EIG CONCERT-Japan is delighted to announce that its Joint call on "Design of Materials with Atomic Precision" is now open until Monday, 18 July 2022. Projects with an innovative dimension will be funded for a period of 3 years. 
The Joint Call is being funded by 9 national funding organizations from 8 different countries: 

• Japan: Science and technology Agency (JST)
• Spain: Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness – through the State Research Agency (MINECO – AEI)
• Turkey: Scientific and technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) 
• Czechia: Ministry of Youth, Education and Sports (MEYS)
• Czechia: Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS)
• Bulgaria: Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF)
• Poland: National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR)
• Hungary: National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH)
• Slovakia: Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS)

Only researchers based in these countries are eligible for funding in this EIG CONCERT-Japan Joint Call. 
The Design of Materials with Atomic Precision call aims to contribute to opening new perspectives in a wide range of research areas and solving pressing contemporary issues related to the environment, resource use, medicine and health by inviting research teams from Europe and Japan to collaboratively develop new designs of materials with atomic precision.
CONCERT-Japan (Connecting and Coordinating European Research and Technology Development with Japan) began as an ERA-NET project funded by the FP7 between 2011 and 2014. Its primary function is to collaboratively implement multilateral joint funding with the objective of enhancing the cooperation between European countries and Japan in various fields of STI.
CONCERT-Japan is now continuing independently of EU support as an activity of the European Interest Group (EIG), hence the name "EIG CONCERT-Japan".
The joint call text and the applicants’ guidelines are available for download on the EIG CONCERT-Japan website.
Contact person: Léa Debraux, Joint Call Secretariat by email or telephone +33 (0) 1 44 96 40 11