Call text - New European Wind Atlas

New European Wind Atlas Joint Programme
NEWA
Call for Proposals – 03/06/2014
1. Background The NEWA initiative.
NEWA is an ERA-NET Plus consisting of 9 members – the Belgian region of Flanders, the Belgian region of
Wallonia, Denmark, Germany, Latvia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey – aiming to develop and strengthen
the coordination of national and regional research programmes for the development of a more detailed wind
condition mapping for the wind energy sector.
The NEWA objective is to integrate and coordinate national efforts around R&D initiatives towards the creation
and publication of a new European Wind Atlas, thereby allowing for a more efficient use of financial resources
and research capabilities. The Atlas, based on improved modelling competencies on atmospheric flow and its
interactions with wind turbines and wind farms, will cover all EU Member States and some Associated Countries,
as well as their exclusive economic zones, both onshore and offshore, and should become a key tool not only for
manufacturers and developers, but also for public authorities and decision-makers, by reducing overall
uncertainties in determining wind conditions.
The NEWA initiative aims to leverage the long term European wind energy research potential, which will
ultimately translate into attaining the demanding European ambitions for wind energy generation in the future.
Moreover, by promoting the integration of research efforts and identification of synergies, NEWA will fulfil the
objectives of supporting the research and innovation agenda of the SET plan.
2. Aims and scope
In order to accomplish the above, the NEWA consortium will launch a call for proposals for the development of a
new European Wind Atlas, involving the assessment and mapping of wind resources towards the reduction of
uncertainties to less than 3% for flat homogenous terrains, and to less than 10% for any terrain,
concerning wind energy production and wind conditions that affect the design of wind turbines.
This goal can be broken down into several technological and scientific objectives that need to be taken into
account in the proposal:
Development of the methodologies for the improvement and use of the new advanced models for wind
farm development, wind turbine design conditions, spatial planning and policy promotion
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This will involve the development of dynamical downscaling methodologies and improvement of the open-source
models, validated through measurement campaigns (described below), to enable the provision of highly accurate
wind resource and external wind load climatology and short term prediction at high spatial resolution. The models
should be able to simulate onshore and offshore conditions with stability effects and large offshore wind farms
with cumulative wake effects and modified atmospheric boundary layer.
The developed downscaling methodologies and models, together with their uncertainty estimates, will be fully
documented and made publicly available to ensure the impact of the project, guarantee the transparency, and
facilitate scientific and technical progress and cooperation.
Development of a high-value data bank from a series of wind measurement campaigns
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Intense measurement campaigns will be carried out to build and validate the developed models covering complex
terrains, offshore, large changes in surface characteristics (roughness change) and cold and rough climates.
Measurement methods will be developed which improve the validation of model results with experimental data.
The produced data must be made available to the scientific community outside the funded consortium, so that it
can be used by a broader community of private and public partners to develop models and engineering tools.
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Verification and estimation of uncertainty
The uncertainty estimate map makes an important statement about the confidence of the Wind Atlas and the
intensity to which in situ measurement must be employed before development of a wind farm, being thus of
upmost importance.
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Creation and publication of a European WindAtlas (database on wind data, environmental and other
constrains). The Atlas shall cover all EU member States (MS) as well as MS exclusive economic zones,
both onshore and offshore, with the exclusion of any overseas department or territory.
The new EU Wind Atlas database shall include: wind resources and their associated uncertainty; turbulence
characteristics; adverse weather conditions together with the probability of occurrence; the level of predictability
for short term forecasting; guidelines and best practices for the use of data, such as extreme winds, extreme
shears and turbulence (particularly relevant for micrositing).
The Atlas will also indicate restricted areas (e.g. Natura 2000 sites, military areas) and their respective wind data,
making it a useful tool for public authorities and decision-makers.
Focus on these technological and scientific objectives is expected to: (1) at a technology level, improve
standards, software packages, site-optimised wind turbines, with the overall aim of optimising the use of
European wind energy resources; (2) at an economic level, reduce the lifetime cost of wind energy due to a better
site information and planning and, thus, reduced project risk; (3) at a political level, help decision-makers to
decide when to set up new deployment policies or spatial planning rules.
Furthermore, in order to ensure consinstency with other on-going initiatives and making use of existing
knowledge the succesfull proposal shall seek cooperation with other EU and international fora and organisations,
such as National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA, European Space Agency, European Wind Energy
Association (EWEA), TP Wind, , and the Multilateral Working Group on Solar and Wind Technologies within the
framework of Clean Energy Ministerial
The successful proposal shall also include adequate training and capacity building activities, both at the level of
the EU member states, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), the European Wind Initiative of the SETplan and outreach activities through the NEWA cooperation with other international bodies and fora, such as
IRENA and the Multilateral Working Group on Solar and Wind Technologies within the framework of Clean
Energy Ministerial.
3. NEWA Eligibility
The NEWA joint call will support projects that:
1. Are within the scope of NEWA and adequatly address all the objectives (see scope);
2. Are compliant with national and/or regional funding rules
3. Include at least two legally independent partners, from at least two different NEWA partner countries
4. Demonstrate value for money;
5. Have appropriate sources (either internal or external) of matched funding where applicable by national
programme rules.
It is expected that economic and technical parameters as well as project results will be published in accordance
with national rules and regulations, which may vary from case to case (see Annex A).
Proposals are invited from transnational consortia involving large companies, SMEs and/or research
organisations depending on national or regional funding conditions.
Exploitation of R&D, including IPR, is focussed in the NEWA partner countries. Project partners are required to
sign a consortium agreement in order to agree on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and other relevant issues
dealing with responsibilities within the project and exploitation of results. The consortium agreement must be
provided (not necessarily signed yet) together with the full proposal and must be signed by all partners before the
first payment can be made.
Although the project duration is limited to 5 years, continuation of operations is highly welcome in order to further
prove the achieved results.
4. Guidance for applicants
4.1 Call procedure
The NEWA call procedure will include a first phase of assessment of national and regional eligibility and, if
approved, proposals will then be sent for evaluation at European transnational level by an independent panel of
experts.
After the eligibility check by funding agencies there will be a grace period during which the applicants will have
the opportunity to address legal, administrative or minor financial issues found. No other alterations to the
proposal will be allowed during this period.The NEWA call procedure timeline is:
Publication of the call for proposals: 03/06/2014
Deadline for the submission of full proposals: 04/08/2014
Deadline for Funding Agencies Eligibility verification: 31/08/2014
Deadline for Proposal evaluation: 30/09/2014
Expected start date of funded project: 20/10/2014
4.2 Submission of Proposals
All proposals must be submitted through the electronic form available at www.euwindatlas.eu, no later than
04/08/2014 at 17:00. Proposals submitted by any other way, or proposals submitted after the deadline will not be
considered.It is the responsibility of each applicant consortium to ensure the proposal is submitted on time, and
that are in accordance to all the requirements of the call text.
Please note that some national funding agencies may require additional documents specific to national or
regional regulations. These are NOT submitted to the central website, but directly to the relevant ministry or
agency. Please consult the relevant National Annexes at the end of this document for further details.
Proposals must be submitted in a single PDF file with no more than 60 pages, using the template available at
www.euwindatlas.eu;
4.3 Evaluation
The evaluation criteria, to be used by the panel of experts, are:
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1. Fit to call scope
2. Innovation
3. Quality of the technological concept
4. Project set-up and implementation planning
5. Risk analysis
With the exception of the first one, each criteria will be scored from 0-10 points, with different weighting factors
attributed to each, as further clarified in Annex B. The first criteria, ”Fit to call scope”, is evaluated with a YES/NO,
and failure to qualify in this criteria determines the rejection of the proposal.
As general attributes of the proposal, it is expected true cooperation between the consortium partners, with each
partner contributing to and benefiting from the results of the project.
4.3 Funding arrangements
The total funding available for NEWA projects is up to € 13,1 M, made up of national budgets and an EU
contribution of €4,3 M. NEWA will only fund ONE consortium, the one with the highest ranking at the end of the
evaluation procedure.
National or regional partners will receive funding from their respective funding agencies that will incorporate the
EC contribution. Partners of the consortium are therefore subject to national/regional and EU funding
rules.Projects must demonstrate the source of co-funding within their proposals, with evidence of the commitment
from the stakeholder as needed.
Since demonstration units, by definition, aim to produce marketable products, any such products must be put on
the market. Revenues generated during the project run-time will be deducted from the public funding initially
granted (please refer to your national/regional agency for detailed procedures).
Country
Denmark
Germany
Belgium – W
Belgium – F
Latvia
Sweden
Portugal*
Turkey
Spain
Participant
DEA
BMU
SPW
EWI
LAS
SWEA
FCT
TUBITAK
MINECO
National call contribution (in €)
2,000,000.00
1,500,000.00
350,000.00
500,000.00
700,000.00
1,000,000.00
500,000.00
750,000.00
1,500,000.00
* FCT will have 500.000€ available if the application contemplates a test site in Portugal, or 250.000€ if there is no test site in Portuguese
territory
4.4 Project duration
Projects are expected to start in late 2014 / beginning of 2015 and must be completed (including all reporting)
by 31.10.2019.
4.5 Project monitoring and expected deliverables
In addition to standard national requirements, NEWA projects are expected to deliver the following:
1. Participation in and presentation at two NEWA status seminars (mid-term and final seminar).
2. An annual, common interim report following the template which will be provided in due time. This interim
report will be available to the funding organisations involved, but will not be made public.
3. A common publishable and public final report, describing the activities and outcomes of the work including
an exploitation plan stating how the results of the project will be implemented. Confidential results will be
presented in a separate confidential report. Detailed requirements for this report will be distributed to
successful applicants once the projects have started.
4. An abstract of the main results of the project, to be published in a “joint call brochure” after the end of the
projects.
A high degree of transparency is essential to the expected type of project. Consequently, experiences made
during operation, as well as the operation process itself, must be meticulously documented, analysed and
evaluated. Potential for optimisation must be identified and the appropriate strategies be formulated.
Annex A National/regional requirements
Belgium – Walloon region
The total budget for the Belgian Walloon Region under this Programme will be about € 350,00. The Walloon
funding body will be the DGO4 – Department of Energy and Sustainable Building. It may choose not to allocate
the budget if the Walloon participants do not fill the following requirements. In every cases, Walloon Region will
only fund ONE project uner NEWA call.
Requirements for Participants
The call will be led under Decree of July 3rd 2008 on support for research, development and innovation in
Wallonia which defines the rules of participation to research programmes. The call will be open to Belgian french
speaking Universities, High Schools and Public Research Centers and to SMEs and Large industries settled in
Walloon Region. There will be no restrictions on the size of the consortium. However, the consortium will need to
be consistent with the object of the call.
Under walloon rules, participant are granted as follow:
- Universities and High schools : 100% of eligible costs;
- Public research centers : 75% of eligible costs;
- Small enterprises : 70% of eligible costs;
- Medium enterprises : 60% of eligible costs;
- Large industries : 50% of eligible costs.
The maximum project duration for Walloon partners will be 48 months.
The central transnational application will be sufficient to evaluate the scientific quality of the proposal. However,
the funding body remains authorized to ask Walloon partners further informations in order to refine its evaluation.
These informations may include, for example :
- Specific role of the partner in the project;
- Win-win character of the consortium agreement;
- Valorization;
- Deliverable;
- Budget;
- ...
Final approval of the project is the responsability of the Walloon Minister for Energy.
Regional call coordinator : LEHANCE Pascal, Attaché. +32(0)81.48.63.32
[email protected]
Belgium – Flemish region
IWT, the government agency for Innovation by Science and Technology is the Flemish funding agency that will
provide funding for Flemish participants in the NEWEA joint programme. The total budget for the Flemish Region
under this Programme amounts to about € 0.5 million. IWT may choose not to allocate the full budget.
All interested Flemish companies can apply for funding directly at IWT (through the “industrial R&D projects”
programme). To obtain more information, please contact Jozef Ghijselen ([email protected]) or Elsie De Clercq
([email protected]).
Denmark
The EUDP - Energy Development and Demonstration Programme - will be the Danish national funding body to
fund NEWA projects. EUDP funding is awarded with an expectation that the projects funded will lead to market
implementation of the new products and technologies developed by the project and an important objective is to
ensure involvement of private investors in projects. It is important to concentrate on functionally delineated
projects, with innovative and patentable technological content that is deemed technically practicable and which
meets a market demand and has a well-defined customer target.
The total minimum budget for EUDP funding in a NEWA context will be 2 M € on the condition that projects are
qualified to receive support. EUDP will fund projects according to the EU state aid rules which allows up to 25-40
% support to demonstration projects for large companies and up to 35- 0 for SME s. Universities and research
organisations can apply for higher rates - the actual rate will be decided case by case. The received proposals for
NEWA support will be by a to be evaluated (national evaluation) by the EUDP Board prior to the evaluation
(transnational) by the NEWA. EUDP may request further information from the applicant as needed. Only projects
that the EUDP Board finds to be qualified for support will proceed to the transnational evaluation stage.
The regular EUDP funding rules and conditions in general will apply also for funding in a NEWA context. Further
information: http://www.ens.dk/da-DK/NyTeknologi/om-eudp/Sider/Forside.aspx.
Germany
Funding body for the New European Wind Atlas Joint Programme is the German Federal Ministry for Economic
Affairs and Energy (BMWi). The funding quota for German participants can be up to 100 % for universities or
research organisations. In the case of companies, funding quota will be decided on a case-by-case basis
depending on the size of the company, type of research/development, risk associated with the research activities,
commercial perspective of exploitation and will typically be 50 % maximum. Joint research projects comprising
company participation are recommended. In case of small and medium enterprises, an additional bonus to the
funding quota can be awarded.
The relevant national R&D programme for German project partners is the ” . Energieforschungsprogramm” (” th
Energy Research Programme”) managed by Projekttraeger Juelich (PtJ). The usual funding rules and forms will
apply. Applicants are requested to submit AZA-, AZV- or AZK-forms using the electronic proposal assistant called
“easy online” (see https://foerderportal.bund.de/easyonline/ and contact Dr. Klaus Korfhage via e-mail for details).
The maximum project duration for projects with German partners will be 36 months.
There is no need to submit additional national application forms without special request by the funding
organisation. The central transnational application is sufficient. Only German project partners of positively
evaluated projects will, at a later stage, be invited by PtJ to submit national application forms within one month
after notification.
The total budget available in Germany is 1.5 M €.
PtJ’s contact person during the application phase is:
Dr. Klaus Korfhage, +49-2461-61-4589, mailto:[email protected].
Latvia
Funding body for the New European Wind Atlas Joint Programme is the Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS).
Eligibility criteria defined in the Regulations of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia No 414 on the
procedure for providing support for participation in international cooperation programs for research and
technology (adopted on 19 June 2012) are applied.
Following organizations are eligible for funding: research institutions that are listed in the Registry of Research
Institutions operated by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia and enterprises that are
registered in the Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia.
The total budget available in Latvia is 0.7 M €.
Contact person of LAS during the application phase is:
Dr. Gunta Šlihta, +371-67-558-680, [email protected]
Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) is Portugal’s main funding agency for Science and Technology. For
Portuguese applicants to NEWA FCT will have 500.000€ available if the application contemplates a test site in
Portugal, or 250.000€ if there is no test site in Portuguese territory. Eligible applicants are Institutions of higher
education, their institutes and R&D centers; Associate Laboratories; State Laboratories; Private not-for-profit
institutions whose primary object is S&T activities; Companies (enterprises), when they are involved in R&D
programs; Other public or private not-for-profit organizations that carry out or participate in scientific research
activities. Funding will cover 50% of eligible, submitted costs for companies, and 100% of eligible, submitted
costs for every other institution. During the execution of the project the institutions should present to the
documents related to the total costs incurred, either supported by FCT or by themselves. In case of a positive
decision for funding, the Portuguese participants will be asked to submit a national formal submission of the
project.
Portuguese participation in a proposal must follow the Regulations governing access to funding for scientific
research and technological development projects, available at
http://www.fct.pt/apoios/projectos/regulamento.phtml.en
Spain
The Spnish funding body for NEWA is Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad.
MINECO funds depend on a national open call to be published in 2014. The support provided by MINECO is
composed of a standard financing package which includes grants.
The Spanish applicants have to submit a formal application through MINECO proposals submission system
(www.mineco.es.) with the information related with the Spanish participation for the National Eligibility check.
MINECO supports most of the private and public applicants, namely:
Large Enterprises
Small and Medium Enterprises
Public Research Institutions
Non-Profit-Organisations
More precisely, public research labs and other research organisations (public and private), i.e. organisations
which are involved in continuous scientific research or experimental development activity which are legal entities
with a registered seat in Poland.
The maximum rate of support for research organisations is 100% of total costs (for all type of R&D); for SMEs:
100% for fundamental research, max. 80% for Industrial research and max. 60% for Experimental Development
of total costs; for SMEs: 100% for fundamental research, max. 75% for Industrial research, max. 50% for
Experimental Development; for LE’s: 100 for fundamental research, max. 5 for Industrial research and max.
40% for Experimental Development. Theses figures could be updated in the national open call.
Eligible expenditure in R&D projects are: Personnel, Instrument and Material, Contractual research, Technical
knowledge and Patents consulting and equivalent services intended exclusively for the research activity. Other
operating expenses derived from the research project.
Length of the project: The length of these projects may be 36 months. In discussion longer durations.
For more information on the applicable national rules please see: www.mineco.es. Last open call could be
consulted in
http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.dbc68b34d11ccbd5d52ffeb801432ea0/?vgnextoid=bc
294775e22ff310VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD
Contact point: Severino FALCON, severino.falcon (at) mineco.es
Sweden
Funding of Swedish participants underlies the Swedish Energy Agency. The total budget available in Sweden is
1 million €. Decisions on funding research, development and innovation in the energy area are taken according to
the ordinance SFS 2008:761 in the Swedish Code of Statues in case the applicant is a company. In the case of
companies, funding quota will be decided according to the ordinance SFS 2008:761 depending on the size of the
company, type of research/development, risk associated with the research activities and commercial perspective
of exploitation. State aid rules allows up to 25 % when it is close to market and regarded as experimental
development, 50 % when it is applied research and 100% when it is basic research. In case of small and medium
enterprises, an additional bonus of 10-20 % funding quota can be awarded for experimental development and
applied research.
Funding quota of for universities or research organisations can be up to 100 % and decisions are taken according
to the letter of regulation for the Swedish Energy Agency - the actual rate will be decided case by case
For applications with Swedish partners it is necessary to send in a full proposal for the Swedish part of the project
to Swedish Energy Agency (in Swedish), using the online application form E- kanalen
https://www1.stem.se/etjanster/default.aspx). The proposal must be submitted in E-kanalen in parallel with
Expressions of interest to the central website. The common proposal for the consortium should be appended.
Granted projects have to meet conditions such as submitting interim and end reports as well as accounts. In
addition, the projects should contribute to evaluations, conferences and other common programme activities.
Sweden has a constitutionally founded right of public access to official records. All documents sent to, sent from
or drawn up at the Swedish Energy Agency are therefore official. In this call, the documents concerned are e.g.
applications, minutes from expert evaluation meeting, project contracts. Secrecy can only be claimed when
legally supported. If a project leader wishes to keep an application confidential due to for example IPR reasons,
Swedish Energy Agency should be informed. In case e.g. the application is asked for, Swedish Energy Agency
decides whether (parts of) the document can be marked as confidential. The decision can be appealed to the
Administrative Court of Appeal and subsequently to the Supreme Administrative Court.
More criteria might be added depending on the topic.
National contact point and call cordinator at the Swedish Energy Agency: Angelica Pettersson.
Programme manager at the Energy Technology Department [email protected]
Phone number: +46 16 544 21 68
Turkey
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the responsible body for funding of
Turkish organizations in the New European Wind Atlas Joint Programme. TÜBİTAK has allocated total budget of
€750.000 for the successful Turkish organisations.
TÜBİTAK funds the collaborative research and innovation projects. In this respect, the applicants from Turkey
can be funded by one of the following support programmes of TÜBİTAK and applicants are suggested to check
website of relevant programme that they are going to apply for funding.
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ARDEB 1001 Research Projects Programme, or
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TEYDEB 1509 International Industrial R&D Funding Programme
Academic research oriented proposals are advised to apply for the ARDEB 1001 Research Projects Programme.
Commercial research oriented proposals are advised to apply for the TEYDEB 1509 International Industrial R&D
Funding Programme.
In addition to the national funding regulations provided herewith, all Turkish applicants are strongly advised to
check the web pages of these programmes for the conditions of funding, and before applying they are strongly
advised to contact with the Turkish national contact point.
Is additional/parallel application requested to the funding organisation?
In TEYDEB 1509 Programme a parallel application should be made online to TÜBİTAK via the TEYDEB 1509
Programme website. The deadline for this application is same as the deadline of the NEWA Call - 04/08/2014.
The applications made simultaneously to the TÜBİTAK TEYDEB 1509 International Industrial R&D Funding
Programme will be subject to TÜBİTAK review in addition to the evaluation made by independent peer-reviewers
in the frame of the Call. TÜBİTAK will only fund the projects which have successfully passed from both review
processes.
In ARDEB 1001 Programme, the national project budget form and CVs of the project personnel should also be
submitted to TÜBİTAK by sending mail to National Contact Point. The deadline for this application is 04/08/2014.
The applications made to the TÜBİTAK ARDEB 1001 Research Projects Programme will be checked only in
terms of eligibility and budgetary regulations. The scientific merit of the projects will only be evaluated by the
independent international peer-reviewers in the frame of the NEWA Call.
In ARDEB 1001 Programme, the full proposals passed successfully from the international evaluation, should be
submitted to TÜBİTAK. However, this application will not be made online. For the documents which are required
to be filled in at this stage by Turkish researchers for applying to TÜBİTAK 1001 Programme, please contact the
National Contact Point of Turkey.
Budget for participation in scientific meetings (national/international conferences, congresses, workshops, ... )
and scierntific visits is maximum 5.000 TL per year (maximum 10.000 TL throughout the project) for ARDEB 1001
Research Projects Programme. An additional 15.000 TL, i.e. maximum 25.000 TL in total, would be proposed in
ERA-NET projects.
It should be noted that any project which will be decided to be funded by TÜBİTAK in the framework of ARDEB
1001 Programme, will have to fill in full ARDEB 1001 proposal forms and will have to provide all other requested
accompanying documents, and attain the necessary signatures and permits, in order to be funded.
PLEASE CHECK TUBITAK WEBSITE FOR THE PROGRAMME CONDITIONS:
For ARDEB 1001 Research Projects Programme: http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/tr/destekler/akademik/ulusaldestek-programlari/icerik-1001-bilimsel-ve-teknolojik-arastirma-projelerini-destekleme-pr
For TEYDEB 1509 International Industrial R&D Funding Programme:
http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/tr/destekler/sanayi/uluslararasi-ortakli-destek-programlari/icerik1509-tubitak-uluslararasi-sanayi-ar-ge-projeleri-destekleme-programi and
http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/tubitak_content_files//TEYDEB/1509/basvuru/1509_Uygulama_Esaslari.pdf
For more information please contact with relevant National Contact Points
For General Information
İlknur YILMAZ
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel.: +90 312 468 5300/3926
www.tubitak.gov.tr
For ARDEB 1001 Research Projects Programme
Bora KAT
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +90 312 468 5300/2792
Alper GÜNGÖR
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +90 312 468 5300/2365
For TEYDEB 1509 International Industrial R&D Funding Programme
Süleyman BİÇER
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +90 312 468 5300/3409
Annex B Evaluation criteria
The background and key performance inducators (KPI) for the European Wind Initiative can be found here:
http://setis.ec.europa.eu/implementation/technology-roadmap/european-industrial-initiative-on-windenergy-1
0 = unsatisfactory 2 =poor
FP7 general criteria
NEWA specific criteria (scores of 0 – 10): 5 =
average 8 =good
Weighting of
scores
(Multiplicati on
factor)
10 = very good
1) Fit to call:
- Proposal complete and
complies with specifications of NEWA
and other relevant programmes
Scientific and/or technological excellence - Quality of
the transnational projects:
- sound concept, and quality of
objectives
the-art
- progress beyond the state-of-
- quality and effectiveness of the
scientific and technological methodology
and associated work plan (Threshold
48/80)
None: In or out
of scope
(YES/NO)
- Incentive effect of the NEWA Grant
2) Innovation:
- Addresses innovative technologies and
processes or novel integration of known
technologies and processes to be established at
the appropriate scale
x2
3) Quality of the technological concept in
relation to the aim and scope of the call.
x2
4) Project set-up and implementation planning:
Quality and efficiency of the implementation and the
management:
- Quality of the consortium
a.
adequate competence,
management experience
and know- how,
b.
adequate industrial and scientific
competence,
c.
financial strength,
d.
operational capacity to carry out
the project
- Appropriateness of the
management structure and procedures
- Quality and relevant experience
of the individual participants
- Quality of the consortium as a
whole (incl. complementarity and balance)
- Appropriate allocation and
justification of the resources to be
committed (budget, staff, equipment)
(Threshold 42/70)
- realistic timeline of the
project and deployment
- work plan with clear tasks,
deliverables, milestones and
methodology
- progress monitoring /control
x2
5) Risk analysis:
- identification and
assessment
- management, incl. Quality
Assurance Plan
x1