Call for proposals

• The third deadline is 15. September, 2008.
• The second deadline was 30. June, 2008.
• The first deadline was 15. February, 2008.
• The third deadline was 30. September, 2007.
• The second deadline was 30. June, 2007.
• The first deadline was 20. February, 2007.
• The fourth deadline was 25. October, 2006.
• The third deadline was 1. August, 2006.
• The second deadline was 2. June, 2006.
• The first deadline was 10. January, 2006.

General

The aim of a Short-Term Sceintific Mission (STSM) shall be to contribute to the scientific objectives of a COST Action 539.

These Missions (Exchange Visits) are aimed at strengthening the existing networks by allowing scientists to go an institution or laboratory in another COST member state to foster collaboration, to learn a new technique or to take measurements using instruments and/or methods not available in their own institution/laboratory. Thay are particularly intended for young scientists.

The Applicant must be engaged in a programme of research as a post graduate student or postdoctoral fellow or be employed in an institution of a COST Member State having signed the MoU of the Action concerned. This institution should be actively participating in the COST Action 539.

The host institution can be public or private, and should be in a COST Member State having signed the MoU and participating in the COST Action 539.

The STSM should not normally be carried out in the COST member state where the Applicant is normally resident.

In exceptional cases a STSM may be approved from a COST signatory country to a participating Institution in a non-COST country but not the other way round.

Applications may be submitted according to the schedules stipulated by the MC of the Action 539, bearing in mind that delays must be taken into account for the assessment and administrative procedures. The application together with the approval from the STSM committee of the Action 539 should arrive at the COST Office at least 4 weeks before the mission starts.

Obligations of Applicant :

• The applicant should send the proposal of the STSM to the STSM committee
• The STSM committee will evaluate the proposal, approve it and communicate the decision to the applicant
• Only after this approval the applicant can travel among the STSM
• After the mission the applicant should send the report to the STSM committee together with the expenses list
• The STSM committee will send all these documents to Brussels.
• Brussels will pay the applicant directly
• Deadline for application is January 10, 2006.