the idea, approach or expected outputs.
- Collaborative Research: joint undertakings by consortia designed to produce new knowledge through scientific research.
- Collaborative Innovation: joint undertakings by consortia designed to bridge the gap between the outcomes of research projects and commercialisation.
- Capacity Building: joint undertakings by consortia designed to assist relevant organisations to improve their capacities and/or their enabling environment for research and innovation.
With a total amount of € 10.7 Million available for funding, the call generated 124 proposals of which 106 eligible proposals involving 560 organizations requested an amount of € 64.8 Million (call closed on April 15, 2013).
Herausgeber: Mattias Larsen, Matthias Weissgram
erschienen: Wien: 2013 - 12 S.
