Chapters to fill out

Basic Information

This chapter contains basic information about the proposal, including title, scientific disciplines involved, keywords, duration, and type of project (i.e., regular WWTF Project or Joint Project). Fill out fields as required.

Please note:

Personnel and Institutions

This chapter contains information about the main parties in the project. Ideally, information about the PI&C and co-PIs have already been entered (see Section 5). However, this information can be changed at any time.

Project

This chapter contains the part of the scientific work programme. Fill out the following fields (please note that the character limit includes spaces):

Lay summary: Please provide a description of your proposed research that is suitable for the general public. This will primarily be used by WWTF for communicating your work to non-experts for fundraising and public relations purposes. (1,000 characters)

Scientific abstract: Please provide a concise scientific abstract of the project. This will be used in approaching reviewers. (2,000 characters)

Work programme: Please use the template provided for download in the WWTF Funding Portal. The headings in bold are mandatory (details and guiding questions can be found in the template).

Upload the completed document as PDF (max. 8 pages including figures)

  1. Introduction and State-of-the-art
  2. Innovativeness and original contribution
  3. Research questions, objectives and/or hypotheses
  4. Methodological approaches and workplan
  5. Expected outcomes and potential next research steps
  6. Project team and interdisciplinary collaboration
  7. References

Please note that potential sex/gender aspects of the research topic and gender balance in the research team should be considered throughout the application (see “Call Specifications” document). These should be briefly described where appropriate in the relevant sections. Further details will be required in the full proposal phase.

Ethical considerations: Indicate if ethical approval of an ethics committee or institutional review board is required for the project. If so, please describe the potential ethical aspects and upload the ethical approval(s) as a single PDF. There is no page limit for the approvals, but the document may not exceed 10 MB. If no ethical aspects are identified, please provide a brief statement. Describe the process and the involvement and awareness of the core team and staff. (500 characters).

An acknowledgement of receipt from the ethics committee/institutional review board must be submitted with the proposal. The final approval (“Votum”) must be submitted to WWTF the latest before project start.

Data Management: We encourage applicants to consider and briefly address the following points as appropriate (500 characters):

In case of funding, further details will be discussed during contracting. 

Budget

Please note the following guidelines for the budget:

Due to the budget size per project, WWTF does not pay overheads in this call

Personnel costs

Non-personnel costs

Budget per region

Cost overview

This is where you see all budget allocated to each institution, divided into personnel and non-personnel costs.

Explanation of cost planning

Disclosure of other applications for funding


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Created 8 March 2024 11:20:59 by Benjamin Missbach
Updated 18 March 2024 14:36:07 by Benjamin Missbach