Funding provided under previews programmes.

CoARA Boost’s second cascade funding call facilitates institutional change and targets pilot and exchange-of-knowledge initiatives. It will fund +20 projects facilitating knowledge-exchange, piloting new initiatives within institutions, and enabling lasting institutional change. As such, it encourages and supports research organisations to investigate and test what will efficiently work ‘in real life’.

More specifically, the call aims to:

• Facilitate the exchange, transfer and adaptation of proven good practices and their adoption in research organisations.
• Catalyse the set-up or transformation of research assessment practices and tools in line with the commitments of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.
• Support the development and testing of new and innovative research assessment approaches, models and procedures.

Proposals may be funded up to €30.000 – €60.000 each (including indirect costs, see specified below per cost).

The maximum grant amount depends on the type of Project you are applying for:

• For the teaming projects: the maximum grant amount is €40.000.The maximum project duration is 12 months.
• For the institutional pilot projects: the maximum grant amount is €30.000. The maximum project duration is 12 months.
• For the institutional change projects: the maximum grant amount is €60.000. The maximum project duration is 12 months.

Approximately 20-25 projects are expected to be funded.

Except for the teaming projects, the cascade funding program is designed for mono beneficiaries (i.e., one organisation per application).

In the case of teaming calls, co-applications from maximum 3 organisations are welcome.

• Research, Technological Development and Innovation

• Educational Institutions
• Local Authorities
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
• State-owned Enterprises

The primary targets of the CoARA Boost Cascade Funding Programme are legal entities of the following types:

• Academies, learned societies that implement some form of research assessment;
• National/regional authorities or agencies that implement some form of research assessment;
• Public or private research funding organisations;
• Research centres, research infrastructures;
• Universities;
• Other relevant non-for-profit organisations that implement some form of research assessment.

Applications from faculties of universities are also eligible. However, the university needs to be formally the applicant, and not the faculty.

A maximum of one application per organisation is allowed for all calls.

Consortium members of the CoARA Boost project are not eligible to participate in the call. In the case of beneficiaries that are umbrella organisations, their member organisations are eligible. Nominating organisations of the CoARA Steering Board members are also eligible, as the Steering Board does not directly participate in the evaluation of the proposals. The Steering Board will not have any role in both the evaluation and selection of winning applications.

Also beneficiaries of the first round of the CoARA Boost Cascade Funding are not eligible to apply.

Any questions regarding the call can be directed to the CoARA Secretariat: funding@coara.org and in case of technical questions concerning the submission platform to: esf-panels@esf.org

• Funding&Tenders
• Website
• Call document
• Guidelines for Applicants