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SU-DRS01-2018-2019-2020 CALL

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LIST OF OF FAQ FOR SU-DRS01-2018-2019-2020 CALL

Question 1: International partners - What are the conditions of participation?

Answer 1: International cooperation is encouraged. This could be done either by exchange of information and good practices (e.g. in communication activities), but also by direct participation in the consortium. Please note that for entities located in countries not automatically receiving EU funding evaluators will need to decide if the partner is essential for the purpose of the project and thus may get EU funding. However, in many cases co-funding schemes are in place between the EU and those countries mitigating thus the risk of a possible negative decision on EU funding.

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Question 2: Action type: What does it mean – Research and innovation action?

Answer 2: Action primarily consisting of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. For this purpose they may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment. Projects may contain closely connected but limited demonstration or pilot activities aiming to show technical feasibility in a near to operational environment. Funding rate: 100%, which means the project does not require co-funding by the beneficiaries.

Question 3: “Close to market” - What are the priority customers? (e.g. thousands of local stakeholders, European emergency response capacity , support to EU humanitarian actions?)

Answer 3: The topic is meant to support response planning and be used by decision-makers and first responders who represent the targeted market.

Question 4: Budget – How to calculate annual productive hours for budgeting purposes?

Answer 4: For calculating the annual productive hours, the beneficiary must use one of the following two options:

1 720 hours for persons working full time (or corresponding pro-rata for persons not working full time) (‘1720 fixed hours’)
the ‘standard number of annual hours’ generally applied by the beneficiary for its personnel in accordance with its usual cost accounting practices (‘standard annual productive hours’).

In principle, the same option must be applied to all personnel working for the beneficiary in H2020 actions. However, the beneficiary may use different options for different types of personnel, if:

the same option is applied at least per group of personnel employed under similar conditions (e.g. same staff category, same type of contract, etc.) and
the options are applied consistently (e.g. the choice of the option is not changed ad-hoc for specific employees).

The beneficiary must use the same option(s) for calculating the annual productive hours during one full financial year. It can only change its option(s) for the next financial year!

Question 5: Evaluation: How the proposal is evaluated and by whom?

Answer 5: In order to ensure that only proposals of the highest quality are selected for funding, we rely on independent experts for the evaluation of proposals (‘evaluators’). In principle, your proposal will be examined initially by at least three experts (in many cases, five or more) against the following award criteria:

excellence,
impact and
quality and efficiency of implementation

and according to the weighting and thresholds that are set out in the work programme (General

Annex H to the Main Work Programme).

The evaluation process has three phases:

Phase 1 — Individual evaluation

Phase 2 — Consensus group

Phase 3 — Panel review

SU-DRS02-2018-2019-2020 CALL

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LIST OF OF FAQ FOR SU-DRS02-2018-2019-2020 CALL

Question 1: International cooperation - What are the conditions of participation?

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Question 2: International cooperation - How should entities from Japan and South Korea introduce their budget in the proposal and how should they request funding?

Answer 2: If Japanese or Korean entities wish to participate in the proposal they should be added as a beneficiary in the proposal and declare their estimated costs in the budget table under the section "3 - Budget for the proposal" of the part A of the proposal template. Furthermore, they are encouraged to enter their funding request in column K of that table.

There are two possibilities to receive funding:

Japanese and Korean entities may request funding to cover their participation costs via a separate grant request from their national agencies (the JST for Japanese participants and the NRF for Korean entities). We recommend that entities contact their relevant agency directly in advance of the application and inform them of their potential application to the Call so that they may receive further information.
In the case that the EU considers that the participation of the Japanese and Korean entities to be essential for carrying out the project it may grant exceptional funding. This decision could be based on, for instance, outstanding expertise, access to unique know-how, access to research infrastructure, access to particular geographical environments, possibility to involve key partners in emerging markets or similar criteria.

If the Japanese or Korean entity is granted EU funding please note that costs covered by a national agency are considered as ineligible for reimbursement by the EU (double funding is not permitted) and the budget table would be adapted accordingly later during the grant preparation.

More information can be found under the following links:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/hi/h2020_localsupp_korea_en.pdf

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/hi/h2020_localsupp_japan_en.pdf

Question 3: Practitioners - What is a “practitioner”?

Answer 3: The definition of practitioner is outlined in the work-programme: “When a reference is made to "practitioners", the text refers to someone who is qualified or registered to practice a particular occupation, profession in the field of security or civil protection. Applicants should identify clearly which members of the consortium they consider "practitioners" in the specific context of their proposal, and to include a clear description of their respective role and added-value as practitioners in section 4.3 of proposal part B4-6.”

Question 4: Practitioners - What is meant by the "minimum number" of practitioners required in some topics?

Answer 4: The requirements are always a “minimum number” and, in any case, the proposal has to demonstrate that all practitioners have a role as well as the mandate and means to carry out all relevant activities as outlined in the proposal.

Question 5:What is the difference between dissemination, exploitation and communication?

Answer 5: Dissemination is the public disclosure of the results of the project in any medium. Disclosure may sound passive, like a shop opening up, but it is an activity, like a shopkeeper attracting customers. It is a process of promotion and awareness-raising right from the beginning of a project. It makes research results known to various stakeholder groups (like research peers, industry and other commercial actors, professional organisations, policymakers) in a targeted way, to enable them to use the results in their own work. This process must be planned and organised at the beginning of each project, usually in a dissemination plan.

Exploitation is the use of the results during and after the project’s implementation. It can be for commercial purposes but also for improving policies, and for tackling economic and societal problems.

Communication means taking strategic and targeted measures for promoting the action itself and its results to a multitude of audiences, including the media and the public, and possibly engaging in a two-way exchange. The aim is to reach out to society as a whole and in particular to some specific audiences while demonstrating how EU funding contributes to tackling societal challenges.

MSCA-IF-2020 CALL

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Question 1: Eligibility - Beside CV or maybe employment contracts, how can researchers prove that they have more than 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience?

Answer 2:An employment contract that specifically mentions research as one of the researcher’s job responsibilities is the best evidence of FTE research experience. If they have been registered as a research student without employment contract (as is the case for all doctoral candidates in Ireland), then a copy of the student registration or an official letter from the university where they are studying would be good instead.

Question 2: Submission - Is is technically possible that the fellow submits the final version of the proposal and not the supervisor?

Answer 1:It is technically possible that both the researcher and the supervisor may submit the proposal. However, it is emphasised that the submission by the researcher must be made with the agreement of the supervisor.

Question 3: Eligibility - Is teaching an eligible activitiy within the fellowship?

Answer 3: In principle Yes, teaching is allowed as part of training activities if written into the proposal training plan, but not an excessive amount. A couple of hours a week is probably OK.

Question 4: Under the eligibility conditions, is a Medical Doctor (MD) degree equivalent to a PhD?

Answer 4: In the context of Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Medical Doctor (MD) studies are not considered as equivalent to PhD studies. For MDs, the requirement of 4 years of full-time research experience applies.

Question 5: What happens if someone receives a MSAC Individual Fellowship, but the time when he or she would start it, the supervisor goes abroad or retires and at the university no one else wants to supervise the fellow?

Answer 5:A change of host institution is possible. The procedure however is not very simple since the project was evaluated and selected for funding by taking into account the host institution's characteristics. A revised version of the Part B (with details of the new host) needs to be evaluated internally, and possibly also by an external expert. Advise – not to do this, better assure availability of the supervisor in advance before project submission.

MSCA-RISE-2020 CALL

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