The Scientific Committee of this call for proposals will evaluate them based on relevance, innovation, scalability, replicability, quality of the methodology, and ability of the team to carry out the research project. The Scientific Committee is made up of specialists on these issues from the IDB Group and by Marcus A. Winters (Boston University) and Beatrix Eugster (University of St. Gallen), external academic advisors. The decisions of the Scientific Committee will be final and unappealable.

The selected teams must be willing to receive and respond to comments from the advisors of the call for proposals and from IDB Group specialists throughout execution of the study, as well as to participate in discussion seminars held during the consultancy period.

The decisions of the Scientific Committee will be final and unappealable. Find out more details by downloading the brochure of this call.