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Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Expected Outcome:
At a general level, the project should achieve a strong, visible and recognised impact in scaling, facilitating and accelerating research and analytical efforts focussing on the information environment and information integrity.
The main outcomes of the awarded project will be:
Project applications will formulate their own deliverables in accordance with their needs analyses and proposed means to address them. At the minimum, deliverables should include:
Objective:
The overarching objective of this action is as follows:
Creating a common research framework with the necessary infrastructure to enable advanced research and analysis on information integrity in the EU.
In order to achieve this overall objective, the awarded consortium will implement the following specific objectives:
Scope:
Applying consortia must convincingly detail how they will achieve the objectives and deliverables set forth in this call for proposals. Proposals must cover all objectives listed in this call. They must be clear and well-defined, researched and fully developed taking all time-schedule and budget considerations into account.
This action is a grant for financial support, which foresees both the delivery of a set of actions by the awarded consortium (co-funded at 100%) as well as the distribution of a majority of the funds to third parties based on fair and transparent selection criteria (c.f. section 6 ‘Eligibility – Eligible Activities’). Proposals must allocate at least 60% of their proposed budget to the financial support to third parties. Proposals can suggest a budget with a share higher than 60% allocated to funding to third parties, but not below 60%.
This section details the scope for the activities of the consortium, as well as for the provision of grants to third parties. Three important, cross-cutting considerations apply to these descriptions on scope.
Firstly, all provided lists of examples for concrete means of implementation should be considered as indicative illustrations only, and thus not mandatory elements for grant applications. Rather, applying consortia will need to base their proposals on a clear, evidence informed needs analysis that is centred on the demands from the relevant research and civil society communities. The sophistication of the logical links between needs analysis and the proposed activities will form a key part of the evaluation process.
Secondly, proposals should focus on quality over quantity: The proposal of a more limited, but highly impactful set of actions is preferable over spreading resources on an overly wide set of actions that could undermine practical feasibility.
Thirdly, an emphasis on sustainability and longevity of the project and its results is essential. Activities should be planned in a manner that caters to the long-term interests and needs of the relevant communities. A focus on elements such as transferability of outputs and preserving results beyond the lifecycle of the project will be an important part of the selection process.
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