Dear Franco,

I can confirm that those documents will not be shared with anyone else. Thank you for your understanding.

 

Best wishes

Kremlin

 

 

 

 

Thank you, Kremlin. I understand. Please, make sure all the documents we have shared remain strictly confidential and are not shared with anyone. Thank you for your efforts. Franco

 

 

Dear Franco,

Thank  you for this updated proposal. I am sorry, I have received the final decision that we cannot join your proposal.

This is purely down to the lack of WHO internal capacity for clearance process.

 

Yesterday we started to input this to our memo system. Our colleagues have checked the availability of different colleagues for the different levels of clearance and due to Easter holidays / AL and limited staff they cannot align the process to meet this deadline.

 

We are really sorry for making you do all these changes and for not being able to join.

 

For future Horizon applications, lets aim to have a good outline of the proposal with following points highlighted at least 4 weeks in advance and the final list of consortium partners. I am sure then we will be able to get timely clearance and join you.

 

All the best with this one. Please keep us posted and we look forward to hearing more about the project if it is funded.

 

Best wishes

Kremlin

 

 

 

Dear Kremlin,

 

Please, find attached a revised document in which I have included in track changes mode (to make them more visible) the elements that have been requested. In particular:

 

1. I have added WHO in the list of project partners in the first page of the proposal.
2. I have listed WHO as task leader or co-leader in the following tasks: 4.1, 5.1, 7.4, 8.3, 9.3, 9.4, in each task description I have added brief sentences on the specific WHO contributions
3. I have provided a comprehensive description of the role of WHO and why it is essential to the project in the section “Consortium as a whole” at the end of the document, and I have specified the task leadership/co-leadership roles in the table in the same section.
4. Some part of the methodology section are not yet finalised, and the role of the WHO will be further emphasised there, but I am not able to share that text now. It will be in line with what I have included in the document so far.

 

Please, let me know if you would like me to make any further changes before yu submit it for clearance.

 

Franco

 

 

 

To receive funds

 

Section 3.1 describes all work packages, their lead partners, and contributing consortium partners, but WHO is not listed there either (unless I have missed something).

 

In response to your question on whether WHO must lead a WP to be a partner: no, this is not mandatory (however this is the case in vast majority of our submissions), but WHO must have an essential role clearly described in the proposal.

 

WHO’s role will be when the interventions are being developed, we will identify a set of interventions first, based on literature and latest evidence. WHO will be a key partner in this process. 

Then we will invite our NCD risk factor Member State focal points from these countries for a consultation. Then based on their experience, local factors, context, they will help us to prioritize and develop the final set of interventions which are more applicable to countries. 

WHO will facilitate the process of development of final set of interventions. 

During the implementation phase, since we are going to have a full-time consultant, we will collect regular updates about implementation of interventions ,including barriers faced and level of interventions. 

This will help the project and also WHO to learn despite what we develop as evidence based and feasible package of interventions , what the real life barriers we face during implementation. 

 

Then we will support dissemination at the end, with all EU countries, based on the findings of the project.