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Annex for the French-Brazilian projects (FAPESP)

IMPORTANT

1. The conditions of participation, including the eligibility and selection criteria and the important recommendations presented herein, add to the provisions specified in the Work Programme 2014 and the Guide for applicants.

2. It is important to read carefully the Work Programme 2014, the Guide for applicants, and the regulations concerning the conditions of allocation of ANR funding ( http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/RF ), as well as the present document in its entirety before submitting a research project proposal.

ANR contact: 
international@agencerecherche.fr

FAPESP (State of São Paulo) contact:
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP: en/5399
Mr Alexandre ROCCATTO chamada-fapesp-anr@fapesp.br]
 

1. Context and objectives of the collaboration with Brazil (State of São Paulo)

By setting up bilateral agreements with foreign funding agencies, the ANR gives French researchers the opportunity to begin or to further their scientific collaborations, and thereby hopes to give rise to European and international teams of excellence. The aim is to fund bi-national innovative projects that clearly stand out from on-going national projects, and that clearly show a strong complementarity between the teams of each country and real integration of the work. The French National Research Agency (ANR) signed an agreement with the FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo), in order to facilitate the setting up and implementation of scientific projects of quality jointly proposed by French and Brazilian research teams from the State of S ão Paulo. The specific conditions of this agreement are presented below.

2. Research themes

The bilateral agreement with Brazil (State of São Paulo) is open to the following research themes:

• Microbiology, immunology, infectiology
• Marine research
• Social sciences and humanities

3. Submission of proposals

The pre-proposals and full proposals must be submitted to ANR only. The ANR will handle the submission of proposals on behalf of both countries. The teams of each country must designate a national scientific coordinator. The French scientific coordinator must submit to ANR the pre-proposal and the full proposal in English. He/She must be identified as the scientific coordinator on ANR submission website. He/She is subject to the rules (notably the eligibility rules) with which each national scientific coordinator of the generic call must comply (see Guide for applicants).

3.1. Content of proposals

3.1.1. Content of pre-proposals

The pre-proposals of international projects must comply with the rules concerning the format and content detailed in the guide for applicants. The foreign partners should be clearly identified in the online form and in the presentation of the consortium in the description of the project. Attention: the provisional amount of grants requested filled in in the online form concerns the French partners only. The provisional amount of grants requested by the foreign partners should be completed in the scientific description.

3.1.2. Content of full proposals

The full proposals of international projects must satisfy the rules concerning the format and content detailed in the guide for applicants. In the online form, the foreign partners should fill in the administrative information only, and not the financial data (budget = 0). Moreover, it is important to introduce the contribution of the foreign teams in the scientific document. Sufficient information must be provided to accurately evaluate the respective contributions of each team in terms of scientific input, resources and funding request. The summary table of the persons involved in the project requested in the guide for applicants must be replaced by the following table:

Country	Organisation	Last name	First name	Current position	Role (national coordinator or partner) and contribution to the project	Involvement in the project (person.months)*	Requested funding to the ANR (euros)	Requested funding to the FAPESP (euros)
	University X / Company Y			Professor	Coordinator Characterization of recombinant transcription factors in in-vitro systems…

(* to be indicated with respect to the total project duration)

4. Examination of proposals

The selection procedure comprises the following main steps: • Projects will be assessed by ANR only. They will be reviewed using the same criteria as the other projects submitted to the generic call for proposals and described in the work programme 2014. The evaluation criteria specific to international cooperation detailed in paragraph 4.2 . will also be applied. The peer reviewers proposed by FAPESP will be invited by ANR to review the projects. The FAPESP will moreover have access to all of the information related to the project and the evaluation. • Then, the ANR will propose to its foreign counterpart the projects to be funded among those selected through the selection process. They will then jointly decide on the projects to fund. • A project will be funded by the ANR only if both agencies decide to fund it.

4.1. Eligibility criteria

The ANR will check that the proposals are eligible on the closing date of each stage of submission. It will take account of the criteria indicated in the Work programme 2014 and detailed in the guide for applicants, as well as the additional criteria that are specific to French-Brazilian projects and that are described below.

4.1.1. Additional eligibility criteria of pre-proposals

To be eligible, the pre-proposals must satisfy the following additional criteria: 1) The consortium shall include at least one French partner and one foreign partner concerned by the bilateral agreement. Two types of bi-national partnerships are eligible: a. Bilateral project including French teams AND Brazilian teams from the State of São Paulo b. Trilateral project including French teams AND Brazilian teams from the State of São Paulo AND the State of Pernambuco (see the Brazil-FACEPE annex detailing the conditions related to the partnerships with the teams of Pernambuco) 1) The pre-proposal shall be declared eligible by both funding agencies. In the case of a trilateral project, the pre-proposal shall be declared eligible by the three funding agencies.

4.1.2. Additional eligibility criteria of full proposals

To be eligible, the full proposals must satisfy the following additional criteria: 2) The consortium shall include at least one French partner and one foreign partner concerned by the bilateral agreement. Two types of bi-national partnerships are eligible: a. Bilateral project including French teams AND Brazilian teams from the State of São Paulo b. Trilateral project including French teams AND Brazilian teams from the State of São Paulo AND the State of Pernambuco (see the Brazil-FACEPE annex detailing the conditions related to the partnerships with the teams of Pernambuco) 3) The full proposal shall be declared eligible by both funding agencies. In the case of a trilateral project, the proposal shall be declared eligible by the three funding agencies.

4.2. Selection criteria of full proposals

Projects will be evaluated according to the evaluation criteria mentioned in the Work programme 2014. The ANR will use two additional selection criteria that are specific to the international projects in order to support the discussions with the partner funding agency: • Balance of the respective scientific and financial contributions of the partners of each country • Added value of the international cooperation.

5. Important recommendations

The following recommendations provide guidance for the preparation of projects proposals and supplement the recommendations described in the Guide for applicants.

5.1.1. Recommendation concerning the contribution of the partners

The partners should ensure that the scientific and financial contributions of each country are equitable. The costs of participation in one symposium abroad at mid-project or end of project are to be budgeted for each partner.

5.1.2. Recommendation concerning the duration of the project

The project duration should be the same for the French and foreign partners. 

6. Particular funding provisions

The place of origin principle will be applied to the funding, that is to say that each agency will finance the expenses relative to its own team(s). Consortium agreement All the French and Brazilian partners of the projects selected and funded by the ANR must enter into a consortium agreement, mentioned in article 4.4 of the Funding regulations (www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/RF), even in the absence of enterprises in the consortium. This agreement shall also indicate the project start and end dates. The deadline for returning the consortium agreement to the ANR by the French partners is mentioned in article 7.5.1 of the funding regulations. Before any payment is made by ANR, the project partners will have to provide the consortium agreement signed by all partners.

7. Provisional calendar

• Joint decision and publication of results: September 2014
• Possible start of projects: end of 2014

 

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