JPI “A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life”

Call topics:

1. Mechanistic / experimental research (in vitro, animal and/or human studies) focusing on how dietary factors interrelate with cognitive functions and processes.
2. Translational research (animal and/or human studies) delivering the physiological basis for the development of effective strategies to influence dietary behaviour and/or to improve cognitive function and performance.
3. Epidemiological research elucidating the relationship between diet and cognitive function across the life course, exclusively based on existing cohorts or other on-going epidemiological studies.
4. Pilot and/or proof of principle studies for interventions in humans, to develop new strategies for the maintenance and promotion of cognitive function and/or healthy dietary habits during the lifespan.

For more information please click here: http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/news/177-call-for-proposals-nutrition-and-cognitive-function. 

Polish project awarded within the call:

Selenium in early life to enhance neurodevelopment in unfavourable settings

Polish Principal Investigator: dr hab. Kinga Polańska,

Partners: dr Luisa Minghetti – project coordinator (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy), dr Thierry Durrand (CNRS – University of Montpellier, France), dr Sascha Sauer (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, University of Wuerzburg, Germany), dr Barbara Viviani (Università degli Studi di Milano, Itlay), dr Susan Fairweather-Tait (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom)

The National Science Centre and the JPI-HDHL consortium invite researchers to a call for international research projects: “Intestinal Microbiomics.” Topics of proposals should fall within one of the following areas:

1. The short-term and long-term functional effects of diet, dietary patterns and dietary constituents on human intestinal microbiota.
2. The functional impact of diet-related variations in the intestinal microbiota on human health and/or the development of non-communicable chronic diseases.

The deadline for submitting pre-proposals is 28^th of April, 2015, 16:00 (CET).

The deadline for submitting full proposals is 1^st of September, 2015, 16:00 (CET).

It is also required that Polish applicants provide basic administrative data via the OSF electronic submission system (type of proposal: UNISONO) no later than within 7 days since the abovementioned deadline for pre-proposals.

Funding:

Within this call the NCN Council has allocated € 500,000 (max. € 250,000 per project)

Call documentation:

1. JPI-HDHL Call 2015 Announcement
2. JPI-HDHL Call 2015 NCN Eligibility Requirements

For detailed information please see: http://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/joint-actions/microbio...