Financing institution:

National Science Centre (NCN) in cooperation with the JPI HDHL network (Joint Programming Initiative “A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life”)

Subject of the competition:

This is to inform you that the National Science Centre (NCN) in cooperation with the JPI HDHL network (Joint Programming Initiative “A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life”), has announced a call for international research projects with the aim of better understanding the food-health relationship and subsequently translate this knowledge into programmes, products, tools and services that enable consumers in Europe and beyond to live a healthy life.   

The title of the JPI HDHL Call 2023 is: 

New food resources and technologies to improve public health and food security” (FOODRETEC)

Proposal Submission deadline is April, 21st 2023, 15h00 CEST a (joint full proposal - international level) and April, 28th 2023 (an NCN proposal - national level). 

Information on drawing up proposals 

• Research projects may be planned in the call for a period of 36 months.
• Both the minimum and maximum amount of funding are not specified (costs must be justified in relation to the subject and scope of research). 
• Funding proposals may be submitted by international consortia composed of at least 3 research teams from at least 3 countries participating in the call. The principal investigator of the Polish research team must hold at least a PhD degree. 
• Countries participating in the call:  Austria, France, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Romania.
  Requirements for the principal investigator: 
• the principal investigator must hold at least a PhD degree;
• a person named as the principal investigator in an NCN proposal under the JPI HDHL call must not be planned for a research activity in any proposal which has been submitted to the MINIATURA call and for which the funding decision has not become final. 
• the principal investigator may only be employed over the entire course of the project’s implementation at the entity planned as the host entity, pursuant to a contract of employment for at least half time of the full-time work;
• the principal investigator shall spend at least 50% of the project’s duration on the territory of the Republic of Poland. This period includes business trips essential to the implementation of the project, especially related to field research, participation in research conferences and archive searchers
• a principal investigator in a national proposal under the JPI HDHL call must not be a person for whom, on the last day of submitting proposals, the total number of ongoing NCN projects and proposals recommended for funding or under evaluation at the NCN is greater than or equal to 3 (excluding proposals submitted or funded under: TANGO; DIOSCURI; − EXPRESS CALL TO FUND RESEARCH INTO COVID-19; − PRELUDIUM BIS).
• Under the JPI HDHL Call 2023, funds can be applied for to cover salaries for members of the research team, salaries and scholarships for students and PhD students, purchase or manufacturing of research equipment and other costs crucial to the research project.
• The budget for the Polish research team in the joint proposal must be the same as the budget in the national proposal in the OSF submission system;
• The budget in the joint proposal must be specified in EUR and in the national proposal in the OSF submission system - in PLN, rounded down to total values;
• A purchase of a qualified electronic signature should be included in the project’s budget under direct costs, amounting ca. PLN 360 (a signature valid 2 years + validity extension kit valid 2 years).
• The EUR budget of the Polish part of the project in the joint proposal must be calculated according to the following exchange rate: 1 EUR = 4.6976 PLN.
• Indirect costs may not exceed 20% of direct costs. Additionally, indirect costs of up to 2% of direct costs may be spent on open access to publications and research data. Please include these costs in the planned budget in the maximum. 

• international level

At the international level, a single joint full proposal is prepared by the Polish research team with collaboration with international partners; the proposal must be written in English and must be submitted through the electronic submitting system of the JPI HDHL network. Proposal Submission deadline: April, 21st 2023, 15h00 CEST

• national level

At the national level, an NCN proposal concerning the Polish part of the project is drafted by the Polish research team and submitted to the NCN electronically via the OSF electronic submission system within 7 days of the joint full proposal submission date at the international level. Submission deadline for NCN proposals in OSF: April, 28th 2023

PLEASE NOTE: The information provided in national proposals and in joint proposals must be consistent. Joint proposals annexed to national proposals must be consistent with joint proposals submitted at international level. 

• by 12 April 2023 in the event that the project is planned in collaboration with other entities: 
  • ​ and JU acts as a leader in the project: 
    • research project cooperation agreement (drawn up by the NCN), to be downloaded from the ZSUN/ OSF system (under tab “Host entities”) in the form of a PDF file;
    • the declaration to the cooperation agreement for the proposed research project (as per the template attached as Annex 1 to this Information by the RSC);
    • the Research Project Entry Form and the VAT Eligibility Form filled out in the electronic system JU Project Zone
    and if JU acts as a partner in the project:
    • research project cooperation agreement (drawn up by the NCN), in the form of a PDF file, sent by the project's leader;
    • the declaration to the cooperation agreement for the proposed research project (as per the template attached as Annex 1 to this Information by the RSC);
    • the Research Project Entry Form and the VAT Eligibility Form filled out in the electronic system JU Project Zone
    •  

• by 18 April 2023:
  • a proposal draft (electronic version sent as a pdf file to the address of a call assistant at the RSC) for the purposes of review and verification of formal eligibility along with the pre-proposal);
  • the Research Project Entry Form and the VAT Eligibility Form filled out in the electronic system JU Project Zone

Not applicable to the proposals for which the research project cooperation agreement has been submitted to the RSC alongside the above-mentioned Form.

• by 24 April 2023 
  • the final version of the proposal (in the form of a pdf file generated by the ZSUN/OSF system, after having locked the proposal it will not be possible to re-edit it, signed with a qualified electronic signature by the head of the JU organisational unit (i.e. the Dean or Director/Head of other organisational unit) acting as the project’s host entity). The document should be generated by clicking the "Print PDF" option in the system and it should have a name given, in accordance with the following pattern: Surname and given name of the principal investigator, name of the programme, date of the document (Kowalski_Jan_JPIHDHL_24-04-2023);
  • a document generated by the ZSUN/OSF: “Confirmation of submitting the proposal by the representative of the entity”; 
  • a signed scan of the document generated by the ZSUN/ OSF: “Confirmation of proposal submission by the principal investigator” or a document with a qualified electronic signature; 

Additional informations:

RSC Information

Attachement no.1 to RSC Information

Competition documentation available on the website of the JPI HDHL network (the documentation applies to all applicants in the competition);