Fourth ORA Call for Proposals expected to be launched in September

The Open Research Area in Europe (ORA) partners announce that they expect the fourth joint call for proposals to open at the end of September this year. The deadline of the call will probably be January 15, 2015. After last year’s ORA Plus, in which the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA participated, ORA will return to a European set up for this call. Though NSF remains strongly committed to ORA, due to budget uncertainties, NSF is unable to participate in the next ORA Call.

This change means that there are four countries participating in the fourth ORA call, namely France (ANR), Germany (DFG), The Netherlands (NWO) and United Kingdom (ESRC). Proposals will be accepted for research projects in any area of the social sciences involving researchers from any combination of two or more of the participating countries (excluding bilateral applications from French-German teams).

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) will be collaborating with ORA in this call, as an associate partner and applicants to the ORA Joint Call may seek partnerships with Japanese researchers.

ANR will be the lead agency for the fourth ORA call. Deadline of submission of the third call was February 15, 2013.