ERare has opened the seventh ERare joint call for funding multilateral research projects on rare diseases (JTC 2015) together with the European Commission (EC) under the ERANetcofund mechanism. The call is expected to be opened simultaneously by the parties in their respective countries.The following 17 countries (23 funding agencies) intend toparticipate in this call: Austria, Belgium (Flanders and French speaking community), Canada (including Québec), France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Poland,Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Turkey. The aim of the call is to enable scientists in different countries to build an effectivecollaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project based on complementarities andsharing of expertise, with a clear translational research approach.Projects shall involve a group of rare diseases or a single rare disease following theEuropean definition. For more information, details of the topic, eligibility criteria andtimeline go to www.erare.eu
