Obligatory scheme
(APPLIED Research and development)

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Project number: APVV–0000–11	Principal investigator:      	
Project title: 
     	
Applicant organisation: 
     	
Statutory representative(s): 
     	

I, the undersigned statutory representative of the applicant organisation, hereby declare on my honour that the subject-matter of the project submitted in a printed form is identical to that submitted electronically through the APVV system.

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1.	Timeliness of the project and the level of application of the research results and implementation procedures
•	Specify the timeliness of the project aims and objectives with regard to the application field of science and technology on an international scale;
•	Specify the timeliness of the suggested procedures and the application level of the expected results;
•	Specify the project aims and objectives and the feasibility of your aims and objectives;
•	Describe the suggested methodology for the project implementation, justify it and specify its ability to meet the set aims and objectives.

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2.	Original and innovative character of the project, the importance of the project’s results for the given field of research and the utilisation rate
•	Specify the originality of the project;
•	Specify to what extent the project is innovative (new products, improved products, utility material, new technologies, etc.);
•	Describe the manner and extent of the utilisation of the declared project’s results by the applicant/a user both in the Slovak Republic and abroad;
•	Specify economic benefits (enhancement of added value, resource savings, impact on unemployment rate, utilisation of domestic raw material, human resource development, environmental protection)

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3.	The structure of the project, the quality of preparation, the logical interconnection of the implementation procedures
•	Specify the timetable for the project implementation taking into account the logical interconnection of the implementation procedures and meeting of the declared aims and objectives;
•	Describe the adequacy and the implementation and research level of the project implementation methodology;
•	Specify the feasibility of achieving the set aims and objectives and the implementation outputs in the case of using the described procedures.

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4.	Professional qualifications of the principal investigator (in the context of the data specified in the Application, Section VV-A4)
•	Specify no more than 5 the most important outputs of the applied research the principal investigator over the last 5 years; indicate their importance at both the national and international levels
•	Specify 3 the most important projects implemented by the principal investigator over the last 5 years as follows: the project title, the grants scheme, the implementation period, the project budget, the position of the principal investigator in the project (the main researcher/researcher), explain the importance of the project outputs in both national and international context
•	Describe the personality of the principal investigator operating in the respective field of the applied research or experimental development and the implementation of research results;
•	Specify the level of recognition of the principal investigator in the application field of research (at the international, European and national levels).

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5.	Professional qualifications of the research team 
•	Describe the competence of the participating research and implementing organisations with regard to the submitted project;
•	Describe the competence of individual researchers with regard to the project submitted (excluding the principal investigator);
•	Describe the manner of co-operation of researchers and their potential contribution to the successful project implementation;
•	Describe instruments, equipment and personnel infrastructure of the workplaces participating in the project implementation;
•	Specify the level of engagement of young researchers from the field of research and development up to 35 years old including postgraduate students in the project implementation.

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