Submitting your Proposal
When your proposal is ready to submit, use the “Submit proposal” link near the top of the proposal page to start the process.
A basic validation will be performed to check for missing sections of the proposal. This can produce two kinds of messages:
- Errors
- These prevent the submission of the proposal.
- Warnings
- You may submit the proposal if it has only warnings but no errors.
After any error or warning message there will normally be a link to help you address the problem. In some cases you may not be able to resolve all of the warnings, for example if the targets are unknown for a target of opportunity project.
If there are no errors, you will be able to submit your proposal.
Note that the lack of errors and warnings should not be taken as an indication that everything is in order. You should still check that the proposal is complete and that you have included any information requested in the call for proposals or in the notes on the technical and scientific justification editing pages.
When a proposal is submitted, the members of the proposal will receive a notification by email. The email will go to each member’s primary email address but that address will only be shown in the “To” header of the email if it is marked as public. If the person’s email address is private (which is the default setting) then they will receive the email by BCC rather than appearing in the “To” header.
After submitting your proposal you will still be able to edit it up until the closing date of the call for proposals. If you do make changes after submission, you do not have to resubmit your proposal. Instead any changes you make after submitting are automatically included. However, please note that other members of the proposal will not be automatically notified about these changes. If you wish to perform another validation while the proposal is in the “Submitted” state, use the “Validate proposal” link near the top of the proposal page.
Finally, should you wish to withdraw a submitted proposal, use the “Withdraw proposal” link near the top of the proposal page. As mentioned above, however, withdrawing is not necessary if you would like to continue editing the proposal. In particular it is recommended that you do not withdraw close to the closing date with the intention of re-submitting in case something goes wrong at the last minute and you aren’t able to do so.
When you withdraw a proposal, an email will be sent to all members of the proposal to inform them of the change.
