CORE 2013 Application Guidelines - FNR

More documents

Recommendations

Info

CORE MULTI-ANNUAL THEMATIC RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2.2. CORE Peer Review The CORE Peer Review process guarantees the applicants an independent, state-of-the-art evaluation which has the objective to select those research projects that reflect academic excellence. All proposals will be evaluated according to a set of weighted selection criteria. The CORE review process consists of several stages: • Pre-proposals undergo an administrative eligibility check. • Full proposals are peer-reviewed by independent, international experts. • A thematic expert panel ranks the proposals and recommends funding. • FNR decision bodies select and approve the proposals to be funded. The applicant has the possibility to send an email to the FNR with a list of maximum 3 experts who should not be contacted as reviewers for this specific project. The email sent to submission@fnr.lu before the Full Proposal submission deadline has to list maximum 3 experts and their contact information and explain why this/these expert(s) should not be contacted to review the proposal. The FNR however reserves the right to make the final selection of the reviewers. The funding decision (including the full anonymised written evaluations 4 ) will be communicated to the applicants by end of October 2013. The description of the review process and the selection criteria can be found in the publication ‘Peer Review Guidelines’ available on the FNR webpage: www.fnr.lu/CORE. 2.3. FNR Grant Management System All FNR Grants, including the CORE 2013 Call are managed through an online submission system (FNR Grant Management System) accessible via https://grants.fnr.lu. This system provides applicants a web services interface for automated submission and further monitoring of completed grant applications and related services (acknowledgement emails, notifications and reminders). The system will guide you through the different steps of the application procedure. All forms have to be filled in online and submitted in electronic format. Please respect the font and page limitations indicated in the application forms! Otherwise your application may not be processed. The publication ‘e-Tutorial: Online Application’ explains how to log into the system and how to create a new application. Please download it from the FNR webpage: http://www.fnr.lu/CORE For technical questions regarding the ‘FNR Grant Management System’, please contact us by email at tech-support@fnr.lu or call our Help Desk at +352 26 19 25 51. 4 Please note that the comments by the evaluators may not necessarily be convergent. Differences of opinion about the merits of a proposal happen and are legitimate. Furthermore the FNR may take a position that is different from what could be inferred from the comments of the different evaluations for duly justified reasons. FNR / 6, rue Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / B.P. 1777 / L-1017 Luxembourg / T +352 26 19 25 1 / F +352 26 19 25 35 / www.fnr.lu Last updated 12 December 2012 11 of 46
CORE MULTI-ANNUAL THEMATIC RESEARCH PROGRAMME 3. Pre-proposal Application The CORE Pre-proposal Application for a project consists of 2 different steps: • Step 1: Completing the Online Application Form • Step 2: Submitting the Online Application Form The CORE Pre-proposal Application for a project consists of different elements: • The Pre-proposal Online Application Form is the FNR’s online ‘Grant Management System’ that contains general administrative and budgetary details of your application. • The Pre-proposal Form (Project Description) contains more detailed information on the proposed research project, i.e. on its scientific content as well as the organisation of the tasks to be undertaken. This Word file which you may download to your own desktop and complete off-line has to be converted to PDF before uploading. The ‘Preproposal Form’ is part of a web-based online application and cannot be submitted alone. • The Recent Curriculum Vitae for Applicant and Main researchers (no template provided). An e-Tutorial for the ‘Grant Management System’ is available in the ‘Help’ section of the online submission system and on the FNR website. Information on how to prepare your proposal is given on the following pages in blue italic characters inside the forms. If you need further advice and support, please contact your FNR Programme Assistant. 3.1. Step 1: Completing the Online Application Form Step 1 of the CORE Pre-proposal Application consists of 4 different tasks, which are presented as a ‘To Do’ list: • Task 1: Download the Pre-proposal Form • Task 2: Consult the Application Guidelines • Task 3: Fill in the Online Application Form • Task 4: Generate a PDF document After completion of each task, press the button ‘Done’ to validate the completion of the task and remove it from your ‘To Do’ list. The first task named ‘Download the Pre-Proposal Form’ requires you to download a WORD document, named ‘Pre-Proposal Form (Project Description)’ Please save it to your desktop and complete it off-line. A detailed description of the form is available in section 5.1. The second task named ‘Consult the Application Guidelines’ reminds you to read the present document to guide you through the application stages. A click on the hyperlink of the third task named ‘Online Application Form – CORE’ brings you to the Online Application Form (labelled Smartform) for the CORE Pre-Proposal, which contains the administrative and budgetary details of your project. The Online Application Form is divided into 5 sections that can be accessed individually: • Section 1. Principal Investigator and Coordinating Institution • Section 2. Research Project • Section 3. Research Project Consortium FNR / 6, rue Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / B.P. 1777 / L-1017 Luxembourg / T +352 26 19 25 1 / F +352 26 19 25 35 / www.fnr.lu Last updated 12 December 2012 12 of 46
Page 2 and 3: CORE MULTI-ANNUAL THEMATIC RESEARCH
Page 6 and 7: 1.4. Project Characteristics Projec
Page 18 and 19: Section 4.2. Primary and Secondary

CORE 2013 Application Guidelines - FNR

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?