NCBiR informs about the following call for proposals
Call supervisor at CAWP:
Agnieszka Kołodziejska-Skrobek,
phone: 12 663 30 23,
e‑mail: agnieszka.kolodziejska-skrobek@uj.edu.pl
Financing institution:
National Centre for Research and Development
Subject of the call:
The call focuses on financing research covering issues in the field of biotechnology.
Scope of the call:
The submitted proposals must be multidisciplinary and include at least one of the following scientific approaches:
- Synthetic biology for the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, or re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes by use of e.g. (but not limited to) orthogonal bio-systems, regulatory circuits, minimal genome approaches and protocells.
- Systems biology for optimisation of biological processes, including investigation of regulatory mechanisms in intra- and intercellular processes for bio-production, modelling, development of new computational methods and other new methodologies.
- Use of bioinformatic tools (e.g. data standardisation, modelling, open repositories) for the identification and utilisation of metabolic pathways. Datasets can have different origins, e.g. appropriate datasets on genomics, phenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics etc. Mapping and exploitation of cellular processes and metabolic capacities for bio-production and for strain/variety improvement are also included.
- Biotechnological approaches (possibly in combination with chemical ones) to transform bio-based building blocks into molecules with high added value in a sustainable way.
Applications must be multidisciplinary and address one of the two topics as described below:
Topic A – Microbial communities (natural or synthetic), co-cultures and cascades of microorganisms for new products, value-added products and supply services as well as sustainable industrial processes.
Topic B – Pure cultures, cell free systems and enzymes for new products, value-added products and supply services as well as sustainable industrial processes.
Proposals should address the sustainable production and conversion of different types of feedstocks and bioresources into value-added products (e.g. bio-based materials, biofuels, biomedical products, flavours/fragrances, food/feed ingredients, pharmaceuticals, platform chemicals, pulp/paper products, textiles), or the development or improvement of sustainable industrial processes and supply services(e.g. upstream and downstream design, scale-up of biotechnological processes, systems approaches to bioprocesses and process development, gas fermentation).
Feedstocks and bioresources include, but are not limited to, syngas, waste and residues from households, agriculture, forestry, industrial by-products, and alternative raw materials.
Projects are expected to have a TRL (technology readiness level) ranging between 2 and 6 and should increase their initial TRL by 2 levels (see also definitions in ANNEX 3).
Submission of applications:
The submission of international applications takes place through an electronic system
Deadlines for the call for proposals:
The call will last until December 14, 2018 at 13.00 local time.
More information:
NCBiR (in Polish)
Information for applicants (in Polish)
Costs eligibility guide (in Polish)