Israeli-French Research Networks Program in Computational Neurosciences and Computational Cognitive Sciences

The program is to support the development of scientific and technological cooperation between French and Israeli researchers. French and Israeli research teams are hereby invited to submit proposals for research projects in the field of “Computational Neurosciences and Computational Cognitive Sciences”.
Proposals must meet the following preconditions. Those which do not meet the preconditions will be automatically rejected, and will not be passed on to the scientific committee for review and evaluation:
1. Projects should be proposed jointly by both French and Israeli teams. Each research project will be coordinated by two Principal Investigators (PI), one for each country.
2. The Principal Investigator on each side must be affiliated with an academic institution or a public or semi-public research institute. Researchers from industry may take part in the program as partners in a team headed by a Principal Investigator.
3. The proposal submission must include the application form appended to this call, and the accompanying supplementary documentation as defined in the Application Form.
4. Proposals for which funding is approved, which include experiments with animals, must submit the approval of the relevant Committee for Experimentation on Animals before the project can commence.
5. Proposals for which funding is approved, which involve human beings, must submit the approval of the relevant Helsinki Committee before the project can commence.

Evaluation will be based on:
1. Conformity with the definition of program research topics presented above;
2. Significance (quantitative whenever relevant) of the problem being addressed, and the potential impact of the proposed approach on solving it. Proposals should address these issues explicitly and provide as much evidence as possible;
3. Scientific merit, with emphasis upon the originality and novelty of the proposed research;
4. Clarity and quality of the research proposal itself – presentation of the topic, definition of research objectives, presentation of research methodology and detailed program of work;
5. Feasibility of the research program;
6. Practical applicability of expected research findings;
7. Prospects for continuation of the research collaboration within other funding frameworks, such as the EU Framework Program for Research and Technological Development;
8. Extent of genuine collaboration between the French and Israeli research teams;
9. The level of involvement of young researchers.