COST

POSSIBLE SUPPORT MEASURES

Assoc. Prof. Albena Vutsova PhDNational coordinator

Possible supporting measures

1. Preparatory grants

2. Co-funding grants

1.Preparatory grants

Main aim-to stimulate ability of COST project preparation

Similar to the preparatory instruments for other programs

Will be in function for the second step of the project submission

The one requirement – approved first step of the proposal

Who can apply ?

Research teams from : Universities Research organizations NGO,s SMEs

Duration of the preparatory grants- 5 months

Funding conditions

Eligible expenditures : Business trips- max 2 trips; Study visits of foreigner researchers-

accommodations and daily allowance ; Office consumables Others Some payments to affiliated organization

Evaluation criteria: 1

Formal criteria :

eligibility of the proposal relevance to the approved short proposal relevance to the requirements for the

complete project proposal

Evaluation criteria 2

scientific criteria - same as criteria applicable for the program

Impact - where and how, areas of intervention

project structure and management of the added value to the COST targets

National authorization

Two steps :

checking project eligibility for submission to COST call

international evaluation and grant allocation

(if any)

Important point - official submission in COST call !

2. Co-funding COST actions – other possible measure

initiative was in action 2009 and 2010, terminated after that

could be organized on the basis of a special procedure, adopted by MES

aim - to support running actions with well-introduced BG teams

Realization and applicability:

only for running actions

only for research teams with own research tasks, part of the COST action WPs

only for actions in the beginning of the execution

Required documents

MoU for the given COST action working program, role and concrete tasks

of the BG team preliminary budget for the performance of

national tasks share of BG affiliated organization duration of the working program BG research team – curricula vitae

Possible national procedures

validation by supporting organization – (MES)

assessment by appointed national body

contracting and reporting before the supporting organization

3. Other opportunities:

project submission to the competitions of NSF:

competitions are: thematically oriented horizontally oriented calls with bottom-up approach

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