Dear all,

by the end of this week, you will be receiving an invitation to join the Action (thanks Karen for helping us with that!).

I will ask you to react ASAP. In case you do not want/cannot participate, please let me know immediately and we will "de-invite" you.

At this point, we are all a bit tired of trying, but we all want it to happen, and thus we will try once more for the last time.

Particularly because I am coping with the very recent loss of my father, I cannot dedicate much time to this, but with the help of some of you, I will resubmit with minor changes, hoping is fine ASIS. If not, someone else is welcome to take the lead.

Regards,

Veronica

On 20/03/2020 23:41, M.Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano wrote:

Dear all,

some of you probably know it, but in any event I want to inform you that due to the coronavirus crisis, the deadline for proposals submission to COST has been extended for 6 months.

https://www.cost.eu/

We will try once more when possible.

Stay healthy!

Regards,

Veronica

On 27/10/2019 17:23, M.Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano wrote:

Dear all,

the submitted ENOX project has been declared non-eligible because it has to be anonymous, and they say that one sentence (copied in their original mail below), which had already been there in all previous attempts in which the project was sent for review, makes us not anonymous enough.

This is incredible, and I am very sorry for this.

The idea is to remove the sentence and resubmit the next possible time (deadline 29 April 2020).

Very sorry indeed!

Regards,

M. Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano

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Dear Dr Maria Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano,

We inform you that the Proposal OC-2019-1-24098 - Energy Oxides - Understanding Functionality in Emerging Technology has been declared non-eligible and can no longer be considered in the evaluation and selection process. 

This decision was taken with the following justification:

According to COST Implementation Rules and related documents in force for the Open Call OC-2019-1: i.e.

1. the CSO document COST 132/14 REV 6 “Rules for Participation in and Implementation of COST Activities”,
2. the CSO document 133/14 REV 4 “COST Action Proposal Submission, Evaluation, Selection and Approval”, Section 5,  and
3. the COST Open Call Guidelines, Section 3.2 and 3.3

 To be eligible, a proposal for a COST Action shall:

“Be anonymous. In order to comply with the double-blind principle of the evaluation:

Proposals may not contain any direct or indirect reference to people and/or institutions participating in the Network of Proposers (be they Main or Secondary Proposers). This means that proposers and/or institutions’ names should neither be explicitly mentioned, nor be potentially identifiable through links to web pages or through references to their role and/or participation in existing or ended projects, grants, networks.”


Based on the above, the COST Association has declared your proposal non-eligible, on the basis of the non-fulfilment of the anonymity criterion. The reason is that the text of proposal contains an indirect reference to the institutions participating in the Network of Proposers. Please see page 8 of the Technical Annex, Section 2.1.1:

"Examples included EU Projects, such as “Advanced Materials for Batteries”, “An Artificial Leaf: A Photoelectrocatalytic Cell from Earth-Abundant Materials for Sustainable Solar Production of CO2-based
Chemicals and Fuels”, “Na-Ion battery demonstration for electrical storage”, and the “Photovoltaics” research in the European Graphene Flagship. There are excellent national programs in nearly all EU member countries, such as the “Clean, Sustainable and Secure Energy” focus in the “National Plan for Scientific and Technical Research on Innovation” in Spain, a “New Energy Academy Program” in Finland, an “Innovative materials and efficient technologies for renewable energy” program in Italy, the “Materials engineering towards Innovative Solar Cells” project in the Czech Republic, the collaborative research centre “Functional Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces“ in Austria, the project on “Intelligent materials based on functional surfaces” in Hungary, or the Collaborative Research Centres “Atomic Scale Control of Energy Conversion” and “Kopernikus Projects” in Germany, and many others. The budget of these examples exceeds a total of 100 Mio EUR. All listed projects rely on the development of energy materials, with oxides playing a key role. With many ENOX partners involved in these projects, ENOX will provide a natural networking platform by sharing data, new methodologies, equipment, and training researchers..”

This decision is valid also in potential cases that non-eligibility was not spotted in previous submissions.

We thank you for your interest and submission of a proposal to the COST Open Call. We encourage you to submit, in a future Open Call, the proposal conforming to the COST eligibility criteria.

With kind regards,

COST Association
Avenue Louise 149
1050 Brussels | Belgium
opencall@cost.eu | www.cost.eu

Best regards,

COST Association