Short Visit Grants & Exchange Grants - Final Call For Applications
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The ESF Scientific Programme on "Integrated Approaches for Functional Genomics" brings together a wide range of functional genomics experts and covers experimental and in silico domains. There will be many benefits from an integrated approach between the experimental technologies and informatics tools, which are highly complementary in nature. Also the combination of genome sequencing projects and functional analysis is producing a flow of data which puts a particular focus on the biological relationships between sequences; hence, the need for models, methods and tools to manipulate sequence networks or clusters is becoming ever more important. In this programme, the aims are therefore to combine the individual experimental wet technologies with the in silico methods which can be applied to them, and to establish an appropriate infrastructure for the optimisation of the exploration and exploitation of the enormous amount of information available.
The Programme is offering a number of Short Visit Grants (up to 15 days) and Exchange Grants (from 15 days to 6 months) to scientists wishing to learn a new technology or to benefit from being in another laboratory to carry out a certain experiment etc. The project must be related to the Programme Activities.
Criteria for Eligibility
These grants are intended to initiate or strengthen links between different research groups.
a. Duration: Short Visit Grants up to 15 days, Exchange Grants from 15 days to 6 months
b. Short Visit Grants and Exchange Grants are primarily intended for young scientists. Applications from more senior scientists with permanent positions are, however, accepted (no formal limitation will apply). Applicants should be registered as PhD students or have obtained a PhD. Grants will not be awarded to provide full salaries for postdoctoral fellows, nor to fund work of an applicant at an institute to which he or she is already affiliated.
c. Candidates must be currently working in a European laboratory and applying for a stay in a different European country.
d. At least one of the institutes involved must be located in a country supporting the programme (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom).
