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The European Commission's Evaluation Service (referred to here as the 'Evaluation Tool') is designed to help Proposal Evaluators (Experts) with the online process for remote evaluations organised by the European Commission in the scope of specific Calls for Proposals ('Calls'). As a registered Expert with the European Commission's Research and Innovation Funding & Tenders Portal and therefore a potential Proposal Evaluator, you can use these pages to get an overview of the Evaluation Tool functions. These pages describe in detail how a Proposal Evaluator (an Expert) can benefit from the use of the Evaluation Tool. They also provide reference information about the available screens and forms, additional actions available to Call Coordinators, and more. Consult the table of contents above: Once a Proposal Coordinator has submitted a proposal, the Commission checks if it is: and then asks independent experts to evaluate it. In the evaluation process, proposals are given scores for excellence, impact, and quality and efficiency of implementation – based on the Standard Evaluation Criteria . The Evaluation Tool is designed to enable proposal evaluators to provide an electronic Individual Evaluation Report (IER) for a Proposal. Later on, one of the evaluating experts will become a Rapporteur. As a Rapporteur, you will be assigned a task to produce the Consensus Report (CR) - a synthesis/consensus of your own evaluation and the evaluations of other assigned experts. The process of completing and submitting a Consensus Report for a proposal involves the following steps: As an expert proposal evaluator, you will be using three user interaction screens of the Evaluation Tool: Under those tabs you will find a task for each report, links to the proposals and buttons for specific actions. These screens enable you to easily access the list of tasks, the content of the proposals, and the actual Report Forms. Overview
Scope & Structure
Evaluation of Proposals: Process Overview
Note: Please also check the additional documentation usually received by Call Coordinators for each call.
A panel then checks that the evaluation criteria have been consistently applied to all proposals for the same call.
Proposal coordinators are informed of how their proposal did in the evaluation. A positive result does not constitute a confirmed offer of a grant.
Following the evaluation round, grant negotiations are opened for the highest-scoring proposals.The Evaluation Tool: Main Principles
Throughout this document, "Evaluation Report" refers to an Individual Evaluation Report (IER) and/or a Consensus Report (CR).
The process of completing and submitting an Individual Evaluation Report for a proposal involves the following steps:Main Screens and Tasks
Tasks have a simple life cycle, but the actions you can perform within a task will vary depending on the status of a task. See the diagram below for a description of the general life cycle of a task:
Overview
The European Commission's Evaluation Service (referred to here as the 'Evaluation Tool') is designed to help Proposal Evaluators (Experts) with the online process for remote evaluations organised by the European Commission in the scope of specific Calls for Proposals ('Calls').
As a registered Expert with the European Commission's Research and Innovation Participant Portal and therefore a potential Proposal Evaluator, you can use these pages to get an overview of the Evaluation Tool functions.
Scope & Structure
These pages describe in detail how a Proposal Evaluator (an Expert) can benefit from the use of the Evaluation Tool. They also provide reference information about the available screens and forms, additional actions available to Call Coordinators, and more. Consult the table of contents above:
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