NAME of PI PROJECT TYPE PROJECT ACRONYM

LINZ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY

RESEARCH PROPOSAL

TITLE / PROJECT ACRONYM

Principal Name
Investigator Email
Co-Principal Names
Investigators Emails
Project Type Young Career, Seed, Advance, Co Funding, or Career Accelerator Project
Duration # months
Funding €
Requested
Hosting Name of Institute or Department
Institute or Name of Person
Department Email
Industrial Company
Collaborator(s) Name of Person
Email
Co-Funding Provided (if any): €
Scientific e.g., Physics
Field(s)
Scientific https://www.fwf.ac.at/fileadmin/files/Dokumente/Antragstellung/wiss-disz-
Discipline(s) 201507.pdf
(FWF
categories)
Primary Goals

Additional Infrastructure you require access to

Infrastructure
Needed
Abstract

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A. Proposal (Free Form)

Young Career Projects, Seed Projects, and Career Accelerator Projects require a max. 10 page
proposal.

Project description:
1. Scientific/scholarly aspects
 What is High Risk / What is High Gain?
 Aims (hypotheses or research questions):
 Relevance to international research in the field (international status of the research);
 Explanation of how the project could break new ground in research (innovative aspects);
 Importance of the expected results for the discipline (based on the project described);
 Methods;
 Work plan, project schedule and strategies for dissemination of results;
 Cooperation arrangements (national and international);
 Where ethical issues have to be considered in the proposed research project: All potential
ethical, security-related or regulatory aspects of the proposed research project and the planned
handling of those issues must be discussed in a separate paragraph. In particular, the benefits
and burdens arising from the experiments as well as their effects on the test subjects/objects
should be explained in detail. Applicants must also provide a brief explanation in cases where
no ethical issues have to be taken into account.
2. Technological breakthrough and follow-on funding
 Implications on technology and industrial relevance
3. Implications for other fields of research
 Plan for Obtaining Continuing Funding
 LIT is not meant to be a funding agency. It provides seed funding only. A clear and convincing
argument is to be made on the long term prospects of obtaining continuing funding for this
project. Also please clearly state what happens if you fail to obtain further funding (e.g., PhD
dissertations that remain uncompleted).
4. Information on funds requested
 Concise justification for the personnel requested (type[s] of position[s], description of field of
work,
 extent and duration of involvement in the project);
 Concise justification for non-personnel costs (equipment, materials, travel and other costs).

The proposal is free-form (DIN A4, 11pt font, single-spaced lines, printed on one side only, with
consecutively numbered pages); including all tables, figures, and bibliography (relevant to the project,
including a list of abbreviations).

Advance Projects merely require a max. 2 page statement with a plan that details what you intend to
do in order to improve the chances of your proposal’s acceptance. Note that we do not expect you to
do the actual work you had promised in the rejected proposal but rather the work necessary to make
the proposal more acceptable (improved writing, generating initial results). The budget form should
detail the funding needs during this time.

Co Funding Projects require a max. 1 page statement that describes the excellence funding scheme
(if it is not obviously known) and what funding it provides/does not provide. The budget form should
detail the additional funding needs.

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B. Curricula Vitae for PI and Co-PIs

Name
Name(s) used in Publications
Date of Birth
Current Position(s) Place, Job Title, Year
Significant Academic Positions Place, Job Title, Year From/To
Significant Industry/Gov/Other Place, Job Title, Year From/To
Positions
Habilitation (if no habilitation then Place, Field, Advisor, Year
explain why experience is equivalent)
PhD Place, Field, Advisor, Year
Longer Research Stays (>3 Month) Places, Time Frame, Type of Affiliation
List up to 3 Most Significant (not listed
above). These could be sabbaticals
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications
 Total / Past 5 Years #/#
Peer Reviewed Conference Publications
 Total / Past 5 Years #/#
Book Chapters and Books
 Total / Past 5 Years #/#
Book and Proceedings Editor
 Total / Past 5 Years #/#
Patents #
Most Significant Awards From Whom, What For, Year
List up to 5 Most Significant
Most Significant Honorable From Whom, What For, Year
Recognitions (e.g., Keynotes,
Fellowship, Memberships)
List up to 5 Most Significant
Most Significant Services For Whom, What For, Year(s)
(e.g., Boards, Program Committees)
List up to 5 Most Significant
Most Significant Publications Author(s), Title, Published Where, Year,
List up to 5 Most Significant Percentage of Work Done (Estimated), Citations if
Available, Acceptance Rate (if applicable)
Funding
 Total / Your Share #/#
 Past 5 Years Total / Your Share #/#
List up to 5 Most Significant Funding Agency, Title, €, Role (coordinator, lead
pi, or co-pi)
Supervision
PhD Theses
 Total / Past 5 Years / Ongoing #/#/#
Master’s Theses
 Total / Past 5 Years / Ongoing #/#/#

Max. 3 Pages per CV

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C. Budget

Cost Category Total in Euro

PI
Postdocs
Personnel PhD Students (max. 30 hours per week)
Technicians
Other
Costs i. Total Costs for Personnel (in Euro)
Travel
Equipment
Other Consumables
goods and
Other
services
ii. Total Other Costs (in Euro)
Co-Funding (in Euro)
Funding that you already have or are able to obtain elsewhere (e.g. industrial,
EU, other). Please explain.
Total Requested (in Euro)
Costs minus Co-Funding

JKU permanent staff (Stammpersonal) may participate in JKU LIT but their contributions must be in-
kind (no salary may be requested beyond full time employment).

Please use FWF Standard personnel costs and salaries:

https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/forschungsfoerderung/personalkostensaetze/

D. National and International Cooperation Arrangements Essential to the Project

(optional)

Can be evidenced by means of collaboration letters (no more than 3 letters, each no longer than 1 DIN
A4 page). These letters are to be inserted at the end of the proposal file.

E. Supplemental Material (optional)

Complete Original Proposal and Review Feedback (Co-Funding and Advance Projects only)

F. Conflict of Interest

Names and institutions of cooperation partners in the last 5 years.

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G. Signature

I accept the funding guidelines (currently only available in German) as announced here: lit.jku.at.

I certify with my signature that the information provided is accurate and complete. I am aware of the
fact that the granted funds will have to be refunded if granted under false pretenses.

……………….…. ................................................................................
(Place, Date) (Signature of PI)

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Submission Information
Please send a single, searchable PDF document comprising of cover letter and sections A-G to
lit@jku.at no later than 14 April, 2017.

LIT Practices
LIT will follow a cultural scheme similar to FWF DK Programs. This is characterized by Joint PhD/Post
Doc Recruiting, Joint PhD Education, Joint Seminars, Active Advertising/PR, and more. Details will be
announced. By applying to the LIT Program you agree to support and adhere to its practices.

Contractual Information
TBD

Reviewer Instructions
LIT Proposals will be evaluated through external peer reviewing following scientific standards.
However, since LIT has a practical element and it is not a funding agency, the reviewing guidelines will
be augmented by the following questions:

1) How do you rate the prospect for Obtaining Continuing Funding? Note, LIT funding is not
meant to be sufficient to complete the work. The main purpose of its funding is to lay the
ground work for initial results and follow-on funding.
2) How do you rate the Technological Relevance?

Young Career Projects, Seed Projects, and Career Accelerator Projects will be reviewed by
internationally excellent researchers (3 reviewers for Career Accelerator Projects, 2 reviewers
otherwise).

Notes
Projects will be judged A to C (fundable, restricted fundable, and non-fundable). Not all A projects may
be funded due to funding limitations. In exceptional cases, B projects may be funded if in strategic
interest to the university. C projects will not be funded under any circumstances. The final funding
decision will be made by the JKU rectorate.

PIs and Co-PIs of C proposals may not submit a proposal for 1 year. Only a single project proposal
may be submitted per PI. A PI may have at most one funded project at any given time.

Any of these rules are subject to change!

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