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12-Feb-2007
Grant Mechanisms > CLG
Collaborative Linkage Grant (SPS CLG)
Notes for Applicants
Collaborative Linkage Grants (CLGs) provide opportunities for collaboration on research projects to members of research teams in universities or research institutions in countries of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Mediterranean Dialogue.
Introduction
- Collaborative Linkage Grants offer assistance to members of research teams in universities or research institutions in countries of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Mediterranean Dialogue, to collaborate on research projects. The collaboration must be between scientists in NATO countries and those in eligible Partner or Mediterranean Dialogue countries. Collaboration between Partner- and Mediterranean Dialogue-country scientists may also be supported, if collaborating too with NATO-country colleagues.
- Support is available for CLGs only in Priority Research Topics in the areas of Defence Against Terrorism or Countering Other Threats to Security and/or in a Partner-country priority. Please refer to "Topics Supported" for details.
- Grants are given for projects that rely for basic costs on national funding but where the costs for the international collaboration cannot be met from other sources. The grants thus support travel and living expenses of investigators for short visits to partner institutions abroad.
- CLGs are awarded for reciprocal visits of members of the collaborating teams. Support for CLGs ranges from funding for two or three scientists to visit one another's laboratories over a period of one year, to a maximum of five research teams involving a maximum of five people per team to collaborate over a two-year period.
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Eligibility
- To be eligible for support a project must be specific and in one of the Priority Research Topics, and the collaboration should be between scientists in NATO countries and NATO's Partner countries of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council or scientists of the Mediterranean Dialogue countries. In completing the application form and consulting the Notes for Applicants, scientists of the Mediterranean Dialogue countries should follow the guidelines given for Partner countries.
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Ineligibility
- No salaries or stipends for any of the collaborators, students, technical assistants, etc, will be offered under these grants. No institutional overhead expenses may be charged to the grant.
- No support can be supplied for scientists while on sabbatical or other extended leave abroad, or to allow attendance at conferences, symposia, workshops, etc. Nor is support available for any travel that is not related to the CLG project. Purely domestic travel is not supported. No support can be provided for long study periods abroad.
- Project Coordinators and Principal Investigators may not be involved in more than one Collaborative Linkage Grant at the same time; nor can a CLG be awarded if these participants are still involved in a Linkage Grant or Collaborative Research Grant which is not formally closed. Before submitting an application, therefore, Project Coordinators must verify with the other principal investigators that any NATO collaborative grant in which they were involved is formally closed.
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Investigators/Project Coordinators
- Investigators are all the scientists engaged in the collaborative project who will benefit from NATO funding under the CLG. It is assumed that the investigators are included in an application with the knowledge and support of their authorities.
- One scientist from each research team should be designated Principal Investigator, and two of the Principal Investigators, one from a Partner country and one from a NATO country, should be designated Project Coordinators. The Project Coordinators are responsible for the project.
- To reduce the administrative burden NATO will normally correspond with the NATO-country Coordinator. He or she will receive the award letter on behalf of the Investigators, and will also be responsible for disbursing the grant as appropriate, and for reporting to NATO.
- A grant is awarded to the Investigators and not to their institutions.
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Funding Basis
- Funds are given mainly to cover the costs incurred in visits to the collaborating teams abroad by the Investigators. Such visits should be of short duration, and in any case no longer than two months.
- An award provides support for between one and two years. Amounts awarded are normally, for example, between €5,000 for one year of collaboration for two or three scientists, or a maximum of €23,000 for two years' collaboration for five research teams.
- Larger two-year grants are paid in two instalments, the second instalment being released after receipt of a satisfactory interim report on the progress achieved during the first year of collaboration.
- Living expenses should be calculated on the basis of expected costs, up to a maximum of 100€ a day per person, depending on the country and city visited. Air travel should be at the lowest available rates. Surface transport should be used for trips up to 500 km. If other means of transport are used, travel at the rate of the least expensive air or train fare only should be charged to the grant.
- Grants will be awarded in Euro. Payment of the grant, however, may be in any currency, as specified by the grantholder at the time of payment.
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Other Funding/Expenditure
- Basic costs (salaries, equipment, consumables, page charges) should already be covered from other sources, but for laboratories in Partner countries only , a contribution may be requested towards acquisition of scientific equipment of modest cost essential for and specific to the project. Funding for computers or peripherals is not available.
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Reporting
- For larger, two-year grants, an interim report on progress achieved and financial expenditure to date must be submitted within twelve months of the date of acceptance of the award.
- In all cases a final scientific and financial report is required for grant closure on completion of the project, and in any case within thirty months of the date of acceptance of the award. Report forms are available to download from the "Information for Grantees" of the NATO science web site.
- NATO support should be acknowledged in publications resulting from the collaborative project.
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Review of Applications
- Selection of applications for Collaborative Linkage Grants is based on peer review, and applications are selected for support following the recommendations of an international Advisory Panel appointed by the NATO Science Committee.
- Panel meetings are held three times a year. The selection process is confidential; no explanation is offered and no correspondence can be entered into on decisions taken. Proposals are evaluated on a competitive basis for the scientific merit of the expected collaboration.
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Submission of Applications
- Project Coordinators should verify with the other principal investigators that any current CLG in which they are involved is formally closed before submitting a new application.
- Applications should be presented on the specific application forms provided, and signed by both Project Coordinators. The Curriculum Vitae should only be supplied in the format requested. Two hard copies of the application should be sent to:
Science for Peace and Security Programme
Public Diplomacy Division
NATO
Boulevard Leopold III
B-1110 Brussels, Belgium
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