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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
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!