ANNOUNCEMENT
INTAS Calls Accompanying Measures 2003 - 2006
INTAS, the International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (NIS1) encourages joint scientific activities between its INTAS Members2and the NIS in all exact and natural sciences, economics, human and social sciences.
1. INTAS Calls for Applications for Summer School Support
Deadlines: 30 April and 31 October 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006
at 13.00 (Brussels local time)
2. INTAS Calls for Proposals for Infrastructure Actions
Deadlines: 30 April and 31 October 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006
at 13.00 (Brussels local time)
3. INTAS Calls for Proposals for INTAS Strategic Scientific Workshops
Deadlines: 30 April and 31 October 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006
at 13.00 (Brussels local time)
The conditions of each of the calls are specified in the call announcements hereinafter and in the INTAS General Rules for each of the activities; namely for calls for applications for summer school support, for proposals for infrastructure actions and for proposals for INTAS strategic scientific workshops.
Proposals or applications must meet all eligibility criteria specified therein, must be in English and complete and arrive at INTAS before the deadline. They must be prepared in the INTAS submission programme and submitted via the internet using the INTAS electronic submission system.
The selection will be carried out by INTAS with the support of the INTAS Council of Scientists in an evaluation based on the evaluation criteria specified in the General Rules. An information package with the General Rules can be obtained via:
Internet address: Section “Funding Opportunities” If you experience problems in downloading the information package please contact the INTAS Secretariat at e-mail:
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1Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan;
2Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta*, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Turkey and the European Community.
* The INTAS membership of Malta is approved; funding will be made available upon completion of the accession procedure to join INTAS.
INTAS Calls for Applications for Summer School Support
Conditions for Applications for Summer School Support:
The INTAS Summer School Programme aims to stimulate a larger participation of young scientists from the NIS in internationally acknowledged summer schools, to involve them better in the international scientific community and to promote contacts between young scientists from the NIS and the INTAS Members. The school must take place in these countries.
The summer school must be of high scientific quality and with international participation, namely must include at least five participants from at least two different INTAS members. Eligible are all schools offering courses specialised in scientific pre- and post-doctoral teaching and training in any scientific field lasting approximately 1-4 weeks. The school may take place all over the year.
Applicants: Eligible for an application for summer school support is any non-commercial organisation from the NIS or the INTAS members organising a summer school with at least five years experience in organising summer schools.
The maximum allowable INTAS grant per summer school is 25.000 € subject to the number of NIS scientists. The INTAS summer school grant must be fully used to support young scientists from the NIS of the age of 35 years or less at the starting date of the summer school by covering their travel- and subsistence costs and their conference fees.
Summer schools must start no later than 18 months after the closing date of the Call the
application is submitted to.
INTAS Call for Proposals for Infrastructure Actions
Conditions for Proposals for Infrastructure Actions
An INTAS infrastructure action is a technical project in response to the deteriorating situation in the infrastructure in the NIS and aims to support the maintenance or the establishment of scientific infrastructures in these countries. It shall help to overcome a serious problem in cience which solution is of high priority, that takes effect in the NIS and that serves the nterests of a wider NIS scientific community beyond the borders of a single NIS. It shall also contribute to the scientific cooperation between the INTAS members and the NIS and the better integration of the NIS in the international scientific community – i.e. it may foster scientific communication, provide access to scientific information or preserve scientific collections or scientific facilities of international importance.
Proposers: Eligible for a proposal is any NIS or INTAS member organisation or a consortium thereof. In case the proposal is submitted by several organisations the consortium must agree on a co-ordinator, either from the NIS or the INTAS members.
Typically, the INTAS grant for an infrastructure action will not exceed 50 000 Euro. However, the size of the grant may be increased if duly justified. INTAS funds must be used to create or maintain infrastructure taking effect in the NIS. The proposal must include cofinancing by other recognised co-funding institutions at least equalling the INTAS grant. The duration of an INTAS infrastructure action is up to a maximum of 24 months.
Infrastructure actions must start no later than 12 months after the closing date of the Call the proposal is submitted to.
INTAS Call for Proposals for INTAS Strategic Scientific Workshops
Conditions for Proposals for Strategic Scientific Workshops
INTAS strategic scientific workshops are a tool for INTAS for setting research priorities and to define its strategy by bringing together the scientific community at large involving scientists from the INTAS members and the NIS with representatives of national and international organisations in science, industries and other groups relevant for the aims of the workshop. They are also instruments in the INTAS FP6 NIS Information Network (ININ) established to promote the involvement of NIS scientific communities in the ERA and, in particular, in the thematic priority areas and the specific programmes of FP6 that are now open to participation of third countries including the NIS. The strategic workshops shall engage the participants in indepth and forward looking discussions about promising scientific research topics and potential areas of cooperation and aim to define future scientific priorities. In this context workshops may be used to present and to discuss INTAS projects. A particular effort may be made to bring together contractors of actions funded by the EC Framework Programme and INTAS project
participants. The strategic workshops shall also help to identify research groups and projects in a position to become integrated into the ERA, or even into specific FP6 actions.
Proposers: Eligible for a proposal is any NIS or INTAS member institution organising a conference in which the strategic workshop shall be integrated.
Typically, the INTAS grant to the conference organiser for an INTAS strategic workshop will not exceed 25.000 Euro. However, the size of the grant may be increased if duly justified.
INTAS strategic workshops must start no later than 12 months after the closing date of the Call the proposal is submitted to.
Indicative Timetable for the Call for Proposals for Accompanying Measures:
Announcement: September 2003
Deadline for submission: 30 April and 31 October 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 at 13.00
(Brussels local time with INTAS)
Results of selection: 4 months after the deadline
Earliest start of the actions: 6 months after the deadline