CHIST-ERA Calls

CHIST-ERA stands for European Coordinated Research on Long term Challenges in Information and Communications Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net.

The ERA-Net CHIST-ERA is a coordination and co-operation activity of national (and regional) research funding organisations in Europe and is supported by the European Union under the ERA-Net funding scheme of the FP7 (CHIST-ERA I from 2009 to 2011 & CHIST-ERA II from 2011 to 2015). The aim is to reinforce the transnational collaboration between European Member States in challenging multidisciplinary research in the area of ICST with the potential to lead to significant breakthroughs.

ICST play a key role in the European economy and for the society and CHIST-ERA targets a domain covering the whole scope of transformative/exploratory research activities in ICST that through the initiatives and actions of the ERA-Net may initiate and lead to a range of exceptional and unprecedented outcomes. As illustration:

1. In everything: chemical processing, NBIC, energy harvesting (Call 2011), bio-inspired networks, autonomic systems (Call 2010)
2. In the large: beyond exaflops, cloud computing, from data to new knowledge (Call 2011), web science
3. In the small: spintronics, DNA technologies, quantum information foundations and technologies (Call 2010), multicore architectures, smart dust

CHIST-ERA aims at leveraging/completing the national strategies and the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme of the European Union.

CHIST-ERA Calls 

Within CHIST-ERA, the partner agencies identify emergent scientific fields allowing European researchers to engage in high risk, high impact projects that will bring some advance in science by launching each year one or two transnational calls for proposals.

The text of the CHIST-ERA calls are defined and then published within six months after the topics selection based on the research community expertise and long-term vision to maintain a high level of relevance of the calls in very competitive evolving areas which need reactivity. The focus is long-term transformational research. The research agendas to be developed by the FET Flagship initiatives will feed into this topic selection process, to establish a close connection first to the Flagship preparatory actions and from 2013 onwards to the Flagship initiatives.

In addition CHIST-ERA follow the funded projects in organising a yearly CHIST-ERA Conference where projects present their goals and achievements to the research community, CHIST-ERA partners, Flagships communities and other stakeholders.