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COST Action CA15203 (2016-2021): MitoEAGLE
Evolution-Age-Gender-Lifestyle-Environment: mitochondrial fitness mapping
Short-Term Scientific Missions MitoEAGLE
MitoPedia topics: EAGLE
Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM) applications
- Aims of a STSM
- 1. Support individual mobility.
- 2. Specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of MITOEAGLE.
- 3. Strengthen the MITOEAGLE network.
- 4. Foster collaborations by allowing researchers participating in the COST Action MITOEAGLE to visit an institution/organisation in
- another participating COST Country;
- an approved Near Neighbour Country institution - NNC institutions are not yet approved in MITOEAGLE;
- an approved International Partner Country institution - IPC institutions are not yet approved in MITOEAGLE.
- 5. Learn new techniques.
- 6. Gain access to specific data, methods and instruments not available in the home institutions / organisations.
- Aims of a STSM
1st Call for STSM Applications for Missions occuring between 2016 November 1st and 2017 March 25th
- Total budget for the 1st Call: 3,000.- EUR
- Up to two STSM (2 x 1,500.- EUR)
- » Download pdf: 1st Call for STSM Applications.pdf
- » Fact sheet on Short Term Scientific Missions: » MITOEAGLE STSM fact sheet.pdf
STSM Coordinator
Coordinator
- Magdalena Labieniec-Watala, PhD, DSc - [email protected]
Co-Coordinator
- Susanne Klaus, Prof. Dr. - [email protected]
COST criteria for evaluation of STSM applications
Researchers eligible for a STSM
- PhD students and Early Career Investigators (up to 8 years after the date of obtaining the PhD/doctorate, full-time equivalent) have priority.
- Senior scientists.
- We particularly encourage the application of researchers from “inclusiveness target countries” (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, FYR Macedonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey).
- Gender balance will be monitored.
STSM duration
- Five to 90 days.
- Early Career Investigators: up to 180 days.
- STSMs need to be carried out in their entirety within a single Grant Period
Grant Period Deadline of application Time span of STSM Deadline for sending final report 1 2016-11-01 2016-11-01 to 2017-03-25 2017-04-25 2 2017-05-01 to 2018-03-25 2018-04-25 3 2018-05-01 to 2019-03-25 2019-04-25 4 2019-05-01 to 2020-03-25 2020-04-25 5 2020-05-01 to 2020-08-01 2020-09-01
Funding regulations
- STSM in which practical science is getting carried out.
- STSM which directly lead to tangible outcomes (e.g. writing papers/grants).
- Funding rule in section 7 of the COST Vademecum.
- The money will be returned AFTER the Grantee has completed her/his visit and submitted a report (a written report on the activities carried out during the STSM within 30 days of the end of the research visit)
- Note: STSM Grantees must make their own arrangements for all provisions related to personal security, health, social security and pension matters.
