How to confirm an offer: the expert's role in a call for proposals

1. If you are a suitable candidate for the role of expert in the call for proposals, you will receive a “Confirmation of offer task in SISTA. You will also receive a notification of this task by email or through the system notification 🔔 [1], depending on the preferences set in your notification settings (found under the Settings tab in the left menu).

2. First, make sure you are actually in an Expert profile. The name of your active profile is always displayed under your logged-in user’s name [2].

3. You can access the task via the ‘Tasks’ tab [3] and the ‘Solve’ button [4]; alternatively, you can go directly from the link in the notification [5], or the task link in the email.

4. When you click on the link or the ‘Solve’ button within the task under the ‘Tasks’ tab, the ‘Offer – the role of the Expert‘ menu will appear.

5. Please read the expert offer carefully.

6. Consider whether you would like to approve or reject the offer. Then click on the ‘Complete task’ button [6] to make your selection.

7. Once the task solution menu appears on the right, select one of the possible solutions and press the ‘Continue’ button to confirm.

⏰ The offer must be confirmed within 7 calendar days.

8. Czech residents and citizens are required to authenticate in the system using Citizen Identity to confirm the task. EU citizens and residents can use IIG – International Gateway. If you have not done so yet, please follow the instructions here. Once your identity has been verified, you will be able to complete the task.If you are not an EU citizen or resident, please contact us at experti@tacr.cz for alternative identity verification options.

9. If you reject the offer, the subsequent instructions will not apply to you. If you accept the offer, the process continues, and you should refer to the e-learning instructions. In either case, the system will send a thank you for your response.

10. If you do not have a framework agreement, the Head of Human Potential Development Department will make one available for you to accept it. Once this has been done, you will receive the task ‘Approval of draft contract’.
If you have already been offered a framework agreement and you are interested in collaborating, please confirm it. 
You can easily check the status of your agreements in the ‘Expert’ tab on the left menu under ‘Contracts’.

⚠️ In case you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at experti@tacr.cz.