2025 M-ERA.NET 3 2024, call for invited applicants
In 2024, the M-ERA.NET organised a call for proposals on the following topics: Sustainable advanced materials for energy; Innovative surfaces, coatings and interfaces; High-performance composites; Functional materials; Materials addressing environmental challenges; and Next-generation materials for advanced electronics.
An international panel of experts reviewed the full proposals.
Based on the review and the resulting recommendation, Finnish applicants selected for funding are invited to apply for funding in the present call. Each project or consortium subproject selected to be funded will submit its own application.
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- Instructions on how to fill in the application form are available in the online services.
Application parts in the online services
The different parts of the application are listed below. A comprehensive A–Z index of application guidelines is available on our website. Instructions for filling in the application form are also on the tabs of the form.
- Personal details
- General description: topic, keywords and scientific disciplines of the project, details on the site of research
- Abstract
- Public project description
- Project’s funding and commitment by site of research
- Salary costs of principal investigator
- Collaborators: list of collaborators
- Mobility: list of research visits
- Yhteydet tutkimusinfrastruktuureihin, huippuyksiköihin ja lippulaivoihin
- Research ethics
Appendix to be attached on the tab ‘Appendices’:
- Proposal submitted to second stage of M-ERA.NET 3’s 2024 call.
You can submit the application when you have filled in or attached all the necessary information. A red warning triangle tells you that there is an error or information missing.
You can authorise a person to edit or view the application on the tab ‘Authorisation’.
Submit your application in good time. You can supplement and edit the application and change appendices until the call deadline.
How to submit and supplement the application
The deadline is non-negotiable. We will not consider (process) an application that has not been submitted by deadline. The deadline for applications is 13 March 2025 at 16.15 Finnish time.
Make sure to submit the application in good time before the deadline. The system will only accept applications that contain all obligatory information. The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the content of the application appendices is correct.
You can edit and supplement the application until the deadline. For example, you can change the appendices to the application. If you notice that your application lacks important information after the deadline, immediately get in touch with us via our helpdesk, so that the application can be reopened for supplementation.
We may ask you to supplement the application. In that case, you will receive a supplementation request by email. If you do not supplement the application by the given deadline, or if the application is substantially incomplete even after a request for supplementary information, we may declare it inadmissible (i.e. it will not be processed). Make sure that your email address is up to date.
How the application becomes pending
According to section 17 of the Finnish Administrative Procedure Act and section 8 of the Act on Electronic Services and Communication in the Public Sector, the sender is responsible for the application arriving by the set deadline. An application becomes pending when the online application and the obligatory appendices have been submitted in the online services. The system will confirm a successful submission by sending an email to the address you have provided.
Publicity and data protection
Except for the research plan, plan of intent, abstract and progress report, which are primarily confidential, the application and its appendices are public documents. For example, the CV is a public document and as such must not include any secret information. This publicity is based on the Finnish Act on the Openness of Government Activities.
We are committed to following regulations on data protection. The applicant is responsible for the disclosure of the personal data contained in the application and, where appropriate, for requesting the consent of the parties concerned.
The GDPR-compliant privacy notice concerning the research funding process is available on our website under Data protection.
A subcommittee appointed by the RCF Board will make the funding decisions on 3 April 2025.
How to receive the funding
A positive funding decision is accompanied by the funding terms and conditions. They include instructions on how to receive the funding (section 1.2).
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- M-ERA.NET Joint Call 2024
