The Agence Nationale de la Recherche, the Economic and Social Research Council, the German Research Foundation and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) invite applications under the open research area in Europe 4th joint call. This aims to fund joint research projects between France, UK, Germany and the Netherlands in the field of social sciences. The scheme funds integrated projects by researchers coming from any combination of two or more of the participating countries excluding bilateral applications from French and German teams.

Proposals may be submitted in any area of the social sciences, however the disciplinary coverage may vary according to the involvement of the national agencies. Projects must constitute substantive integrated work, including both research, resource and infrastructure projects such as to establish surveys, datasets or corpora. Networking or other projects without a substantive focus will not be eligible.

All applicants and their institutions must fulfill national eligibility…