Immunology Initiative

A Trilateral Chinese-Finnish-German Call for Proposals

The Immunology Initiative is a trilateral funding measure by three funding bodies: the Academy of Finland (AF, www.aka.fi/eng), the German Research Foundation (DFG, www.dfg.de), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, www.nsfc.gov.cn).

The Immunology Initiative aims to bring together relevant and competitive researchers and research teams from China, Finland and Germany to design and carry out jointly organised research projects in the field of immunology. Funding within this initiative will be available for multilateral collaborative research projects consisting of researchers from at least two of the partner countries. Within these research consortia, each national funding organisation will fund as a general rule only those project components that are carried out within its own country. The collaborative research projects must involve active communication and cooperation between the participating researchers.

Call for proposals was in June 2011. http://www.aka.fi/immunology2011