http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-infrastructures_en.pdf
The calls in question are INFRAIA-01-2016-2017 & INFRAIA-02-2017 which are described in detail on pages 14 to 28 in the document at the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-infrastructures_en.pdf
€ 200 million is being made available in 2016-17 to fund so-called "integrating activities" for scientific communities in given fields for the transnational opening up, integration, networking and coordination of their research infrastructures. The activities funded should obligatorily involve i. networking cooperation between the research infrastructures involved and the respective scientific communities, ii. Transnational access, and iii. Joint research. Two categories of project are envisaged: for advanced communities (i.e. where a substantial amount of networking & coordination already exists) with a list of 27 different areas listed in the call covering bio & medical sciences, environmental & earth sciences, maths & ICT, physical sciences and SSH – for which € 88 million will be made available in 2016 and € 72 million in 2017 with awards for up to € 10 million per selected project following a single stage submission, evaluation and selection procedure; and for starting communities (i.e. communities which have not previously benefited from EU funding) where no topics are defined, for which € 40 million will be made available in 2017 and with awards of up to €5 million per selected project following a two-stage submission, evaluation and selection procedure.
According to the footnotes 4 and 6 on pages 15 and 23, any participating U.S. based entities in selected projects qualify to receive EU funding on an exceptional basis.
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Katie Murphy
National Council of University Research Administrators
Washington, DC
(618) 210-1593
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