7th Call

• Call is open: from 29th April 2024 until 27th May 2024
• Final decisions: as applications come in, latest by 31st May 2024
• The start of STSM can be planned from 1st June 2024 onwards.
• The STSM should be finished before 25th October 2024.

General information

The aim of PROCLIAS is to focus on key interactions of climate impacts across sectors, their accumulated effect, the attribution of impacts to climate change and the quantification of uncertainties and address these issues by cross-sectoral, multi-model climate impact studies at regional and global scales allowing for attribution of impacts of recent climatic changes and robust projections of future climate impacts.

Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are institutional visits aimed at supporting individual mobility, i.e. they support exchange visits between researchers from COST countries, allowing scientists to visit an institution or laboratory in another COST country or a partner country.

They are aimed at fostering mutual collaboration and sharing new techniques and infrastructure that may not be available in other participants’ institutions or laboratories. STSMs are open for all researchers, but especially for young researchers at the start of their careers including PhD students. STSMs should serve the aims and objectives of PROCLIAS.

An STSM grant is a fixed contribution based on the budget requested by the applicant and the evaluation of the application by the MC Chair, Grant Awarding Coordinator and Core Group. The grant will not necessarily cover all expenses; it is intended only as a contribution to the travel and subsistence costs of the participant.

• Duration: up to 6 months
• Maximum amount: up to EUR 4000,00 in total including costs for travel, accommodation, and meal expenses [amount decided by the Action MC or Core Group, based on the request of the applicant, should be justified by an appropriate length and the location of the STSM]
• Scope: Providing a contribution for travelling, accommodation and subsistence expenses, implementation of the project, delivery of the report to the COST Action MC and overall effort

The STSM Grantee receives funding by COST for implementing a project with an international team and gains new knowledge or access to equipment or techniques not available in the home institution. The STSM Host receives an international partner in their institution and can develop long lasting collaboration.

Application

In order to receive an STSM grant, the applicant must:

1. Obtain the written agreement of both the host institution (letter of invitation) and the home institution (letter of support) before submitting an application. These can be official letters or emails.
2. Complete the online application form (https://e-services.cost.eu/stsm). [You can find detailed information on the requested information in the Guidance Document].
   
3. Send the completed file as an e-mail attachment together with the supporting documents (listed in Guidance Document) to the STSM host institution, the Grant Awarding Coordinator Katarína Merganičová (k.merganicova@forim.sk) and the MC Chair Christopher Reyer (reyer@pik-potsdam.de).
4. Besides the internal reporting for COST, successful applicants are expected to present their work during PROCLIAS meetings and write a short summary of the STSM for the PROCLIAS website.

Please refer to the Guidance document of PROCLIAS for STSM and the STSM section of the COST Annotated rules as well as the Grant Awarding User Guide before you submit an application.

Previous STSM reports

Please find previous STSM reports here.