Aims
The role of the Grant Awarding Committee is to take care of the smooth functioning of the ParAqua Grant Awarding system. This includes preparing and opening grant calls, informing the project participants and other interested parties (especially students), and together with the MC members taking the lead in the evaluation of applications and the reports on the grant use.
The Grant Awarding Committee will oversee that the selection of successful applicants is always done so in consideration of the scientific scope of the proposed participation and how it will support the ParAqua in achieving its scientific objectives. Additionally, the selection process also considers the EU COST Action principles of equal access and fair demographic representation.
Types of Grant Awards
- Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM):are institutional visits aiming to support individual mobility, fostering collaboration between individuals. An STSM Grant is a fixed financial contribution which takes into consideration the budget request of the applicant and the outcome of the evaluation of the STSM application. The STSM committee oversees that Inter-sector (i.e. among academia, industries and management authorities) STSM are organized, with a particular focus on appointing ITC as host, so that they can disseminate knowledge in their respective countries.
- ITC Conference Grants: aim to support ECI and PhD students from Participating ITC to attend international science and technology-related conferences, events or activities on the topic of the Action that is not organised by the COST Action.
- Dissemination Grants: provide financial support for participation in high-level conferences organised by third parties to give an oral presentation to promote the Action.
- Virtual Networking Support (VNS) Grants: these grants aim at promoting virtual collaboration as a complement to traditional ways of collaboration within the research and innovation communities. This mechanism intends to stimulate virtual collaboration among the members of the Action.
- Virtual Mobility (VM) Grants: these grants aim at strengthening the existing networks by allowing scientists to foster collaboration in a virtual setting, to exchange knowledge, learn new techniques, disseminate the Action results, etc.