Israel: MOST

Avi Raveh, Ph.D.

AviR@most.gov.il

Office: +972 (2) 5411136

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Eligible TRL range: 2-4

ELIGIBILITY:

Proposals must meet the following preconditions. Proposals not meeting the preconditions will be automatically rejected and will not be passed on for review and evaluation.

1. Principal Investigators (PI) and co- PI must be affiliated with an academic institution or a research institute ("Affiliated Institution"), or be a professor emeritus who continues working on research in affiliation with the Affiliated Institution. An Affiliated Institution is determined in Israel as follows:

An accredited Institution of Higher Education, according to the Council for Higher Education Law, 5718-1958; or a Research Institute which is a nonprofit organization, a government company or a governmental unit. For the purposes of this Call, a "Research Institute" in Israel is a research institute whose main activity is the advancement of cutting-edge scientific knowledge, which possesses appropriate infrastructure and equipment, which employs researchers who, inter alia, publish articles related to their research in leading scientific journals, and who present their research at international symposia.

1. The PI will meet the requirements for Principle Investigators outlined in the MOST Procedures Regarding Scientific Projects Funded by MOST.
2. In compliance with MOST's Procedures Regarding Scientific Projects Funded by MOST ("MOST Regulations"), an Israeli PI that has or will have an active grant from any of MOST's international cooperation programs, whose funding will be concurrent to the funding of this program, is not eligible to apply. No parallel funding is allowed in the international cooperation program. A researcher who is not eligible to submit a proposal as PI due to an active grant may submit one additional proposal in the international cooperation program as co-PI, if he does not have an active grant in the international program in which he acts as co-PI.
3. A researcher having submitted a proposal for any MOST international cooperation call during the current calendar year, may not submit another proposal for any other MOST international cooperation call.
4. Sabbatical Leave: Israeli researchers who intend a sabbatical leave in the first year of the project cannot be approved as a PI of the research proposal.
5. Proposals must be for research projects in one of the areas and its subtopics as detailed in the Call.
6. Proposals must meet a Technology Readiness Level TRL2-4. Please note, regardless of the terms of the acceptable TRL determined regarding each of the topics and sub topics listed in the Call, proposals submitted to MOST will NOT be passed on for review and evaluation if the TRL of the proposal is outside of the scope of TRL 2-4.

Please see full funding provisions on MOST Procedures Regarding Scientific Projects Funded by MOST ("MOST Regulations"). All activities and funding pursuant to this Call must be in accordance with MOST Regulations unless otherwise specified.

In accordance with the terms of the “standard MOST Procedures Regarding Scientific Projects Funded by MOST” and the “MOST Standard Contract for Scientific Projects”. Within three months of the conclusion of the project, Israeli PIs must submit a final report in English to MOST at Reports@most.gov.il. It should include a final scientific and financial report covering the work and cooperation carried out during the entire project period, in accordance with the contract's requirements.