Proposal Evaluation Criteria

Each proposal will be evaluated against the criteria below. For each criteria scores will be assigned as follows:

Evaluation Scores

There will be no threshold or minimum score that must be achieved.

The evaluator shall respond to the following questions:

1.   Technical & Strategic relevance and adherence to the Celtic ‘Purple Book’ in terms of:

a) Technical contents (domains addressed)
The proposed theme must be related with one or several Celtic objectives. These objectives are described in the Purple Book from page 36 to 103. It should, in particular, be verified that the marked objectives and the degree of coverage correspond with the description.

 b) Contribution to the ‘Integrated Telecommunication Systems’ approach
It should be evaluated how much a proposal contributes to the integrated telecommunications systems approach. This approach is described in part 4 (pages 20/21) of The Purple Book.

 c) Contribution to the ‘Pan-European laboratory’
 The reviewer should investigate how much a proposal contributes to the realisation of the idea of a pan-European Laboratory. The idea of the laboratory is described in the Purple Book in section 2.5.2.4 (p.48), section 3.7 (p.58), and section 10.5 (p.103).

2. Relevance and competitive positioning with respect to the market

Does the proposal provide any aspects, concepts or approaches that could generate competitive new business?

3. Expected impact with respect to the markets needs

Does the proposal provide any convincing innovation that could be considered as an answer to possible market needs?

4. Potentials for exploitation of the results

Is there any concrete potential that the ideas of the proposal could be exploited later?

5. Feasibility, with reference to the proposed planning

Will there be any visible results within the proposed schedule? Is the proposed project plan feasible with respect of timing, resource needs, and involved budget?

6. Quality of the proposed consortium

Are the proposed partners experienced and competent enough to carry out the intended project plan? Are partners missing that should be considered? Is the consortium well composed and well balanced?

7. Value for money

Are the planned costs and effort acceptable in relation to the intended results and the expected impact?

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