The ”la Caixa” Foundation Call for Applications: CaixaResearch Health Call (6th Edition)

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The ”la Caixa” Foundation launches the sixth edition of the CaixaResearch Call for biomedical and health research projects. The aim of this call is to identify and support promising initiatives of scientific excellence with potential value and social impact, whether in basic, clinical or translational research.

Thematic areas:

  • Neuroscience
  • Oncology
  • Cardiovascular and associated metabolic disease
  • Infectious diseases
  • Enabling technologies focused on the four previous thematic areas

Eligibility:

  • Host Organizations (HO). Projects submitted may be led by researchers from non-profit research organizations based in Spain or Portugal
  • Project Leader (PL). The principal investigator at the host organization must also be the project leader who submits the proposal and coordinates overall execution of the project.
  • Research Performing Organizations (RPO). Any non-profit research organization, localized in any country around world, which carries out activities of the project.
  • Principal Investigators (PI). Each research performing organization must have a principal investigator responsible for performing the activities in the project carried out at their institution.
  • Civil Society Organizations (CSO). Both individual projects and research consortia may also include up to three non-profit civil society organizations that are not engaged in research as part of their usual activity (e.g. patients’ associations).
  • Companies. Established companies cannot be members of the project team, but may receive funds for subcontracted services.
  • Team members. All team members should form part of the host organization (HO), the civil society organizations (CSO) or the research consortia.

Funding details:

  • Duration of up to 3 years
  • Individual projects: submitted by a single research organization (Host Organization, HO), may request up to €500,000
  • Research consortium projects: submitted by at least two and no more than five research organizations and coordinated by the HO. Research consortium projects may request up to €1,000,000

Read more here

Important dates:

  1. Online informative session October 6, 2022. Click here to register.
  2. Application deadline November 15, 2022
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