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