Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has pre-announced a call for applications for the 2024 ASPIRE-Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem program. In this program, the Japan-based researchers are expected to collaborate with researchers from other projects in the targeted countries below, which include the EU (with the Horizon Europe program).

Topic: Bottom-up.

Targeted countries: United States, European Union, Italy, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Belgium, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Canada, Australia, Republic of Korea (tentative)

Targeted Research Fields: AI and Information, Biotechnology, Energy, Materials, Quantum, Semiconductors, Telecommunications

Planned call open period: March-May 2024.

Please refer to the pre-announcement here *Please note that the information is subject to change and official information will be available on the JST ASPIRE website once the call is open.

Results of the evaluation for the ASPIRE 2023 call (June-Aug 2023) are available here. All selected projects are listed in a PDF attached to the page.