In view of the continuously increasing demand for computing time and the related significant reductions in allocated resources under the current rules, the IT4Innovations Allocation Committee has decided to amend the Rules for Computing Time Allocation as follows:

  1. First, the largest requests for computing time will be evaluated by independent reviewers. Requests with the lowest computing time requirements, which cumulatively account for 10% of the total capacities requested by all applicants, will not be sent for review. They will only undergo a technical assessment and will receive the average score of the reviewed projects. The points obtained from the evaluation will be divided by the maximum possible score of 30 points (a maximum of 15 points from each reviewer, with two reviewers assigned to each project).

  2. Subsequently, the ratio between the number of publications registered in the IT4Innovations information system and the number of completed projects will be calculated. A three-year window will be considered for this calculation. If the number of publications per project exceeds one, the calculated ratio will always be reduced to one. Users without any history will receive the average value. In the case of multi-year projects, their individual 12-month stages will also be counted towards the total number of projects.

  3. The final score of each project will be calculated as the average of the values obtained in points 1 and 2, multiplied by the utilisation (use of computing capacities weighted according to the performance of individual resources and the size of their allocations) of the projects referred to in point 2.

  4. Projects will then be ranked in descending order according to their final score, and resources will be allocated in this order until the capacities allocated to the respective call are exhausted. The remaining projects will not be supported. Projects are assessed as a whole, even if they request multiple categories of resources. Therefore, a project may receive no support at all if there is a shortage of resources in even a single category.

Thanks to the new methodology, either all resources requested within a project are allocated without significant reductions to any of them, or the project as a whole is rejected. However, the Allocation Committee reserves the right to decide otherwise or to modify the evaluation methodology at its own discretion.