If you are from an eligible participating country, namely a Participating COST Country, you can apply for a grant to carry out a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM). For the list of participating countries, please see the EuMINe Memorandum of Understanding. Participants from an approved COST Near Neighbor Country (NNC) or an approved International Partners Country (IPC) can also be considered.
A STSM is a visit from one COST participating country to another COST participating country. It may involve working on a jointly authored article, carrying out laboratory work, learning a new research method, preparing a joint research proposal or engaging in any other activity aligned with the research objectives of EuMINe.
Applications should contribute to one of more of the EuMINe Working Groups (WGs), including:
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Standardized workflows, tools, data formats, and descriptors for computational and experimental materials data
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Integration of materials informatics approaches with established materials development and characterization methods
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Best practices, protocols, and optimization strategies for data-driven methodologies
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Identification of technical and organizational barriers to MI adoption
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Market-oriented uptake, application roadmaps, and impact assessment (including training, dissemination, and coordination activities)
Applications must include an explicit and concrete contribution to the drafting and preparation of the relevant deliverable(s).
STSM proposals should preferably be structured around a clearly defined pilot project in materials informatics, demonstrating methodological innovation, reproducibility, and relevance for materials development and engineering.
Inter-sectoral applications (academia–industry collaboration) and data-sharing frameworks are strongly encouraged and will be given priority.
In addition, applications should specify the expected outcome and explain clearly explain not only how the STSM will enhance the applicant’s research but also why the host Institution is appropriate and what added value the collaboration will generate. Applicants must provide evidence of the host institution’s commitment to hosting the STSM and indicate the name of the supervisor at the host institution.
STSM applicants must be engaged in a research programme as a PhD student or postdoctoral fellow, or be employed by or officially affiliated to an institution or legal entity. This institution is considered as the Home Institution.
The guide for STSM applications can be found here