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The 1st joint call for proposals of ERASynBio was launched in May 2013 under the ERA-NET scheme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. The call for proposals resulted in 55 proposals. 8 proposals were selected for funding, receiving public funding of more than 13 M EUR.
In total, the proposals included 307 different partner organizations: research organizations (279), SMEs (12), large companies (3). The projects covered all scientific (sub) fields of the call. Most projects are focusing on research issues related to Metabolic engineering (33), followed by Orthogonal biosystems (14), Bionanoscience (12), Regulatory circuits (10), Minimal genomes (7) and Protocells (4). Most proposals indicated that their research is connected to more than one of the listed (sub) fields.
Through the first joint transnational call of ERASynBio, eight projects involving 35 partners from 9 countries were funded. The coordinators of the projects come from five countries (Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, UK, US). Further analysis revealed that the majority of funded projects asked for a budget between 1 M and 2 M €, having an average number of 4 participants in the project.
List of funded projects:
Consortium:
| Roman Jerala | National Institute of Chemistry | Slovenia |
| Hendrik Dietz | Technical University of Munich | Germany |
| Derek Woolfson | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
| Andrew Tuberfield | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| David Baker | University of California | USA |
| Siriam Kosuri | University of Washingthon | USA |
| Tomaz Pisanski | University of Ljubljana | Slovenia |
Consortium:
| Joel Bader | The John Hopkins University | USA |
| Lars Steinmetz | European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) | Germany |
| Yizhi Cai | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| Romain Koszul | Institute Pasteur | France |
Consortium:
| Beatrix Süß | Darmstadt University of Technology | Germany |
| Sven Panke | ETH Zürich | Switzerland |
| Phillip Holliger | Univ. Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| George Church | Harvard Medical School | USA |
Consortium:
| Jörg Hoheisel | German Cancer-research center (DKFZ) | Germany |
| Jussi Taipale | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| Andreas Plückthun | Universitty of Zurich | Switzerland |
Consortium:
| Georg-August-University Goettingen | Germany |
| University of Basel | Switzerland |
| ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
| Graz University of Technology | Austria |
| FGen GmbH, Basel | Switzerland |
Consortium:
| Thomas Happe | Ruhr-University Bochum | Germany |
| Gilles Peltier | CEA Cadarache | France |
| Fraser Armstrong | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
Consortium:
| Bruce Turnbull | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
| Winfried Römer | Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg | Germany |
| Ola Blixt | University of Kopenhagen | Denmark |
| Birgit Wiltschi | Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology | Austria |
| Anne Imberty | Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble | France |
Consortium:
| Lars M. Blank | RWTH Aachen | Germany |
| Jochen Förster | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| Vassily Hatzimanikatis | University of Lausanne - EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Federale | Switzerland |
| Jay Keasling | JBEI Joint BioEnergy Institute | USA |