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EECAlink travel grant and other support for newly established consortia

EECAlink travel grant

The project EECAlink aims to help newly established consortia working on submitting proposal in the thematic priority FP 7 Health in order to increase participation of the EECA scientists in the EU funded programmes. We plan to collaborate with complementary initiatives and introduce EECA scientist into brokerage events organised by these partner initiatives. In order to help scientists from partner EECA countries to participate on these brokerage events the consortium had introduced 200 EUR travel grant.


EECAlink travel grant

Eligibility criteria that have to be fully met in order to be grated 200 EUR :

  • Being at least PhD. Student or having higher qualification in Medicine or natural science
  • Being scientist from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  • Having research partner from the EU (preferably from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland or Italy (among others)
  • Preparing together proposal for call in the FP7 Health priority
 
What is the grant for?
  • The EECAlink grant should cover travel and accommodation expenses or other expenses connected to the participation of the EECA scientist on the brokerage
  • The amount should not cover total expenses in order to be used only by motivated researchers and to prevent so called conference tourism
  • The co financing of participation have to be covered from your institutional budget, other grant or by sponsorship
 
How to apply for EECAlink grant?
 
  • Read carefully basic eligibility criteria above.
  • In case of any doubts or uncertainties please contact as soon as possible our project partner  from your country or directly to the assistant  of the coordinator
  • Fill the online registration form
  • Let your partner from the EU to fill the online registration form as well
  • If your request is eligible, you will receive approval from the assistant
  • Register on the brokerage
  • Gather all bills and invoices during your journey
  • After your return copy all these documents and send originals via post to the assistant of the Coordinator.
 

Registration form
Registration form for EECA researchers is available on web site of the EECAlink . All researchers from eligible EECA countries (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) willing to participate on any brokerage and being granted 200 EUR from the EECAlink project have to register via this form. After filling the information into the questionnaire the coordinator will check if matching partner is also registered and then he will contact the researcher with further information about the grant.
After registration, researcher´s profile will be kept on the intranet and both researchers will be asked to send signed declaration of honour and fill the form for screening of national funding schemes. This EECA –EU MS couple will then meet on partner brokerage and discuss details of the proposal. It is important to note that we would like to support researchers that are already in contact and have general idea about priority axe and their project goals. At the brokerage they should discuss details of proposal they are working on not the general layout.
The efficiency of this participation will be measured and final report based on feedback forms of participants will be published on the project website at the end of the project. 

Proposal Support

During the preparation of the proposal the consortium offers follow up support to consortia formed between EECA countries and EU countries and working on proposal in the Health priority theme. This follow up support will be covered by all national project partners and complemented by the support of the FP7 experts present in the consortium. Consortia seriously developing their proposals will receive a further direct support during the proposal preparation phase by the consortium through the online platform established for this purpose and available on the project web site. For further information please contact us.




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