Southeast Asia – Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation in the thematic areas of Health, Environment /Climate Change is open now!
Deadline for submission: 30 June 2017, 18.00 CET
Type of funded projects: Europe-Southeast Asian Joint Call Projects must comprise of at least 3 partners (either 2 different Southeast Asian partners and 1 European partner or 2 different European partners and 1 Southeast Asian partner) and cover the thematic areas of Health (Anti-microbial drug resistance, Emerging infectious diseases), Environment/ Climate Change (Adaptation/Resilience of food production systems, Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems/Biodiversity) to enhance bi-regional co-operation and develop new partnerships as well as strengthen existing ones.
Participating countries:
- Belgium (Wallonia) - Fund for scientific research (F.R.S – FNRS)
- Cambodia - Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY)
- France - French National Research Agency (ANR)
- Germany - Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Lao PDR - Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST)
- The Philippines - Department of Science and Technology (DoST)
- Poland - National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR)
- Spain - Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
- Sweden - Swedish Research Council for sustainable development (FORMAS)
- Sweden - Swedish Research Council (SRC)
- Switzerland - Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Thailand - National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)
- Thailand - Thailand Center for Excellence for Life Science (TCELS)
- Turkey - Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK)
- Vietnam - National Technology Innovation Foundation (NATIF)
Scope of the projects:
Funding will be provided for the duration of a maximum of three years (36 months). They should start earliest in January 2018.
Within the framework of the Joint Call, funding can be applied for:
- Personnel costs
- Equipment and consumables (project-related miscellaneous expenses and project-related larger equipment)
- Mobility costs (exchange research visits between Europe and Southeast Asia. Travel costs, living expenses and visa costs are eligible for funding.
- Other costs (Costs which cannot be classified under the previous cost items but are required for the project implementation, such as costs related to dissemination, intellectual property, demonstration, market search, management, organisational and subcontracting costs).
The eligibility of cost items and their calculation is according to respective national regulations. You can download the respective national regulations for your country in the attachments section.
Who can apply?
Proposals may be submitted by public legal RTD (Research and Technology Development) entities, higher education institutions, non-university research establishments, companies (all depending on national regulations). The participation of SMEs, industries and clusters in consortia is recommended. Eligibly criteria can be found in the respective national funding regulations.
Countries contributing to the Call are: Belgium (Wallonia), Cambodia, France, Germany, Lao PDR, The Philippines, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam.
Institutions not explicitly mentioned as recipients might be included in consortia if they provide their own funding (non-eligible organisations might join on their own costs). Other entities may apply if the respective national regulations allow it.
Applicants should discuss their intentions and confirm eligibility with their respective National Contact Point before submitting a proposal.
Application Process
Project proposals are to be submitted electronically using the PT-Outline web tool which is accessible directly at the official website.
Please note: Some funding agencies might require that applicants from their respective country submit specific complementary documents at the national level, in addition to the PT Outline web tool. Please check the additional requirements stated in the national regulations of the countries represented in your project before submitting your proposal.
Each project consortium has to choose a Project Coordinator from among all partners of the respective project eligible for funding (partners participating on their own budget may not be coordinators). Only one proposal per project should be submitted using PT-Outline. The Project Coordinator is responsible for submitting the proposal on behalf of its project consortium. The responsibilities of the Project Coordinator are to keep the other project partners updated on the submission process, to ensure the internal management and coordination of the project consortium and to constitute the main contact for the Joint Call Secretariat.
All proposals must be written in English only.
The PT-Outline electronic template consists of four pages (General information, Project coordinator, Project partners and Project description) that need to be filled-in online. In addition, a word document has to be downloaded from the Project description page of PT-Outline, filled-in with the requested information, converted to PDF format and then uploaded again.
The Project description document should contain the following information (max. nr of 10,000 words):
- Basic project data
- Project title
- Project Acronym
- Name and institution of the Principal Investigator
- Names and institutions of other project partners
- Project description
- 2.1 Short abstract of the project
- 2.2 Objectives of the project
- 2.3 Scientific excellence
- 2.4 Transnational added value
- 2.5 Scientific excellence of applicants
- 2.6 Multi-/interdisciplinarity of the project
- 2.7 Contribution to national priorities of the participating partners (if applicable)
- Work plan
- 3.1 Methodology
- 3.2 Envisaged types of activities
- 3.3 Involvement of each partner
- 3.4 Time plan
- 3.5 Project coordination and management
- Potential impact and exploitation of results
- 4.1. Expected scientific/commercial impact
- 4.2. Dissemination and exploitation of results
- 4.2. Prospects to establish sustainable partnerships
- Financial Plan
- Annexes
- 6.1. Letter of Commitment of partners participating at their own costs (if applicable)
- 6.2 CVs of participating researchers and scientific track-record
Proposals must clearly demonstrate the added value of transnational collaboration. All information inserted into the PT-Outline web tool is saved after having clicked on the “SAVE” button at the bottom of each page.
During the proposal submission phase, it is allowed to replace already registered and eligible project partners, or to add project partners to the consortium. Please note that after the binding submission of a proposal (through clicking on the ‘SUBMIT NOW’ button in PT-Outline) no further changes can be made to your proposal.
Evaluation Process
The evaluation process includes the following steps.
Eligibility check
The Joint Call Secretariat (JCS) will check all pre-proposals to ensure that they meet the formal criteria of the call (date of submission, number and country distribution of participating research partners, inclusion of all necessary information in English and length). The JCS will forward the proposals to the National Contact Points who will perform a check for compliance to country/regional rules as described in the “Guidelines for applicants”.
Please note that proposals not meeting the formal criteria or the national/regional eligibility criteria and requirements may be declined without further review.
Peer review
Independent scientific experts in the relevant thematic research fields will carry out the anonymous peer review of the eligible project proposals according to evaluation criteria set up by the funding parties. Each proposal will be evaluated by three evaluators (at least one Southeast Asian and one European peer reviewer). The peer reviewers will be nominated by the Southeast Asian and European National Contact Points in cooperation with the funding parties.
The evaluation is done using the following evaluation criteria:
- Scientific/technological excellence and innovativeness of the project idea (scoring from 0 to 10)
- Sound concept, quality of objectives
- Innovativeness of the project idea: capacity of a project to contribute to the development of a new technology, service or product
- Quality and effectiveness of the methodology and associated work plan
- Good balance between the technology/knowledge available at each participating team
- Complementarity of qualifications and relevant experience of the coordinator and the individual participants/participating teams
- Potential impact and expected outcomes of the project (scoring from 0 to 10)
- Social and/or market related impact
- Potential to meet market, economical and societal needs and significant exploitation potential
- Prospects for establishing efficient and sustainable partnership within the network, including transfer of know-how and experience
- Appropriateness of measures for the dissemination and/or exploitation of trans-national projects results, and management of intellectual property
- Management, Transnationality and Cooperation (scoring from 0 to 10)
- Quality and effectiveness of the management structure and distribution of tasks
- Added value of transnational cooperation
- Appropriate allocation and justification of the resources to be committed (budget, staff, equipment)
The total score of the proposal is the weighted average of the individual scores given to each criterion, rated from 0 to 10. The table below summarises the scores and weight coefficients per criterion:
|
Criteria |
Score |
Weight |
|
|
1. |
Scientific/Technological excellence and innovativeness of the project idea |
0-10 |
40% |
|
2. |
Potential impact and expected outcomes of the project |
0-10 |
40% |
|
3. |
Management, Transnationality and Cooperation |
0-10 |
20% |
|
TOTAL |
0-10 |
100% |
Once the peer review process is finalise, the JCS will send the full proposals and pooled reviews to the Scientific Council (SC) members. The SC will meet to discuss each proposal and, after consideration of the evaluation criteria, external reviews and their own discussions, the SC will make a classification of the proposals and rank proposals recommended for funding.
Funding decision
Based on the ranking list established by the SC and on available funding, the PSC will take a final decision (subject to budgetary considerations). The Joint Call Secretariat will communicate to all project coordinators the final decisions about their proposal together with a review summary from the SC.
Contact information:
Call secretariat:
Christoph Elineau,
Project Management Agency German Aerospace Center (DLR)
SEA-EU-NET Coordinator
E-mail: christoph.elineau@dlr.de
Phone: 0049/228/3821-1437
National Contact Points:
Belgium, F.R.S – FNRS
Joël Groeneveld
The Fund for Scientific Research
joel.groeneveld@frs-fnrs.be
Cambodia, MOEY
Dr. Nith Bunlay
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
bunlaynith@gmail.com
Germany, BMBF
Dr. Gerold Heinrichs
International Bureau of the BMBF
Project Management c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR)
gerold.heinrichs@dlr.de
France, ANR
Dr. Véronique Briquet-Laugier
Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR)
Veronique.BRIQUET-LAUGIER@agencerecherche.fr
Lao PDR, MOST
Mr. Phouthanouthong Xaysombath
Department of Planning and Cooperation
Ministry of Science and Technology
pxaysombath@gmail.com
The Philippines, DOST
For health topics:
Dr. Jaime Montoya
Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD)
Jmontoya204@gmail.com
For climate change/environment topics:
Dr. Carlos Primo C. David
Philippine Council for Industry, Energy & Emerging Technology
cpdavid@pcieerd.dost.goc.ph
Poland, NCBR
Ms. Krystyna Maciejko
National Centre for Research and Development
krystyna.maciejko@ncbr.gov.pl
Spain, CDTI
Mr. Ricardo Rubianes Escribano
Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial
ricardo.rubianes@cdti.es
Sweden, FORMAS
Dr. Lisa Almesjö
Swedish Research Council for sustainable development
Lisa.almesjo@formas.se
Sweden, SRC
Mr. Johan Nilsson (PhD)
Swedish Research Council
johan.nilsson@vr.se
Switzerland, SNSF
Ms. Andrea Landolt
Swiss National Science Foundation
andrea.landolt@snf.ch
+41 31 308 24 09
Thailand, NSTDA
Dr. Chanwit Tribuddharat
National Science and Technology Development Agency
chanwit.tri@nstda.or.th
Thailand, TCELS
Dr. Nares Damrongchai
CEO, Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences
nares@tcels.or.th
Turkey, TÜBITAK
Dr. Jale Sahin
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
sea-eu-net2@tubitak.gov.tr
Vietnam, NATIF
Ms. Nguyen Thi Mai
National Technology Innovation Fund,
Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology
ntmai@most.gov.vn
For more information please click "Further Official Information" below.
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https://sea-eu.net/object/document/282