Grant Call Verification Checklist

1. Identify the call

• ☐ Exact call title recorded
• ☐ Official call ID recorded, if available
• ☐ Specific official call URL recorded
• ☐ Generic programme page replaced by the current call page where possible
• ☐ Retrieval date and time recorded
• ☐ Source organisation identified

2. Confirm current status

• ☐ Official source describes the current edition
• ☐ Status is supported by current dates or explicit official status
• ☐ Deadline has not passed at review time
• ☐ Deadline includes time and timezone where published
• ☐ No conclusion relies only on a previous edition, search result or newsletter
• ☐ If status cannot be established, record UNKNOWN

3. Verify the money

• ☐ Call-specific budget recorded
• ☐ Currency recorded
• ☐ Budget unit is clear: total call, topic, project or applicant
• ☐ Maximum contribution and co-financing rules distinguished
• ☐ No amount inferred from a programme-wide envelope
• ☐ Missing amount remains UNKNOWN

4. Verify applicant and geography

• ☐ Eligible organisation types recorded
• ☐ Applicant and beneficiary roles distinguished
• ☐ Host-country conditions checked
• ☐ Current country-participation or association source checked where relevant
• ☐ Consortium requirements recorded
• ☐ Researcher nationality not treated as proof of institutional eligibility
• ☐ Funding eligibility not inferred from a generic country list
• ☐ Transitional conditions stated conditionally and dated

5. Verify topic and work required

• ☐ Official topic scope read
• ☐ Exclusions or minimum requirements recorded
• ☐ Technology/readiness-level conditions checked where relevant
• ☐ Required partners identified
• ☐ Required forms and annexes listed
• ☐ Evaluation or award criteria located
• ☐ Submission portal and procedure recorded

6. Assign evidence tier

• ☐ VERIFIED_CURRENT — current specific official call with field-level evidence
• ☐ PARTIAL — official lead exists but material current-call evidence is incomplete
• ☐ UNVERIFIED — stale, contradictory, third-party-only or insufficient evidence

Publication rule: VERIFIED_CURRENT may support a current public recommendation; PARTIAL is manual review only; UNVERIFIED is suppressed.

7. Decide the action

• ☐ GO to detailed assessment
• ☐ NO-GO
• ☐ MANUAL REVIEW

Reason: ________________________________
Unresolved question: ____________________
Next verification date: _________________

8. If AI was used

• ☐ AI received the original official source or a clearly identified extract
• ☐ Extracted facts checked against the source
• ☐ Citations/page references retained where relevant
• ☐ AI-generated assumptions removed
• ☐ No eligibility, deadline, budget or success claim relies on AI alone
• ☐ Human reviewer approved the final record

9. Publication and affiliate check

• ☐ Verification date is visible
• ☐ Interpretation separated from official fact
• ☐ Affiliate relationship disclosed near any relevant recommendation
• ☐ Tool recommendation includes limitations and alternatives
• ☐ Resource remains useful without purchasing a tool
• ☐ No personal identity or private prospect data appears