Annual eScience Event from 2020 to 2025

The call is open to approved Norwegian research organisations. See here for the list of approved Norwegian research organisations.

Requirements relating to the Project Owner

The organisation is to be listed as the Project Owner in the application form and must have authorised you to submit the grant application.

Requirements relating to partners

Only research organisations are eligible to be partners and to receive funding under this call. Other types of organisations, such as companies and other undertakings, may not be partners and are not eligible to receive support, but they may serve as suppliers of R&D services to the project.

Requirements relating to the project manager

• The project manager must be an employee of the research organisation.
• The project manager must have a relevant academic background.

Reporting and disbursement of funding

Project funding will be disbursed on an annual basis. Annual progress reports and a final report for the project are required.

You may apply for support for up to NOK 2 million distributed over a five-year period. This funding is to cover payroll and indirect expenses for an academic coordinator and other direct costs such as rental of premises, food, remuneration to external speakers according to the research organisation’s rates and for travel expenses for external keynote speakers to the event.

Participants at the event must cover their own travel and accommodation costs.

The Project Owner (R&D organisation) is responsible for selecting the archiving solution(s) to use for storing research data generated during the project. The Project Owner must specify the planned solution(s) in connection with the revised grant proposal.

The project description should specify the date and general area planned for the event and explain why these have been chosen.

It is important that the anticipated benefits of the project are based on the needs of participants and documented knowledge gaps within the thematic areas described in the text of the call.

Both short- and long-term impacts and outcomes are to be described in the project description. The project description is to be submitted as an attachment to the application.

Applications must fulfil the following requirements:

• The applicant/Project Owner must come from an eligible category of institution.
• The grant application must lie within the scope/satisfy the objectives of this call.
• The funding amount sought and the expenses to be covered and any own funding must be in keeping with the framework of the call.
• The budget must be formulated correctly to clearly indicate what the funding will cover.
• The application form must be fully completed.
• The required attachments must be included using the designated templates.
• The project description must provide answers to the items set out in the text of the call.

All items in the project description template must be completed. Responses to each item should be as concrete and clear as possible. Applications that do not satisfy the above requirements will be rejected.

• Grant applications and all attachments must be submitted in Norwegian.
• All attachments must be uploaded in PDF format.

Mandatory attachments

• A project description of maximum five pages using the designated template (found at the bottom of this page).
• A CV of maximum four pages, including the list of publications, for the project manager. Use the designated template found at the bottom of this page.

Links to websites and documents, as well as other attachments than those specified above, will not be included in the application review process. There is no technical validation of the content of the attachments you upload, so please make sure that you upload the correct file for the selected type of attachment.

The applications will be subject to administrative review by the Research Council within four weeks following the application submission deadline.