The 12th call for proposals of "Bioeconomy International" is open!

The deadline for proposal submission is November 25th 2024, 1 PM CET.

This call contains four bilateral modules with co-funding for partners from

1. Queensland/ Australia (submission tool via www.bioeconomy-international.de/qld2025 )

2. Sao Paulo/ Brazil (this submission tool)

3. Thailand (this submission tool)

4.. Vietnam (this submission tool)

Cooperation with other countries are NOT eligible (only as third countries with their own funding).

If you have partners from Queensland (module 1) – please go to the parallel submission tool at www.bioeconomy-international.de/qld2025.

This submission tool is only for module 2 – 4 with partners from Sao Paulo, Thailand or Vietnam.

Proposals of the German partners must be submitted exclusively using this online tool. Proposals submitted via E-mail, fax, paper copy will not be considered for evaluation. For detailed information concerning the Bioeconomy International program see the official German “Bekanntmachung” under “Call Documents” (left side of the screen, in German and English).

Please, use the respective “template for project description” (also under “Call Documents”) and do not forget to submit in parallel a proposal with the same content at the submission tools of the respective funding agency in Sao Paulo / Thailand / Vietnam.

Module 2 – Sao Paulo/Brazil:

This call invites joint research proposals within the following research topics:

• Industrial use of sustainably produced biomass for products with an added-value (also with support of e.g. biotechnological approaches, metabolic engineering, IoT, synthetic biology and systems biology).
• Sustainable agriculture for tomorrow’s nutrition: Increasing productivity (also with support of e.g. precision, smart and digital agriculture) under consideration of a careful use of the environment and resources.
• Innovations to support sustainable and resilient food systems (e.g. innovations that enable resource efficiency and valorization of side streams, circular systems, waste reduction, resilience against shocks (like pandemics, climate shocks, political shocks etc.))
• Enhancement of predictive breeding technologies and development of new genotypes leading to new phenotypes and crop varieties for improvement of plant health, protection, production and resilience (with support of e.g. AI).

Proposals in Sao Paulo can be submitted via the following link:

PT: https://fapesp.br/17062

ENG: https://fapesp.br/17063

If you have questions with regard to the submission in Sao Paulo, please contact:

Alexandre Roccatto
Science Manager – Engineering and Natural Sciences
Scientific Directorate
FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation, Brazil
www.fapesp.br/en
E-Mail: chamada-bmbf@fapesp.br

Module 3 – Thailand:

The aim of this program is to fund high quality R&D projects with Thai/German cooperation making an important contribution to one of the following topics. The project proposals should generally include a connection to the production of high-value chemical compounds. This includes bio-hydrogen, but is not limited to the latter:

1. Synthetic biology for the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, or re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes (e.g., orthogonal bio-systems, regulatory circuits, minimal genome approaches, and protocells).
2. Systems biology to expand the knowledge of biological processes and regulatory mechanisms in intra- and intercellular processes. This includes the use of bioinformatics tools (e.g., data standardization, modeling, open repositories) and the development of new computational methods.
3. Metabolic engineering for targeted optimization of microbial production strains and biological processes, including the optimization of metabolic pathways and their regulation.
4. Development or advancement of technologies for production of value-added products from sustainably-sourced biomass.
5. Biotechnological approaches (possibly in combination with chemical ones) to transform bio-based building blocks into high-value products in a sustainable way.
6. Innovations to support sustainable and resilient food systems focused on reducing or reusing wastes, enhancing efficiency, and improving circularity.
7. Use of bioinformatics tools (e.g., data standardization, modeling, open repositories) for the identification and utilization of metabolic pathways, such as those useful for bio-production and strain/variety improvement.

In Thailand, proposals can be submitted via: https://www.pmu-hr.or.th/en/portfolio/germany-thailand-bioeconomy-call-announcement-2569-eng/ 

If you have questions with regard to the submission in Thailand, please contact:

Dr. Sonthaya Chaiarwut (Mr)
Project Anylst (Global Partnership Program)
Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation (PMU-B), Thailand.
Tel. : (+66)2-109-5432
E-mail : schaiarwut@gmail.com

Module 4 – Vietnam:

The aim of this program is to fund high quality R&D projects with Vietnamese/German cooperation making an important contribution to at least one of the following fields of action:

1. Development / optimization of production processes or of new / optimized strains and enzymes for the industrial usage of renewable resources;
2. Cascade use of agricultural residues/side-products for sustainable agricultural production / towards circular economy
3. Application of New Breeding Technology for crop improvement;
4. Application of Nano Technology for agriculture;
5. Application of ICT Technologies, such as (Big) Data storage, compression, annotation, analysis and presentation as well as KI-approaches, to make such data available for application in precision farming, smart intensification of agriculture and bio-industry

Now, the call is also launched in Vietnam. In Vietnam, proposals can be submitted via::

https://www.most.gov.vn/vn/pages/Thongbao.aspx?vID=250

If you have questions with regard to the submission in Vietnam, please contact:

Mr Đinh Viết Dũng
Official of International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Science and Technology
Tel: +84 - 39435376;
Mobile: 0913-266-851;
E-mail: dungdv@most.gov.vn

Projects in the frame of Bioeconomy International 2025 shall significantly contribute to implement the Bioeconomy on a global level.

The aim of this program is to fund German partners (universities, research organisations and industry) in international consortia. A key requirement of this program is that the projects have to be at eye level. This means that partners from abroad are working equally in cooperation with German partners. All partners should bring their expertise to solve a problem in joint efforts which is difficult (or impossible) to be solved alone.

Please, respect that this call for proposals does not intend to fund development aid-projects and the added-value for Germany must be clearly demonstrated!

If you have questions concerning the application procedure, please read our FAQ-document (also under “Call Documents”) or contact

Dr. Veronika Jablonowski
Tel.: +49 2461/61-5083
v.jablonowski@ptj.de or

Dr. Christian Breuer
Tel.: +49 2461-61-96929
c.breuer@ptj.de

Projektträger Jülich (PtJ)
Geschäftsbereich Biologische Innovation und Ökonomie (BIO)
EU & International Affairs (BIO 7)
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
52425 Jülich
Germany