For those of you who consider to submit a proposal, here is a checklist for crucial issues to ensure that your proposals can be considered for evaluation and be fully evaluated.

The checklist can be downloaded from the following website or for your convenience found below:

Check list for Applicants for Health Theme calls

If you are preparing a proposal for the Health Theme, please pay attention to these issues to ensure that your proposal can be considered for evaluation and evaluated fully.

       TO ENSURE THE ELIGIBILITY OF YOUR PROPOSAL:

1. Identify the topic (and the funding scheme) and ensure your proposal is in scope.
   
2. Respect the limits for the requested EU contribution to the budget (see Work programme, part III). If in doubt contact your National Contact Point or the European Commission services.
   
3. On the A Forms – every field needs to be filled.
   
4. Make sure you have the minimum number of partners which is 3 (from different organisations in different Member States or Associated Countries), except for SICA topics (see specific rules) and for Support Actions (only one partner needed).
   
5. Check the "proposal submission status". The "proposal upload" or saving the forms does not constitute as submission. Ensure that you press the “Submit proposal” or “Submit Now” buttons as well as the buttons that follow in the subsequent screens in order to have your proposal submitted. You can submit as many times as you want before the deadline. Only the latest version will be considered for evaluation.
   
6. Respect the deadlines and remember that they are based on Brussels time.
   
7. Don't submit in the last minute. In the last call, 60% of proposals were submitted in the last 3 hours, including 15% in the last 10 minutes. Each year this leads to applicants missing the deadlines or submitting incorrect or incomplete proposals.
   
   TO ENSURE THAT YOUR PROPOSAL CAN BE EVALUATED FULLY:
   
8. Respect page number limitations. Excess pages will be ignored in the evaluation.
   
9. Respect the recommended font size. It helps if the evaluators can read the proposal.
   
10. Ethics: don't leave the ethics part to the last moment. Make sure there is time to follow the indications to fulfil the requirements for the ethics section. See Guide for Applicants (Annex 4, section 4) and ethics web page: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ethics_en.html . (the page limitation does NOT include additional pages required for the Ethics section.)
    
11. Don't indicate that a participant is an SME if this is not the case. This is misleading and in any case it will be detected, possibly leading to complications.
    
12. SMEs planning to coordinate a proposal should check the rules for "financial capacity"
    http://kappa.xtranet-isa.com/Admin/ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/rules-verif_en.pdf  and make a self-assessment
    through the on-line tool available (warning: download may be slow):
    http://kappa.xtranet-isa.com/Admin/ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/financial-viability-checktool-v3.xls