User:Andi/Application Procedure for MPDL Projects
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MPDL Project Aspects[edit]
The MPDL has an annual budget for MPDL Projects, so called "Sondermaßnahmen". The following points apply:
- The outcome of a MPDL Project has to benefit more than one Max Planck institute and has to have a scientific benefit.
- A MPDL Project is always defined in close collaboration between the MPDL and one or more Max Planck institutes.
(These two points are also the main review criteria). - The Präsidium takes the final decision on whether or not to fund the proposed project.
- An annual progress report in written form has to be delivered.
- 15 % of the granted budget is retained until the MPDL has positively reviewed the outcome of the project and the outflow of funds is accounted for.
Application Stages[edit]
- The project proposal is prepared my members of the institutes and the MPDL
- The project proposal is submitted
- Two external (non-MPG) experts review the project proposal; the reviewers are chosen by a group of six people (three members of the steering committee LA sInfo and three members of the MPDL)
- If necessary the project proposal can be revised, after which it is reviewed again
- In its next meeting the steering committee LA sInfo of the MPDL decides on the basis of the proposal and the reviews about suggesting the project to the Präsidium for funding
- In the next meeting of the Präsidium it decides about funding the project
- If approved, the partners receive a letter of the finance department of the Administrative Headquarters with the administrative and financial details.
How to apply for funding for a MPDL Project (Sondermaßnahme)[edit]
The proposal should be formulated by a joint team of members of MPIs and the MPDL.
Components of the proposal[edit]
- Title and short name for the project
- Names of the persons responsible for the proposal (one from the institutes and on from the MPDL)
- Short description of the preparation phase, why and how the project was started (maximum half a A4 page)
- Short summary of the aims of the project
- Background information on the scientific importance of solving the problem
- Description of work including
- Project phases
- Description of work as well as number of person months and pay scale grouping of the corresponding positions
- Detailed Gantt Chart describing the work plans of the people to work on the project
- List of people involved in supervising the project and their affiliations