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Social Research Call 2025 (SRC 2025)

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The Social Observatory of ”la Caixa” Foundation launches an open and competitive call to fund excellent, innovative and socially-oriented research projects. Proposals must generate new knowledge to broaden our understanding of the major challenges of today’s society, using quantitative methods.

The submission of proposals is structured through a two-stage procedure.

Submission period for proposals: January 7-22, 2025.
 

GOALS

  • This call will support excellent social research projects that rely on robust quantitative evidence and an original and innovative approach to provide robust information to better understand current and emerging social challenges.

  • Projects must be focused on Spain and/or Portugal.

 

 GRANTS

  • Up to €115,000 per project and up to 24 months duration.

 

WHO CAN APPLY?

  • The call is open to researchers who hold a PhD awarded more than 2 years before the call deadline as written in the Rules for participation (i.e. before 22nd January 2023).

  • The call is aimed at supporting proposals led by individual researchers of any nationality who conduct their research activity at a non-profit organization: public or private university or research centre legally based in Spain or Portugal.

 

CALENDAR


Information session:

Wednesday, 9th October. You can view the information sesion here:
 

 

Phase 1 - Application period (short proposals)

  • Opening of the submission period for short proposals: 7th January 2025

  • Submission deadline: 22nd January 2025, at 2 pm CET

  • Evaluation of short proposals: February - March 2025


Phase 2 - Pre-selected proposals (full proposals)

  • Opening of submission period for full proposals: March 2025

  • Submission deadline: 23th April 2025, at 2 pm CET

  • Evaluation phase 2.1: May 2025

  • Evaluation phase 2.2 (interviews): 18th-19th June 2025

  • Announcement of funded projects:  July 2025

 

  APPLICATION PROCEDURE

  • The submission of proposals is structured incrementally through a two-phase procedure. Applicants will first submit a 3-page short proposal describing the research idea and the social challenge(s) addressed, taking into consideration its novel and innovative aspects.

  • Applicants with successful short proposals will be invited to submit a full proposal of up to 15 pages providing detailed information on the project and the methodology. At this stage, applicants will also be required to submit a brief document regarding their research expertise and social and public sector expertise (1 page each).

  • Both proposals and the documents required must be submitted in English. All information regarding this programme will be exclusively available in English.

CONTACT

RESULTS OF THE CALL
 

Funded projects


List of evaluators

 

Summaries of the funded projects provided below:

 


 

CALL DOCUMENTS 

 

Rules for participation
 

Assessment of proposals


 

Proposals must be submitted through the online platform designed for this purpose  (http://grants.lacaixafoundation.org/). Applications received via other channels will not be accepted. 

 

PHASE 1 DOCUMENTATION

 

Short proposal guidelines and checklist
 

User’s Guide Short Proposal Submission


Template short proposal
 


PHASE 2 DOCUMENTATION


Proposals selected for Phase 2
 

Full proposal guidelines and checklist
 

User’s Guide Full Proposal Submission
 

Template full proposal
 

Template research expertise
 

Template public and social sector expertise

Proposals selected for the interview

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