Transcript First joint ERANID call

Information session first joint ERANID
call
(Task 5 DOW)
Belgian Science Policy Office
30 September 2015
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Background ERANID project
First joint ERANID call
Call topic
Eligibility
Evaluation procedure
Preliminary timetable
Social community
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Background ERANID project
= European Area Network on Illicit Drugs
• FP7 project (01/01/2013 – 31/12/2016)
• Aim: Improve cooperation in drug research in order to allow
well-founded policy decisions, by:
– Developing shared priorities for research
– Launching joint research calls
• Involvement of BE:
– BELSPO:
 Member of the ERANID project
 Member of the Joint Call Secretariat
 Funding partner: maximum 500.000 euro
– FWO:
 Funding partner: maximum of 200.000 euro
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First joint ERANID call: general information
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“Understanding drug use pathways”
16 September 2015 – 24 November 2015, 2 PM (CET)
More than 4 million euro
9 countries (BE, DE, FR, IT, NL, PL, PT, SE & UK)
Virtual common pot -principle
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Call topic
• Objective: to support transnational research in
Understanding drug use pathways.
• Possible areas of focus:
– The impact of the digital world;
– The impact of subjective experiences;
– The impact of socioeconomic and physiological factors on drug use
pathways.
• Conditions:
– Open to all stages of drug use pathways, to all age groups and to all
substances (including legal substances and NPS when relevant to illicit
drug use pathway);
– The use of multidisciplinary approaches involving SSH,
notwithstanding the input from other disciplines;
– Preference for innovative interdisciplinary research proposals;
– Consider the principles of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).
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Eligibility
• ERANID eligibility criteria
– A minimum of two eligible applicants, although preference will
be given to three or more;
– Participants not eligible can participate if they are able to
secure their own funding;
– The majority of participants in a consortium and the Principle
Investigator (PI) should be eligible to be funded;
– Each consortium must nominate a PI;
– Each applicant can submit up to two research proposals as coPI or only one as PI;
– Individual research groups will be funded by their national
funding organisation(s);
– The duration of the projects can be up to three years.
• BE eligibility criteria
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Eligibility
• ERANID eligibility criteria
• BE eligibility criteria
– Eligible institutions: non profit institutions with the pursuit of
scientific research stated in the official statutes of the
organisations;
– An eligible Belgian promoter: a physical person or the
appointed leader of a group of researchers from the same
organisation;
– Belgian promoters from different Belgian eligible research
institutions can enter a given transnational network of
applicants;
– Requested budget per Belgian participation in a proposal (as a
Belgian promoter or as a Belgian Network) shall not exceed
250.000€;
– Rules concerning eligible costs are respected;
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• Personnel costs (preferably around 60% of total requested budget)
• Operation costs (lump sum of 10% of personnel costs).
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Evaluation procedure
• Step 1: Formal criteria check of proposals
– The call’s formal criteria: Joint Call Secretariat
– Compliance to national rules: national funding organisations
• Step 2: Peer review of proposals
 Evaluation criteria in call for proposals!
– Remote evaluation
– Peer review panel meeting: short list
• Step 3: Project approval and decision communication
– Decision Funders Group
– Communication of (un)successful projects from JCS to PI
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Preliminary timetable
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DATE
ACTIVITY
24 November 2015
Closure of the online submission system.
8 December 2015
Deadline for eligibility checks (ERANID and
national).
End January 2016
Deadline peer-evaluation.
End February 2016
Deadline panel-meeting of experts/peerevaluators and representatives; selection of
funding candidates (short list).
End March 2016
Funding Group (FG) decide of projects to be
funded.
No later than 5 days after the FG
meeting
Deadline for communicating decision of FG to
applicants (PI of (un)successful project
proposals must inform each project partner of
their consortia). Successful applicants should
contact the relevant funding agency to start
national /regional negotiations and
administrative procedures.
As soon as possible but
approximately May 2016
Expected start time of funded projects.
No later than three months after
the official project start date
Inter partners Project Consortium Agreements
signed by project partners.
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Social community
• A platform linked to the ERANID-website:
www.eranidcommunity.eu
• Intended for researchers to:
– Receive information on drug research, the ERANID call and
other calls;
– Form international networks for the ERANID call as well as
other calls;
– Disseminate information on drug research.
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Information session first joint ERANID
call
(Task 5 DOW)
Belgian Science Policy Office
30 September 2015