For academic applications the appendix should include:

• a 2-page CV of the primary Principal Investigator, which is required for all applications (a 2-page CV for co-Principal Investigator team is optional) and a statement of purpose.

• We additionally request a Google Scholar and DBLP profile. Our reviewers find it helpful to easily reference a Principal Investigator's publication history to see how the current proposal relates to past work of the Investigator. The Google Scholar profile complements the Principal Investigator's 2-page CV.

Provide a problem statement and discuss the motivation for carrying out the project.

Discuss in a more focused manner how your AI project will solve the problem stated above and how you plan to build upon the state of the art.

You should describe intellectual merit:

The Intellectual Merit criterion encompasses the potential to advance knowledge (Technical relevance for startups/NGOs, Scientific relevance for academic projects)

Describe how you plan to solve the problem, breaking the proposed solution into specific items, i.e., stages with well-defined goals, milestones, measures of success, deliverables, etc.

• Describe which impact and outcomes your project will have. For academic projects, you can discuss this in terms of human resources formation, development of any publicly available dataset, new capabilities, impact on larger projects, the advancement of state-of-the-art knowledge, etc.

• Please include milestones with timeline estimates, such as for datasets, code releases, technical reports, publications, applications, presentations, etc.

• Broader Impacts: The Broader Impacts criterion encompasses the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes. Consider the following questions.

1. What is the potential for the proposed activity to benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes?

2. To what extent do the proposed activities suggest and explore creative, original or potentially transformative concepts?

3. Is the plan for carrying out the proposed activities well-reasoned, well-organized and based on sound rationale? Does the plan incorporate a mechanism to assess success?

4. How well qualified is the individual, team or institution to conduct the proposed activities

5. Are there adequate resources available to the principal investigator (either at the home institution or through collaborations) to carry out the proposed activities

6. How will the access to the computer resources provided by the consortium help you advance your research if your project is supported?

• Estimate of needed computing resources. If you have an estimate for the number of GPUs to be used and the required amount of time for running your experiments. Please, justify your choices. You can reference resources needed by relevant research articles.

• Software requirements. Please give a list of software requirements for your project: packages, versions, programming languages, etc.

Our goal is to support work where the output will be made available to the broader research community. To that end, we ask that you provide us with a few sentences sharing what you intend to do with the output of your project (e.g. open-sourcing code, making data sets public, who will maintain the public datasets, and for how long after the project is completed, etc.). Please note that there are no legal requirements once a project is selected This is simply a statement of your current intentions.

An unrestricted number of pages.

Suggested reviewers are not included in the proposal PDF format. There will be an open_review field to add them. Please include their names, title, affiliation, and emails. Make sure they do not have any relationship to you, nor a prior joint collaboration. These reviewers must have no conflicting interests in reviewing your proposal. Ideal reviewers can be people who are other leading experts in your field who are most likely to be impartial in the review process.

Project timeline related to the “methods & approach” and “expected results and impact” section.

Should include the following:

• 2 Page CV of the Principal Investigator

• 2 Page CV of the remaining team (i.e. co-PIs) (if applies)

You can follow the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) guidelines for preparing your 2 page CV.

a) Your professional preparation: undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral. Include the institution, major, degree and year.

b) Appointments:

List in reverse chronological order of your more recent academic and professional appointments. Include your current appointment

c) Publications: List up to five publications, patents, copyrights, or software systems relevant to the current proposal.

d) Synergistic Activities:

List up to five examples of your professional and scholarly work that demonstrate your participation in and commitment to the broader impact goals of the call. It can be event and challenges organization, part of conferences, technical program committee or editorial boards, and any other pro bono activities, etc.

e) Current supervised students or description of the team lead by the PI for startups/NGOs

f) Collaborators and other affiliations; Conflicts of Interest (COI):

This section has three parts:

1) collaborators and co-editors;

2) your graduate and post-graduate advisors and

3) the current and former students who you advised as graduate or postgraduate students.

A completed and signed copy of the Authenticity and Permissions form: Authenticity Form

In this form, you represent and warrant that your proposal

(a) is either your original work or an update to the original work;

(b) does not, to your knowledge, infringe any third party patent rights; and

(c) does not infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any other third party intellectual property rights (i.e. other than patent rights), including any copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, contract or licensing rights, rights of publicity or privacy, or moral rights.

(d)  Include a self-declaration about permissions when dealing with certain datasets?