All organisations that will carry out activities in a project, contribute funding or deliver R&D services must be registered as a participating organisation in the application.
Participating organisations can have different roles:
Project Owner
All applications must be submitted by the organisation that has the role of Project Owner. The organisation is responsible for ensuring that the application complies with the Research Council's guidelines and that the project has the necessary resources to carry out the project if the application is funded.
It is the Project Owner that receives the funding decision after the Research Council has processed the application. It is also the Project Owner that can lodge a complaint against a decision made by the Research Council.
If the application is funded, the Project Owner will be responsible vis-à-vis the Research Council for ensuring that the initial report is submitted and that the project is carried out as agreed.
Collaborating partners
In projects with collaborating partners, organisations that will carry out activities in the project or contribute funding must be registered as collaborating partners in the application.
Read about collaboration agreements.
The organisation's research performing entity
If the Project Owner or collaborating partner has several sub-entities, such as faculties, production units, etc., we want to know which sub-entity is responsible for carrying out the activities planned in the project. We use this information for statistics and analysis, but also to get a better understanding of how the project will be carried out.
However, it is the overarching entity of the organisation that we formally relate to. If sub-entities have their own organisation number in the Norwegian Register for Legal Entities, we will retrieve the organisation number of the parent entity. If there is a sub-entity in the research sector, we use Statistics Norway's register of research organisations and entities to find the parent entity. This means that when you select a sub-entity, we automatically find the right parent entity for you.
R&D provider
In some calls, the Research Council allows the Project Owner and/or collaborating partners to procure R&D services from research organisations and other actors. If you are going to purchase such R&D services, the R&D provider must be registered as a partner in the application as the partner type R&D provider. Costs for purchasing R&D must be budgeted in one or more work packages, and the relevant R&D provider must be linked to the cost line.
Subcontractors do not have a formal role in the project, and they are not to be registered as a participating organisation in the application.
Read about the use of R&D providers and subcontractors.