H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2017

Objective:  The COFUND scheme aims to stimulate regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions.

Budget: EUR 80.00 million from the 2017 budget. Of this amount, EUR 30 million is allocated to Doctoral Programmes and EUR 50 million is allocated to Fellowship Programmes.

Standard admissibility conditions and related requirements:

1. For all actions under this Work Programme (except for ERC actions; see below), proposals/prize applications must comply with the admissibility conditions set out in this Annex, unless they are supplemented or modified in the call conditions or rules of contest.

To be considered admissible, a proposal/application must be:

(a) submitted in the electronic submission system before the deadline given in the call conditions or rules of contest;

(b) readable, accessible and printable.

2. Incomplete proposals/applications may be considered inadmissible. This includes the requested administrative data, the proposal description, and any supporting documents specified in the call/contest.

3. The following supporting documents will be required to determine the operational capacity for grant proposals, unless otherwise specified in the call:

„h A curriculum vitae or description of the profile of the persons who will be primarily responsible for carrying out the proposed research and/or innovation activities;

„h A list of up to five relevant publications, and/or products, services (including widely-used datasets or software), or other achievements relevant to the call content;

„h A list of up to five relevant previous projects or activities, connected to the subject of this proposal;

„h A description of any significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment, relevant to the proposed work;

„h A description of any third parties that are not represented as project partners, but who will nonetheless be contributing towards the work (e.g. providing facilities, computing resources)

4. Grant proposals must include a draft plan for the exploitation and dissemination of the results, unless otherwise specified in the call conditions. The draft plan is not required for proposals at the first stage of two-stage procedures.

5. In addition, to the above admissibility conditions, the following related requirements apply.

Page limits will apply to proposals/applications.

Unless stated otherwise in the call conditions, the limit for a full proposal is 70 pages, except for coordination and support actions and ERA-NET Cofund actions, where the limit is 50 pages. The limit for a first-stage proposal is 10 pages. For prize applications, any specific limits will be set in the Rules of Contest.

If a proposal/application exceeds the limits, the applicant will receive an automatic warning, and will be advised to re-submit a version that conforms.

After the call deadline, excess pages (in over-long proposals/applications) will be automatically overprinted with a “watermark”.

Expert evaluators will be instructed to disregard these excess pages.

The page limits and sections subject to limits will be clearly shown in the proposal templates in the Participant Portal electronic submission system.

Proposals must be written in a legible font, further guidance on the use of fonts, margins and other page formatting will be included in the proposal templates.

The structure of proposals must correspond to the requirements specified under each section of the proposal template.

Proposal page limits and layout: The maximum length of a proposal is 30 pages, excluding the annexes. Please refer to Part B of the standard proposal template.

Deadline intern : 20/10/2017

deadline oficial : 28/10/2017

More Information : HERE