Out of the 643 proposals submitted to the Research and Innovation Actions (RIA), 24 projects have been selected to enter the Grant Agreement preparation phase. The Coordination and Support Action (CSA) will have four projects entering the next phase, out of 32 proposals submitted.
All Grant Agreements are expected to be signed by the end of May 2015.
FET Open supports early-stage research on any idea for a new technology. There are no pre-defined themes. It encourages scientists and engineers from multiple disciplines to work together on game-changing science and technology research, expanding well beyond the traditional technological disciplines. It also encourages proposals with new and promising ideas from new, high-potential actors in research and innovation who may become the scientific and industrial leaders of the future. Overall, FET Open will receive 40% of the total FET budget in Horizon 2020.
The next cut-off for submitting proposals to both the RIA and CSA actions is 30th March 2015
Below you can find the list of institutions coordinating the projects entering the Grant Agreement preparation phase:
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (PT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), Chalmers Tekniska Hoegskola AB (SE), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (FR), Cranfield University (UK), Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour La Recherche (FR), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (EL), Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. (DE), Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (PT), Julius-Maximilians Universitaet Wuerzburg (DE), National Technical University of Athens – NTUA (EL), Sigma Orionis SA (FR), Stichting VU-VUMC (NL), Technion Israel Institute of Technology (IL), Technische Universität Graz (AT), Technische Universität Wien (AT), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (NL), The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford (UK), The University of Exeter (UK), The University of Nottingham (UK), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES), Universidad del Pais Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (ES), Waterford Institute of Technology (IE) , Weizmann Institute of Science (IL).
