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Eligibility
Participants in a Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Network of Excellence must be affiliated with an academic research center in North America or Europe, and must have expertise in cardiovascular or neurovascular disease or an appropriate related field. The inclusion of researchers from centers outside Europe and North America as members is permitted in special cases with prior Fondation Leducq approval.
Transatlantic Network grants are not renewable. Members of concluding networks, who wish to reapply to the Transatlantic Networks Program with a network that consists of largely of the same participants, and with a theme similar to that of the existing network, are urged to present a new and original direction for research. All applications will be considered on a de novo basis.
Members of ongoing Leducq networks who plan to apply again for Fondation Leducq funding must respect the following rules, taking effect as of the 2010-2011 application cycle:
• Network coordinators cannot participate concurrently in any other Leducq network, in any capacity. Following the conclusion of the program of which they were the coordinators, they are ineligible to apply again to the Transatlantic Networks Program as a network coordinator, although they are eligible to participate as a member of another network. An exception is made for network members who, for whatever reason, have taken up the responsibility of network coordinator during the term of the network grant; they may apply to the foundation as the coordinator of a new network.
• Before the 2009-2010 application cycle, network members were divided into core members and associated members. This distinction has been abandoned, and all network participants other than the coordinators are known simply as members. Network members may not participate in more than two Leducq networks concurrently. (This rule applies only to the 5-year term of the grant, and not to the no-cost extension period that networks may choose to implement.)
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