Horizon 2020 workshop

4 September, 2019 (10 am to 5 pm) @ Stockholm university

Högbomsalen, Geovetenskapens hus, Svante Arrhenius väg 12

Directions can be found here

In autumn, EU will officially publish the last round of calls within the H2020 framework. Despite being confidential, preliminary (but quite fixed) versions of the call texts are circulating, and there is one of great interest to our research fields, namely SC1-BHC-36-2020: Micro- and nano-plastics in our environment: Understanding exposures and impacts on human health. The budget allocated for this call allows for about 4-5 project, supposedly covering different aspects named in the call (e.g. “toxicology and uptake of micro- and/or nano-plastics and additives/adsorbed contaminants” or “effects and transport of micro- and/or nano-plastics across biological barriers”). The call will be launched in autumn 2019, and it is thus high time to start discussing ideas and forming working groups to prepare competitive applications when it is out. We have planned a workshop for this, similar to the one we had 2 years ago in Stockholm where we formed 4 consortia for the EDC call with complementary application, which were all successful.

We would like to invite you to a similar workshop on the 4th of September at Stockholm University which is easily accessible from Stockholm central station. We are planning a one-day workshop (approx. 10am-5pm) with interested colleagues from Sweden and the rest of Europe. The aim of this workshop will be to form project ideas that suit the call and identify working groups that will elaborate on these ideas. Mark this date in your calendars; more detailed information including a link to the registration form will follow soon. Please distribute the invitation to others that you regard as potentially interested. 

Please note that Swaccs (Swedish Academic Consortium on Chemical Safety, the academic Swetox successor) will fund the workshop but you will have to pay for travel expenses yourself.

Please indicate your potential attendance by emailing: joelle.ruegg@ki.se so that we will get an idea on how many participants we can expect.