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Basic Information

This chapter contains basic information about the proposal, including title, scientific disciplines involved, keywords and duration.

Please note:

Personnel and Institutions

This chapter contains information about the applicant and the host institution

  • Applicant: Info will be synched from your Role
  • Host Institution
  • Letter of Interest

Project

In this chapter, details about the Fellowship will be asked

Lay summary of your Fellowship activities: Please provide a description of your Fellowship 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 description of your Fellowship activities: Please provide a concise scientific abstract of the project. (2,000 characters)

Rationale and Career Aspects: What specific expertise, resources, methods, or networks will you gain at this dedicated host institution? Why must it happen at this specific host institution? How does the fellowship fit into your long-term academic goals? How will this fellowship accelerate your career trajectory, including the potential consequences should you not receive the award?. (7,000 characters)

Workplan: Describe your research plan in detail. Reflect on (1) What do you want to achieve, (2) Why is the work you will do during your fellowship important for your field and (3) what new methods/tools you aim to learn or will bring to your host institution. (7,000 characters)

Please note that potential sex/gender aspects of the research topic and should be considered throughout the application (see “Call Specifications” document). These should be briefly described where appropriate in the relevant sections. 

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).

Already exisiting ethical approvals for your intended work during your Fellowship will be accepted by WWTF. In case a new ethical approval needs to be handed out, 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):

  • What kind of accompanying metadata and documentation will help others identify, discover, reuse, and/or reproduce the research data?
  • How will data for sharing and preservation be selected?
  • When will data be shared?
  • In which repositories will data be archived? How long will data be retained?
  • What persistent identifiers (e.g., DOI) and usage licenses (e.g., CC BY) will be used?

Budget

Please note the following guidelines for the budget:

  • Non-personnel costs should not exceed 30% of the total requested budget.
  • The complete budget will be transferred to the research institution in Vienna (Host or Home institution). 

Due to the budget size for the Fellowship, WWTF does not pay overheads in this call

Personnel costs

  • Specify if the person will be financed by WWTF or contribute on an in-kind basis, and indicate their yearly time commitment to the project for each year (full time equivalents). A mixture of WWTF and in-kind financing is permitted.
  • For persons financed by WWTF, enter the annual salary that corresponds to 100% employment in the first year of the project (keep that in mind in particular for PhD candidates whose position is often calculated on a 0.75 basis). The total funding requested for each person will be automatically calculated.

Non-personnel costs

  • Add rows to provide a concise overview of all non-personnel costs directly related to the project. Please select the institution and cost category from the dropdown menus. If an affiliation is not listed, return to the section “Personnel and Institutions” (see Section 6.2) and add the respective institution.
  • Costs for basic infrastructure (rent, telephone) are not permitted. Costs for larger equipment essential for the project may only be requested on a pro rata basis that also takes into consideration the proportion of time that the equipment will be used for this project.
  • WWTF strongly encourages open access publications. Costs for Article Processing Charges (APCs) may be requested.
  • Costs for data management purposes (e.g., curation, storage) are eligible.

Budget per region

  • The share of the budget allocated to the regions “Vienna” and “Other” will automatically be shown for WWTF projects, and to the regions “Vienna”, “Lower Austria” and “Other” for Joint Projects.
  • For regular WWTF projects, at least 70% of the requested funding must be allocated to the region “Vienna”. Up to 30% may be allocated to other partner(s), including partners in Lower Austria.
  • For Joint Projects, the budget allocated to the region “Vienna” must be at least 51%. The share of the budget allocated to the region “Lower Austria” may range from 30% to 49%. Up to 30% may be allocated to any further partner(s) located in other regions (“Other”).

Cost overview

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

Explanation of cost planning

  • Please provide an explanation of cost planning principles, also indicating access to resources that are already available. 1000 characters).

Disclosure of other applications for funding

  • If you have applied for funding for this project (or parts thereof) at other organisations, please indicate this here. This will not impact the evaluation of this proposal.
  • WWTF allows the simultaneous submission of proposals at other funding organisation. However, WWTF does not permit double funding. In case a project is approved for funding at both organisations, we will ask you to choose the organisation from which you want to accept funding for the project.
  • WWTF will perform a check with FWF regarding double funding. This means, FWF will receive the list of projects and check if a similar project has been submitted to FWF.
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