Art. 3 Call for research proposals on assumptions underlying Dialogue & Dissent

Applications can be submitted by consortia consisting of at least: A Dutch university; and A research organisation located in (one of) the LLMIC(s) in Africa, Asia or Latin America where the project/programme that is subject of the empirical research is implemented; and (optional) A research organisation based in any country. Organisations that are supported by Dialogue and Dissent cannot be part of the consortium. All organisations participating in a consortium must be registered as a legal persona and deliver proof thereof. The main applicant should hold a senior7VSNU 2010: senior positions include tenured staff such as Post-docs, Assistant Professor, AssociateProfessor, Full Professor, and senior lecturer (UHD). All must have a PhD degree. position at the Dutch university. He or she will act as project coordinator and point of contact with NWO-WOTRO and will submit the research proposal. The main applicant’s organisation will take responsibility for the project secretariat, the day-to-day management and all financial affairs of the research project. Together, the consortium members will 1) formulate relevant research questions and approaches; 2) formulate and submit the proposal; 3) conduct the project activities; 4) coordinate knowledge sharing and support the application, dissemination and communication of the project results to a broader group of (local) possible knowledge users who are not a member of the consortium; and 5) take responsibility for reporting adequately and timely in accordance with the terms and conditions. Each individual person can be applicant in only one proposal submitted. Universities and research organisations may submit multiple proposals. For each research project of a duration of 18 months, a maximum budget of 0.5 million euros will be available. Applicants can budget only for costs that directly attribute to the project (see below). The following cost can be reimbursed by a grant: Personnel costs of project staff8Project staff refers to individuals who actually conduct the project activities. Overhead costs (including but not limited to academic supervision of post-docs) are excluded from reimbursement.; Subsidy can be requested for the time that staff members work on the project. To determine the reimbursable salary costs, a distinction is made between personnel from Dutch universities and personnel from all other organisations. Personnel costs of project staff (max. 395,000 euros): The maximum tariffs for the researchers employed by research organisations in the Netherlands are based upon the NWO-VSNU contractand are subject to change; Senior researchers employed by research organisations based in LLMICs or elsewhere can be provided with a net monthly living allowance. The living allowance is expected to cover all personal costs, including housing, organisational overhead, medical costs, insurances, travel to and from work, et cetera. The regulations of the main applicant’s institute should be guiding for determining the amount of the living allowances. However, costs for 1 fte junior researcher may not exceed 4,500 euros a month, costs for 1 fte senior researcher may not exceed 6,500 euros a month; Personnel costs of project staff not employed by other organisations (for example when staff of CSOs are included): Salaries for project staff not employed by research organisations must be guided by the contracting organisations’ norms and legal regulations of the country concerned, but is limited to the maximum gross full-time monthly rate of 4,500 euros (all costs included); Research costs (indicated 50,000 euros): International travel and accommodation costs for exchange of project staff between participating consortium members (max. six months per project, per senior researcher); Salaries for technical and administrative support staff who are engaged for less than 0.4 fte during the running time of the project. Salaries must be guided by the organisations’ norms and legal regulations of the country concerned but is limited to the maximum gross full-time monthly rate of 3,200 euros (all costs included); (Use of) durables (buildings excluded), consumables, use of existing data/information, interview costs, et cetera; Please note that procurement costs are excluded from reimbursement. Knowledge sharing & utilisation costs (indicated 55,000 euros): Costs for participation (travel and accommodation costs) in four knowledge brokering workshops (in the Netherlands) organised by the Knowledge Platform INCLUDE. At all workshops, the main applicant and/or co-applicant are expected to participate. Costs for organising a project kick-off workshop within the consortium to fine tune the approach of the project (directly after the programme kick-off workshop); Costs for organising a final self-assessment workshop with stakeholders on site resulting in a final research report; Costs for policy briefs, lay-men publications, books, and other (visual/audio) approaches or tools to enhance knowledge sharing and use. All costs should be made during the project duration. The closing date for the submission of full proposals is August 8th 2017, 14.00 CET The assessment round will take approximately five months. For an overview of the procedure timelines, please see Section 4.1. Applications, including annexes, should be written in English. Application forms can be downloaded from the electronic application system ISAACor from NWO’s website (www.nwo/assumptions). Before completing the application form, please read the information and guidelines provided in Section 7 of this call. An application can only be submitted to NWO-WOTRO via the online application system ISAAC. This must be done by the main applicant. Applications that are not submitted via ISAAC will not be taken into consideration. The main applicant should submit his/her application via his/her own ISAAC account. Please note: In case a main applicant does not have an ISAAC account he/she is advised to create an account at least five working days before submitting the application, to ensure that any registration problems can be resolved in time. Especially if the applicant’s organisation is not listed in ISAAC it is vital to take five working days into account to ensure correct registration (a request for registration of the applicant’s organisation in the ISAAC system should be sent to relatiebeheer@nwo.nl). Please arrange the annexes (for a list of annexes see Section 6) in PDF before starting your submission. The budget template must be submitted in Excel. When the application form has been completed, save the form (including annexes) as a pdf and upload it in ISAAC. When you submit your application to ISAAC you will also need to enter additional details online. It is advised to start submitting your application at least one day before the deadline of this call for proposals. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be taken into consideration. For technical questions please contact the ISAAC helpdesk, see Section 5.2. With regard to accountability of the projects, the General Provisions of the NWO Grant Rules 2017apply. When the results from the project are published or presented, it should mention the financial support (stating the project number) and received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands with cooperation of NWO-WOTRO and the Knowledge Platform INCLUDE. All scientific publications resulting from research that is funded by grants derived from this call for proposals are to be immediately (at the time of publication) freely accessible worldwide (Open Access). There are several ways for researchers to publish Open Access. A detailed explanation regarding Open Access can be found on www.nwo.nl/openscience-en. Responsible data management is part of good research. NWO commits itself to research data that emerge from publicly financed research to become freely and sustainably available, as much as possible, for reuse by other researchers. Furthermore NWO aims to raise awareness among researchers about the importance of responsible data management. Proposals should therefore satisfy the data management protocol of NWO. This protocol consists of two steps: Data management section The data management section is part of the research proposal. Researchers should answer four questions about data management within their intended research project. Therefore, before the research starts the researcher will be asked to think about how the data collected must be ordered and categorised so that it can be made freely available. Measures will often need to be taken during the production and analysis of the data to make their later storage and dissemination possible. Researchers can state which research data they consider to be relevant for storage and reuse. Data management plan After a proposal has been awarded funding the researcher should expand the data management section into a data management plan. The data management plan is a concrete elaboration of the data management section. In the plan the researcher describes whether use will be made of existing data or a new data collection and how the data collection will be made FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. The plan should be submitted to NWO via ISAAC within a maximum of 3 months after the proposal has been awarded funding. The approval of the data management plan is one of the conditions that must be met before the project can start and before funding is disbursed. The plan can be adjusted during the research. All changes are subject to approval by NWO. Further information about the data management protocol of NWO can be found at http://www.nwo.nl/en/policies/open+science/data+management.

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