European Commission has prepared a Practical Advice for Proposal Submission and Negotiation for third country participants. The short guideline is based on a practical analysis of 7FP call outcomes. Please find this guideline on CORDIS web-site: ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/guideline-third-country-participants_en.pdf

For more information, please see attached file – “Guideline for third country participants”.

The document covers the main problems, such as:

What are Third Country Participants in this context?
1) International Cooperation Partner Countries
А complete list of ICPCs - ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/icpc-list.pdf.
2) High-income countries:
3) General advice relating to both ICPC and high-income country participants:
a. When are third country participants mandatory as consortium members?
b. Registration via the Unique Registration Facility (URF)
c. Which legal status and financial capacity are required to participate?
d. What are the consequences of withdrawal of a third country participant during the negotiations?
е. Can the signature of the grant agreement be replaced by a consortium agreement?
f. What are the consequences of late document submission by third country
participants?
g. Which are the languages that can be used by the third country participants in their
documents?

Guideline for third country participants