Additional Call for Virtual Mobility Applications for Grant Period 1
Deadline: 20th September 2024
What are the Virtual Mobility Grants aimed for?
Annotated Rules, p. 95:
- Support capacity building and transfer of knowledge through bilateral/multilateral collaborations;
- Support specific / general topic that can help achieving the Action MoU objectives and deliverables (research coordination);
- Are very flexible and inclusive networking activities crucial to establish new collaborations or reinforce existing collaborations across disciplines and different sectors (e.g., academia and industry / SMEs) with possible impact on career development;
- Outcomes (e.g. spin-off publications and (funded) projects) contribute to the visibility and impact of the COST Actions, encouraging other researchers to join.
Virtual Mobility benefit to (Annotated Rules, p. 96):
- COST Action: uses a flexible tool to implement virtual activities inside the network, achieve the MoU objectives and significantly increase their impact and reach. Contributes to European leadership in knowledge creation and increasing its innovation potential;
- VM grantee: develop(s) capacity in virtual collaboration and networking in a pan-European framework.
Examples of activities that can be performed by the VM grantee are:
- Virtual mentoring scheme, with special focus on activities and exchanges that can generate capacity building and new skills, particularly for Young Researchers and Innovators (e.g. managerial skills, methodological skills, communication skills, etc);
- To support the harmonisation and standardisation of methods and procedures within the Action networking activities, e.g. o setting up a survey amongst all Action members to collect different results and outcomes from experiments done in their respective labs and research groups;
- setting up a survey amongst all Action members to collect different results and outcomes from experiments done in their respective labs and research groups;
- coordinating the discussions to create common protocols to be used by the network afterwards;
- preparing questionnaires and response scales to be used by the Action members as part of virtual networking activities.
- To support the implementation of research coordination related activities that do not necessarily require in-person presence, e.g.
- computational or modelling activities;
- data analysis of the Action for a specific report or activity.
Just as reminder – topic of the COST Action CA22167:
There is a significant international commitment to give non-academics a greater role in science to help deliver impactful research and realise the European vision of science for the people, by the people. To support this commitment, the PAAR-net COST Action focuses on knowledge co-production, labelled here as participatory approaches, in research, policymaking and practice. It focuses on research, policy and practice intervention designs by experts-by-training (usually academics) and experts-by-experience (usually non-academics). The Action focuses on a specific group of experts-by-experience who are often not included in research, namely older adults (aged 65 and older, including those at risk of social exclusion). This COST Action aims to further develop participatory approaches with older adults as a means of driving inclusive social innovation across research, policy, and practice, for heterogenous and fair ageing societies.
PAAR-net aims to gather, exchange and advance knowledge on participatory approaches with older adults (including those at risk of social exclusion) by asking the following questions:
- How can diverse groups of older adults be meaningfully involved to contribute their perspectives and experience (including those at risk of social exclusion) in participatory approaches to research, policy and practice development?
- How do participatory approaches with diverse older adults (including those at risk of social exclusion) impact research process and the quality of data gathered?
- How do participatory approaches impact those (academics and non-academics) involved in research (e.g., wellbeing, reciprocal learning, emancipation)?
Who can apply?
- Work group members already coordinating scoping, systematic reviews, etc.;
- Other PAAR-net work group members;
- In accordance with COST strategy, PAAR-net supports Young Researchers and Innovators (YRI, under the age of 40) affiliated in a legal entity in Inclusiveness Target Countries/ Near Neighbour Countries (ITC/NNC).
Amount of grant – up to 1500 EUR.
- The financial support on offer is a contribution to the overall expenses and may not necessarily cover all of the associated outgoings. Financial support is paid as a grant.
- During a VM neither the MC, nor the COST Office nor the Grant Holder may be considered as an employer. Grantees must make their own arrangements for all health, social, personal security and pension matters.
- Grants are processed only after the VM has taken place and the reporting retirements have been satisfied and approved by the grant coordinator.
How to Apply
- The application shall be submitted online in e-COST using dedicated forms available. The application can be accessed by the holders of leadership positions and any evaluation committees in the Action for evaluation purposes.
- Applicants must upload their CV in their e-COST profile. This information will be visible to the holders of leadership positions and any evaluation committees in the Action for evaluation purposes.
To be filled in e-COST:
- Title
- Start and end date (within the active Grant Period). Please note that your final report including final deliverable needs to be submitted no later than 15.10.2024
- Budget requested by the applicant;
- Information about the host institution and contact person.
To be uploaded to e-COST:
- Application form (template available on e-COST) describing:Goals of the VM, description of the work to be carried out by the applicant and already carried out, expected outcomes and description of the contribution to the Action MoU objectives;
- Confirmation that the work is original and not financed by other COST actions (can be included in the application form);
- Other documents required by the Action:
- CV (note: necessary to include date of birth to prove you are YRI),
- List of publications.
Work plan – should include objectives, time-line and core tasks to be undertaken; expected outputs and deliverables (e.g. draft outline of peer review publication). Work plan should be structured with a particular research question in mind and with a view to developing work that will form the basis for a peer review publication.
- Motivation letter, highlighting the importance of the mission for this COST Action, and for his/her own training and career.
The selection of applicants is based on the following criteria:
- The fit between the Action and the scientific scope of the VM application. The proposal must clearly complement the overall objectives of the Action (listed in the MOU of the Action found here https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22167/).
- Applicants active and contributing to the COST action in a Work Group will be given priority.
- YRI from ICT/NNC will be given priority.
- Applicant’s CV, and particularly his/her background (research interests; experience and publications in peer-reviewed journals) on the topic covered by the Action.
When to apply?
The report of successful applications to be submitted by 15th of October 2024.
After the VM has taken place
Once the VM has ended, the grantee submits the required reports and relevant documentation in e-COST and to the Grant Coordinators Dr. Gražina Rapolienė ([email protected]) and Prof. Andreas Motel-Klingebiel ([email protected]).
Failure to submit the scientific report within 30 days from the end date of the VM will effectively cancel the Grant.
NOTICE OF COMPLETION:
Grant Awarding Coordinators
Dr. Gražina Rapolienė, Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences ([email protected]), and Prof. Andreas Motel-Klingebiel, Linköping University ([email protected])