PLEASE NOTE - The deadline for PO submission has been extended till the 26th March 2012. 

ACQUEAU is pleased to announce the opening of our 5th Call for project proposals based around three themes:

CALL THEME 5A- Water & ICT Innovations for Sensing & Monitoring Applications in the Water Cycle

CALL THEME 5B – Sustainable  Processes for Disinfection & Oxidation

CALL THEME 5C – Open Call within the context of the ACQUEAU Blue Book

If you are unfamiliar with our Call process, you can visit our guidance page for more details.

We are now in the Project Outline (PO) stage of the Call.  This page will outline to documents you will require, the process you will need to follow and any other additional tools or information you require to submit a project outline for Call 5. 

Important Documents:

1. PO Template for Call 5

2. General ACQUEAU Label Conditions

3. Call 5 Guidelines

4. Call 5 Theme Descriptions

4. ACQUEAU Process

5. Model of Consortium Agreement (required at FPP stage)

6. Letter of Intent (required at PO stage)

How to submit your Project Outline:

NEW EXTENDED Deadline for submission: Monday 26th March 2012 - CLOSURE at 4pm Central European Time**

**Please note that this deadline is subject to review for extension following the Brokerage event. 

It is important to note that, if you wish to submit a proposal, you should get in touch with your National Project Coordinator as soon as possible regarding your project outline.

To submit your Project Outline (PO) you must use our online submission.  

Access the online submission form by clicking here: Call 5 Online submission

This tool allows you to enter specific information on line and to attach your PO and associated documents (see the Important Documents links above) to the online submission. 

Once submitted you can revisit and update your document as often as you like, up to the deadline:

After clicking the SUBMIT button a confirmation of the submission will be shown. In addition you will receive an e-mail that includes a direct link to your submission form. This form can always be opened again, modified, and re-submitted. New versions of the PO files can be uploaded again until the submission deadline.

ATTENTION: Please make sure that the submitter's e-mail address is correctly entered in the online form. Otherwise, you cannot access your uploaded files anymore! The data within the PO and the submitted online form must be consistent:  Inconsistencies between online data and PO form can endanger the success of your proposal!

IMPORTANT: The completed PO must be uploaded as a Word document. If the PO form is converted to PDF it must be accompanied by the original WORD doc (or RTF) file to allow us to better process the project data.  Please note that at PO stage you must also send us a letter of intent for each participant.  This should be zipped together with the PO document.

To see some tips on how to prepare a strong ACQUEAU project outline, please click here.

Please contact the ACQUEAU office (information@acqueau.eu) if you experience any problems with online submission.

Next steps

     Follow up brokerage event                                            24 Jan 2012

     Call Opens                                                                       27 Jan 2012

     PO Deadline                                                                    27 Feb 2012*

     PO assessments available                                          27 Mar 2012

     FPP Opens                                                                       2 Apr 2012

     FPP Closes                                                                      21 May 2012

     Label notification                                                             25 Jun 2012