Horizon Europe Programme
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Standard Application Form 
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - 
Co-funding of regional, national and 
international programmes (HE MSCA COFUND)

Project proposal – Technical description (Part B2) 

Version 2.3
29 September 2023

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MARIE Skłodowska-CURIE ACTIONS

Co-funding of regional, national and 
international programmes (COFUND)
Call: HORIZON-MSCA-COFUND-2023

PART B2

“PROPOSAL ACRONYM”

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This proposal is to be evaluated as:

[Doctoral]   [Postdoctoral]  
[delete as appropriate]

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DOCUMENT 2 (no overall page limit applied)

4. Ethics 

Actions carried out under Horizon Europe shall comply with ethical principles and relevant Union, national and international law, including the Charter and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Supplementary Protocols.

Particular attention shall be paid to the principle of proportionality, to the right to privacy, the right to the protection of personal data, the right to the physical and mental integrity of a person, the right to non-discrimination and to the need to ensure protection of the environment and high levels of human health protection.

Ethics is important for all research domains. Informed consent and confidentiality are as important for a sociological study as they are for clinical research. 
In this context, please be aware that it is the applicants’ responsibility to identify any potential ethics issues, to handle the ethics aspects of their proposal, and to detail how they plan to address them.

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Please describe in this section the ethics procedure to be implemented. For COFUND programmes, it is often not known in advance if the fellowships to be funded will raise ethics issues. Therefore, it is important to describe how the proposal meets the European as well as the national legal and ethics requirements of the country or countries where the tasks raising ethics issues are to be carried out. In particular, applicants should take care to describe the ethics procedures that they will enforce in the execution of the programme (at application phase, selection and evaluation phase, monitoring and follow-up of projects, and the trainings on ethics). Successful COFUND programmes, when opening their calls for proposals, will have to detail the procedure to be followed for addressing proposals raising ethics issues. 

5. Partner Organisations 

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Please list and detail the role of the partner organisations (implementing/associated - if known), including their financial contribution to the programme (when applicable):

Table 5.1
Partner organisation name 	Partner organisation short name	Country			Academic (Y/N)	Role	
			Implementing Partner 
(tick)	Associated Partner 
(tick)		Hosting researchers
WITH
recruiting
(Y/N)	Hosting researchers WITHOUT recruiting (Y/N)	Providing other training or career development opportunities
(Y/N)	Financial contribution in EUR         (if applicable)	

										

Note that:
•	Any relationship between different participating organisations or individuals (e.g. family ties, shared premises or facilities, joint ownership, financial interest, overlapping staff, etc.) must be declared and justified;
•	The data provided relating to the financial capacity of the beneficiary will be subject to verification during the grant preparation phase.

In addition, all partners (whether the implementing or associated partners) must complete the appropriate table below. Complete one table of maximum half a page per associated/implementing partner (minimum font size: 9). 

For Associated partners (if applicable one per associated partner):
Associated Partner Legal Name: 	Country:	
General description		
Key Persons and Expertise (including supervisors)		
Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment		
Previous and Current Involvement in Research and Training Programmes 		

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For Implementing partners (if applicable one per implementing partner):
Implementing Partner Legal Name: 	Country:	
General description 		
Key Persons and Expertise (including supervisors)		
Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment		
Previous and Current Involvement in Research and Training Programmes 		

6.	Letters of Commitment 
	
Please use this section to insert scanned copies of the required letters of commitment. 
Implementing partners and associated partners must include a letter of commitment in Part B (document 2) of the proposal to ensure their real and active participation in the proposed network. Such letters must follow the template below and should be signed by an authorised person, scanned and included in section B.6. The expert evaluators will be instructed to disregard the contribution of any implementing or associated partners for which no such evidence of commitment is submitted.  
In case the letter does not follow the template or fail to give enough information on the implementing/associated partner’s role and/or enough assurance on their commitment in the project (e.g. no signature, wrong proposal references, outdated letter…), the experts may penalise the proposal on these aspects under the implementation evaluation criterion. 

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These letters should be signed by an authorised legal representative of the organisation in question so as to offer reasonable assurance regarding the commitment in the involvement in the research training programme.
In case the letter does not follow in full the template or fails to give enough assurance on the commitment in the project (e.g. no signature, wrong proposal references, outdated letter…), the experts may penalise the proposal on these aspects under the implementation evaluation criterion. 
Besides providing the letters, you should fill in the overview of all identified Partner Organisations (Implementing and Associated) in Table 5.1

6.1. Template of Commitment letter for implementing/associated partners

- On headed paper of the entity

- Beyond any additional information that the participating organisation wishes to indicate in its Letter of commitment, the following text should appear in all its parts and with no modifications:

I undersigned  ..................…, in my quality of ………………..…, commit to set up all necessary provisions to participate as associated partner (or implementing partner  …….) in the proposal ………………….… submitted within the call HORIZON-MSCA-COFUND-2023, should the proposal be funded. 

On behalf of [name of the entity], I also confirm that we will participate and contribute to the research training programme (Doctoral or Postdoctoral) as planned. In particular, our [name of the entity] will be involved in ….[Free field for any additional information that the participating organisation wishes to indicate in order to describe its role and contribution to the project, if a financial contribution is expected then specify the amount].

I hereby declare that I am entitled to commit into this process the entity I represent.

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Name, date, signature 

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MARIE Skłodowska-CURIE ACTIONS

Co-funding of regional, national and 
international programmes (COFUND)
Call: HORIZON-MSCA-COFUND-2023

PART B2

“PROPOSAL ACRONYM”

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This proposal is to be evaluated as:

[Doctoral]   [Postdoctoral]  
			        [delete as appropriate]

Proposal Template Part B (without instructions)

START PAGE

MARIE Skłodowska-CURIE ACTIONS

Co-funding of regional, national and 
international programmes (COFUND)
Call: HORIZON-MSCA-COFUND-2023

PART B2

“PROPOSAL ACRONYM”

This proposal is to be evaluated as:

[Doctoral]   [Postdoctoral]  
[delete as appropriate]

DOCUMENT 2 (no overall page limit applied)

4. Ethics 

Actions carried out under Horizon Europe shall comply with ethical principles and relevant Union, national and international law, including the Charter and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Supplementary Protocols.

5. Partner Organisations 

Table 5.1
Partner organisation name 	Partner organisation short name	Country			Academic (Y/N)	Role	
			Implementing Partner 
(tick)	Associated Partner 
(tick)		Hosting researchers
WITH
recruiting
(Y/N)	Hosting researchers WITHOUT recruiting (Y/N)	Providing other training or career development opportunities
(Y/N)	Financial contribution in EUR         (if applicable)	

										

For Associated partners (if applicable one per associated partner):
Associated Partner Legal Name: 	Country:	
General description		
Key Persons and Expertise (including supervisors)		
Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment		
Previous and Current Involvement in Research and Training Programmes 		

For Implementing partners (if applicable one per implementing partner):
Implementing Partner Legal Name: 	Country:	
General description 		
Key Persons and Expertise (including supervisors)		
Key Research Facilities, Infrastructure and Equipment		
Previous and Current Involvement in Research and Training Programmes 		

6.	Letters of Commitment 

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MARIE Skłodowska-CURIE ACTIONS

Co-funding of regional, national and 
international programmes (COFUND)
Call: HORIZON-MSCA-COFUND-2023

PART B2

“PROPOSAL ACRONYM”

This proposal is to be evaluated as:

[Doctoral]   [Postdoctoral]  
			        [delete as appropriate]