European Joint Programmes

Programme Description

Joint Programming is another instrument for funding transnational collaborative research efforts tackling the major societal challenges such as climate change or the ageing society. Joint Programming is a new approach to foster coordination in Research and Development at European level driven by EU member states.

Currently, the following Joint Programmes are active in the field of Health:

• More Years, better Lives – The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change (JPI MYBL)
• Antimicrobial Resistance (JPI AMR)
• EU joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND)
• European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD)
• Urban Europe (JPI Urban Europe)
• A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life (HDHL)

Funding for participating project partners is provided by the respective national funding institution. Therefore, the relevant national or regional selection criteria and legal / administrative regulations apply.

The ERA LEARN 2020 Platform provides an overview of all active thematic networks and easy access to their open calls: Link

Notes on Joint Programming

Individual Consultation

• Please contact the EU-Liaison Officer for questions relating to the participation in calls published by Joint Programming Initiatives and for appointment for individual consultation.
• Please contact the EU-Liaison Officer well in advance to a planned application.

Consortium Agreement / Intellectual Property Rights

• Concluding a Consortium Agreement which regulates the internal governance as well as IPR between the project partners is mandatory in projects funded by Joint Programming Initiatives.
• The DESCA Model Consortium Agreement provides a reference document and is – in modified form – also used as template for many consortium agreements in JPI projects. You can find the latest version of DESCA here.
• Please send the draft consortium agreement to the EU-Liaison Officer who will forward it for legal review to the Technology Transfer Office of the Freiburg University (ZFT).

Project Implementation

• In contrast to the European Framework Progamme, participants in Joint Programming projects are funded by their national funding institution which participates in the respective joint programme.
• Therefore, national regulations for eligibility of applicants, for cost calculation and reimbursement apply.
• If a transnational research project has been retained for funding, German project partners have to apply for funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (through submission of AZA forms) to the DLR Project Management Agency or another responsible project management agency.
• Further information is available at the platform ‘Formularschrank BMBF’.
• Please notice the comment ‚Contact persons for other programmes‘ below.

Contact for your EU project

Other contact persons

For transnational collaborative research projects which are funded by the BMBF or any other German funding institution, please contact the responsible person for the administration of your department’s or institute’s national third-party funded projects in the ‘Drittmittelverwaltung’. The financial department is responsible for submitting AZA Forms and any required additional project-related information to the national project management agency.

This refers to projects funded through ERA-NET, Joint Programming Initiatives and the Eurostars programme.

The latest version of the list of staff and their area of responsibility (PDF) is available through the Medical Center – University of Freiburg’s intranet:

Verwaltung - Geschäftsbereich 1 - Controlling und Finanzen → Abteilung 1.1 – Finanzplanung -  Mitarbeit