Selection of experts. SIC will seek to achieve diversity among the experts (gender, age, etc.). Priority will be given to the relevant skills, knowledge and experience in the areas of their selected fields. There are two types of experts to be hired: 1) experts for selection committees and 2) international evaluators for scientific evaluation and as members of the Interview Panel. Both will sign an expert contract with an honorarium of EUR 500 per person per day. Evaluators for scientific evaluation of proposals: SIC will create an ample database of around 200 evaluators to efficiently manage the submitted applications. Common templates for evaluator profiles will be used in order to obtain a unified database. The evaluators’ personal data will be protected. SIC will look for national and international evaluators in different ways: ● Open call for both national and international evaluators in research disciplines related to Biotechnologies/Biomedicine, Laser technologies, Space technologies, Sustainable energy/materials and Digitalisation/AI. The call will be published in month 2 of the project and will be open for 3 months. The call will be published on the MERIT website and other international websites (from Table 1) and disseminated by: ○ asking XXX to send the information about the call to the evaluators from the MSCA expert list; ○ contacting the Czech NCP to share the call within the NCP network and on the national Horizon Europe portal; ○ using mailing lists and contacts from 51 Implementing/Associated partners, especially through their networks of partners for international cooperation (universities and research organisations) ○ using international contacts of SIC and the Central Bohemia Region, especially through the signed memorandums of understanding and previous international activities, such as Twinning (at least 15 international co-operations); and ○ contacting national grant agencies or other providers of grants in R&D&I (Grant Agency of the CR, Technology Agency of the CR, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Industry and Trade, CzechInvest, etc.) ● Using existing databases: ○ List of contracted experts within H2020 2014-2020/Excellent science publicly available on European Funding and Tenders Portal. ○ Database created within the previously implemented COFUND programme in the Czech Republic (SOMOPRO) and other independent expert databases of 15 Implementing partners. ○ To complete the pool with evaluators coming from the business sector, SIC will use the national...
