2027 Health Research Call for Proposals – La Caixa Foundation

Projects led by researchers from nonprofit research organizations located in Spain or Portugal are eligible to apply .

There will be two types of grants awarded:

• Individual proposals: submitted by a single research organization (applicant organization).
• Research consortia: submitted by a minimum of two and a maximum of five research organizations, coordinated by the applicant organization.

Research organizations:

Any nonprofit organization located in any country in the world that carries out activities related to the project. In research consortia, there must be a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 research organizations.

Civil society organizations:

In addition, both individual projects and research consortia may also include up to three nonprofit civil society organizations whose primary activity is not research.

Companies:

Established companies cannot be members of the project, but they can receive funding as subcontractors.

Overall, organizations not based in Spain or Portugal may not receive more than 30% of the total project budget.

The project must have a Project Leader (PL), who will be the principal investigator at the applicant organization. The Project Leader is responsible for submitting the proposal in response to the call for proposals and for overseeing the overall implementation of the project.

In addition, for projects submitted by consortia, each research organization must have a principal investigator responsible for carrying out the project activities conducted at that organization.

Project Leader (PL) Requirements:

• The project must be led by researchers of any nationality who are affiliated with nonprofit research institutions located in Spain or Portugal.
• The Project Leader must be the Principal Investigator at the applicant organization, who submits the proposal in response to the call for proposals and oversees the overall implementation of the project.
• The Project Leader must have at least seven years of postdoctoral experience ( as of the application deadline).
• Project leaders of projects funded in the three previous rounds of this call for proposals may not serve as project leaders for new proposals in this round.
• A single researcher may not serve as the project leader on more than one application in this call for proposals; however, that researcher may participate as a principal investigator or collaborator on multiple applications.
• With the aim of improving the quality of proposals, Principal Investigators (PIs) and Project Leaders (PLs) of projects that received a score below 5.50 ( out of a maximum of 8) in the peer review of the previous call (CaixaResearch Health Call 2026) may not serve as PLs on proposals for this call (CaixaResearch Health Call 2027).
• Similarly, the Principal Investigators (PIs) and Principal Investigators (PIs) of projects that receive a score below 6.00 (out of a maximum score of 8) in the peer review for this edition (CaixaResearch Health Call 2027) will not be eligible to submit proposals as PIs in the next edition (CaixaResearch Health Call 2028). Furthermore, the Principal Investigator (PI) and the Project Leader (PL) of proposals rejected during the content eligibility review for the current call will not be eligible to submit proposals as Principal Investigators in the next call.

• Team members. All members of the project team must be affiliated with the applicant organization, civil society organizations, or organizations in the research consortium.