Horizon 2020 - Boosting the efficiency of photosynthesis - RIA

Call: 

BIOTEC-02-2019

Topic/s: 

Proposals should work towards the optimisation of photosynthesis by capitalising on multidisciplinary approaches, such as functional genomics, systems biology, metabolic modelling, enzyme engineering, computational biology, synthetic biology, directed evolution and gene editing techniques. 
Proposals should cover at least one of the following: 
- new tools improving the performance of the catalytic enzymes involved in photosynthesis;
- new tools to increase the rate of CO2-fixation;
- engineered enzymes for novel CO2-fixation pathways.
Proposals should include Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) elements regarding the technologies used and the environmental and socio-economic impact of the expected output.

Beneficiaries: 
Local public authority
Regional public authority
National public authority
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Interest groups including NGOs
Higher education and research
Education/training centre and school
Start up
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
SME
Business support organisation
EGTC
General public
International organization, EEIG under national law
Call Budget: 
31 000 000,00€
Co-funding percentage maximum: 
100%
Opening date: 
16th Oct 2018
Deadline date: 
22nd Jan 2019