Weave was developed by European funders to support excellent research projects. It simplifies the submission of joint applications by centralising evaluation at a single agency.
How does Weave work?
- Weave follows the bottom-up principle and is embedded in an existing funding scheme of the participating agencies. The rules of the relevant funding scheme apply, there are no additional conditions.
- With Weave, researchers from two to three European countries or regions can submit a collaborative project proposal to a funding organisation. Each applicant must be eligible for funding at one of the national organisations involved.
- Weave is based on the principle set out in the Lead Agency agreement. The Lead Agency receives the application and evaluates the project - based on the rules of the funding scheme in which Weave is embedded. After completing the evaluation, the Lead Agency forwards the decision to its partner organisation(s) for endorsement and definition of the grant amount.
- The researchers appoint one person as the main applicant, whose role includes submitting the joint application to the funding agency of his/her country. For administrative reasons, the co-applicants also need to make parallel submissions to the national funders of their countries.
How are Weave projects financed?
- At the SNSF, Weave is not a separate funding scheme; rather it is integrated into the project funding scheme.
- The national funding agencies involved finance the sub-projects conducted in their country.
- The Weave projects are compared directly with the other projects submitted in the same funding scheme. The funding agencies' aim is to support applications that are among the top 20% submitted in the relevant evaluation round.
Participating countries
Up until now, 10 European countries or regions have signed the Weave agreement.
The Weave tool shows the possible project combinations and the upcoming submission deadlines.
Weave tool
Trilateral projects with France, Sao Paulo, South Africa and South Tyrol (Lead Agency process) are not possible.
Detailed country information:
Before submission
- For administrative reasons, Weave applications need to be submitted simultaneously to all the funders involved.
- The applicants need to meet the participation requirements and eligibility criteria defined by their funder.
- The research plan must conform with the guidelines issued by the Lead Agency; it can be submitted unchanged to the partner organisations.
- All other data and information must be in line with the guidelines of the funding agencies involved.
- Costs are calculated on the basis of the relevant national guidelines.
SNSF as Lead Agency
- Weave applications can be submitted to the SNSF by the usual project funding deadlines, 1 April and 1 October. Applicants cannot simultaneously submit any further project funding applications.
- For administrative reasons, the applicants based abroad need to simultaneously submit to their respective funders the application to be evaluated by the SNSF as Lead Agency.
- Please enter the applicants based abroad as co-applicants.
- Enter the budget of the Swiss subproject in the data container "Requested funding". For the budget abroad, fill in the budget form and upload it to the data container "Lead Agency and other agreements".
- CVs and lists containing the research outputs of all persons registered as applicants must be submitted according to SNSF guidelines.
- A data management plan (DMP) needs to be submitted in accordance with SNSF guidelines. The DMP is entered directly in mySNF. It cites all research data that are expected to be generated or used during the project and needs to meet the SNSF guidelines on open research data.
Partner organisations as Lead Agency
- Weave applications can be submitted in the SNSF's project funding scheme at any time.
- For administrative reasons, the application needs to be submitted via the mySNF platform on the same day it is submitted to the partner abroad.
- Please enter the applicants based abroad as co-applicants.
- Enter the budget of the Swiss subproject in the data container "Requested funding". For the budget abroad, fill in the budget form and upload it to the data container "Lead Agency and other agreements".
- The CVs and research output lists of the Swiss applicants need to meet SNSF guidelines; it is not necessary to submit the CVs and research outputs of the applicants abroad.
- If the project is approved, the applicants will have to submit the data management plan (DMP) via mySNF. This needs to be done irrespective of whether submission of a DMP is required by the partner organisation. The DMP should incorporate all research data that are expected to be generated or used during the project and must meet the SNSF guidelines on open research data.
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18.12.2020
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