AI Programme with the Vietnam National University of Agriculture
(VNUA) – (2014-2019)
Interfaculty and inter-institutional research projects
THIRD CALL: 2016
The following comments should be considered before filling in the application form:
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The aim of the AI research programme is to finance high-quality interfaculty and
inter-institutional research projects involving young staff.
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The duration of each project will be of two or three years.
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The total amount available for a project is limited to 20,000 Euros.
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Each project must include a senior scientist (PhD holder) from the VNUA. In the
research team, there are at least two young researchers (max. 35-y.old) who will be
actively involved in the submitted proposal.
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Each project must associate at least one another scientist, either from another faculty
of VNUA or from another participating institution in Vietnam or in the sub-continent.
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It is recommended but not mandatory to associate one or several scientific partners
from the universities of the French community of Belgium.
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The research domains concerned by this funding are all those presently covered by the
departments of VNUA.
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The project must be written in English.
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Any form of plagiarism automatically leads to rejection.
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The quality criteria for the project selection are listed in appendix 1.
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The deadline for submission of the application is October 30th, 2015.
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Applications have to be submitted both in an electronic and a printed form at the
following address: Msc. Do Thi Hue ([email protected]) Vietnamese-Belgian
cooperation office VNUA (2nd Floor – Main building). It must take the form of one
single PDF- or Word-file of 1 Mo or less.
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The selection committee is composed of several senior scientists of the VNUA and of
the universities of the French speaking community of Belgium.
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The selection procedure is the following:
- The local steering committee verifies that all criteria of eligibility are fulfilled.
Eligible projects will be preselected by the steering committee. All the projects are
sent to the Belgian PAR, along with the motivations for the decision to preselect or
not.
- The preselected projects will be evaluated by two independent experts (one Belgian
and one Vietnamese).
- The final selection based on the evaluation reports will be done by the steering
committee in December 2015, or before.
Selected projects will start from February 1st, 2016. Next call is scheduled in September 2016.
1.
IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROMOTER
Name:
Affiliation (University, Faculty, Department):
Title:
Position:
Office address (street, number, city, country):
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
2.
IDENTIFICATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP
PARTNER 1:
Name:
Affiliation (University, Faculty, Department):
Title:
Position:
Office address (street, number, city, country):
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
(Add additional partners if necessary)
3.
PROJECT TITLE AND SUMMARY
TITLE:
SUMMARY (200 words maximum):
4.
CONTENT OF THE PROJECT (maximum 2000
words; + 500 extra words max. for the references)
STATE OF THE ART:
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
METHODOLOGY FORESEEN AND DETAILED WORK PLAN (divided into tasks in
which the involvement of young scientists will be described):
5.
LIST OF DELIVERABLES
This list should be limited to the deliverables that can be measured in quantitative terms.
Involvement of graduate and PhD students will be specified.
6.
INTERDISCIPLINARY ASPECTS OF THE PROPOSAL
(500 words maximum)
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7.
ADDED VALUE OF THE INSTITUTIONAL
NETWORKING (500 words maximum)
8.
LINK WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS INTRODUCED OR FORESEEN
IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE AI-VNUA-P4 PROGRAMME (PhD
grants, small research grants, scientific equipment, etc.) OR WITH OTHER
PROJECTS AND RESEARCH THESES (500 words max.)
9.
BUDGETARY INFORMATION
The total budget available for a project is limited to 20,000 Euros. This amount (expressed in
Euro) should be spread over eligible research costs, small equipment and consumables for
each of the two or three years.
Year
1
2
3
Total
Research costs
Small equipment Consumables
Others
Total
Justification of the expenses foreseen for the research costs, small equipment and consumables
must be given for each budgetary line.
10.
SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND OF EACH MEMBER OF THE NETWORK
PROMOTER :
Scientific publications (3 major publications/patents in the field of the present project):
Previous projects (List of the three major projects with source of financing and budget):
PARTNER 1:
Scientific publications (3 major publications/patents in the field of the present project):
Previous projects (List of the three major projects with source of financing and budget):
(Add additional partners if necessary)
10.
ANNEX: CV OF THE PROMOTER, OF EACH PARTNERS AND OF ALL
INVOLVED YOUNG STAFF
Each CV should include a separate section with the list of scientific publications (last five years only).
APPENDIX 1 : Selection criteria
The referees are kindly requested to address successively the five sets of questions, giving for each of
them one (or more) paragraph(s) of well-argued comments, and a mark between 1 and 5 (1 = weak; 2
= below average; 3 = average; 4 = good ; 5 = very good/excellent).
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Please assess the relevance of the project from a scientific and/or applied point of view:
in which sense could the proposal be described as an original one? ; is it clearly
formulated? ; do you think it can be described as a key issue in the regional context?
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How would you assess the different applicants in academic terms and how would you
assess their potential for the project? Please give a comment on each of the promoters
and partners.
How would you assess the preparation, feasibility, and schedule of the project? How
about the proposed budget?
Can you assess the added value of the project from a inter-institutional, interdisciplinary and possibly inter-regional point of view?
Can you give an overall appreciation to the proposal basing on these four elements?
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