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EU research & technology funds
Europa Day – KU Leuven Association6 November 2012 – afternoon session
www.kuleuven.be/eu/contact
Agenda
• Overview of EU funding opportunities
• Stijn Delauré, EU-team
• Reflections from participants
• Marie Curie actions – Bert Pluymers
• Health care – Walter Sermeus
• ICT in SSH – Jos Dumortier
• (How to write a competitive EU research project proposal)
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Overview of this presentation
• Introduction
• Barriers and incentives for participation in FP7
• EU research funding opportunities
• in FP7 (2007-2013)
• outside FP7
• Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)
• (How to write a competitive EU research project proposal)
Start from impact and work your way back
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EU is interested in impact on society, economy, policy, careers, public, …
Participation in EU projects often requires building bridges with
other disciplines, sectors,…
Highly competitive ⇒ “excellence” labelValorisation focus ⇒ company network
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KU Leuven participation in FP7 (2007-13)
0 100 200 300 400
IBBT
SCK
ULg
VITO
VIB
VUB
UA
ULB
UCL
IMEC
UGent
KU Leuven
0 100 200 300 400 500
RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA…
KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FÜR…
LUNDS UNIVERSITET
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
TU DELFT
DANMARKS TEKNISKE…
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
EPFL
KU LEUVEN
ETH ZURICH
IMPERIAL COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Number of FP7 contracts up to 02.07.2012Source: EC, via Flemish dep. of Economy, Science, and Innovation (EWI), 04.09.2012
Up to now: 441 approved FP7 applications, ~200 M€
350 contracts,156 M€
Anticipated research income 2009-2014
Source: LRD and FMPC, 22.10.2012
(International funds: 7% of expenses, of which 85% FP)
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2009 2010 2011 2012* 2013** 2014**
Income from EU projects (M€)
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KU Leuven in FP (1994-2013)
Source: European Commission, via Flemish dep. EWI* FP7: up to 02.07.2012; 52.6% of FP7 budget allocated in contractsFP4, 1994-1998; FP5, 1998-2002; FP6, 2003-2006; FP7, 2007-2013
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0,60%
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FP4 FP5 FP6 FP7 *
Budget (M€)
% of total FP budget
Introduction to EU fundingFP7 funding: 2007-2013 (only one call to go)
Collaborative research
10 thematic areasFrontier Research (ERC)
Capacities4097
People4750
Marie Curie Actions
Research
Capacity
Cooperation32413
JRC
175
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Euratom
2751
Ideas7510
Nuclear
Research
Total budget: 50.5 B€
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Introduction to EU funding
Cooperation : 10 thematic priorities1,8% But also SSH topics in other themes!
Participation per FP7 program
PEOPLE(Marie
Curie
actions)
FP7-ICT
FP7-Health
ERC
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DE
UK
IT
FRESNL
BE
CH
KU Leuven FP7 international partners
Type of partners in FP7 projects
48% academia
25% private company
22% research & techn. organisation
3% public body (hospital, ngo,…)
2% other
Overview of this presentation
• Introduction
• Barriers and incentives for participation in FP7
• EU research funding opportunities
• in FP7 (2007-2013)
• outside FP7
• Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)
• How to write a competitive EU research project proposal
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• unique opportunity to receive funding for international cooperation and networking
• international collaboration increases quality of research results
• topic of research might require a European approach
• for socio-economic sciences and humanities: world’s largest funding programme
• added value of going through the proposal procedure
Incentives for participation in FP7
Barriers and incentives for FP7 participation
• significant progress beyond the state of the art through new ideas/concepts
• progress in comparative research methodology and data
• internationalisation of research
• development of interdisciplinary approaches
• relevance for companies and/or policy initiatives
Impact of FP7 research
Barriers and incentives for FP7 participation
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• complexity of proposal preparationo proposal writing
o budget planning
o number of documents
Barriers and incentives for FP7 participation
Barriers for participation in FP7
LRD and DOC suppport!
KU Leuven EU-team• DOC (Research Coordination Office)
• Stijn Delauré, Iesel Van der Plancken, An Jansen, Mary Ann Doumen
• +32-16-320-944 or +32-16-324-053
• LRD (Tech Transfer Office)• Elke Lammertyn, Sofie Heroes, Tine Heylen, Sarah Malevé,
Myriam Witvrouw, Monique Vanhaeren, Ilse Brondeel, Karolien Mariën
• +32-16-320-621 or +32-16-326-520
• Budget advice and financial monitoring
• Natalie Van Geel, Karen Franck, Patricia Pardon
• Caroline De Meester
Pre-aw
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Post-aw
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www.kuleuven.be/EU/contact
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Support service: KU Leuven EU-team
idea→proposal proposal→project project→post-project
DOC LRD & FMPC
stimulate-inform-support advice-support support-monitor-report
lobby
EU
Pro-Act
EIT,
FET-F,
JPICH
networking
decentral support teams?
preparatory funding
Support for project
management (central
team at LRD)
• complexity of proposal preparationo proposal writing
o budget planning
o number of documents
• low succes rate, while often high average total score needed (13,75/15) because of over-subscription
• difficulties in consortium building
Barriers and incentives for FP7 participation
Barriers for participation in FP7
KU Leuven: higher success rates
SSH partner search support
LRD and DOC suppport!
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20%
25%
30%
35%
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FP7 PEOPLE ERC COOPERATION CAPACITIES
Success rate per Group per programme
KU Leuven
Biomedische Wetenschappen
Humane Wetenschappen
Wetenschap & Technologie
Success rates per Science Group
EU average
Overview of this presentation
• Introduction
• Barriers and incentives for participation in FP7
• EU research funding opportunities
• in FP7 (2007-2013)
• outside FP7
• Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)
• How to write a competitive EU research project proposal
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Current opportunities in FP7http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.htmlhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/fp7_calls
Current opportunities in FP7Bottom-up calls (you decide): Ideas, People, CapacitiesTop-down calls (the EC decides): Cooperation, Capacities
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IDEAS (7.5 billion €)IDEAS (7.5 billion €)
Current opportunities in FP7 - ERC
• Retain – Repatriate – Recruit
• Favour “brain gain” and reverse “brain drain”o Increase competition, recognition, international visibility
• Keep (young) researchers in Europeo Favour career opportunities and independence
o Groundbreaking, innovative, high-risk-high-gain researcho For researchers with excellent track record
IDEAS (7.5 billion €)IDEAS (7.5 billion €)
Current opportunities in FP7 - ERC
⇒Starting Grant (2-7y post-PhD) – 17.10.2012
⇒Consolidator Grant (7-12y post-PhD) – 21.02.2013
⇒Advanced Grant (top scientists) – 22.11.2012
⇒Proof of Concept grant (valorisation, for ERC grantees)
⇒Synergy Grant (collaboration of 2-4 top scientists) – 10.01.2013
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Current opportunities in FP7 - PEOPLEPEOPLE (4.75 billion €)PEOPLE (4.75 billion €)
ESR: early-stage researcher, 0-4y post master degree
ER: experienced researcher, >4y or PhD degree
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Industry-Academia (IAPP)
‘Industry’ means: private sector
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IRSES“International Research Staff Exchange Scheme”
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people
Min. 2 European countries + 1 third country2-4 year duration, €1900 per manmonth of mobility
17.01.2013
Individual Fellowships
14.08.2013
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Current opportunities in FP7
FP7-Cooperation
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• ≥ 3 partners from 3 ≠ MS/AC• 75% funding for RTD in collaborative projects (100% for coordination & support actions) • Involve ‘lead’-users, SMEs are beneficial in evaluation
Specific conditions
Next deadline: ICT (15 Jan), SSH (31 Jan), KBBE (5 Feb)
Budget: small: 1-3 M€ -large: 6-12 M€
Duration: 2-5 y
• Multi-national, multi-partner projects (~6-10 or ~15 partners from EU) • 10 theme’s – top-down research topics – private sector (SMEs)• Key: the use of project results (impact)• Current calls: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/cooperation
• Partner: small effort – Coordinator: huge effort (but higher success)• Coordinator: start at least 6 months before deadline (drafts!) • Criteria: Scientific Quality – Management – Exploitation/Dissemnation
Preparation/effort
Success rate: • EU average: 14.7%• K.U.Leuven: 22.3% (partner) – 28.6% (coordinator)
Contact: Iesel Van der Plancken
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Challenge 6: ICT for a low carbon economyObjective ICT-2013.6.1 Smart Energy Grids (15-01 !)
• bringing together stakeholders from both the energy utilities and the telecom sector
• to develop common approaches for future digital networks and smart energy services infrastructure for electricity distribution
• The focus is on data management including the exchange of information with transmission network operators and with end users.
• Special attention is given to exploring new business models for Distribution System Operators.
Current opportunities in FP7 cooperation
COOPERATION (32,4 billion €)COOPERATION (32,4 billion €)
ICT theme 15-01-2013 and 16-04-2013
KBBE.2013.2.3-01: Development and industrial application of sensors for food processing operations
• Small and medium scale focused project (3 m€) – 20% to SMEs
• versatile and affordable sensors • for the quantitative, real-time, on-line or in-line control • of critical quality and performance attributes • for raw and in-process materials • during food processing in the context of Process Analytical Technology
Current opportunities in FP7 cooperation
COOPERATION (32,4 billion €)COOPERATION (32,4 billion €)
KBBE theme 05-02-2013
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SSH.2013.5.2-1 The multilingual challenge for the European citizen
• Small and medium scale focused project (2,5 m€)
• Linguistic diversity in Europe• Potentials of multilingualism• Language related policies• Language teaching• New technological tools• Translation and interpretation
Current opportunities in FP7 cooperation
COOPERATION (32,4 billion €)COOPERATION (32,4 billion €)
SSH theme 31-01-2013
SSH opportunities in FP7 cooperation
COOPERATION (32,4 billion €)COOPERATION (32,4 billion €)
Also in other themes!
Call topic SSH field of research Deadline
SEC-2013.6.1-2 Varying forms of terrorism – Capability Project
Conservation and Heritage Research
2013-01-31
ENERGY.2013.7.2.4 Ensuring stakeholder support for future gridinfrastructures
Conservation and Heritage Research
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ICT-2013.4.1 Content analytics and language technologies
2013-01-15
ICT-2013.8.1 Technologies and scientific foundations in the field of creativity
Humanities 2013-01-15
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• www.Net4Society.eu
• www.Net4Society.eu
www.Net4Society.eu = network of SSH National Contact Points (NCP)
Current opportunities in FP7
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Current opportunities in FP7 - capacities
CAPACITIES (4,1 billion €)CAPACITIES (4,1 billion €)
Regions of knowledge
Research for the benefit of SMEs
Research potential
Research infrastructures
Activities of international cooperation
Science in society
Current opportunities in FP7 - capacities
CAPACITIES (4,1 billion €)CAPACITIES (4,1 billion €)
Research for the benefit of SMEs
• The scheme aims at supporting SMEs in need of outsourcing research activities to RTD performers such as universities, research centres or research performing SMEs.
• Projects aim at creating new knowledge or achieving results with a clear exploitation potential to improve or develop new products, processes or services which meet the needs of the participating SMEs.
• Bottom-up scheme
• Min. conditions: ≥ 3 SMEs + ≥ 2 academia
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Current opportunities in FP7 - capacities
CAPACITIES (4,1 billion €)CAPACITIES (4,1 billion €)
Regions of knowledge
Research for the benefit of SMEs
Research potential
Research infrastructures
Activities of international cooperation
Science in society
Current opportunities in FP7 - capacities
CAPACITIES (4,1 billion €)CAPACITIES (4,1 billion €)
Science in Society
• SiS.2013.2.2.1-1: Raising youth awareness to Responsible Research and Innovation through Inquiry Based Science Education o SSH Relevant Scientific Field: Cultural Anthropology, Education, Ethics, Gender
Science, Humanities, Law, Pedagogy, Psychology, Sociology
o Coordination and Support Actions (Supporting Action)
o 2,5 M€
16-01-2013
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Overview of this presentation
• Introduction
• Barriers and incentives for participation in FP7
• EU research funding opportunities
• in FP7 (2007-2013)
• outside FP7
• Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)
• How to write a competitive EU research project proposal
COST actions
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• at least 5 countries - “breaking in” is possible (joining existing actions)• funding covers networking activities, no research itself: meetings, conferences, workshops, short-term scientific exchanges and dissemination activities
Specific conditions
Next deadline: 29 March 2013Budget: <10,000€ for meetings, <3500€ for secondments
Duration: xx
• flexible, fast, effective and efficient tool to network and coordinate nationally funded research activities; bringing scientists together, light strategic guidance
• COST is based on networks (“COST actions”) centred around research projects• bottom-up, organised in 9 scientific domainsw.cost.esf.org/
• relatively low effort (~12 pages; two stage submission)• ideally for ‘young’ researchers to establish and consolidate network
Preparation /effort
Success rate: lowContact: Iesel Van der [email protected] – www.cost.eu
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Directorates general
Calls for tender, relevant to Arts (example)
• DG Education and culture (EAC through EACEA)http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/about/call_tenders/call_tenders_en.php
• DG Translation (DGT)http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/index_en.htm
• DG Interpretation (SCIC)http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/scic/index_nl.htm
• DG Enterprise
• DG Connect
• DG Development
• DG Health & Consumers
• …
• Joint Programming Initiatives (JPI)
o Collaborative research in Grand Societal Challenges
o Pooling of member states’ research funding
o “Virtual common pot”, no funding from FP
o 10 initiatives upcoming/running:• Neurodegenerative diseases
• Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change
• Cultural Heritage and Global Change → Heritage@KULeuven
• A Healthy diet for a healthy Life
• The microbial challenge
• Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe
• More Years, Better Lives - Demographic Changes
• Urban Europe – Global Challenges, Local Solutions
• Water Challenges for a Changing World
• Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans
Member States funding for EU research
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JPI Cultural Heritage: first call
The JPICH topics for the 2013 call are :
• tangible heritage and effect of weathering including climate change
• use and re-use of buildings and landscapes, including the relation between changes and policy
• Insight into values, valuation, interpretation and identity
Funding:
• Most likely support from FWO (2 projects/call, 200k€)
Heritage@KULeuven task force:
Koen Van Balen in JPICH scientific advisory board
Other joint programmes
• ERA-Net• FWO: HERA, M-ERA, TRANSCAN, E-RARE, …
• IWT: LEAD-ERA, ECO-INNOVERA, ERA-IB,…
• ERA-SME• www.era-sme.net
• Ambient Assisted Living joint programme• www.aal-europe.eu
• Eureka, for market oriented industrial R&Dwww.eurekanetwork.org
• Eureka-Eurostars, for R&D SMEswww.eurostars-eureka.eu
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ERA-SMEs• Wat?
o internationale innovatie netwerking en samenwerking tussen KMO’s en onderzoeksinstellingen
• Samenstelling van het consortium?
o Duitsland, Oostenrijk, Tsjechië, Vlaanderen, Wallonië en Nederland
o Partners uit minstens twee landen/regio’s met minstens één KMO per betrokken land/regio en minstens één onderzoek- en technologieorganisatie per project.
• Het IWT financiert Vlaamse partners via kmo-programma
• Doelgroep?
o niet-O&O intensieve KMO's. KMO's die beroep doen op onderzoeksinstellingen voor het uitvoeren van hun O&O, kunnen een projectvoorstel indienen
• Meer informatie? http://www.cornet-era.net
CIP: Competitiveness & Innovation
• Funding for pilot actions, involving both public and privateorganisations, for validating in real settings, innovative and interoperable ICT based services in areas such as: ICT for health, ageing and inclusion; Digital Libraries; ICT for improved public services; ICT for energy efficiency and smart mobility; Multilingual web and Internet evolution.
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Overview of this presentation
• Introduction
• Barriers and incentives for participation in FP7
• EU research funding opportunities
• in FP7 (2007-2013)
• outside FP7
• Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)
• How to write a competitive EU research project proposal
What’s next? “Horizon 2020” (2014-2020)
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2014-2020
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
• Overall budget for Horizon 2020 (EC proposal):
• €80 billion (constant 2011 prices) ~ 25% of all competitive funding in EU
• 46% increase compared to FP7 (2007-2013)
• Research and innovation increases to 8.5% of EC budget
• For decision @ European Council and Parliament !
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Structure & budget breakdown
Excellent Science
Industrial Leadership
Societal Challenges
EITJRC
Cross-cutting issues:
• ERA• Dissemination & knowledge transfer• Simplified access and reimbursement• International cooperation• Synergies with cohesion policy (Structural Funds)
• ~80 B€• Earliest deadlines:
winter 2014
Structure & budget breakdown
Excellent Science
Industrial Leadership
Societal Challenges
EITJRC• More bottom-up
• FET/FEST• 2 SSH challenges• > EIT budget
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What are the priorities?
1. Excellence in the science base
⇒ World class excellence; developing and attracting talent
– ERC: Frontier research (European Research Council)– Starting Grants, Advanced Grants, Proof of Concept, Synergy Grants, …
– Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions: Skills, training, career develp. – Only 4 remaining actions
– PhD training network, postdoc mobility, staff exchange (other sector/international)
– ESFRI: Research infrastructures (ESFRI roadmap)
– FET: Future and Emerging (Science &) Technologies– Across all themes, not only ICT/Energy
– FET Open (bottom-up, small collaborative projects)
– FET ProActive (within emerging themes, decided on by scietific community)
– FET Flagships (Human Brain Project, ITFoM, GuardianAngels,...)
Horizon 2020: Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions
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2. Creating industrial leadership; competitive frameworks
- Examples of key enabling technologies in this challenge:
- Application-driven: cross-disciplinary collaborations required
- Additional cross-disciplinary critical mass? KULLOCs?
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Upcoming large initiatives (2013-2020)• FET Flagships (ICT) – 6 pilots � 2 initiatives
o Guardian Angels
o FuturICT, ITFoM, RoboCom
o Graphene, Human Brain Project
• EIT 2014 EIT 2018
o Healthy ageing – Urban mobility
o Critical raw materials – Smart & secure societies
o Food4Future – Added-value manufacturing
• Joint Programming Initiatives � 10 Grand Challenge initiatives
o Cultural Heritage
o Urban Europe
o Food-Agriculture-Climate
o …
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Agenda
• Overview of EU funding opportunities
• Reflections from participants
• Marie Curie actions – Bert Pluymers
(productietechnieken, machinebouw, automatisering)
• Health care – Walter Sermeus (ziekenhuis- en
verpleegwetenschap)
• ICT in SSH – Jos Dumortier (Recht en informatica)
• (How to write a competitive EU research project)
Agenda
• Overview of EU funding opportunities
• Reflections from participants
• Marie Curie actions – Bert Pluymers(productietechnieken, machinebouw, automatisering)
• Health care – Walter Sermeus (ziekenhuis- en
verpleegwetenschap)
• ICT in SSH – Jos Dumortier (Recht en informatica)
• (How to write a competitive EU research project)
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FP7 evaluation criteria in detail
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8 steps to a successful proposal*
1. Check the relevant documents
2. Your impact section has an impact! (B3.1)
3. Build your consortium around the call text (B2.3)
4. Set out achievable and verifiable objectives (B1.1)
5. Make your work plan manageable (B1.3)
6. Use an appropriate management structure (B2.1)
7. Show how you will transfer results to use (B3.2)
8. Make it easy on the evaluator
* This list is not exhaustive!
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Step 8: Make it easy on the evaluator
Credibility The idea is convincing and achievable “it has to make sense”
Communication Clear description of what will be done
Concrete Very specific, not general concepts“who will do what, when, and how?”
Consistency High quality documentation (proof read)Written by consortium, but edited
~Hyperion
Objectives (and proposal in general) should meet the 4 C’s:
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Summarizing…
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⇒Guide for applicants⇒ Impact, impact, impact
Good luck with your application!