Describe the objectives, hypotheses, approaches and background of the research proposed by the team, as well as the detailed research plan. This section should be organised like a scientific manuscript with a section of text (maximum 30 000 characters including spaces and punctuation, but excluding references, Arial 10 point text, 1.5 line spacing) followed by a list of references (this can be single spaced) and up to two pages of data (figures, tables). You may choose to insert the figures within the text. Do not use high-resolution figures. Inclusion of the figures and tables must not increase the final PDF file size by more than about 1 Mbyte. State the number of characters in the main text in the box at the top of the page – applications that exceed these limits will not be accepted. Appendices or other supplementary material will not be accepted.