5TH EU-LAC JOINT CALL IN STI 2025

The EU-LAC Interest Group towards the Common Research Area launches a new Joint Call to enhance the bi-regional cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation.

The aim of the Joint Call is to initiate sustainable and multilateral research cooperation between researchers from Europe, Latin-America and the Caribbean countries. Transnational consortia are invited to submit proposals related to six topics in the thematic fields of:

• Global Challenges
• Bioeconomy
• Health (Global Health or Infectious Diseases)
• Energy
• Open Science

Consortium Criteria

Applicants can represent public and private scientific, research, technological and innovation institutions on national, federal or EU-LAC regional level, research active industry, non-governmental organisations and other institutions involved in research activities.

Each consortium submitting a proposal must involve a minimum of four eligible partners from four different participating countries with at least two countries from each region (EU and LAC). Each collaborative consortium should have the optimal critical mass to achieve ambitious scientific and/or innovation goals. The coordinator must be eligible for the funding agencies participating in this call.

Each consortium selected for funding must provide a Consortium Agreement, signed by all participants, to clarify the potential Intellectual Property Rights matters and send it to the call secretariat (UEcelac@fecyt.es) within 3 months following the official project start date.

Only transnational projects will be funded.

Proposal submission

Project proposals must be submitted by transnational consortia electronically using the PT-Outline webtool from DLR. All proposals must be written in English. The only currency to be applied in the proposal is EURO.

The coordinator should fill in the application from on behalf of the whole consortium and submit the proposal. The coordinator must confirm that the proposal is endorsed by all project partners by clicking the relevant box in the PT-Outline webtool.

Deadline: May 22, 2025