The European Rare Diseases Research Alliance (ERDERA), aims to improve the health and well-being of the 30 million people diagnosed with rare diseases by making Europe a world leader in rare diseases research and innovation. The aim of this partnership is to create a multi-stakeholder rare disease ecosystem that has the potential to pioneer the digital transformation change in rare disease research and innovation, based on health research data, by developing new diagnostic and therapeutic pathways.
ERDERA will structure the European Research Area on rare diseases by supporting the coordination and alignment of national and regional research strategies, including the establishment of public-private collaborations through research activities all along the R&I value chain, accelerating the transformation of the knowledge journey into patient impact and thus supporting the EU innovation potential in the field of rare diseases.
Project proposals to be submitted within the scope of the ERDERA 2025 Call are expected to include at least two of the research field titles listed below.
Title 1: Development of novel therapies in a pre-clinical setting
Title 2: Creation and validation of predictive and pharmacodynamic biomarkers
Title 3: Replication of pre-clinical findings to enhance reliability
Title 4: Pre-clinical proof-of-concept studies for therapy readiness
ERDERA 2025 Call, which will support project proposals submitted by multi-partner international consortia, will follow a two-stage application process and funding decisions are expected to be taken by December 2025. The application deadlines are 13 February 2025 for the pre-proposal submission and 9 July 2025 for the full proposal submission.
You can find detailed information about the International Call announcement and application process from the link below.
It is strongly recommended that you review the ERDERA 2025 National Application Rules document to learn about national processes. You can access the document (in Turkish) and comprehensive information from the link below.
In addition to international project applications to be submitted to the call secretariat, it is also mandatory for researchers from Türkiye to take part in the projects to submit a national project application to TÜBİTAK (https://uidb-pbs.tubitak.gov.tr). Project proposals to be submitted from our country within the scope of this call will be supported within the scope of TÜBİTAK 1071 Support Program for Increasing the Capacity to Benefit from International Research Funds and Participation in International R&D Collaborations. Since the application may be returned without being evaluated in case of non-compliance with the application rules, the national application rules has been given below and must be examined in detail before applying.
Call Schedule:
Deadline for submission of pre-proposals to the Joint Call Secretariat: 13 February 2025 (14:00, CET)
Deadline for the TÜBİTAK national application of pre- proposals: 21 February 2025 (23:59, UTC+3)
Deadline for the e-signature processes of the TÜBİTAK national application of pre-proposals: 26 February 2025 (23:59, UTC+3)
Deadline for submission of full proposals to the Joint Call Secretariat: 09 July 2025 (14:00, CET)
Call Contacts
For information on the International Application and the ERDERA 2025 Call:
M. Merve POLAT, PhD
Directorate for EU Framework Programmes
e-mail: erdera@tubitak.gov.tr
Phone: 0312 298 17 82
For Information on the National Application for TÜBİTAK 1071 Program
Arif DUYAR
International Cooperation Projects Research Support Group (UPAG)
e-mail: arif.duyar@tubitak.gov.tr
Phone: 0312 298 16 28
