Kurzbeschreibung:

There are at least 6000 to 7000 distinct rare diseases, the great majority being of genetic origin. Although individually rare, taken together rare diseases affect at least 26 to 30 million people in Europe. Moreover, they represent a major issue in health care: a large number of these diseases lead to a significant decrease of life expectancy and most of them cause chronic illnesses with a large impact on quality of life and the health care system.

Therefore, research on rare diseases is needed to provide knowledge for prevention, diagnosis and better care of patients. Yet, research is hampered by lack of resources at several levels: (1) few scientists work on one specific disease, (2) there are few patients per disease and they are scattered over a large geographic area, causing difficulties to gather the necessary cohorts, (3) existing databases and material collections are usually local, small, and not accessible or standardised, (4) diseases often have complex clinical phenotypes and require interdisciplinary cooperation for research, hence, interdisciplinary approaches to treatment.

The specificities of rare diseases – limited number of patients, scarcity of relevant knowledge and expertise, and fragmentation of research – single them out as a distinctive domain of very high European added-value. Rare diseases are therefore a prime example of a research area that can strongly benefit from collaboration/coordination on a transnational scale.

In this context, the ERA-NET “E-Rare” for research programmes on rare diseases has been extended to a third phase “E-Rare-3” (2014–2019) to further help in coordinating the research efforts of European countries in the field of rare diseases and implement the objectives of the International Rare Disease Research Consortium (IRDiRC). For the first time, the DFG is also a funding partner amongst the 24 parties that have decided to open the seventh E-Rare joint transnational call (JTC 2015) for funding multilateral research projects on rare diseases together with the European Commission (EC) under the ERA-NET Cofund mechanism. The call is being opened simultaneously by the parties in their respective countries.

There will be a two-stage submission procedure for joint applications: pre-proposals and full proposals. In both cases, one joint proposal document (in English) shall be prepared by the partners of a joint transnational proposal, and must be submitted to the Joint Call Secretariat (JCS) by uploading it on the electronic submission system by one spokesperson, the coordinator.

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Abgabetermin ist der 18.02.2015 (Ausschlussfrist)

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