Selection procedure

Formal criteria: reviewed by the OeAD and MSRT

• Eligibility of the institutions
• Timely submission
• Sufficiency of the documents

Topical criteria: expert evaluation

• Each application will be evaluated by two independent experts according to the following criteria

• Concept and quality of the partnership (max. 30 points)
• contribution to and additional benefit for the university's internationalization (max. 25 points)
• measures for sustainability (max. 30 points)
• plausibility of the financial plans (max. 15 points)

The expert evaluation will be carried out bilaterally. One expert will be from Austria and one expert from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
 

Expert evaluation procedure

Following the formal evaluation, all formal valid proposals received in both countries will be submitted to recognized national experts in the various fields of research represented by the proposals.

An expert evaluation of each project will be carried out in Austria and in Iran at the same time.

To receive comparable results standardized evaluation sheets will be prepared and provided for the experts (see Annex II).

After all expert evaluations have been received the results will be summed up in a list which will be exchanged and used for the preparation of the joint selection committee.

In order to guarantee transparency throughout the decision process the evaluation criteria will be published in the call documents.

All experts have to declare that they do not have a conflict of interest at the time of their appointment.

Both authorities have to ensure that the anonymity of the experts involved is preserved throughout the whole decision making process and beyond.

The experts shall be given a sufficient time frame for their evaluation. Based on experience in Austria three months should be considered for the process of assigning experts and the evaluation itself.