The La Caixa Foundation launches a call for the investigation of COVID-19. Caixaimpulse COVID-19.
The La Caixa Foundation has launched a call, Caixa Impulse COVID-19, for the financing of clinical and translational projects scientific research or related to strategies and technologies that may have a direct impact on COVID-19 patients, who have already carried out preliminary validation activities or have clear evidence to support their hypothesis. The projects must seek a clear social impact and respond to a need related to the current pandemic crisis generated by COVID-19.
The call is aimed at Universities, university foundations, research and transfer centers, technology centers, hospitals, hospital foundations and non-profit institutions whose main activity is research based in Spain or Portugal who own the assets resulting from the research activity. In addition, projects may be presented by consortia constituted by legal entities of any member state of the European Union, as long as said consortia are led and represented by a non-profit institution from Spain or Portugal.
The deadline for submitting applications has begun on March 26 and will remain open until the 15 of April of 2020, and the process consists of two phases:
- Sending a letter of expression of interest (download model).
- The proposals selected in the first phase will be invited to submit the complete proposal (download model).
