Rules for applying: Guides for applicants
Programme officer Meelis SirendiKlaipeda 12 December 2012
Documents I
Call specific:
• Call fact sheet
• Guide for applicants
• Guide for evaluators
• Guide for participants
• Guide for reporting in kind infrastructure to BONUS
• BONUS strategic research agenda 2011 – 2017
• Model grant agreement
Documents II
• BONUS Law
DECISION No 862/2010/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE
COUNCIL of 22 September 2010 on the participation of the Union in a
Joint Baltic Sea Research and Development Programme (BONUS)
undertaken by several Member States
• BONUS implementation agreement
• 7th framework programme rules
• State aid rules
Calls at a glance
VE INNO
• Launch date 12 November 2012
• Preregistration deadline 14.01 12.02
• Proposal deadline 14.02 12.03
• Budget 31 M€ 7 M€
• Topics opened 10 3
• Max duration of projects 4 year 3 year
• Max funding per project 4 M€ 0,5 M€
Minimum consortium
3 / 2 / 1
• Indipendent organisations each established in
different EU or A states
• Organisations established in different BONUS states
• Coordinator established in BONUS state
How?
The BONUS projects are funded through two sources of
funding:
• national funding institutions to the respective
national participants
• the BONUS EEIG funding to project coordinators,
who distribute the funding to the participants
involved in the particular project.
National funding institutions may have special requirements.
The applicants concerned are contacted separately.
Max funding rates I
Max funding rates II
RTD categories
Research categories as defined within the "Community Framework for State
Aid for Research and Development and Innovation":
• Fundamental research: Experimental or theoretical work undertaken
primarily to acquire new knowledge of the underlying foundations of
phenomena and observable facts, without any direct practical application
or use in view;
• Industrial research: Planned research or critical investigation aimed at the
acquisition of new knowledge or skills for developing new products,
processes or services or bringing about a significant improvement in
existing products, processes or services;
• Experimental development: The acquiring, combining, shaping and using
of existing scientific, technological, business and other relevant
knowledge and skills for the purpose of producing plans and
arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes
or services (including the creation of a commercially usable prototype or
pilot projects under certain conditions).
’Viable ecosystem’ topics
Innovation topics
Russian participation
• RFBR supports Russian scientists working on key themes 1.1;
1.2; 1.3, 1.4; 2.1; 2.2; and 5.1
• Russian participation in projects should not exceed three
years and the maximum funding per project is limited to RUB
1 000 000 per year
• The planned research cooperation with Russian participants
should lead to joint scientific publications
• The Russian applicants are requested to send the proposals to
the RFBR according to their rules
• If a Russian participant will not receive funding from the RFBR
based on the evaluation carried out, the consortia may be
allowed to rearrange the work plan
EPSS
Preregistration
• Mandatory with deadline 14.01/12.02
• Title and acronym (final)
• Key theme and participants (changes to be notified)
• Abstract (changeable)
• Coordinator only
• Intense validation service
Why preregistration?
• Eligibility of participants is secured on the national level
– Possiblity to change participants – negotiations between
the national funder, the BONUS Secretariat and project
coordinator
– Possibility to negotiate an appropriate national funder
• Broad enough expertise of the evaluation panel is sought
and secured based on the preregistrations made
Proposal
• Deadline 14.02/12.03
• Form A – general proposal
• Form B-s – for every applicant (including not financed)
• Can be submitted repeatidly
• All additional documents in pdf-dormat (Applicant's declaration; Funding commitment statement (Confirmation
letter), Work plan)
Budget I
• Only in form B-s
• Three parts (tables):
RTD activities
Management
Other
Budget II
• RTD activities mean activities directly aimed at
creating new knowledge, new technology and
products including scientific coordination
• Management costs:
– Maintenance Consortium agreement
– Overall legal, ethical, financial and administrative
management
– Any other
Budget III
• Other costs:
– Dissemination (web-site, conferences,
publications)
– Networking (outside project)
– Coordination (with other projects)
– Intellectual property
– Studies of SE-impact
– training
Budget lines
• Personnel - Code of Conduct for the recruitment of
researchers
• Other – should be explained
– Travel and meetings
– Support activities
– Equipment
– Dissemination
• Subcontracting – should be explained
• Indirect costs – 20% of direct costs exl
subcontracting
Eligibility criteria
• Matching deadlines
• Minimum consortium (3/2/1)
• Proposal complete (including declarations and
statements)
• Requested funding no more than 4 M€ / 0,5 M€
• Key topic and supplementary topics matching to the
call
After
submission
Guides for participants
• Contracting procedures
• Reporting requirements (periodic and final, scientific, financial, performance statistics, in kind infrastructure use,
deliverables)
• Payment modalities (period 12 months, prepayment 160% of one period etc)
• Auditing requirements
• Coordinators’ tasks (model GA)
Thank you!