Instructions for completing the following form:

• Please be aware that your application may be assessed by colleagues not from your field. Therefore, please write for a broad audience.
• Each section must be addressed briefly and concisely. In case one or more sections do not apply to a particular proposal, please provide a short explanation of why it is not of relevance. 
• In case a requested information is currently not yet available (e.g. a clinical study is planned for a later stage of the project and it will be based on or influenced by future results of other studies), the foreseen input shall be described. 
• Every section underlies a specific limitation of characters. Please do not consider the limited characters as a target! It is in your interest to keep your text as concise as possible.
• Font sizes and stiles do not have to be adapted when writing directly in the form.
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Please be aware that proposals will be evaluated as they were submitted, rather than on their potential if certain changes were to be made. This means that only proposals that successfully address all the required aspects will be considered for funding.

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1. Abstract

Short summary of the planned research project

• Description of its innovative and interdisciplinary content, in relation to the current state of knowledge
• If applicable, please describe its relevance regarding public health care in a generally understandable form, stating the problem addressed
• Please be aware when wording the abstract that it can be used for promoting the project externally in case of funding
• Adding of 1 picture/graphic is possible
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2. Scientific description

State of the art / background of the research 

• Please describe the state of the art, respectively the background of the research proposed (including a brief problem statement)
• Please evaluate existing knowledge and evidence and identify the research gap, which this study is intended to contribute (including e.g. aim(s), specific objective(s) and/or leading research questions/hypothesis)
• Adding of 3 pictures/graphics is possible
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3. Impact - Dissemination - Exploitation aspects

3.1 Impact

• Please describe the nature of the interdisciplinary project while emphasizing the contributions of each participant
• Please describe what impact the outcomes of your project will have within your research area
• Why is your research relevant? Will your research generate benefit beyond building academic knowledge?
• Wherever possible, use quantifiable indicators
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3.2 Dissemination activities

Please note: Dissemination includes not only publications or meetings but also third mission activities with the general public, commercialization actions, intellectual property protection or the generation of new guideline.

3.3 Exploitation aspects / further utilization 

Please describe briefly how the results generated in this study will induce follow-up proposals OR how this research can contribute to improving health care/public health OR indicate the potential funding agency(ies) involved, or other ways the outcomes of this project are going to be utilized
Do you plan to involve external collaborating partners with a particular focus on the research topic?

4. Organization of the project

4.1 Work plan and Gantt-Chart structure

• Please provide a suitable Work plan and Gantt-Chart structure for your proposal (incl. study design and material/methods, [if applicable measure/intervention/target population], data analysis, deliverables, milestones, time schedule)
• Adding of 3 images | tables is possible
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4.2 Resource allocation

• Please describe the project consortium, how gender dimensions are achieved, and how the interdisciplinary project is managed

4.3 Budget description

• Based on the budget template please describe the individual cost categories - personnel, consumables, travel and further costs for dissemination activities (max. 1 page)
• Please note: in case the purchasing of equipment seems necessary, please describe it in this section to be considered for extra funding outside your budget and within the core facility funding of the Research Development Fund (RDF)
• For alternative funding options (in kind contribution, etc.) please use the space here to describe the whereabouts of the funding and its usage.
• Adding of 1 image is possible
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 5. References

Reference list of the most important project-relevant research work, cited in the project description (max. 12 references per applicant)

6. Gender and diversity equality in science

• Research questions, which potentially cover gender and gender-relevant components, have to address a balanced integration of the sexes when planning the experiment. Only applications in which male and female test subjects are involved will be funded. Male and female individuals have also to be used in laboratory animal tests.
• If this is not possible in individual cases, or if no gender-specific dimension has to be taken into account, or if there is a scientific / ethical reason not do to so, please provide a justification here.
  
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7. Ethics Committee

• Please describe if and to what extent an ethics committee approval is necessary 
• If applicable, please provide a reference in case of an existing ethics committee approval (issuing institution, reference, date, ...)
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8. Animal Experiments

 9. Additional funding for this project

• Please briefly specify any other third-party funding and the funding agency involved, the funding period as well as the relation to this proposal

10. Conflict of interest (main and co-applicants)

Please refer to the explanation of conflicts of interest following the guidelines of the PMU-RIF that defines a conflict of interest as follows:

Any possible effects of the funding decision on the applicant's own economic or other personal interests,their spouses or life partners, family members or people living in the same household are to be viewed as a conflict of interest. Further circumstances that can give rise to a conflict of interest are, paid or unpaid, cooperation between applicants and project-involved companies or profit-oriented institutions, on which the funding decision could have financial or personal effects, even outside the project in question. All payments that applicants or the persons named in sentence 2 have already received from third parties (including from non-profit institutions) in connection with the project in question must be disclosed when the application is submitted, as well as any intellectual property rights of the applicants or other project-involved persons and institutions that are project-relevant in the broad sense. All financial commitments or payments by third parties to the applicants or the persons named in sentence 2 that occur later, in particular during the ongoing award procedure or after the commitment of funding by the PMU-RIF, must be disclosed immediately after their occurrence.

Article IV. f. of the Guidelines of the PMU-RIF

Main applicant: {name}

Co-applicant #1: {name480}

Co-applicant #2: {name481}

Co-applicant #3: {name482}

Co-applicant #4: {name483}

11. Reviewer suggestions

Please name up to 10 possible reviewers (mandatory)

• name up to 5 reviewers from institutions located in Austria
• name up to 5 reviewers from international institutions
• Describe shortly and concise why the expertise of each person is helpful deciding the interdisciplinary aspect of the application
• Be aware that joint research activities between one of the applicants and a possible reviewer are allowed within the last five years.

National reviewers

National reviewer #1

International reviewers

International reviewer #1

Exclusion of up to 2 possible reviewer

In addition to the reviewers proposed by you, the member of the RIF-board who is supervising your application in the selection process can also propose reviewers themselves. You can exclude two persons from the review process, which the board member may also not propose.

Exclusion #1

Exclusion #2

12. Confirmation of institute | clinic chair | head of the research program

Please upload the Letter of Confirmation (LoC) of every applicant's head individually. 

You can download the template here.

Template Proposal PMU-RIF liF, rev. 1 Paracelsus Medical University