Ninth joint JPI Antimicrobial resistance call open for proposals

The Joint Programming Initiative Antimicrobial resistance (JPI AMR) has launched the ninth Joint Call. Deadline for submitting pre-proposals for the call on Diagnostics and Surveillance is February 18, 2019. ZonMw participates for the Netherlands with a budget of € 1,000,000. Funding is up to € 300,000 per project. NWO-WOTRO can co-fund Dutch projects that include LMIC partners and contribute to global development and capacity building in LMIC. The budget for this co-fund is € 150,000.

The Call on Diagnostics and Surveillance 2019 will fund joint transnational research projects addressing the development of diagnostic and surveillance tools, technologies and methods to detect antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Projects should address the diagnosis of AMR infections in clinical and veterinary settings, or the surveillance of AMR in humans, animals and the environment. The call promotes projects with impact in low and middle income countries (LMICs) in Asia and Africa.

Projects should aim to either:

• Develop strategies, tools, technologies, and methods for the detection, monitoring, profiling and/or surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and dynamics leading to resistance;
• Study ways to facilitate and implement the uptake and use of existing strategies, tools, technologies, and/or methods for the detection, monitoring, profiling and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and dynamics leading to resistance.

Participating JPI AMR member countries besides The Netherlands are Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Spain and Sweden. The total budget for the ninth call is € 18.76 million.