Is ranking of proposals affected based on which partner is being linked to at the relevance review stage?
Proposals (specifically letters of intent) are not ranked during relevance review. Relevance review is a process undertaken prior to peer review of the letter of intent in order to determine alignment between the submitted anonymized project title, summary and relevance form and the objectives and eligible research priority areas listed in the “Objectives” section of the Funding Opportunity. If the anonymized project title, summary and relevance form are deemed to be not relevant the application will be withdrawn from the competition. If the proposal is ranked relevant at the relevance review stage the associated letter of intent will be sent to peer review for grading. Partners will be considered during peer review.
