The steering committee of the academy 4, “Complexity and Diversity of the Living Systems” opens a call for project to finance workshops and visiting scientist expenses.
This call for project is conceived as an incubator for innovative and ambitious scientific activities in the field of living systems. We will specifically consider emerging activities or projects with major development capabilities, notably able to obtain higher support from UCA JEDI. The academy will not necessarily exclude projects that will not present transdisciplinarity or innovative and structuring aspects.
Unless exceptions, supports of 1500€ are allowed for a year only.
Scope:
- Support for project setup, to facilitate the arrival of new partners in the PERIDEX;
- Workshops with lectures by researchers for researchers;
- Thematic and inter-academy workshops;
- Academy 4 “Days” (1 day per year) to communicate results and new project aspects, with one or two invited speaker(s);
- Expenses for visiting scientists accommodation (from one week to several months).
The « welcome center » (http://univ-cotedazur.fr/english/uca-labs/welcome-center/faculty-club) will help for accommodation of the visiting scientists and their family if necessary.
Agenda:
1) January 25th 2018 : call opening
2) April 9th 2018: deadline for application
3) 3 months after application: call results
Eligibility criteria:
The applicant institution must be part of the IDEX perimeter (PERIDEX). This perimeter is defined on the website of the Academy 4.
Applicants should mention if more than one academy is involved in the project.
Applicants should also demonstrate that the project is in line with one of the following criteria:
• Short or middle term transformation of the local scientific landscape;
• Structuring of the research in the field of interest;
• Increase of the local and international research visibility;
• Develop research with high scientific impact.
Visiting scientists will have to provide at least one lecture on UCA JEDI site.
Evaluation criteria:
Applications will be evaluated by the scientific council with the help of external reviewers if necessary. In addition to scientific excellence and the eligibility criteria described above, the following points will also be taken into account during the evaluation process:
• In the case of a trans-discipline project, the added value of the trans-disciplinarity;
• Innovative value;
• Putative attractiveness for students;
• Quality of the scientific process;
• Relevancy of the budget in accordance with the project objectives.
Conditions for application:
Each project will be written in English or in French, following the template document that can be downloaded from the Nuxeo platform. The project must comprise an acronym and cover maximum 5 pages in an A4 format pdf file.
For visiting scientists, the applicant will have to provide a resume and a list of major publications over the last ten years.
The application will be submitted on the Nuxeo platform (tab "projets" under the name of the call for project).
Eligible costs:
Eligible costs are operating costs (except missions), missions and invitations.
For visiting scientists, eligible costs are not salaries but current expenses like accommodation.
External partners may be included but will not be funded by the Academy 4.
Project follow-up:
A scientific and financial report as well as any new publication will be communicated at the end of the funding year. An oral presentation of this report will be given.
For more information, please contact: Carole.BARON@unice.fr