eadline for application in current grant period: February 1, 2018
Group STSM to Sabanci University, Turkey, 9-11 April 2018
“Best practices of research management: Project management, project development, university industry collaborations, technology transfer, research planning and policy development
Details are available here.
Each applicant will not require host letters at application stage, but if successful letters would then be required.
Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are aimed at supporting individual mobility and at strengthening the existing networks and fostering collaborations by allowing scientists to visit an institution in another participating COST Country or an approved NNC institution or an approved IPC institution. A STSM should specifically contribute to the objectives of the COST Targeted Network.
The aim of STSMs is to contribute to the policy and objectives of BESTPRAC, namely
- to allow networking and exchanging financial, legal, and administrative experience;
- knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer, and increased efficiency in project management; and
- to establish a network for the administrative, finance and legal services in universities, research organizations and related entities.
The Applicant should normally be employed at an institution of a COST participating country having accepted the MoU of BESTPRAC, with a record of active participation in BESTPRAC.
Applicants who are early stage administrators, representing the target group of BESTPRAC and coming from so-called inclusiveness countries are particularly encouraged to submit a STSM application. All other participants of BESTPRAC interested in a STSM are, of course, also very welcome to submit a STSM application.
Detailed guidelines for the application are available here.
Applications have to be made through the online registration tool at the official COST webpage.
Contact person for any requests: Miriam RYAN (STSM Manager).
Information from the COST Head of Science Operations
COST funds cannot be spent on the preparation of proposals for funding from any source (national, European (eg COST, Horizon2020) or international). This means that it is not possible to finance from COST funds a meeting, STSM or other activity for the purpose of preparing a Horizon 2020 (or any other) proposal. It is accepted that such discussions regarding possible future proposals might take place in the margins of Action activities, but the focus of Action activities must always be on achieving the Action objectives as stated in the Mou and/ or implementing COST policies.