Support for Networking Measures for Research on Climate and the Environment

The call is open to 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 the project manager

The project manager must either be coordinator of the network or its Norwegian representative.

For details and more information about what can be funded, please see What to enter in the project budget on the Research Council’s website.

Support from the Research Council is only available for the organisation’s non-economic activity. The Research Council requires a clear separation of accounts for the organisation’s economic and non-economic activities.

Support from the Research Council is limited to maximum 50 per cent of the direct costs associated with the operation and coordination of the networking measure. Funding to cover costs for R&D activities is not available under this call.

You may apply for support to cover the following:

• Direct costs for operation of the networking measure such as materials, rent for premises and procurement of services. Seminars/workshops may be included as an activity under the network, but may not be its primary purpose.
• Salary and payroll costs for the network coordinator. Support may be granted for actual salary costs (including social security costs), with an added overhead of 25 per cent to cover indirect expenses.
• Travel expenses for the coordinator in connection with coordination-related tasks.

Travel expenses for ordinary participation in networking meetings, conferences or the like will not be covered.

Appointments to international research networks of national interest

Individuals appointed to take part in international research networks may receive coverage of up to 100 per cent of travel costs and payroll expenses related to such participation, limited to a maximum NOK 100 000 per year.

Conditions for funding

The project must start between 1 August 2020 and 31 December 2020, and funding must be sought from the Research Council for the period 2020–2022. The latest permitted project completion is 31 December 2022.

You may revise and resubmit your grant application form multiple times up to the application submission deadline. We recommend that you submit your application as soon as you have filled in the application form and included all mandatory attachments. After the deadline, it is the most recently submitted version of the grant application that will be processed.

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

Mandatory attachments

• A project description of maximum five pages. Use the designated template found at the bottom of this page.
• A CV for the project manager. Use the designated template found at the bottom of this page.

Grant applications that do not satisfy the above requirements will be rejected.
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.

Applications will be processed by the Research Council administration. When necessary, external referees will be asked to assess grant applications.

The decision regarding funding is expected to be announced by at the latest 6 July 2020.