Prima template for Pre-Proposal

PRIMA Template for Pre-Proposal

Version 0.0 – 6 February 2018

PRIMA

Template for Pre-Proposal

The submission of a pre-proposal to PRIMA (calls 2018) is carried out in a combined process:

1. 
   Fulfilling all the required data (administrative, financial, etc.) in the Electronic Submission System described in the relevant Guidelines for Applicants and the Electronic Submission System Handbook.
   
2. 
   Fulfilling this template and converting it in a PDF file before uploading it in the Electronic Submission System. The structure of pre-proposals must correspond to the requirements specified under each section of this template.
   

This template is formed by two parts:

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  Part I: “Administrative data, general information and general budget”. It has to be fulfilled directly in the tables below.
  
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  Part II: “Scientific and technical information”. This part starts on page 5. It has to be created by the coordinator, according to the information provided in the Technical Annex of this document. The page limit for this part II is maximum 10 pages without counting the Part I.
  

Please delete the text above before submission.

PART I

Title of Proposal

Acronym

1. 
   Administrative data of participant organisations
   

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  List of participants :
  

Participant No *	PI name	Organisation	Country
1 (Coordinator)
2 Partner 1
3 Partner 2
4 Partner 3

* Please use the same participant numbering as that used in the Electronic Submission System. One PI per team/lab or institution

Add as many lines as you would need.

2. 
   General information of the pre-proposal
   

Section:
Call:
Topic:
Type of action:
Duration in months:
Free keywords	Enter any words you think give extra detail of the scope of your proposal (max 200 characters)
Abstract:	Short summary (max. 2,000 characters, with spaces) to clearly explain: • the objectives of the proposal • how they will be achieved • their relevance to the specific call and topic against which the proposal is submitted Will be used as the short description of the proposal in the evaluation process and in communications with the programme management committees and other interested parties • Do not include any confidential information. • Use plain typed text, avoiding formulae and other special characters.

Has this proposal (or a very similar one) been submitted in the past 2 years in response to a call for proposals under Horizon 2020 or any other EU programme(s)?

Yes No
Declarations

1)The coordinator declares to have the explicit consent of all applicants on their participation and on the content of this proposal.	��
2) The information contained in this proposal is correct and complete.	��
3) This proposal complies with ethical principles (including the highest standards of research integrity — as set out, for instance, in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity — and including, in particular, avoiding fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or other research misconduct).	��

4) The coordinator confirms:

- to have carried out the self-check of the financial capacity of the organisation on http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/organisations/lfv.html or to be covered by a financial viability check in an EU project for the last closed financial year. Where the result was “weak” or “insufficient”, the coordinator confirms being aware of the measures that may be imposed in accordance with the H2020 Grants Manual (Chapter on Financial capacity check); or	��
- is exempt from the financial capacity check being a public body including international organisations, higher or secondary education establishment or a legal entity, whose viability is guaranteed by a Member State or associated country, as defined in the H2020 Grants Manual (Chapter on Financial capacity check); or	��
- as sole participant in the proposal is exempt from the financial capacity check.	��

5) The coordinator hereby declares that each applicant has confirmed:

- they are fully eligible in accordance with the criteria set out in the specific call for proposals; and	��
- they have the financial and operational capacity to carry out the proposed action.	��
The coordinator is only responsible for the correctness of the information relating to his/her own organisation. Each applicant remains responsible for the correctness of the information related to him/her and declared above. Where the proposal to be retained for EU funding, the coordinator and each beneficiary applicant will be required to present a formal declaration in this respect.

According to Article 131 of the Financial Regulation of 25 October 2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (Official Journal L 298 of 26.10.2012, p. 1) and Article 145 of its Rules of Application (Official Journal L 362, 31.12.2012, p.1) applicants found guilty of misrepresentation may be subject to administrative and financial penalties under certain conditions.
Personal data protection
The assessment of your grant application will involve the collection and processing of personal data (such as your name, address and CV) on the French National Research Agency evaluation and submission system. The PRIMA Foundation informs that in accordance with the French law "Informatique et Libertés" of the 6 of January 1978 as amended, applicants have the right to access and rectify their personal information. As such, they can access their user profile and rectify themselves some information about them. In addition, they have the right to exercise their rights by seizing the “Correspondant informatique et libertés” of the ANR. Unless indicated otherwise, your replies to the questions in this form and any personal data requested are required to assess your grant application in accordance with the specifications of the call for proposals and will be processed solely for that purpose.


General budget

Total amount requested to PRIMA / €:


Technical Annex

(1st stage of a two-stage submission procedure)
Research and Innovation actions

Innovation actions

This template is to be used at the 1st stage of a two-stage submission procedure. The structure of this template must be followed when preparing your proposal. It has been designed to ensure that the important aspects of your planned work are presented in a way that will enable the experts to make an effective assessment against the evaluation criteria. Excellence and impact each correspond to an evaluation criterion for a 1st stage proposal in a two-stage submission procedure. Please be aware that proposals will be evaluated as they were submitted, rather than on their potential if certain changes were to be made. This means that only proposals that successfully address all the required aspects will have a chance of being funded. After the deadline, excess pages (in over-long proposals/applications) will not be taken into consideration by the experts. The proposal is a self-contained document. Experts will be instructed to ignore hyperlinks to information that is specifically designed to expand the proposal, thus circumventing the page limit. Please, do not consider the page limit as a target! It is in your interest to keep your text as concise as possible, since experts rarely view unnecessarily long proposals in a positive light. The following formatting conditions apply: The reference font for the body text of PRIMA proposals is Times New Roman (Windows platforms), Times/Times New Roman (Apple platforms) or Nimbus Roman No. 9 L (Linux distributions). The use of a different font for the body text is not advised and is subject to the cumulative conditions that the font is legible and that its use does not significantly shorten the representation of the proposal in number of pages compared to using the reference font (for example with a view to bypass the page limit). The minimum font size allowed is 11 points. Standard character spacing and a minimum of single line spacing is to be used. Text elements other than the body text, such as headers, foot/end notes, captions, formula's, may deviate, but must be legible. The page size is A4, and all margins (top, bottom, left, right) should be at least 15 mm (not including any footers or headers). Please delete these explanations before submitting your proposal

PART II – Scientific and technical part –

Title of Proposal

Acronym

This page count as page 1 out of 10 (delete this sentence before submitting)

1. 
   Excellence
   

Your proposal must address a work programme topic for this call for proposals.

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  This section of your proposal will be assessed only to the extent that it is relevant to that topic.
  

1.1 Objectives

• Describe the overall and specific objectives for the project1, which should be clear, measurable, realistic and achievable within the duration of the project. Objectives should be consistent with the expected exploitation and impact of the project (see section 2).

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1.2 Relation to call and topic
• Indicate the call and topic to which your proposal relates, and explain how your proposal addresses the specific challenge and scope.
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1.3 Concept and methodology

1. 
   Concept
   

• Describe and explain the overall concept underpinning the project. Describe the main ideas, models or assumptions involved. Identify any inter-disciplinary considerations and, where relevant, use of stakeholder knowledge. Where relevant, include measures taken for public/societal engagement on issues related to the project.

• Describe the positioning of the project e.g. where it is situated in the spectrum from ‘idea to application’, or from ‘lab to market’. Refer to Technology Readiness Levels where relevant. (Check PRIMA Guidelines for Applicants to know more about Technology Readiness Levels);

• Describe any national or international research and innovation activities which will be linked with the project, especially where the outputs from these will feed into the project;
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(b) Methodology

• Describe and explain the overall methodology, distinguishing, as appropriate, activities indicated in the relevant section of the work programme, e.g. for research, demonstration, piloting, first market replication, etc;

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  Where relevant, describe how the gender dimension, i.e. sex and/or gender analysis is taken into account in the project’s content.
  

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Please note that this question does not refer to gender balance in the teams in charge of carrying out the project but to the content of the planned research and innovation activities. Sex and gender analysis refers to biological characteristics and social/cultural factors respectively. For guidance on methods of sex / gender analysis and the issues to be taken into account, please refer to:

http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/gendered-innovations/index_en.cfm?pg=home
1 The term ‘project’ used in this template equates to an ‘action’ in certain other Horizon 2020 documentation.

1.4 Ambition
• Describe the advance your proposal would provide beyond the state-of-the-art, and the extent the proposed work is ambitious.
• Describe the innovation potential (e.g. ground-breaking objectives, novel concepts and approaches, new products, services or business and organisational models) which the proposal represents. Where relevant, refer to products and services already available on the market. Please refer to the results of any patent search carried out.
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2. 
   Impact
   

2.1 Expected impacts

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  Please be specific, and provide only information that applies to the proposal and its objectives. Wherever possible, use quantified indicators and targets.
  

• Describe how your project will contribute to each of the expected impacts mentioned in the work programme, under the relevant topic.

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