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COST Action CA15203 (2016-2021): MitoEAGLE
Evolution-Age-Gender-Lifestyle-Environment: mitochondrial fitness mapping
MitoEAGLE Inclusiveness Target Countries
MitoPedia topics: EAGLE
MITOEAGLE Implementation strategy/plan for Inclusiveness Target Countries
- The file to the given presentation by Mars Tomaz and Krako Nina at the MITOEAGLE event in Barcelona can be download/seen below:
- Implementation strategy.pdf
Excellence and Inclusiveness
- This policy is tailored to bring out excellence in science Europe-wide and clear away obstacles by creating cooperation opportunities for researchers, engineers and scholars from all COST Member Countries.
Features
- Through bottom-up, open and excellence-driven COST Actions and activities, the policy nurtures talent and creativity.
- It is developed around three main elements:
- geographical spread
- career stage: involving early career investigators
- gender balance
- Geographical spread includes less research-intensive COST Member Countries. They are entitled COST Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs) (Countries in bold are represented in MITOEAGLE) :
- Bosnia-Herzigovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Lusembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Turkey
- Geographical spread includes less research-intensive COST Member Countries. They are entitled COST Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs) (Countries in bold are represented in MITOEAGLE) :
New COST networking tool
- Particularly, COST will dedicate 50% of its overall budget to activities involving researchers from Inclusiveness Target Countries. Especially by fully developing and implementing its Inclusiveness Policy, COST aims to increase such researchersβ participation in COST Actions and activities, in relation to the European Commissionβs approach to widening participation.
- Therefore, a new COST networking tool called Conference Grants was added. Those Conference Grants are aimed at supporting PhD students and ECI researchers from Participating ITC
- to attend international science and technology related conferences not specifically organised by the COST Action.
- CONFERENCE GRANTS β ELIGIBILITY
- The following eligibility criteria applies:
- 1. Conference Grants are exclusively reserved for PhD students and ECIβs with a primary affiliation
- in an institution located in an ITC.
- 2. The applicant must make an oral/poster presentation at the conference in question and must be listed in the official event/conference programme. The main subject of the oral presentation / poster presentation / speech at the approved conference must be on the topic of the Action and must acknowledge COST.
- 3. The participation of each applicant must be pre-approved by the Action MC. Attendance at European conferences is preferred. However, conferences held elsewhere can also be considered.
- Another benefit for the ITC Members:
- STSM βSPECIFIC PROVISIONS
- Researchers from Participating *Inclusiveness Target Country (ITC)can receive 50% of the grant upon completion of the 1st day of the STSM
- Detailed information on participantsβ eligibility, evaluation and selection, financial support, and grant payment procedures can be found in Section 8 of the COST Vademecum.