Eligibility rules and other provisions

 

1. Eligible researchers include Doctoral students and Postdocs affiliated with one of the SymbNET participating institutions.

 

2. The project must be developed by the doctoral student or Postdoc applying to the program. It should focus on host-microbe symbiosis and involve collaboration between FCG-IGC or ITQB NOVA and the other SymbNET partner institution (i.e.: doctoral students or Postdocs from FCG-IGC or ITQB NOVA can apply to collaborate with CAU, UNIL or EMBL, and doctoral students or Postdocs from CAU, UNIL or EMBL can apply to collaborate with FCG-IGC or ITQB NOVA).

 

3. Doctoral students and Postdocs that have participated once are not eligible to apply a second time.

 

4. Applications to the program are independent of any other SymbNET programs supporting researchers and projects (e.g., PhD Project Award, Research Grants).

 

5. Applicants can request max. €2000 of funding. The requested funds need to be justified in the application and can be used on research expenses that are essential for the completion of the project, such as consumables or facility services. Any other costs (i.e., indirect costs) are not eligible.

 

6. Travel and lodging expenses of the participant will be covered for a duration of 1-4 weeks. Extensions of the visit (max. total duration is two months) will be considered upon request.

 

7. SymbNET must be acknowledged in publications/communications that may arise from research funded by this award, by including the following text: “This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 952537  (SymbNET Genomics and Metabolomics in a Host-Microbe Symbiosis Network)”.

 

8. Publications that arise from work funded by this exchange program must follow the open access procedures described in Article 29 of the Grant Agreement. For detailed information, see SymbNET Short Term Visits_Regulation.pdf.

 

9. Projects to be developed must comply with the relevant ethical and legal provisions described in article 34 and Section 5 of the Grant Agreement.  For detailed information, see SymbNET Short Term Visits_Regulation.pdf.

 

10. The participant should use all funds and provide an activity report, including a data management plan and expenses description by the 31st of May 2024.

 

12. Participants will get the opportunity to present the research of their visit at the SymbNET online seminar series and the final SymbNET meeting