We are pleased to announce a call for international research projects – CHANSE Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age. The CHANSE programme has been co-created by the HERA and NORFACE networks and will be implemented by 27 research funding organisations from 24 countries, coordinated by the National Science Centre, Poland (NCN).

The total call budget amounts to EUR 36 million and includes over EUR 26 million of national allocations complemented by up to EUR 10 million in co-funding from the European Commission.

All information about the Call is available at the CHANSE website: www.chanse.org.

Call in brief:

Call theme: CHANSE will support new and innovative research into the workings, meaning and consequences of transformations and innovations in the present digital age, viewed through the lens of the social and cultural dynamics. Whilst the call text does not preclude comparison with or investigation into other regions, every proposal must demonstrate a strong European dimension, i.e. investigating the changes taking place/affecting Europe as a whole, or at the level of a European country, city, community, etc.

Full call theme description is available here.

Project team: Composed of at least 4 Principal Investigators, i.e. partners, eligible to receive funding from the CHANSE funders from 4 or more different countries participating in the call

Project duration: 24-36 months

Recommended cap on funding for one international project: 1 500 000 EUR

Indicative timeline:

• Official call announcement and launch of the electronic submission system: March 9^th, 2021
• Deadline for outline proposals: May 7^th, 2021, 14.00 CEST
• Deadline for full proposals (for invited applicants): December 7^th, 2021, 14.00 CEST
• Call results: May/June 2022
• Earliest funded project start: September/October 2022

Countries and research funding organizations participating in the call:

PARTNER SEARCH TOOL:

In order to facilitate the process of forming research consortia, we offer applicants a partner search tool available here: https://ncn.gov.pl/partners/chanse/. This tool can be used by projects looking for partners and partners looking for projects.      

Full call documentation along with the link to the Electronic Submission System will be available on March 9^th, 2021.

For general questions please contact CHANSE Call Secretariat:

Dr Malwina Gębalska, CHANSE Programme Coordinator
Michał Kaczmarek, CHANSE Coordination Office
chanse@ncn.gov.pl
National Science Center, Poland

For questions related to national eligibility requirements by the Croatian Science Foundation please contact the Head of the Department for International Programmes and Funds Ms Jasminka Boljević at: jasminka@hrzz.hr.