The Indonesia Endowment Fund (LPDP) is now the second funding organisation from Indonesia which participates in the S&T Call. LPDP funds researchers from Indonesia in the thematic area Nanotechnology. For more information please read the call text and national regulations in our call section.

The 2019 Innovation Call for Proposals is open for the submission of proposals until 18/11/2019

The thematic areas  and participating countries are the following:

 a) Infectious Diseases (incl. AMR) and b) Smart Cities

Participating countries and funding agencies/ministries (1= Infectious Diseases (incl. AMR; 2=Smart Cities):

• Cambodia - Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY)1+2
• Czech Republic – Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS)1
• Indonesia – Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (RISTEKDIKTI)1+2
• Lao PDR - Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST)1+2
• Myanmar – Ministry of Education (MoE)1+2
• The Philippines - Department of Science and Technology (DoST), Philippine Council for Health Research & Development (PCHRD)1
• The Philippines - Department of Science and Technology (DoST), Philippine Council for Industry, Energy & Emerging Technology (PCIEERD)2
• Spain - Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)1+2
• Thailand - National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)2
• Thailand - Thailand Center for Excellence for Life Science (TCELS)1
• Turkey - Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK)1+2
• Vietnam – Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)1

You can find the call texts  our call section

Mid-June two Joint Calls for Proposals are planned to be launched under the SEA-Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation.

1. A S&T call in the thematic areas a) Integrated Water Resource Management and b) Nanotechnologies up to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4.

Funding Agencies and ministries from the following countries have announced their interest to join this call:

Brunei Darussalam

Bulgaria

Cambodia

Czech Republic

Germany

Indonesia

Lao PDR

Myanmar

The Philippines

Switzerland

Thailand

Turkey

Vietnam

Please note, that this list reflects the interest of funders to participate but that the final list of funders might not include all of the above listed funders or additional funders.

Please also note that some funders might only participate in one of the thematic areas of the call.

2. An Innovation call in the thematic areas a) Infectious Diseases (including Antimicrobial Resistance) and b) Smart Cities with a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) which is higher than 3.

Funding Agencies and ministries from the following countries have announced their interest to join this call:

Cambodia

Czech Republic

Indonesia

Lao PDR

Myanmar

The Philippines

Spain

Thailand

Turkey

Vietnam

Please note, that this list reflects the interest of funders to participate but that the final list of funders could include not all of the above listed funders or additional funders.

Please also note that some funders might only participate in one of the thematic areas of the call.

In its meeting on 23 January 2019 in Bangkok the Programme Steering Committee (PSC) selected the following 9 projects for funding:

Bioeconomy:



1) Irrigation4.0 - Strengthening agriculture 4.0 technology in a Thailand-Myanmar-Germany collaboration: development of a plant-based irrigation platform



2) BIOPLATE -Electroplating processes for biodegradable materials obtained from renewable biological resources



3) Purge to Value - Development of value added products with low environmental impact from the purge water of microalgae cultivation

Infectious Diseases:



4) Moxistrong - Moxidectin for Strongyloidiasis



5) Malaria & HIV drug resistance diagnostic devices - Development of paper based rapid diagnostic kits for Malaria and HIV drug resistance detection using recombinase polymerase amplification



6) PHIShINg - Paper based Hepatitis B Virus Electrochemical Immunosensors using AgNPs enhancement



7) PNEUMOFLUIDICS - Development of a microfluidic chip protein array as a serodiagnostic tool of early detection of pneumococcal infection



8) SEA-dog-SEA - Socio-Ecological Approach of Dog-borne zoonotic diseases in Southeast Asia



9) NEWTONIAN - New tools for the regional control of Asian liver fluke infection and associated severe liver diseases





The project coordinators have been informed about this deicision by the Joint Call Secretariat. The total funding volume of the projects amounts to approximately 2,7 mio. Euros.



More information about the projects will be available soon.

The decision meetings for the 2nd Joint Call under the SEA-Europe JFS will take place this week in Bangkok, Thailand on 22-23 January. The JFS Scientific Committee and Programme Steering Committee meetings will decide on the projects to be funded in the two thematic areas of Bioeconomy and Infectious Diseases.

The meetings will again be hosted by the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) Thailand and the Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences (TCELS), and will bring together representatives from 18 funding agencies and 16 countries from across Europe and Southeast Asia.

On Friday 19 October, the SEA-Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation held a Dissemination Event at the Mövenpick Hotel in Cebu, the Philippines, highlighting success stories from the project’s first Call, and looking ahead to the results of the second Call, which will be announced in early 2019.

The event was attended by representatives and researchers from numerous Southeast Asian countries who are interested in joining future calls, including from Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. The JFS team were especially pleased to welcome DOST Undersecretary Dr. Rowena Cristina L. Guevara from the Philippines to the event, following the successful 75th Meeting of ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology (COST-75) and the 10th edition of the Informal ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology (IAMMST-9), which were held in the preceding days.

The proceedings were opened by Dr. Konstantinos Glinos from the European Commission. ZSI was represented by Michael Wilkinson, who acts as Communication Specialist to the SEA-EU Joint Funding Scheme. Mr Wilkinson gave a presentation on the ‘success stories’ of the 10 projects funded under the 1st Call. Dr Guevara also gave a keynote address, highlighting the importance of the Joint Funding Scheme for creating projects which will positively impact both European and Southeast Asian countries.

The selection of funded projects for the 2nd Call will be decided at the meetings of the JFS Scientific Council and Programme Steering Committee, which will take place in Bangkok, Thailand in January 2019, with the results being published shortly thereafter.

The JFS was also presented in brief at the Workshop on Start-up Innovation, and the ASEAN Young Leaders Forum 2018, which were held on 17 and 18 October at the Shangri-La's Mactan Resort. 

For more information on the event, please see the agenda below.

A simple partnering tool was set-up to support the search for partners for interested applicants. Register with a profile indicating your resarch areas of interest or resarch idea. You will be able to search other profiles for potential partners and others will be able to see your profile and contact you. The partnering tool can be found under https://partnering.pt-dlr.de/SEAEUROPEJFS2018 

The Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) Belgium, the French National Research Agency (ANR) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) have joined the 2nd Joint Call for Proposals after the official launch of the call on 18 June 2018. Belgian, French and German applicants are now eligible for funding in both thematic areas of the call namely bioeconomy and infectious diseases. For the update and national regulations please go to the call section.

On 18 June 2018 the 2nd Joint Call under the SEA-Europe JFS in the two thematic areas BIOECONOMY and INFECTIOUS DISEASES has been launched.

16 funding agencies and ministries from 14 countries have so far confirmed their participation and it is expected that more countries will announce their participation soon. Please re-visit on a regular basis to get the latest news about additional funders.

For the call text and national regulations, please visit our call section.

The deadline for the submission of proposals is 18 September 2018.

From 7-11 May 2018 the EC's International Service Facility Team gave a training to the  Indonesian Science Fund (ISF) in Jakarta/Indonesia which is the candidate to host the call secretariat for the 2nd Joint Call.

The training went through all steps of the implementation of a Joint Call ranging from the moderation of the selection of topics to the evaluation procedure to the funding decision meeting. ISF's Team successfully mastered the training and now well prepared to host the upcoming 2nd Joint Call for Proposals.