European Research Council
		
ERC Synergy Grant 2012
Research proposal (Part B1)

Proposal Full Title

PROPOSAL ACRONYM

Cover Page:
-	Name of the Corresponding Principal Investigator and the other PI(s) 
-	Name of the Corresponding Host Institution for the project 
-	Proposal full title 
-	Proposal short name
-	Proposal duration in months

Proposal summary (half page, possibly copy/paste abstract from the administrative form A1)

Section 1: The Project proposal [max. 15 pages, excluding the budget tables and Ethical Issues Table (in part B1) and additional Annexes (separate documents) where relevant in the case of ethical issues and/or security-sensitive subjects].  

(see Guide for Applicants for the Synergy Grant 2012 Call – Instructions for completing 'Part B' of the proposal)

a. State-of-the-art and objectives
b. Methodology
c. Resources (incl. project costs) 

[Note: To facilitate the assessment of resources by the panels, the use of the following budget table is strongly recommended. The budget table (including the declaration of the level of involvement) should be filled in for the Corresponding Principal Investigator and each Principal Investigator. Please include a summary table (using the same template) for the entire budget.]

 	Cost Category	Months
1-18	Months 19-36	Months 37-54	Months 55-72	Total 
(72)	
 						 	
Direct Costs:	Personnel:	 	 	 	 	 	
	PI					 	
	Senior Staff					 	
	Post docs					 	
	Students					 	
	Other 	 	 	 	 	 	
	Total Personnel:	 	 	 	 	 	
						 	
	Other Direct Costs:	 	 	 	 	 	
	Equipment					 	
	Consumables					 	
	Travel					 	
	Publications, etc					 	
	Other	 	 	 	 	 	
	Total Other Direct Costs: 	 	 	 	 	 	
							
	Total Direct Costs:					 	
Indirect Costs (overheads):	Max 20% of Direct Costs					 	
Subcontracting Costs:	(No overheads)					 	
Total Costs of project:	(by year and total)					 	
Requested Grant:	(by year and total)	 	 	 	 	 	

For the above budget table, please indicate the % of working time the PI dedicates to the project over the period of the grant:	%	

Please note that each PI is expected to devote at least 30% of his/her total working time to the ERC-funded project and spend at least 50% of his/her total working time in an EU Member State or Associated Country (see ERC Work Programme 2012).

d. Ethical and security-sensitive issues
ETHICS ISSUES TABLE

Areas Excluded From Funding Under FP7 (Art. 6)

(i)     Research activity aiming at human cloning for reproductive purposes;

(ii)   Research activity intended to modify the genetic heritage of human beings which could make such changes heritable (Research relating to cancer treatment of the gonads can be financed);

(iii)  Research activities intended to create human embryos solely for the purpose of research or for the purpose of stem cell procurement, including by means of somatic cell nuclear transfer;

All FP7 funded research shall comply with the relevant national, EU and international ethics-related rules and professional codes of conduct. Where necessary, the beneficiary(ies) shall provide the responsible Commission services with a written confirmation that it has received (a) favourable opinion(s) of the relevant ethics committee(s) and, if applicable, the regulatory approval(s) of the competent national or local authority(ies) in the country in which the research is to be carried out, before beginning any Commission approved research requiring such opinions or approvals. The copy of the official approval from the relevant national or local ethics committees must also be provided to the responsible Commission services.

 	Research on Human Embryo/ Foetus	YES	Page	
	Does the proposed research involve human Embryos?	 	 	
	Does the proposed research involve human Foetal Tissues/ Cells?	 	 	
	Does the proposed research involve human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs)?	 	 	
	Does the proposed research on human Embryonic Stem Cells involve cells in culture?	 	 	
	Does the proposed research on Human Embryonic Stem Cells involve the derivation of cells from Embryos?	 	 	
	I CONFIRM THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE ISSUES APPLY TO MY PROPOSAL			

 	Research on Humans	YES	Page	
	Does the proposed research involve children?	 	 	
	Does the proposed research involve patients?	 	 	
	Does the proposed research involve persons not able to give consent?	 	 	
	Does the proposed research involve adult healthy volunteers?	 	 	
 	Does the proposed research involve Human genetic material?	 	 	
 	Does the proposed research involve Human biological samples?	 	 	
 	Does the proposed research involve Human data collection?	 	 	
	I CONFIRM THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE ISSUES APPLY TO MY PROPOSAL			

 	Privacy	YES	Page	
 	Does the proposed research involve processing of genetic information or personal data (e.g. health, sexual lifestyle, ethnicity, political opinion, religious or philosophical conviction)?	 	 	
 	Does the proposed research involve tracking the location or observation of people?	 	 	
	I CONFIRM THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE ISSUES APPLY TO MY PROPOSAL			

 	Research on Animals	YES	Page	
 	Does the proposed research involve research on animals?	 	 	
 	Are those animals transgenic small laboratory animals?	 	 	
 	Are those animals transgenic farm animals?	 	 	
	Are those animals non-human primates?	 	 	
 	Are those animals cloned farm animals?	 	 	
	I CONFIRM THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE ISSUES APPLY TO MY PROPOSAL			

 	Research Involving non-EU Countries  (ICPC Countries)                                                        	YES	Page	
	Is the proposed research (or parts of it) going to take place in one or more of the ICPC Countries?			
 	Is any material used in the research (e.g. personal data, animal and/or human tissue samples, genetic material, live animals, etc) :
a) Collected in any of the ICPC countries?	 	 	
	b)  Exported to any other country (including ICPC and EU Member States)?			
	I CONFIRM THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE ISSUES APPLY TO MY PROPOSAL			

 	Dual Use 	YES	Page	
 	Research having direct military use 	 	 	
 	Research having the potential for terrorist abuse	 	 	
	I CONFIRM THAT NONE OF THE ABOVE ISSUES APPLY TO MY PROPOSAL			

If any of the above issues apply to your proposal, you are required to complete and upload the 'B1_Ethical Issues Annex' (template provided).   

Without this Annex, your application cannot be properly evaluated and even if successful the granting process will not proceed.  

Please see the Guide for Applicants for the Synergy Grant 2012 for further details and the Participant Portal http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/ for further information on how to deal with Ethical Issues in your proposal.
If your proposal is security-sensitive, complete and upload Annex 5 (template provided).