Innovate UK: Interventions moving forward to promote action to counteract the emergence and spread of bacterial and fungal resistance and to improve treatments

18/01/2024

14/03/2024

This call will fund international collaborative research projects aiming to improve, compare and evaluate the effectiveness, cost effectiveness, and uptake of existing interventions against bacterial or fungal infections and/or to design new interventions against fungal infections. The total estimated call budget is over €19 million. Funding is initially granted for a maximum of three years in accordance with national regulations and applicable legal provisions.

Proposals should address one of the two topics of the call: - Topic 1: Design novel or improved interventions to prevent, mitigate and /or treat fungal infections, which are resistant to treatments and/or are at risk of developing resistance; - Topic 2: Improve and/or, compare and/or evaluate strategies, technologies, treatments, methods, protocols or data collection based on existing interventions, aiming to prevent or reduce the emergence or spread of antibacterial or antifungal resistance or to treat/cure infections caused by resistant bacteria/fungi and recommend new policies. Within this topic, projects should address one or more of the following subtopics: - Improve and/or compare and/ or evaluate the effectiveness of existing interventions (e.g. cost effectiveness clinical utility, socio-economic adaptability, reducing AMR emergence, spread, transmission, treatment etc.) - Identify the barriers to uptake, including factors leading to the success or failure of previously run pilot interventions, and when applicable design solutions to overcome them.

Applicant type Academic Institution; Commercial or Private Sector; Government or Public Sector; Non-profit Career stages Early Career and Emerging in Field; Mid-Career to Established in Field Eligibility Note Eligibility rules for the consortia are: The consortium must include a minimum of three (3) eligible project partners asking for funding from three (3) different eligible countries (including at least two amongst EU Member States or Associated Countries. The consortium can include a maximum of six (6) project partners. The maximum number of project partners can be increased to seven (7) if the consortium includes: at least one project partner from an under-represented country or at least one project partner where the Principal Investigator (PI) meets the definition of an Early Career Researcher or a company. The consortium can include a maximum of two (2) partners from the same country per proposal.