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!