• The main purpose of regular Flexpool calls is to instigate innovative research projects that integrate across the wide expertise of the iDiv community and increase the visibility of iDiv’s “integrative” character across all member institutions. Successful projects should specifically focus on topics integrating within and across the five research areas (RAs): Biodiversity Change, Biodiversity and Complexity, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, Molecular Biodiversity and Adaptation and Biodiversity and Society.
• Eligibility: all full iDiv members (please see exceptions in the text of the current call)
• Grant salary and consumable funds
• Require 7 pages proposals that undergo evaluation process

Current Calls

• The Flexpool mechanism of iDiv is explicitly designed to promote integrative activities among scientists within the iDiv consortium. The Flexpool Support Fund pursues the same goals as the Flexpool mechanism and aims to the associate members.
• Eligibility: all associate members
• Funding is limited to 10 kEUR per project
• Grant cost for small projects, e.g., student or research assistants, workshops, travel costs, consumables, scientific instruments, etc.
• Require 2 pages proposals that undergo evaluation process

• Scientific excellence: Research quality and potential of research team and support of iDiv’s strategic missions
• Integration: Strengthen integration among iDiv members and within and/or among the iDiv research areas
• Activity: Strengthen and support member participation within iDiv

• Scientific excellence in the contribution to iDiv research
• Scientifically excellentapproach to integration within iDiv
• Feasibility
• Activity of the main PI or the group of Co-PIs at/for iDiv