CORE 2013 Application Guidelines - FNR

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1.4. Project Characteristics Project duration The project must have a duration of 2 to 3 years. CORE MULTI-ANNUAL THEMATIC RESEARCH PROGRAMME The suggested start of the projects is 1 January 2014. Earliest possible start is 1 December 2013 and projects cannot start later than 1 May 2014. Please note that the FNR reserves the right to review any offer of support if the start of the project is delayed for more than six months after the organisation has received written confirmation of FNR support. Number of project proposals per PI Up to two project proposals may be submitted per PI. CORE Junior Track applicants may only submit one project proposal. Language of proposal All applications (pre-proposals, full proposals) and following reports (annual reports, final report) have to be written in English. 1.5. CORE Junior Track In view of providing non-established PIs with an adequate framework for first project applications, the FNR has developed a ‘Junior Track’ within CORE. The CORE Junior Track targets early career-stage researchers who have been awarded little or no own project funding as yet but who wish to establish their independent research line 3 . It is therefore understood that the PIs will work on their project for a large percentage of their time. The ‘Junior Track’ applications will be processed and evaluated like a standard CORE proposal and the same high peer-review standards will be applied. The reviewers will take into account however that these starting investigators do not have an extensive track record concerning project management and generally have no or little preliminary data related to the proposed project. Characteristics of CORE Junior Track • PI should work at least 50% on project. • Human resources limited to 2 FTE persons (including the PI’s own contribution). • Extra funding is granted for mentoring and additional training. • Maximum 1 national or international collaboration (in addition to the mentor). To off-set the inexperience of the PI, Junior Track projects are restricted in size and foresee guidance through a local supervisor and a mentor abroad. To reduce the project management and supervision burden, human resources are limited to 2 FTE (full-time equivalent) researchers (including the PI’s own contribution) and one collaborating partner. It is understood that the local supervisor provides guidance to the junior PI and that his contribution as human resource does not have to be listed per se (cf 6.4.1). In addition to the local supervisor, the PI will collaborate with a mentor. The mentor is an established foreign 3 Non-established PIs may consult the publication ‘Navigating the research funding environment’ available under www.info.funding.scival.com/documents/files/overall/pdf/whitepaper.pdf . 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 5 of 46
CORE MULTI-ANNUAL THEMATIC RESEARCH PROGRAMME researcher who will provide independent advice on the scientific orientation of the project and career development as well as help establish an international network. 1.6. International Co-funding by DFG, SNF, FWF and EMBL The FNR has signed cooperation agreements with Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF), Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) and recently with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in order to allow the funding of bi-lateral projects between Luxembourg researchers and their colleagues from Germany, Switzerland or Austria. These cooperations foresee that applicants can submit bi-lateral proposals for evaluation either to the FNR or to the foreign research funding agency. The Lead Agency is the funding organisation of the country where the main research effort is accomplished. Both agencies base their funding decision on the results of one single evaluation procedure, the so called ‘Lead Agency’ principle. Applicants may submit bilateral projects with researchers from the EMBL in the domain of the biomedical sciences. However in this particular case, the FNR will always be the evaluating agency i.e. the Lead Agency. The procedure for submitting bi-lateral proposals to the FNR is integrated into CORE. Bilateral applications for which FNR is the Lead Agency have to be submitted to the CORE programme. The applications will be processed as a CORE proposal. The same deadlines, application and evaluation procedures apply as for standard unilateral CORE proposals. Some additional forms for the partner funding agency need to be provided in the full proposal form (for more details see guidelines). The applicants are invited to communicate with their foreign partners to clarify their eligibility status at the corresponding funding agencies at pre-proposal and full-proposal stage. In order to be eligible as a bi-lateral project it is required that the partners requesting funds from FNR, DFG, SNF, FWF and EMBL are eligible to get funds. In case of non-eligibility of one of the project partners, the project will be returned without review. The result of the FNR evaluation will be communicated to the partner funding agency for decision. This will lead to a delay of several weeks or even several months in the communication of the funding decision for bilateral projects with respect to unilateral projects. This is an agreed-upon procedure between the Lead Agency funding agencies. If the applicants wish to submit their proposals to the DFG, SNF or FWF, the procedures and deadlines of the respective organisations still apply. More information is available on the FNR website: www.fnr.lu/INTER 1.7. Ethical Issues The present Ethical Issues Table from the ERC grant proposals provides you with a guide to what are considered to be ethical issues. If the answer to any of the questions of the Ethical Issues Table is YES, you must provide a brief description of the ethical issue involved and how it will be dealt with appropriately. In particular, it should outline the benefit and burden of such research, the effects it may have and how the ethical issues will be managed. 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 6 of 46
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