Funding Initiative for multidisciplinary reasearch in the field of Quantum Standards and Metrology (EuroQUASAR)

Following agreement with funding organisations in 12 countries, the European Science Foundation is launching a first Call for Outline Proposals for Collaborative Research Projects (CRPs) to be undertaken within the EUROCORES Programme EuroQUASAR This programme will run for 3-4 years and it includes national research funding, as well as support for networking and dissemination activities provided by the ESF (**).The Programme aims to support high quality multidisciplinary research.

(**) Currently supported through a contract with the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme (EC Contract n° ERAS-CT-2003-980409).

Full Proposal Submission

In response to the Call for Outline Proposals, 7 Outline Proposals were submitted. The EuroQUASAR Review Panel was convened on 2 July 2007 in Strasbourg to sift the Outline Proposals according to the assessment criteria. Successful applicants are invited to submit Full Proposals online.

Deadline for submitting Full Proposals: 13 SEPTEMBER 2007, noon CET.

Before preparing the application, applicants should:

• read carefully the Application Guidelines for Full Proposal
  
• contact their national funding organisations, to ensure compliance with their specific national regulations and internal requirements. (please check specific national requirements here)

As part of the Proposal, applicants will be asked to provide the overall budget of the CRP (Table A), a specification of the budget per IP (Table B) and the Sum of the requested IP budgets per year (Table C).

The Project Leader will be responsible for correctly entering the data. Principal Investigators and Associate Partners are responsible for supplying the Project Leader with complete and correct data.  

For further information, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).   

Note that the Collaborative Research Project as a whole, not its individual components, will be assessed.

Assessment Criteria for Full Proposals

At the Full Proposal stage, the assessment will focus on the scientific quality of the research plan for a Collaborative Research Project.

1. Scientific quality of the CRP and IP proposals 
2. Level of multidisciplinary integration within the CRP
3. Qualification of the applicants (suitability for this CRP; international standing)
4. Level of collaboration and integration between the IPs in the CRP
5. Feasibility, incl. suitability of the methods selected
6. European added value and relation to other projects (risk of double-funding and track record for collaboration).

Call for Outline Proposals

THE CALL IS NOW CLOSED

• The EuroQUASAR Call for Outline Proposals can be found here (pdf).   
• Outline Proposals are to be submitted by 15 May 2007, noon CET - online submission form.
• A Funding Overview of EuroQUASAR can be found here (pdf)