20th Call for Proposals: an overview

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The 20th CERIC-ERIC Call for Proposals (semester 2024.1) has officially closed. As usual, the call has been a unique occasion for researchers from all over the world working in the fields of materials, biomaterials and nanotechnology to request open access to more than 60 instruments and support laboratories, through a single entry-point.
During this Call, a total of 162 proposals have been collected. Since many of them included access request to multiple tools and laboratories, demonstrating the strong complementary nature of the techniques available through our Consortium, there was a total of 228 instruments requested.

Proposals came from 29 countries all over the world (considering the affiliation of the proposals’ principal investigators), reflecting the strong international dimension on which CERIC-ERIC is based. Among them, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine have been the most represented countries: .

Country of affiliation N. of proposals
ITALY 61
CZECH REPUBLIC 20
POLAND 9
UKRAINE 9
CROATIA 6
GERMANY 6
AUSTRIA 5
GREECE 5
FRANCE 5
BELGIUM 3
INDIA 3
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF 3
JAPAN 3
SLOVENIA 3
TURKEY 3
HUNGARY 2
NORWAY 2
SPAIN 2
UGANDA 2
AUSTRALIA 1
BULGARIA 1
DENMARK 1
EGYPT 1
MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF 1
NETHERLANDS 1
ROMANIA 1
SERBIA 1
UNITED KINGDOM 1
VIET NAM 1

Now all the proposals will undergo to a technical and scientific evaluation made by an independent review panel.