G8 Research Councils Initiative for Multilateral Research Funding: How to apply

Application Procedure and Flow: For the 2nd Call

This Initiative will select multinational research teams on the basis of a two-stage competition. Applicants will be invited to submit Pre-proposals, and those that are successful will be invited to submit Full Proposals.

Pre-proposals
The Leading Principal Investigators (Leading PIs) of consortia compile and submit Pre-proposals to JSPS, which serves as the “Call Secretariat.” Japanese PIs should discuss the structure of the consortium with the PIs of other countries and coordinate in preparing the Pre-proposals with the Leading PI, who will finalize and submit it to the Call Secretariat.

Click here for more details regarding Pre-proposals (JSPS’s open-call site).

Full Proposals
The Call Secretariat will contact those consortia whose Pre-proposals are successful and invite them to submit full proposals.

The Leading PI should compile the consortium’s Full Proposal and submit to the Call Secretariat using the prescribed format. Japanese project leaders must, irrespective of whether or not they are the Leading PI, submit to JSPS using the electronic proposal system a separate filled-out form prescribed by JSPS. If these documents are not submitted to the Call Secretariat and JSPS, the consortium may be dropped from the screening process.

JSPS will contact the Japanese researchers as to details regarding the full proposal and its submission process.

The Call Secretariat will notify the Leading PIs of the selection results

Schedule

30 September 2011	Deadline for Pre-proposals

Mid-November	Notification of Pre-proposals screening results

21 November	Issue call for Full Proposals

27 January 2012	Deadline for Full Proposals

Around April	Notification of selection results

Around May	Start joint research projects

Application Guidelines and Form

Download

Call for Proposals  (PDF format, 98 Kb)
Instructions for Pre-proposals (PDF format, 50 Kb)
Pre-proposal Form (MS WORD format, 415 Kb)
FAQ (PDF format, 47 Kb)

Click here to apply. (Please apply using JSPS’s open-call site.)

(For Your Information)

Call for proposals for the 1st Call (PDF format, 132 Kb)

Screening Process

Selections will be made through a screening process on the basis of a two-stage competition. At the Pre-proposal phase, Pre-proposals will be evaluated by a document reviewing and a joint review of a screening panel made up of specialists in the subject area. At the Full Proposal phase, Full Proposals will be evaluated by a document reviewing and a joint review of the panel based on the document reviewing of external reviewers who are composed of experts from related disciplines, and subsequently successful/unsuccessful consortia will be decided in consultation with the Funding Agencies of the participating G8 countries. Applicants will be invited to submit Pre-proposals, and those that are successful will be invited to submit Full Proposals.