Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call “Management of water resources: resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events and management tools”
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Submission Procedures A two-step application procedure will be used in this Joint Transnational Call. Pre-proposals and full proposals must be submitted electronically via a specifically designed web platform, the Online Submission Tool , using the templates provided. Applicants should note that the online system may experience high traffic volumes in the last hours before the submission deadline and it is therefore highly recommended to submit the final version of the pre / full-proposal well in advance of the deadline to avoid any last-minute technical problems. Requests for extensions of the deadline due to last minute technical problems will not be considered. Evaluation Procedures Detailed procedures are available in the call text. Step 1 (Pre-proposal stage) Pre-proposals that are submitted correctly and within the deadline will be checked for eligibility by the Call Secretariat against criteria defined in chapter 4. Eligibility criteria of the Call text and by the Funding Partner Organisations (FPOs) according to their national/regional criteria (see national regulations). All eligible pre-proposals will be subject to a scientific evaluation by at least three remote evaluators based on two criteria - ‘Excellence’ and ‘Impact’. The Call Secretariat will check that no Conflict of Interest exists concerning the proposals evaluated. A ranking list of pre-proposals will be produced, including only pre-proposals that meet the minimum threshold, i.e., 3 out of 5 in each criterion. The final score will be calculated firstly by reckoning the average of the scores given by the Remote Evaluators for each criterion, rounded to the closest integer value, and, afterwards, summing up the average scores of the two criteria. The objective of this first step is to identify the best proposals to proceed to Step 2 and to ensure balance between requested and available funds at the national level. The eligible pre-proposals will be divided in 3 groups, according to their scores: Group A (highest evaluation scores), Group B (medium evaluation scores) and Group C (low evaluation scores). All pre-proposals in Group A, if funds available, will be invited to STEP-2. Among the pre-proposals in Group B, proposals will be selected to STEP-2, taking into account the ranking list, the representativeness of all FPOs and the funding ratio limits. Pre-proposals in Group C will be dismissed for their low classification and unavailability of funding. Consortium Coordinators will be informed of the outcomes by the Water4All Call Secretariat and, if appropriate, invited to submit a full proposal. Step 2 (Full proposal stage) After the submission deadline for full proposals, the submitted full proposals will be checked to ensure that they meet the formal call criteria and have not changed substantially from the respective pre-proposals. Full proposals not meeting the formal conditions will be rejected without further review. All full proposals will be subject to a remote scientific evaluation by at least three remote evaluators based on three criteria - ‘Excellence’, ‘Impact’ and ‘Quality and Efficiency of Implementation’. Each proposal will then be reviewed by the Evaluation Panel (EP), taking into account the results of the remote evaluation. The Evaluation Panel will be composed by an adequate number of experts independent from any funding organisation involved in this call and the Call Steering Committee will check that no Conflict of Interest exists concerning the proposals evaluated. The EP meeting will complete the evaluation procedure, agreeing the final individual score for each criterion, which shall be an integer value, and the overall score for each proposal. Due to the large number of proposals to be evaluated, the EP could decide to focus on those proposals that report divergent scores from the remote evaluators. Any proposal where there is a consensus between the remote evaluators on any of the three criteria being below the threshold, may not be discussed and ranked by the EP (regardless if there is divergence or not in other scores). The EP will produce a final score and a final Evaluation Summary Report for each proposal, that will be transmitted to the applicants. A ranked list of proposals will be produced based on the final scores. The threshold on the final score is 10/15: no project with a lower score will be funded.
Further information
Applicants should refer to the details of the Call text, which can be downloaded from the Water4All website or from the Online Submission Tool. The Call text highlights the aim, expected approach and topics of the Call. It also details the countries participating in funding the call, the eligibility criteria, submission, evaluation and selection procedures, and modalities for projects funding and reporting. Specific funding regulations apply depending on the funding organisations: each partner applying to the call must ensure that its contribution to the overall project conforms to these regulations, as reported in the document “National/Regional Regulations” available in the 2022 Joint Transnational Call website.