The ERA-NETs CHIST-ERA and ICT-AGRI-FOOD (ictagrifood.eu) organise a joint online workshop next November 23, 2020, bringing together the ERA-NETs' research funding organisations and experts for adapting the format of a Challenge call to the multilateral framework and to the respective thematic scopes of these ERA-NETs.
The workshop addresses the following objectives:
- Review of different Challenge initiatives
- Assess opportunity of launching a Challenge call within an ERA-NET
- Discuss what a suitable topic is for a Challenge call
- Estimate the required resources
- Establish methodology and calendar of the call preparation
The conclusions will contribute to the shaping of the Challenge call format for CHIST-ERA and of the related implementation roadmap and to provide recommendations for launching a Challenge call for ICT-AGRI-FOOD.
The programme features a combination of keynote talks in plenary and facilitated parallel brainstorming sessions.
Note: In order to prepare the workshop brainstorming session, participants are invited to answer the following 3-question survey.
| Meeting part | Content | Format |
| I | Review of Challenge initiatives in Europe and overseas: Format, objectives and expected impact | Plenary |
| II | Challenges examples: Evaluation campaigns organisation, impact on research | Plenary |
| III | Brainstorming session: Topic suitability, call launch and evaluation campaigns organisation within an ERA-NET | Parallel sessions |
| IV | Parallel sessions for CHIST-ERA and ICT-AGRI-FOOD to discuss specifics (candidate topics suitability…) | Parallel sessions |
The full programme is available below as attachment.
Registration: Please fill in the following webform.
Remote connection: https://anr.webex.com/anr-en/onstage/g.php?MTID=e06460e742b6d27fea5ae238fac78b01f
The workshop is open to any interested person free of charge, in particular to the researchers involved in evaluation campaigns organisation and to other ERA-NET-like multilateral partnerships of research funders willing to assess the opportunity to launch a call in the Challenge format.
Challenge Call: A Challenge call for research proposals targets a focused scientific objective. The selected projects all share this common objective proposing different approaches. Their progress is regularly assessed during their lifetime through so-called evaluation campaigns gathering all the projects The evaluation campaigns involve metrics and protocols implemented by the evaluation campaign organisers. The scheme combines competition among selected projects and cooperation: Data sharing and networking across projects are promoted.
Contact: chistera@anr.fr