CORE 2013 Application Guidelines - FNR

CORE
MULTI-ANNUAL THEMATIC
RESEARCH PROGRAMME
4.1.2. Research Project
Section 2.1. Research Project
• Project Title: * Should not be longer than 200 characters.
• Project Acronym: * The short title or acronym will be used to identify your proposal
efficiently. Should not be longer than 10 characters.
• Project Start: * Suggested start of the project is 1 January 2014. Note that the start of
the project must occur six months after the organisation has received written
confirmation of FNR support (end of October 2013) at the latest, otherwise the FNR
might withdraw any offer of support.
• Project Duration (in months): * Insert the project duration as stated in the “CORE 2013
Project Plan”. This Excel workbook is available on the FNR’s website. Note that
projects should have a duration of 2-3 years. In case a PhD is foreseen to be covered
by the CORE project budget, the project duration must be 3 years (see 6.4.1 Personnel
Costs ).
• CORE Junior Track: * Select ‘Yes’ to submit through CORE Junior Track (see 1.5.)
• Resubmission: * Select ‘Yes’ if the project is a resubmission of a previous CORE or
INTER project!
• Follow-up: * Select ‘Yes’ if the project is based upon a previous FNR project.
• Total Project Costs (e.g. € 500000): * Insert the ‘Total Project Budget’ as stated in the
‘Budget Summary’ worksheet inside the ‘CORE 2013 Budget.xls’ workbook. Do not use
points or commas as decimal separators
• Requested Funds from FNR Programme: * Insert the funds you intend to request from
the FNR as stated in the ‘Budget Summary’ worksheet inside the ‘CORE 2013
Budget.xls’ workbook. Do not use points or commas as decimal separators
• Total Effort (Person Months): * ‘Person*months’ is the metric for expressing the effort
(amount of time) PIs and other personnel devote to a specific project. The effort is
based on the presumption that each fulltime member of staff can work 12
person*months per calendar year. Insert the total person*months needed for the full
duration of the project as stated in the ‘Budget Summary’ worksheet inside the ‘CORE
2013 Budget.xls’ workbook.
• Total Effort to be Financed by Project (Person Months) * Insert the person*months for
which you intend to request an FNR funding as stated in the ‘Budget Summary’
worksheet inside the ‘CORE 2013 Budget.xls’ workbook.
• Total Effort PI (Person Months) * Insert the total person*months you intend to work on
the project as PI as stated in the ‘Budget Summary’ worksheet inside the ‘CORE 2013
Budget.xls’ workbook.
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Last updated 12 December 2012
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