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Expenses

This section lists the overall SENTINELS expenses as well as the expenses per year.

Overall expenses

Table 5.1(b) lists the overall expenses for SENTINELS. Projects are funded based on ``marginal'' costs, that is, costs without overhead, according to the Technology Foundation's procedure.

10% (1.3 M) of the budget is spent on knowledge exchange activities, such as a security ambassador (see section 3.4), on workshops, symposia, publications, communication activities, and web portals (safe-nl, http://www.sentinels.nl). Another 10% is spent on office costs and program management, and the remaining 80% (10.4 M) is spent on research.

Expenses per year

Table 5.2 lists the expenses for SENTINELS for each year (a more detailed time line is given in chapter 8). The program start is year 1. The program aims to fund at least six new projects in two portions for the coming eight years. The dotted boxes indicate that, e.g., for fundamental type research projects in round 1, 1.6 M is spent during the first four years.

To make this table, we have used the standard rates for personnel used by the Technology Foundation. They make a distinction between three different personnel categories: junior researchers (e.g. AIOs), researchers (e.g. dr) and senior researchers (e.g. ``UDs'', ``UHDs'', professors, ``settlement rates'' for industry personnel).

As discussed above, SENTINELS has different types of research projects: fundamental research, methods and tools research and prototype research. We aim for a division of 40%, 40% and 20% between these types (see section 7.1) (note that the values in table 5.2 are rounded). One of the differences is the category of personnel aimed for, see table 5.3.

Table 5.3: For each project, SENTINELS aims for having a different fraction of category of personnel.

	fraction personnel category
	jr. researcher	researcher	sr. researcher
fundamental projects	1.0	0	0
method and tools projects	0.75	0.25	0
prototype projects	0.5	0.25	0.25

The different types of research projects, the division between these types and the category of personnel are all inspired on the successful IOP/STW PROGRESS research program (see section 2.12.2).

SENTINELS aims to reserve in each round approximately half of the budget available for projects which are large (that is, three or more researchers) and involve cooperation (that is, two or more universities collaborate). The other half can be used to finance small projects.

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