Intellectual Merit Focus

Intellectual Merit:

i. How good and important is the idea? Dialect differences between original field work was 

ii. Advance knowledge and understanding in own field and across fields?

iii. Creative and original?

iv. Significant?

v. How likely is project to succeed?

vi. Qualification of proposers to conduct project?

vii. How well-conceived and well-organized is the proposed activity?

viii. Access to sufficient resources?



This section should describe:
i.the scientific significance of the work:
 ii. relationship including its relationship to other current research, and the design of the project in sufficient detail
         to permit evaluation.

 iii. It should also present and interpret progress to date if the research is already underway.