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The projects are received continuously by the Coordination and Organisation Group
and studied by the Steering Committee each trimester.
The next meeting of the Steering Committee is on .
They will examine all proposals submitted to the Coordination and Organisation group before .
How to submit a project?
Project proposals should be addressed to the Organisation and Administration Group:
- by email, in an attached Word or pdf file, to the following address:
ritmer@ifremer.fr
- by mail, to the following address:
IFREMER
Centre de Brest
Mme Edith UGUEN (Secrétariat RITMER)
TMSI/RT
B.P. 70
29280 PLOUZANE
FRANCE
Project proposals must use the standard form (link at bottom of this page). The project must associate one or several potential end-users of the research in
the field of pollution prevention (industrial, professional, other persons responsible under the circumstances, …) and
one or more government laboratories. The participation of SME/SMI as a coordinator and/or commercial partner
of the project is a priority for the research and technological innovation groups. The projects must
address key technological problems for the treatment of accidental marine pollution. The
objectives of econonomic and industrial promotion must be clearly demonstrated.
The procedure is the following:
- for each project, a single coordinator is designated by the partners;
- the documentation submitted contains all the necessary elements to evaluate scientifically, technologically, and economically the project.
The Coordination and Organisation group ensures the link between the Steering committee and the ministries. The persons submitting the projects
could be contacted by the Coordination and Organisation group to clarify certain elements of the documentation. Incomplete proposals (thus
non compliant with the format) will not be submitted to the Steering committee for certification.
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Certification
The files addressed to the Coordination and Organisation group (a receipt notice will be addressed to the coordinator) will be submitted
to 2 (minimum) referees. The criteria they will use are defined precisely by the Steering committee.
Pay particular attention to the following points:
- relevance of the project with respect to economic need and priority themes of RITMER;
- innovative nature of the project with respect to the state-of-the-art and patentable ideas;
- economic, industrial, and scientific benefits (patents, innovations, normalisations, publications, market research studies,
impact on employment, creation of business enterprise(s));
- quality, tie-ins, and openess of the partners;
- rigor of the definition of the intermediate and final results (clarity and relevance of the risk analysis,
?notion d'obligation de résultats);
- clear, well-written set of submitted documents.
The Steering committee will announce the results of the certification process, based on the advice of the referees.
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Commercial rights
The projects are not limited to ?la recherche pré-compétitive, it is essential to
predict from the beginning, the division and sharing of intellectual and commerical property rights. It is advisable
to make a formal agreement between the partners about rights-sharing.
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Confidentiality
The members of the Steering Committee and the Coordination and Organisation Group, as well as the proposal referees,
are bound by a confidentiality agreement with regard to the third party. However, the candidates cannot request confidentiality
for their proposal with regard to the members of the Steering Committee, the Coordination and Organisation Group, or the referees.
Confidentiality clauses at the completion of certified projects and for their results can be requested.
They will be managed by the financing adminstrations.
A communication on the RITMER web site will be made for the certified and financed projects in agreement
with the coordinator.
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Follow-up of projects
Each project having received the approval of RITMER and financing will be followed-up on regularly by the adminstration
concerned and the RITMER association.
A document destined to be widely distributed (Web) will be prepared by the project partners in order to make known
to the largest possible number of people, the results of the work, and it will respect all required confidentialities.
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Proposal Forms
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