1. WP2. ARIMNet2 2nd call - 2016 ARIMNet2 Governing Board Meeting
27-28 October 2016, Rome, Italy
WP2. ARIMNet2 2nd call
Sanaa zebakh, , IAV Morocco
Fabrice Dentressangle, , ANR, France 1
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2. General information about proposals submission
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Some History : 3 calls
3 joint calls have been launched by the 14 ARIMNet-ARIMNet2 participating countries:
1st call in 2011 (ARIMNet). 3 Topics
Production system
Food chain
Landscape management
2nd call in (ARIMNet2). 3 Topics
Production system including aquaculture
Food chain / Agro-industry & Policies
3rd call 2016 (ARIMNet2). 2 Topics
Promoting sustainable agriculture for socio-economic development
Valorising local products through food value chains improvement
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History - Fund raising
2014/2015 FUNDING TABLE: 7 M€
2016 FUNDING TABLE: 5.8 M€
2011 FUNDING TABLE: 6.5 M€
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2nd Arimnet2 call
Schedule for call
Call publication: 1st April 2016
Call deadline: 1st June 2016
Participating :
- 14 countries: MA, TN, IL, FR, DZ, TR, SI, IT, SP, EG, PT, GR, MT, KR
- 15 Funding agencies
Total budget: 5.82 million euros
One-step submission
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Call Main Topics
Topic 1: “Promoting sustainable agriculture for socio-economic development”
Topic 2: “Valorising local products through food value chains improvement”
Expected Impact
Integrated approaches to address complex challenges linking technical and socio-economic issues;
Improved soil and water quality and agronomic practices with limited input use (e.g. pesticides, chemical fertilisers, energy and water);
Improved local products and farming systems best suited to Mediterranean conditions;
Diversification and increase of farmers' incomes through access to new markets;
Innovations along the whole food chain contributing to local development.
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7. Submitted proposals by topic
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8. Coordinated proposal/country submitted proposals
Total: 102 proposals
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9. Distribution of proposals according to the country submitted proposals
Total: 399 participants
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Number of partners involved in the consortium
48% proposals are led by consortium of 3-4 partners
Number o proposals
Number of partners
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11. Call SEC eligibility criteria
Involve researchers from a minimum of three countries among the funding partners
Maximum duration: 3 years.
Proposals in English, using ARIMNet2 Application Forms
PART A filled on-line and PART B uploaded correctly
Fit the formal requirements for proposal submission.
Be in line with the call’s scope and topics
13 proposals are not eligible
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12. Call SEC eligibility criteria
13 proposals are not eligible
Main reasons:
Min partners (3) not respected
Partners are not registered online (Part A not completed)
DOW not completed
No budget for the partners
Same proposal submitted twice (one draft and other completed 3 cases)
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13. Call SEC Eligibility Criteria
11 not approved by FA
+ National regulation criteria
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14. After CS and FA evaluation
Status
Number
Submitted
102
Not approved by call SEC 13
Not approved by call FA 11
Approved 78
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15. 1st SEC Meeting: Lisbon, 1-2 July 2016
Proposals attribution to 17 SEC (Scientific Evaluation Committee) experts…
… around proposals evaluated each as reader and rapporteur.
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16. External evaluation Number of contacted experts: 350 experts
Experts involved in the evaluation: 110 experts
Starting date of experts’ contracts: July 2016
1732 s exchanged between call SEC, SEC and external reviewers
Main difficulties: summer period; for some focused thematic, we could not find easily the relevant experts; very short time for expertise; technical problems experienced on the website; possible conflicts of interest

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2nd SEC Meeting: Paris, September 2016
Each proposal has been evaluated by 2 external evaluators + 2 SEC members (among them a reader and rapporteur)
Proposals has been classified according to the mean mark received from the evaluators
Specific discussion about the proposals with a large difference between expert’s marks
Some proposals need another evaluation; they have been attributed to additional SEC members during the meeting for additional opinion (10 proposals)
Proposals have been ranked as: A = excellent project (30), B = good project (20), C = not of sufficiently high quality but for further consideration (28).
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18. Number of projects by level of excellence
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19. Ranking of projects by topic
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20. Evaluation timing Action Date Time interval Call publication
1 April 2016
2 months
Call deadline
1 June 2016
SEC eligibility
3 June 2016
2 days
FA eligibility
15 June 2016 (delay for some FA)
13 days
Attribution of proposals to SEC members
8-20 June
1 week
1st SEC meeting in Lisbon (final attribution of proposals )
1-2 July 2016
Identification of external reviewers and contacts
12 July-August (external evaluation +SEC evaluation before 15 sept 2016)
1.5 months
2nd SEC meeting in Paris: (scientific ranking list)
Sept 2016
Validation of reports by the SEC chairman
2 months from 1st meeting
Presentation at AKIS conference
13-14 October 2016
s to non eligible proposals
20 October 2016
Call board meeting (selection of final list of funded projects)
27-28 October 2016
Announcement of results
November 2016
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21. Thank you for your attention, your questions
and your participation to this evaluation committee
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