Published on | 4 years ago
Last updated on | 2 months ago
ann.vanhauwaert@fwo.be
A pilot on right-to-react or rebuttal in the evaluation procedure of proposals, for certain calls in the Horizon Europe 2021-2022 work programme, has taken place in the second/third quarter in 2021. The experts reviewing the proposals had to take into account the input provided by the applicants during the evaluation process in the final Evaluation Summary Reports (ESR) (Implementation Strategy for Horizon Europe p. 10 and 12).
In general the evaluation process for proposals can be divided into four subsequent main steps:
1. Individual evaluation
2. Consensus group
3. Panel Review
4. Finalisation
The right-to-react follows directly after the individual evaluation executed by expert evaluators. The applicants get a limited amount of time to respond to the comments drafted by the experts during the individual evaluation phase. The aim is to provide more detailed feedback to the applicants in an early phase of the evaluation procedure.
So far four calls in the Horizon Europe work programme 2021-2022 were selected for this pilot:
Please note the right-to-react/rebuttal procedure is not applicable to other Horizon Europe calls for the moment. If this pilot will be expanded to other Horizon Europe calls is not yet clear. If this pilot will be extended to other calls, it is expected the information on the rebuttal procedure will be taken up in the relevant call topic page(s) on the Funding and Tender portal, under ‘topic updates’ or ‘call updates’. It is expected the pilot will be evaluated.
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