Call for proposals - The European Investment Bank proposes three new EIBURS sponsorships within its EIB-Universities Research Action

The European Investment Bank channels most of its institutional relations with universities through an EIB- Universities Research Action consisting of three different programmes:
- EIBURS, the EIB University Research Sponsorship Programme,
- STAREBEI (STAges de REcherche BEI), a programme for financing young researchers working on joint EIB-University projects, and
- EIB University Networks, a cooperation mechanism for university networks showing characteristics that are of particular relevance to supporting the objectives of the EIB Group.

EIBURS provides grants to University Research Centres working on research topics and themes of major interest to the Bank. EIB sponsorships, of up to €100,000 per year for a period of three years, are awarded through a competitive process to interested university departments or research centres, associated with universities of EU, candidate countries or potential candidate countries, with recognised expertise in EIB-selected areas, so they can expand their activities in these areas. The successful proposal will entail the delivery of a variety of outputs (research, organisation of courses and seminars, networking, dissemination of results, etc.) that will be the subject of a contractual agreement with the Bank.

For the academic year 2011/2012, the EIBURS programme has selected three new lines of research:
- European IP regimes and their impact on Technology Transfer/IP finance
- Analysis of investment needs in infrastructure sectors
- The rising of credit risk in microcredit: origins, warning signals, current state and future prospects

Proposals should be submitted in English or French by 16 September 2011.

Further information is available on the EIB website

Reference: 2011/C 185/04

(Added 2011-06-25)