COST Possible Support measures

1. COSTPossible Support measures Assoc. Prof. AlbenaVutsova PhD National coordinator

2. Possible supporting measures • 1. Preparatory grants • 2. Co-funding grants

3. 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

4. Who can apply ? Research teams from : • Universities • Research organizations • NGO,s • SMEs • Duration of the preparatory grants- 5 months

5. 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

6. Evaluation criteria: 1 Formal criteria : • eligibility of the proposal • relevance to the approved short proposal • relevance to the requirements for the complete project proposal

7. 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

8. 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 !

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. Possible national procedures • validation by supporting organization – (MES) • assessment by appointed national body • contracting and reporting before the supporting organization

13. 3. Other opportunities: • project submission to the competitions of NSF: • competitions are: • thematically oriented • horizontally oriented • calls with bottom-up approach

14. Thank you for your attention!