Background: Total funding for this call: 180.000 €
The Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) in Vienna launches a call for scientific networking and project cooperation between research institutions in Austria, in Kosovo and the Western Balkan region with special attention to young and early stage researchers in Kosovo. Funding is provided by the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) in the framework of the project "Higher KOS – Promoting Institutional Development in Higher Education and Research in Kosovo”. The activities in the funded projects shall enable researchers from Austria, Kosovo and the Western Balkan region to work together on mutually beneficial science driven projects and empower especially young researchers in Kosovo to cooperate within international projects.
The total funding available for this call for proposals is 180.000 Euro. Funding is foreseen for a maximum duration of 15 months and the max. funding per project is €15.000. The allowable funding per project must be justified by the content, work load, duration and number of teams involved. For projects with higher financial costs, co-financing is expected.
Thematic areas:
Projects funded under this call should address the priority fields stipulated by the National Research
Programme of Kosovo:
- Environment, Energy and Natural Resources,
- Agricultural Production and Food Safety,
- Medical Research,
- Development of a Knowledge Based Society,
- Linguistic, Historic and Cultural Studies,
- or Cross-horizontal Research in Information and Communication Technologies
Eligibility for participation:
- Eligible for application as contractor are only institutions from Austria: universities, non-university research institutions (e.g. Academies
of Science) and other tertiary education organisations (e.g. “Fachhochschulen”).
- Eligible as project partners are university-based or non-university-based research institutions and other tertiary education organisations
respecting the following consortium composition (overall minimum three institutions): minimum one partner eligible as contractor -
Austria; minimum one partner - Kosovo; minimum one partner from one of the Western Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro or Serbia
Also in a consortium of more than 3 partners these minimum requirements have to be respected.
The general criteria to be applied in evaluating projects are as follows:
- the nature of the proposed activity (clear objectives, scientific relevance and quality, feasibility, potential benefit, impact, sustainability);
- extent and quality of regional collaboration;
- qualification and expertise of the coordinator and the project partners;
- appropriate time schedule and workflow;
- cost and value for money, transparent budget, budget justifications;
- the concept and way of inclusion, capacity building and empowerment of young Kosovan researcher(s).
- the consideration of cross cutting themes (“gender equality”, “peace building and conflict prevention” and “environmental protection”)
- diversity of project teams
Deadline: 14 December 2012
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