La Commissione europea informa che il proposal template (part B) della call MSCA COFUND 2026 è stato aggiornato.

Il messaggio rivolto ai proponenti è il seguente:

Dear Applicant,

The COFUND 2026 proposal template (Part B) was updated:

Criterion 1.3 was slightly updated to fully align with the recently adopted Work Programme 2026-2027.

The changes are on page 15 of the template with instructions; and page 6 of the template without instructions – already implemented in the SEP tool. It concerns the removal of the term ‘science’ from the sub-criterion, and the removal of the instruction under the required sub-heading: ‘Excellence of the research programme;

1.3 Quality and novelty of the research options offered by the programme in terms of science, interdisciplinarity, inter-sectorality and level of transnational mobility. Quality of open science practices.

Required sub-headings:

Describe the research options offer by the programme:

Excellence of the research programme;
Quality of the research options in terms of interdisciplinary research options, inter-sectorality (mobility between the academic and non-academic sector) and international networking;
Open science practices: Describe how appropriate open science practices are implemented as an integral part of the proposed methodology. Show how the choice of practices and their implementation are adapted to the nature of the research training programme, in a way that will increase the chances of the project delivering on its objectives. If you believe that none of these practices are appropriate for your project, please provide a justification here.

Open science is an approach based on open cooperative work and systematic sharing of knowledge and tools as early and widely as possible in the process. Open science practices include early and open sharing of research (for example through preregistration, registered reports, pre-prints, or crowd-sourcing); research output management; measures to ensure reproducibility of research outputs; providing open access to research outputs (such as publications, data, software, models, algorithms, and workflows); participation in open peer-review; and involving all relevant knowledge actors including citizens, civil society and end users in the co-creation of R&I agendas and contents (such as citizen science).

Please note that this question does not refer to outreach actions that may be planned as part of communication, dissemination and exploitation activities. These aspects should instead be described below under ‘Impact’.

Proposals selected for funding under Horizon Europe will need to develop a detailed data management plan (DMP) for making their data/research outputs findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) as a deliverable by month 6 and revised towards the end of a project’s lifetime. The DMP should describe how research outputs (especially research data) generated and/or collected during the project will be managed so as to ensure that they are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.
For guidance on open science practices and research data management, please refer to the relevant section of the HE Programme Guide on the Funding & Tenders Portal.

Any other relevant point.

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Fonte: Commissione europea

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