Spain: AEI

Representative:

Name: Beatriz Gómez Miguel

E‐mail: beatriz.gomez @aei.gob.es

Administrative and technical issues:

Name: Jorge Sotelo Santos; Raquel Fernández Reyes

E-mail: era-mat@aei.gob.es

Scientific Issues:

Name: Dr. Roberto Pacios; Dr. Federico Mompeán García

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Fundamental/Basic Research, Applied Research, Experimental Research.

All TRLs.

The eligible entities for the AEI funding are (check General requirements):

Non-profit research organizations (such as universities, public research institutions, technological centres and other private non-profit institutions performing RDI activities in Spain), as per PCI call document (or equivalent).

MANDATORY:

The Spanish Principal Investigators (PIs) must be eligible as per PCI call (or equivalent) and must have experience as investigators in projects funded by the Plan Nacional I+D+i 2008-2011, the Plan Estatal I+D+i 2013-2016, the Plan Estatal I+D+i 2017-2020, 2021-2023, ERC Grants, European Framework Programmes or other relevant international programmes.

Important:

1. Applicants have to send to the AEI (era-mat@aei.gob.es) the document “Declaración de responsable” duly signed by the Spanish principal investigator. They must send it until one week after the deadline of the phase 1 of the call,

• The document to be signed you can find it on Convocatorias Internacionales | Agencia Estatal de Investigación “Ciencia de materiales” M-ERA section. You can download it in PDF and WORD

2. The applicants should include the PI’s full name and the full name of their institution as it is stated in the “Sistema de Entidades (SISEN)”.

Incompatibilities (these must be taken into account when participating in different ERA-NETs or other international initiatives):

• Principal Investigators will not be eligible for funding if they apply in more than one proposal of this transnational joint call, in more than one proposal in the same PCI call (or equivalent) and in PCI calls (or equivalent) of consecutive years.
• If the same PI submits two or more proposals to the present call, all but one will be declared ineligible, without the possibility of changing the PI.
• A PI that has been granted a PCI the previous year will be declared ineligible, without the possibility of changing the PI.
• PIs must remain unchanged between the proposal of this transnational joint call and the national PCI call.

Please consult the specific document on eligibility for PCI calls.

The AEI will avoid double funding and will not grant projects or parts of projects already funded through other national or EU calls.

Eligible costs:

• Only personnel costs for exclusive dedication to the project are eligible. The costs of permanent staff linked to the beneficiary entity or members of the research team will not be considered eligible costs.
• Direct costs such as current costs, disposable materials, travelling expenses, coordination costs, and other costs that can be justified as necessary to carry out the proposed activities.
• Indirect costs (overheads) are eligible costs (25% of total direct costs, including outsourcing).
• Subcontracting should not exceed 25% of total final budget (excluding overheads).

Prioritisation criteria:

In the case two or more projects are considered equal with respect to their scientific merits, the AEI will prioritise funding projects that comply with more of the following criteria:

• Consortium is led by a Spanish Coordinator funded by AEI
• Consortium includes a Spanish Industrial partner (requesting funding or participating with own funds)
• Scientific relevance of the Spanish team contribution
• Alignment with theEstrategia Española de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación 2021-2027 and the is the Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica e Innovación 2024-2027.

Mandatory acknowledgement:

Any publication or dissemination activity resulting from the granted projects must acknowledge funding by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación: “Project (reference nº XX) funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación through the PCI XX call (or its equivalent)”.

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