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Being a peer reviewer for EU-Horizon 2020 Anja Declercq How do you become a reviewer? You can register as an expert in the participant portal Why did I register? Gaining knowledge about the review process for EU-proposals Becoming


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Being a peer reviewer for EU-Horizon 2020

Anja Declercq

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  • You can register as an expert in the participant portal

How do you become a reviewer?

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  • Gaining knowledge about the review

process for EU-proposals

  • Becoming better at writing a good

proposal

Why did I register?

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  • I was invited to review 19 first stage proposals for a two-

stage call

  • I received a login
  • Can see the proposals in an online portal
  • Get a quite extensive manual on how to score and also

about confidentiality

  • There is a helpdesk for questions – reacts very fast

Well organised!

Then

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  • 5 reviewers per proposal
  • Median score (not average) was taken into account
  • Outliers can be omitted
  • In some instances, there is a process of concertation

between reviewers, in Brussels.

  • This was not the case here, I do not know who the other

reviewers were, nor what the end scores were.

Process

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  • 2 x 5 questions: questions were based upon/clearly

linked with call (in this case: 5 on innovative characteristics of the research and 5 on valorisation)

  • Have to score AND give a clear motivation for the score
  • This is checked: for two items in two different reviews, I

was asked to expand on my motivation.

  • So: not something you do in between other tasks, need

to spend sufficient time

  • Is compensated financially (fixed amount per review)

How to review

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Would I do it again?

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