6th Joint CORNET Call for Transnational Collective Research Project Proposals

CORNET-level rules
In order to take account of the international character of the projects, the organising ministries and agencies have jointly agreed some CORNET-level rules, in addition to the rules that apply in the participating countries and regions. The main criteria for CORNET projects are:
• Eligible partners are only associations, federations, trade associations or other groups of enterprises with common objectives. These organisations typically subcontract the R&D work to relevant (collective) research centres and universities.
• The project consortium has to be composed of eligible partners from at least 3 CORNET countries or regions.
• Maximum project duration is 2 years.
• A SME Users Committee is obligatory.
• A transnational collaboration agreement will be required.
• Dissemination activities should be European in scale. This includes information on dissemination activities in English.

Detailed rules for participation and guidelines on how to submit a proposal, as well as templates are available on this webpage.
Please also contact your national or regional funding organisation in an early stage for information on the additional national/regional rules.

Pre-proposal check
it is strongly recommended for the consortium leader to submit a pre-proposal in English electronically to the 6th call office:
cornet6thcall@iwt.be for a preliminary check. Deadline for this pre-proposal submission is September 12th 2008.

Proposal submission
The CORNET application form has to be submitted electronically in English by the consortium leader to the 6th call office:
cornet6thcall@iwt.be; at the same time all partners submit a national/regional application form to their respective agencies, referring to the CORNET proposal. Deadline for submission of application forms is November 7th 2008.