The planned requested funding of the programme grant should be no less than 300 000 EUR and no more than 800 000 EUR, when having partners from either Latvia or Lithuania, in addition to partners from Norway and/ or Iceland and/ or Liechtenstein. If there are partners from both Latvia and Lithuania, total requested funding should not exceed 1 000 000 EUR. Project implementation period fits the period 36 – 48 months. Eligible costs in the project correspond to the list of eligible expenditure and eligible activities and do not exceed the limits set. Cooperation with at least one research team/ research institution from Latvia and/ or Lithuania, in addition to at least one research institution from Norway and/ or Iceland and/ or Liechtenstein (donor project partner); Eligible project promoters and project partners are public or private research and development institutions, as defined in the EU Framework for State aid for research and development and innovation (2014/C 198/01); Receipt of proposal before the deadline date and time established in the call; Completeness of the form and presence of all requested files. Please note that the completeness of the information contained in the proposal will be for the experts to evaluate; the eligibility checks only apply to the presence of the appropriate parts of the proposal. If it becomes clear that one or more of the eligibility criteria have not been fulfilled, the proposal is declared ineligible and withdrawn from any further examination. If a proposal fails to meet the requirements, then the applicant will be notified of that within ten working days after the due date for submission of applications. Applications and all relevant documentation will be maintained in the databases of ETIS and in the Estonian Research Council. 5.2. Evaluation of submitted proposals Detailed description of the evaluation process is provided in the „Guidelines for Evaluators“. 5.2.1. Evaluation by the individual international experts Eligible proposals are submitted to independent international external peer evaluation. All proposals shall be evaluated by three independent experts with a doctoral degree or an equivalent academic degree. Based on the three evaluations a consensus report for each proposal will be written. Consensus report will be available for the applicants (without the experts’ names). The experts are invited to review the quality of the submitted proposals based on three core evaluation criteria: 1) Scientific and/or technical excellence (score 0-5, threshold 3.5): sound concept, and quality of objectives progress beyond the state-of-the-art quality and effectiveness of the scientific methodology and associated work plan innovation and new approaches
The planned requested funding of the programme grant should be no less than 300 000 EUR and no more than 800 000 EUR, when having partners from either Latvia or Lithuania, in addition to partners from Norway and/ or Iceland and/ or Liechtenstein. If there are partners from both Latvia and Lithuania, total requested funding should not exceed 1 000 000 EUR. Project implementation period fits the period 36 – 48 months. Eligible costs in the project correspond to the list of eligible expenditure and eligible activities and do not exceed the limits set. Cooperation with at least one research team/ research institution from Latvia and/ or Lithuania, in addition to at least one research institution from Norway and/ or Iceland and/ or Liechtenstein (donor project partner); Eligible project promoters and project partners are public or private research and development institutions, as defined in the EU Framework for State aid for research and development and innovation (2014/C 198/01); Receipt of proposal before the deadline date and time established in the call; Completeness of the form and presence of all requested files. Please note that the completeness of the information contained in the proposal will be for the experts to evaluate; the eligibility checks only apply to the presence of the appropriate parts of the proposal. If it becomes clear that one or more of the eligibility criteria have not been fulfilled, the proposal is declared ineligible and withdrawn from any further examination. If a proposal fails to meet the requirements, then the applicant will be notified of that within ten working days after the due date for submission of applications. Applications and all relevant documentation will be maintained in the databases of ETIS and in the Estonian Research Council. 5.2. Evaluation of submitted proposals Detailed description of the evaluation process is provided in the „Guidelines for Evaluators“. 5.2.1. Evaluation by the individual international experts Eligible proposals are submitted to independent international external peer evaluation. All proposals shall be evaluated by three independent experts with a doctoral degree or an equivalent academic degree. Based on the three evaluations a consensus report for each proposal will be written. Consensus report will be available for the applicants (without the experts’ names). The experts are invited to review the quality of the submitted proposals based on three core evaluation criteria: 1) Scientific and/or technical excellence (score 0-5, threshold 3.5): sound concept, and quality of objectives progress beyond the state-of-the-art quality and effectiveness of the scientific methodology and associated work plan innovation and new approaches
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