PNCDI-PD: LaTeX Template

Warning

This is an unofficial LaTeX template for the PD 2026 call. According to the grant officer, the only allowed way to submit the proposal is by converting the provided Word template to PDF (as instructed in the manual). While this template is pretty faithful to the original Word document and follows the same lines, it could easily be declared ineligible. Use it at your own peril! This template comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

This repository contains templates for the Postdoctoral Research Grants from UEFISCDI. The latest version targets the PD 2026 call and contains templates for the forms in the manual annexes. In particular, we have

1. Annex 3 A: Identification Information (this is provided for book keeping and should not be submitted).
2. Annex 3 B: Project Description (main document).
3. Annex 3.1: CV (need one for the Project Director and one for the Mentor).
4. Annex 5.1-5.8: Various forms and disclosures required for grant submission. These will likely be handled by your institution, but are provided here for completion (or if you prefer nicer looking ones).

Warning

These grant call may require additional documents. Read the official manual carefully before submitting.

Usage

The templates follow the guidelines given in the official grant manual as closely as possible. To use them, we recommend to:

1. Copy all the LaTeX files and the pncdi-pd.cls file to some desired location.
2. Remove all the -template suffixes (potentially add name or project acronym instead).
3. Start filling in the documents with a close eye on the official requirements!
4. Once the documents are filled in, remember to remove the draftproposal option.

Forms

The forms (i.e. the pncdi-pd-annex-5X-template.tex files) require minimal changes. In particular:

1. In the documentclass, change masculine to your preferred gender. Once the form is filled out, also remove the draftproposal option (this will remove all the italic comments in the forms).
2. Fill in the \placeholder commands with your information.
3. Adding signatures probably requires printing or using some fancier electronic signature. Consult the official manual and instructions for this part.

The gender should be chosen appropriately for each document and form (the forms are meant for the project director, mentor, and institution representative and could have different genders!). This is mostly meant to avoid writings like Subsemnatul/Subsemnata and instead uses a command

\gendered{Subsemnatul}{Subsemnata}

that dynamically changes based on the class option.

Project Description

The main project description can be found in pncdi-pd-annex-3-b-template.tex. This has some main sections, but is generally very field dependent, so it is up to the project director to include all the required information. We merely try to help with the typography of it all!

The CV should be filled in through the pncdi-pd-annex-31-cv-template.tex document.

The pncdi-pd-annex-3-a-template.tex contains additional metadata about the project and should not be submitted. This information needs to be filled in on the uefiscdi-direct.ro platform at submission time.

Gantt Charts

A Gantt chart must also be provided in the proposal. There are some LaTeX packages, e.g. pgfgantt, that can be used to create such charts. However, you can also just use a third party application, export the chart as a PNG or PDF, and include it like that.

Documentation

The pncdi-pd class contains all the requirements for the project templates. It has some minimal options to control its behavior. The main document class options are given below.

Option	Description
draftproposal	Adds helpful comments and other drafting helpers
masculine	Sets the gender in the grant forms to masculine
feminine	Sets the gender in the grant forms to feminine
pncdiform	Flag that marks the current document as a form
pncdia	Flag that marks the template for Annex 3 A
pncdib	Flag that marks the template for Annex 3 B
pncdic	Flag that marks the template for Annex 3.1
showframe	Shows a frame for page margins (debug)
layoutgrid	Shows a grid on the page to check margins (debug)

All the templates in this project are already correctly marked with e.g. pncdiform and should not be changed. The template also defines the following commands.

Command	Description
\pncdiauthor{<>}	Project director full name
\insertpncdiauthor	Retrieves the author name
\pncdimentor{<>}	Mentor full name
\insertpncdimentor	Retrieves the mentor name
\pncdititle{<>}	Project full title
\insertpncdititle	Retrieves the project title
\pncdiacronym{<>}	Project acronym
\insertpncdiacronym	Retrieves the project acronym
\pncdiinstitution{<>}	The hosting institution for the project
\insertpncdiinstitution	Retrieves the host institution
\pncdiidentifier{<>}	Sets the grant call identifier
\insertpncdiidentifier	Retrieves the grant call identifier
\rodate	A more locale specific formatted date
\gendered{<m>}{<f>}	Choose one of the two word inflections
\placeholder*[<w>]{<>}	Adds a little dotted placeholder for forms
\pncdicheckbox	Checkbox for itemize
\pncdicheckboxselect	Selected checkbox for itemize
\comment{<>}	Adds italic text based on draftproposal

The \pncdiidentifier command should generally not be set by the user. Instead we suggest sending a PR to update the identifier in pncdi-pd.cls.

The \placeholder command is slightly more complex and requires additional explanation. It can be used to achieve 3 results based on the options:

1. \placeholder[10]{}: adds a set of 10 uniformly spaced dots to signal a part of a form that needs to be filled in.
2. \placeholder[10]{Content}: ignores the [10] dots part (could even be removed) and just shows the contents.
3. \placeholder*{Content}: similar to the above, but makes the text bold.

The empty dotted placeholders (as provided here), use the first form. The user can then fill them in using the second or third form, as desired.

Fonts

The grant documentation requires the Times New Roman Font. This template uses the mathptmx fonts (on PDFLaTeX) or the TeX Gyre Termes fonts (on LuaLaTeX). These are both open source fonts distributed with TeXLive and they are metric compatible with the Times New Roman font (i.e. you likely won't be able to tell the difference unless you're a typographer).

If you want to use the Times New Roman fonts from your system, this can only be done with LuaLaTeX. The font can be set using something like

\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX, Numbers=Lining]{Times New Roman}
\setmathfont{TeX Gyre Termes Math}

If you use math, the TeX Gyre Termes font is still required, since the standard Times New Roman does not have any math symbols.

License

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0-1.0).