Copus Grants - Panel - Assessing Panel Applications






Assessing Grant Applications from Panel Members The following procedure was agreed at the Copus Grants Panel meeting of 23 January 2002: The application is considered as for other grant applications: all Panel members see the application and score it. Panel members are asked to supply their scores and written comments before the meeting. Scores and comments are not disclosed to a Panel member applicant. If the Panel member making an application is at the meeting, then their application is not discussed at the meeting. Instead, the Panel decides which of the applications they award at that meeting is the lowest priority to fund. After the meeting, the Chair decides whether the application from a Panel member is better than the application nominated as the lowest priority to fund, based on the scores and comments. If so, then the Panel member's application is funded, and the nominated application not. If the Panel member making the application is not at the meeting, then the application is considered as normal. Panel members receive notification of the outcome of their applications as per the other applicants.