Background contact details Roy Pennings 18 years of

Background & contact details: Roy Pennings • • • 18 years of experience in EU proposal development/writing & project management Consultant to CERN since 2008 Further professional details on: http: //linkedin. com/in/roypennings or www. 3 dimpact. eu Direct contact details: • • • Email: rpennings@3 dimpact. eu Tel. +31 -6 -48698230 Skype: rpennings Availability: always (incl. weekends) until submission deadline When to contact me: • Any question related to administrative, financial or budgetary issues (except no. of Person Months per organisation). This includes also: • registration of your organisation (PIC-code) • completing the Letter of Commitment • filling in any other documentation requested by Archana or me • Any question related to the timetable • Any ‘calamity’ from your side that might be an obstacle for timely finalisation of the proposal submission When to contact Archana: • All matters related to the science content of the project • All matters related to participation of your organisation in WPs or the no. of secondment months for your researchers

CAPSTONE - Timetable The second review-document should be read by all partners for final comments. Discussions on content, secondments etc. should take place before and directly with Archana!

CAPSTONE – Secondments & budget The MCSA RISE funds secondments of researchers CAPSTONE can request a total maximum of 540 Person Months (PM) of secondments • The MCSA RISE programme allows 2 kinds of secondments: (a) EU-to-EU (this includes the so-called EU Accession States) or (b) EU-to-Third Country (+vice-versa; TA stands for Third Countries, basically meaning almost countries outside of Europe). • • In option (a), secondments are ONLY allowed if they are inter-sectoral, meaning a secondment between an academic institution and a non-academic organisation (generally a company or an association). Research institutes also fall within the category of academic institutions. In option (b), secondments can be both intersectoral as well as intra-sectoral, ie. also between academic institutions. The EC provides a fixed amount for each PM that a researcher is seconded. This money is split between the researcher and the institution. Please note that the institution’s allocation can also (partly) be used to pay an additional top-up allowance to the staff members to cover additional travel and subsistence costs, or to organise additional training activities or horizontal networking events. Moreover, any remaining institutional unit costs per secondment can be "pooled" and effectively reshuffled among different secondments according to the internal arrangements of the consortium.

CAPSTONE - What do we request from you? - 1 Archana and I will use the email address of the key scientific person from your organisation for all communication and requests. It is the responsibility of that person to be available & internally distribute and collect information! 1. PIC-code for registration on European Commission systems. Ø only those organisations that I specifically approach with this request Ø If the organisation does not have a PIC-code, then I will send a 1 -page guideline how to request the code. This takes 5 minutes. Please then send the code to me for further registration. 2. Contact details for the organisation and key-persons (scientific contact person, admin/financial contact person). Ø Based on template sheet I provide to you. Completed info should be sent back asap! PIC-search engine URL: https: //ec. europa. eu/research/participants /portal/desktop/en/organisations/register _sec. html

CAPSTONE - What do we request from you? - 2 3. Contact details for every researcher that will be seconded by your organisation. Ø Based on template sheet I will provide to you. Please always provide ORCID ID of each researcher! 4. Organisation description. Ø Based on template sheet I provide to you. An example will be provided to guide you as well.

CAPSTONE - What do we request from you? - 3 4. Letter of Commitment (only for the Associated Partners; not for the Project Beneficiaries!) Ø An example will be provided to guide you. Please make sure it is on headed paper, signed (+ name and position) and stamped. You may add, modify the letter, but a particular (marked) section MUST be printed in the letter without modification. 5. Work Package (WP) description (task for WPL, with participation of all participants!) Ø Description of research activity, sub-divided into 3 -6 tasks, each with 1 -2 deliverables (=results) Ø Each WP should also have 1 -2 Milestones (=significant events, not products!) Ø WPL to draft initial description, based on discussion with Archana and using template + example Ø WPL to discuss with partners inside the WP: (1) content of description, (2) involvement of partner in specific tasks Ø WPL to discuss with Archana the desired no. of secondment months per partner to carry out the work (and where!)