The Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen – South Tyrol and the FWF jointly request applications for bilateral, cross-border research projects. A bilateral project must be designed in such a way that each partner’s part of the project in their respective country is not an independent project and therefore cannot be carried out and funded separately. It is expected that both parties make a significant research contribution to the overall project.
The project description must include the following additional content:
• Added value created by the cross-border cooperation
• Division of work among the partners
• Organisation of the cross-border project management
Proposals are accepted from all scientific/scholarly disciplines, including clinical research. The maximum project duration that may be requested is 3 years.
The submission and review of applications takes place according to the lead agency procedure (LAP), in which the FWF acts as the lead agency. The FWF carries out the review of applications in line with its national procedures, then the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen – South Tyrol usually adopts the decision of the lead agency and, in the case of approval, funds the South Tyrolean part of the project based on an autonomous decision on the amount of funding.
