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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA‑UAB)

Mobility Grants 2024 - Research stays

ICTA-UAB, through its Maria de Maeztu (MdM) program, is welcoming applications for Mobility grants 2024 - RESEARCH STAYS that will take place before the end of August 2024.  

Application deadline: Sunday, March 31st , 23:45 CET.  

RESEARCH STAYS 

Eligible applicants: PhD students or post-doctoral fellows having ICTA-UAB as primary affiliation.    

Eligible costs: Travel costs for a research stay held outside Spain. Travel plans should be arranged through one of the official travel agencies of the UAB (see attached GUIDELINES for TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS) 

Requirements 

  • Acceptance letter of the host institution (indicating the start/finish dates and the purpose);    
  • Applicant’s preferred travel means, considering ICTA-UAB’s Responsible Travel Strategy, with tentative travel budget;  
  • Document signed by the applicant and her/his supervisor/group leader indicating:  a) How does the objective of the research stay contribute to ICTA-UAB’s strategic research programme? (max. 150 words); b) How does the host institution contribute to enhance ICTA-UAB’s internationalization, particularly from the applicant’s research group perspective? The applicant should highlight, for example, if this is the first time that an ICTA-UAB researcher goes to the hosting organization (max. 150 words); c) The applicant’s research main funding source and the correspondent grant number, such as PhD grant (e.g., FI-2021-XXXX or FPI-2020-XXXX), Post-doctoral grant (e.g., BdP-2022-XXX), JdC-2022-XXXX); Research project (ERC-CoG-2020-XXXX), etc.     

Application   

Fill in the following form by providing the required documents in PDF format by the 31st of March 2024.   

Selection  

Applications will be prioritized based on:  

  1. contribution of the research activities to the ICTA-UAB’s strategic programme;  
  2. expected outputs resulting from the research stay (e.g. a new dataset, an article, a book chapter)     
  3. contribution to ICTA-UAB’s internationalization (e.g., establishing new networks or collaborations with new countries);     
  4. commitment to engage in sustainable forms of travel. 

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