Technical Evaluation Guidelines_Industry Track

WP1/WP2/WP7

Technical evaluators are bound to respect the confidentiality of information provided in an EOSC-Life proposal. Technical evaluators must not disclose or otherwise exploit this confidential information for any purpose.

Applicants are expected to make contact with the technical experts in advance of the submission of their proposals to discuss requirements of the applicants and align these with the capacity of the WP, bring in technical perspectives, and provide feedback on the proposal to help the applicants to refine their project plan. Technical evaluators should, where possible, be assigned as the expert who has been liaising with the applicant during the proposal maturation phase.

As a first assessment step, the proposals will be evaluated by technical experts in the work packages that will be involved in providing support or expertise (WP1, WP2, WP7). This step is mandatory, even if the applicant does not request explicit support from any of the work packages. Applicants are still asked in the application form to describe how their project aligns with at least one of the work packages and are asked to contact the experts in this work package to discuss their project. Technical experts from the relevant work packages and an independent research group will assess if the project applicant possesses the right technical skills for the project to be successful in the proposed time frame. Please note that we cannot guarantee anonymity of technical reviews if applicants and reviewers are members of the same work package.

Technical evaluation forms should be completed online via ARIA within 2 weeks of the call close (call deadline 29th September 2021).

The scientific reviewers, who will review scientific excellence and potential impact, will be invited to review the proposals that have passed the technical evaluation.

The technical evaluation considers the following aspects:

Technical impact of the proposal and alignment of the project with the EOSC goals and expertise
Maturity of the project: applicants should be ready to start the work shortly after project acceptance. Projects must be completed by 31st December 2022.
Feasibility of the project to be successfully conducted with the mentioned project partners (considering also the contribution of the industry partner for whom no personnel costs can be funded) and within the proposed time frame (which should be approximately 10-12 months)
Availability of required technologies and expertise within the requested EOSC-Life work package.
Technical ability of the project team: ability to conduct fully or partially the planned project work.
Availability of required technologies (infrastructure, hardware and cloud resources) for the project within the applicant project team.

Additionally for cloud resource allocation we integrate the WP7 resource allocation process (RAP) technical review fields to this form. Please see the WP7 RAP reviewer guidelines at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1reHIa6XPqzNM3a33zrRCBBn-7DKDKhw2TqToJjO2aB0/edit?ts=5fc4ff59. Members of other WPs should not complete this last section.