Best practices and recommendations for effective and cost ‐ efficient call management in bioeconomy related ERA ‐ NETs : Deliverable 3.1 Recommendations call management

A dedicated event on call management organised by the FP7 project Platform of Knowledge Based Bio ‐ Economy relevant ERA ‐ NETs (PLATFORM) brought together ERA ‐ NET call officers, most of them with 2 ‐ 8 years of experience in (transnational) call management. Prior to the event a survey among bioeconomy relevant ERA ‐ NETs had been conducted to get a picture of the differences and similarities in the way the ERA ‐ NETs work, and help to identify areas to discuss. In this master class, organised by the WP3 of PLATFORM on June 17 ‐ 18, 2013 in Brussels, practices for different aspects of the call cycle were presented and the factors required for proper call management were discussed. This expert ‐ driven process resulted in a high level of agreement and a set of recommendations for call organisation, proposal evaluation and ranking, project selection and funding, and monitoring. This document is the summary report of the topics selected by the PLATFORM partners as the most relevant for mutual learning and of the discussions of these topics in the master class.