LTC Sarea Call For Proposals
LTC Sarea is a programme to support the internationalisation, improve scientific excellence and promote the connection with the region of the Laboratories for Trans-border Cooperation (LTCs), managed by Euskampus Fundazioa and funded by the Department for Higher Education and Universities of the Basque Government.
Description
Each LTC is created with the support of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the University of Bordeaux (UB), which launch a call every year to select a laboratory, through Euskampus Fundazioa. LTCs benefit from financial support and hire one pre-doctoral researcher and one post-doctoral research for four years. This initial boost helps to strengthen collaboration ties within the framework of each LTC in the Basque Country-New Aquitaine Euroregion area. The great achievement resulting from this initial funding has been the development of a network of scientific collaboration between the groups in both regions, which are, in many cases, at a key point in making the decisive leap towards opening up beyond the Euroregion context and the deployment of larger projects internationally, as well as contributing to the regional development of the Basque Country and New Aquitaine. This where LTC comes in, promoting laboratories so they consolidate their international positioning, produce excellent results and develop stronger ties with the region.
In addition, groups that have already had some cross-border collaborative experience but need a further boost to reach the previous history of collaboration required to be able to apply for future LTC calls are given an opportunity by LTC Sarea through the so-called LTC Incubators.
Goals
Euskampus Fundazioa, with the support of the Basque Government, is launching the Laboratories for Trans-Border Cooperation Network (LTC Sarea) programme through initiatives to consolidate and foster the achievement of a number of specific objectives:
LTC coordinated network.
- To promote a structured and coordinated LTC network in the RIS3 areas, generating a stable framework to carry out research projects in the NA-BC-N Euroregion.
Community of researchers.
- To structure a sustainable transnational community of researchers in which international collaboration environments are fostered through LTCs.
Maximising impact.
- To maximise the impact of LTCs in the RIS3 of the regions that form part of it.
Opportunities
The LTC Sarea programme is an opportunity for research groups from Basque Country and Bordeaux with a previous history of collaboration and a shared future research agenda.
Research groups that are part of any of the already existing Laboratories for Trans-border Cooperation (LTCs), or are interested in creating one in the future, can now submit their proposals for the LTC Sarea 2022-2023 to one of the following two ways.
Full text of the procedure can be downloaded here.
Existing LTCs.
- LTC Sarea template for existing LTCs wishing to apply for the LTC Sarea 2022-2023 grant
LTC Incubator.
- LTC Incubator template, for research groups with a shared research programme that would like to present an LTC project in the future.
For more information and to submit applications before 09/12/22, please contact Euskampus Fundazioa through the address of: contact@ltcsarea.eu
Beneficiaries
The beneficiaries will be entities to which the groups and researchers affiliated to the LTC or, where appropriate, LTC conversion project belong. The LTC Incubator grant can only be applied twice.