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It is based on the “Administrative Agreement between the Federal and State Governments in Accordance with Article 91b Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law on the Funding of Top-Level Research at Universities – ‘Excellence Strategy’” dated 16 June 2016. The guidelines on the structure and content of the proposal conform to the documents published in September 2016 and April 2017 (Call for proposals, Funding Criteria, Guidelines) . These documents and other information are available on the web page of the Wissenschaftsrat (WR, German Council of Science and Humanities) .  \nThe proposal contains the overall strategic concept of the consortium (Part A – Text of the proposal), a funding plan (Part B), a data annex (Part C), a glossary and list of abbreviations (Part D) and the binding regulations of the consortium (Part E) . Information and data provided in the funding plan and the data annex should be contextualised and if necessary explained with comments in the text of the proposal. The use of diagrams and/or tables is permitted, as is the insertion of additional bullet points. Redundancy should be avoided by referring to relevant points in the text where appropriate.  \nThe Universities of Excellence funding line is fundamentally open to different types of overall strategies and forms of cooperation. The information provided in the proposal forms an essential part of the review process during the on-site visit and, together with the findings of the visit, a core part of the evaluation by the programme committees.  \nFormal requirements  \nAll proposals which meet the following requirements will be reviewed by international groups of experts:  \n􀂃 Timely submission of a letter of intent (21 February 2018) and compliance with the typeof proposal submission announced in the letter of intent (see Guidelines section VI. 1);  \n􀂃 Fulfilment of the formal funding requirements with respect to the required minimum number of Clusters of Excellence (see Guidelines sections II.3 and II. 2);  \n􀂃 Compliance with the requirements set out in this proposal template.  \nThe complete proposal (Parts A – E) must be prepared in English and German. The English version will be definitive as to content and page numbering. 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