EOSC-Life Digital Life Science Internal Call Terms of Submission

The Digital Life Sciences Internal Call will provide both funding for the project team and technical expertise and training from the EOSC-Life consortium to enable the delivery of complex cloud-connected life science research projects. Funding allocated to the project team should contribute to the salary costs of experts working on the project. Applicants should expect to receive up 70 000 euros/ projects for direct personnel costs depending on the needs.

Areas covered by EOSC-Life experts:

• Data curation, handling and integration for publishing into the cloud (AKA WP1)

• Tool interoperability, workflows and containerisation (AKA WP2)

• Cloud deployment and resources (AKA WP7)

• Sensitive data handling (AKA WP4)

Applicants must use the “Contact Experts” button to be assigned EOSC-Life experts for each applicable area relevant to their project, in order to discuss project feasibility. This contact should be made as early as possible before submitting their proposal to allow sufficient time for consultations with the experts.

What projects are eligible?

Applications are invited from scientists working on research projects within a life science domain which will contribute to and/or take advantage of cloud-based data and analysis. The point of this Internal Call is to make data and/or workflows available to the EOSC and the scientific community. Data and workflows should be available at the point of application and should not have to be generated from scratch. Projects will be considered if they make resources (data, workflows...) available within the EOSC that have a wide and demonstrable impact and use beyond a single project. Projects should not aim to improve/modify already available datasets and workflows (e.g: curation of pre-existing dataset, modification of existing workflows).

Who is eligible?

To be eligible for funding, applicants will need to be members of the EOSC-Life consortium either as EOSC-Life Beneficiary or Linked Third Parties. If you do not know if your organisation belongs to the EOSC-Life consortium, please contact us to check your eligibility to this open call: opencall@eosc-life.eu

Funding arrangements

For successful applicants, budget will be transferred internally between the applying beneficiary and either Instruct-ERIC or EMBL.
Projects must not be double-funded. In alignment with H2020 financial rules the total amount of personnel costs claimed from the Digital Life Science Open Call or in other EU and Euratom grants for a person for a year must NOT be higher than the total personnel costs recorded for that person for that year.

Submission requirements

Proposals have to be submitted online via ARIA according to the guidelines and templates provided.

Applicants must register on the Instruct website where the proposal submission forms and further information is available or contact us directly at opencall@eosc-life.eu

Deadline for proposal submission is 29th September 2021, 17:00 CEST (16:00 GMT, 15:00 EET). Only submissions received in full before this deadline will be considered for acceptance.

Applicants must have made contact with technical experts in the areas relevant to their application before 28th July 2021 (17:00 CEST (16:00 GMT, 15:00 EET). See “Maturation phase” for more information.

For successful projects, EOSC-Life and its partner infrastructures can use the title and the short description of the project, to promote the activities taking place within EOSC-Life. Successful projects may also be invited to contribute towards scientific highlights and success stories resulting from their work.

Successful projects agree to assist the EOSC-Life Digital Life Sciences Internal Call team by providing reports on project progress and feedback on the project and EOSC-Life processes when requested.

The main applicant is responsible for collecting consent from other applicants to use their personal information (e.g. names, email addresses).
Personal data collected in the context of the EOSC-Life Digital Life Science Open Call (name, email address, nationality and country of residence) and any other personal data volunteered by data subject (i.e. role or specialisation) will be processed in order to carry out the EOSC-Life Digital Life Science Internal Call activities in accordance with EOSC-life Digital Life Science Call Privacy Policy.