NORFACE
DIAL
• N.O.R.F.A.C.E.
• New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency
Cooperation in Europe
• TNP – Religion 2008; Migration 2009; Welfare States
Futures 2013
• NORFACE countries
Austria
Germany
Czech Republic Iceland
Denmark
Ireland
Estonia
Lithuania
Finland
Netherlands
France
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovenia
Sweden
United Kingdom
• Religion: 63 outline proposals; 26 full proposals; 10 funded (two coapplicants from Ireland).
• Migration: 240 outline proposals; 45 full proposals; 12 funded (three
co-applicants from Ireland).
• Welfare States: 182 outline proposals; 47 full proposals; 15 funded
(one co-applicant from Ireland).
NORFACE JRP ‘DIAL’ General Facts
• €15m available for social science-led research into Dynamics of Inequality
Across the Life-Course (DIAL);
• Pooling national and European funding; 17 NORFACE partners
• NORFACE has applied to the EC for a top-up of €5m
• Supporting excellent and collaborative research across borders and beyond
state-of-the art
• 1 Handling Agency from pre-award to post-award
NORFACE JRP ‘DIAL’
• Proposal preparation and application process
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Call for Proposals
Programme text
General and National Eligibility Requirements
FAQ document
Application template and budget template (Excel)
• All document are available online at: www.norface.net and CACSSS Research
website
• Register early on ISSAC (NWO electronic application system) & ensure you
keep up-to-date with the latest version of the FAQ document
Eligibility
• Outline proposals must be submitted before the deadline of 30thMarch
2016, 13.00 Central European Time (12pm GMT): late applications not
accepted.
• At least three research teams from three different eligible (NORFACE)
countries (a Main applicant and two [or more] Co-applicants).
• Maximum budget per project: €1.5m. Small & large projects welcome
• Can be more than one Co-applicant from the same country, they must be
based at different institutions. One of these is the national contact point.
• Only one Co-applicant per institution.
• One person can be involved in a maximum of two applications. NB a person
can be involved as a Main Applicant in only one of these applications.
• Different set of national eligibility rules apply for all
IRC eligibility rules
• Main applicants/Co-applicants - full-time members of the academic staff,
either permanent or on temporary contracts of sufficient duration to cover
the period of the proposed project at recognised RPOs.
• Eligible personnel costs include postgraduate/PhD candidates (€93k over
three years); postdoctoral fellows (€160k over three years); replacement
costs for senior researchers (€126k over three years).
• Personnel costs can only be claimed in the above three staffing categories.
Costs for administrative assistants/PAs are not eligible
• Eligible material costs; Travel & accommodation & meeting costs;
knowledge transfer (open access costs); joint publication costs (incl. editing
and translation costs; other material costs, equipment (where justifiable);
consumables
• Consult your research/finance office when putting budget together.
• Any queries about eligible costs, contact the IRC NORFACE National Contact
Point for clarification – Dr. Maria O’Brien, IRC.
DIAL Call 2016/17
March 30 2016, Outline deadline
July 2016, Notification of projects
selected for Full Proposal
October 12 2016, Full Proposal
deadline
February 2017, external reviews
for comments
June 2017, Final funding
decisions
Evaluation Criteria
• All Outline Proposals and Full Proposals are assessed against three
sets of criteria, on a scale of 1 to 5:
• Scientific excellence
• Quality and efficiency of the implementation and management
• Potential impact
Programme guide
Project Leader: Prof Valentina Mazzuato, U of Maastricht
UCC team: Dr Angela Veale (PI), Dr Allen White, Dr Caitriona Ni Laoire & Camilla
Andreas
Migration Call 2008/9
DIAL Call 2016/17
September 10 2008, Outline
deadline
March 30 2016, Outline deadline
Late November 2008, Notification
of projects for Full Proposal
July 2016, Notification of projects
selected for Full Proposal
January 30 2009, Full Proposal
deadline
October 12 2016, Full Proposal
deadline
March 2009, external reviews for
comments
February 2017, external reviews
for comments
June 2009, Final funding decisions
June 2017, Final funding
decisions
DIAL Call 2016/17
Migration Call 2008/9
1. What research question does this
proposal seek to answer?
2. Why is this research question
significant? How will it contribute to
the theme of this Call?
3. By what methods and work plans will
the research question be tackled? In
what ways is the project innovative?
4. What added value will be gained by
undertaking this research as a
collaborative project with the
proposed partners? What is the
transnational added value of the
project?
5. What are the expected outcomes and
impacts of the research project? How
will findings be shared with
interested parties?
• 1,500 words
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Which research question does the proposal seek to answer?
Why is this research question significant? How will it
contribute to the theme or themes of the call? If applicable,
how does the proposal cut across different themes of the
programme?
3. By what methods and work plans will the research question
be tackled? In what ways is the project innovative? What
are the main theoretical and conceptual innovations
expected from the project?
4. What added value will be gained by undertaking the
research as a collaborative project with the proposed
partners? What is the transnational added value of the
project?
5. How will the project participants contribute to the project?
What research expertise and competence do the
participants bring to the project proposal?
6. What are the expected outcomes and impacts of the
research project? How will findings be shared with
interested parties?
7. Please clearly delineates the strengths, weaknesses and
suitability of secondary data sources and thoroughly
justifies any new data collection to address the research
questions. …. If the research involves primary data
collection or acquisition, please indicate how existing
datasets have been reviewed and state why currently
available datasets are inadequate for this proposed research
• 2,500 words
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NETHERLANDS
NIGERIA
General Observations from NORFACE 2009
Use the Research Programme to guide writing the Outline document
Writing the Outline document was not a collaborative process
Cite literature that links this project with (team’s) existing research
Drafting a project budget can be fraught and for PLs this can be a particular
headache
Response to reviewers – opportunity to address key methodological points
and issue
The transnational project came together for the purposes of the application
General Tips
• Convey your genuine interest, understanding and enthusiasm for the project. Address
key questions:
• Why does it matter?
• Why now?
• Why you?
• Give clear aims and objectives. Methodology must be clear –it must be clear to the
reader what is proposed to be done
• Follow exactly the structure given in the call documents.
• Read the proposal to see how it flows –avoid unnecessary repetition.
• Keep the evaluator in mind.
• Projects to be aware of (potential evaluators):
• Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) "More Years, Better Lives -The Potential and Challenges of
Demographic Change”;
• Families and Societies (Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity
over the life course and across generations, 2013-2017) http://www.familiesandsocieties.eu/
• COPE (Combating Poverty in Europe: Re-organising Active Inclusion through Participatory and
Integrated Modes of Multilevel Governance, 2012-2015) FP7 project
• eduLIFE project (Education as a Lifelong Process –Comparing Educational Trajectories in Modern
Societies 2011-2016) http://edulife.eui.eu/Home.aspx
• Address the European added value of the collaboration:
• It is important that all proposals make the European added value of their
proposed project clear, not only how the research is academically excellent,
but also how it is essential that this is delivered by transnational collaboration
and how the management and communication structures enable
collaboration across partners from the beginning; i.e. the research is truly
integrated from conception and not just bringing together individual
projects at the end. (FAQ, p.3)