MATERA+
What is MATERA+?
MATERA+ is an ERA-NET+ Action focusing on material science and engineering. ERA-NET+ Actions are an initiative of the European Commission [EC] aimed at providing additional EC financial support to those national and regional programmes that pool resources to organise a joint call for proposals. The negotiations with the Commission about their top-up funding are underway.
MATERA+ is a follow-on to the MATERA ERA-NET, which focuses on creating a durable cooperation platform for national and regional policy makers and managers with strategic activities in material sciences and engineering.
MATERA+ Call March 2009
The Technology Strategy Board has allocated an indicative budget of 1.5M euro to support UK* industry and associated S&T organisations within MATERA +
A competition call will be launched during March 2009.
* Northern Ireland will have a separate funding stream provided by Invest NI http://www.investni.com/index/grow/research_and_development.htm
The MATERA+ call is for transnational, interdisciplinary, innovative R&D projects related to materials science and engineering in certain European countries and regions, including the UK. Topics to be addressed in the 2009 Call:
• Multi-functional Materials
• Engineering Structural Materials
• Bio-based Materials and Bio-inspired Materials
Who is eligible to participate?
The call is open to industry, universities and research centres. The project consortia are challenged to demonstrate the whole chain from basic research to application-oriented research.
Funding is through national/regional funding programmes. Therefore applicants must verify both their eligibility and the rate of financial support with the relevant national/regional programme agency.
More information can be found in the MATERA website at www.matera.fi/
Graham M Mobbs, European Operations Manager
or
Alan Hooper, Lead Technologist Advanced Materials
Technology Strategy Board
B1, North Star House
North Star Avenue
Swindon
SN2 1JF
United Kingdom
Switch: +44 (0)1793 442700
E-mail: graham.mobbs@tsb.gov.uk
E-mail: alan.hooper@tsb.gov.uk