Assessment of synchronised funding from various sourced. The Berlin model

Three-step approach: 1. Potential project partners from different countries identify a joint project and define a draft proposal. 2. Subject to positive evaluation of the draft proposal by all national funding agencies (of the countries involved), project partners submit a full proposal to their national funding agencies, taking into account the alignment of different evaluation procedures in the different countries. 3. Provided a positive decision is made by the national funding agencies, the partners of the pilot project will ask the European Commission for additional support that can serve to incentivise collaboration and coordination between partners. In this respect, the European infrastructure package will be specifically considered (cf. section 2.1.1).