NFRA management and staff will collaborate with the proposers to the latter end. When a fully prepared project plan is available, an initial project review will be carried out by a committee of experts. Following a positive outcome, NFRA's Board will consider committing to the project, taking into account all other calls on NFRA resources and any phasing requirements as may be necessary. Generally, one may expect it to take roughly a year to navigate this process, before one can actually start technical development work on a project. Researchers at Dutch universities are therefore invited at this time to submit initial proposals for consideration.
Proposals require no special application forms.