April 2012 call: what's new

Deadline: last week of April

The deadline for the April 2012 call is Wednesday 25 April 2012 at 16.15, if not otherwise stated in the call for applications.

Value Added Tax

The Academy requests that applicants account for the VAT practice of their site of research. If the site of research is not entitled to deduct VAT in its taxation (as usually is the case with universities and government research institutes), the VAT can be invoiced from the Academy. In this case, applicants enter their research costs including VAT.

Applicants shall check the VAT practice from the finance administration of their site of research. The site of research, in turn, shall check that the applicant’s account of inclusion of VAT in the project costs is in line with the VAT practice of the site of research. The Academy’s Finance Unit has sent a letter about this to the sites of research on 4 November 2011. More information is also available on our website.

Main changes in previous application round

A summary of the main changes in the Academy’s September 2011 call is available on our website.

 These changes include:

• New classification for publications

• Revised guidelines for research plans
• Salary of principal investigator
• Mobility plan included in the application
• Updated materials management plan
• Decisions and reviews only in the online services.