Common use of Evaluation and Selection Clause in Contracts

Evaluation and Selection. The evaluation and selection procedures were handled by the coordinating part- ners and the same strict set of rules as they were applied as in regular EU framework proposals. International experts were asked to evaluate the propo- sals, taking potential conflicts of interest into account. Three independent experts acted as evaluators for each proposal in the first evaluation step, which was perfomed remotely using web forms and a blog func- tionality for the discussion between the experts to come to a consolidated assess- ment. In one single physical meeting per call, a subset of the experts involved in the remote evaluations formed a panel with the task of calibrating the individual evaluation reports and scores and to set up a fully ranked list of all proposals which passed the thresholds and were therefore eligible for funding. As the num- ber of these proposals exceeded the indicative budget reserved for each call, only the highest-ranked proposals according to this budget were finally selected for funding.