Second ENLACE (FP7) Call Open (travel grant) for EU-LAC researches

Madrid-Spain • 2011-03-25 • Gloria Villar - MICINN

The aim of the ENLACE travel grant scheme is to promote exchange between Central American and European researchers as well as to encourage contacts between research institutions for joint participation in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The grant scheme works as a mechanism to facilitate networking or even joint proposal writing.

The travel grant consists of two components:

1. The participation of Central American researchers on specialized international conferences or brokerage events in Europe
2. Visits to specific research centers / institutions of thematic interest for the grantees

  Three calls will be launched within the duration of the ENLACE-project

The first call was closed on the 10th of June 2010. It was a pilot action and focused on selected FP7 events on specific themes: Food , ICT and Research Infrastructure.

The second call is now open from 21st of March 2011 to 1st of May 2011!
The focus of the second call of the grant scheme is to support researchers from Central American countries to participate in an international conference or brokerage event in Europe and visit European research centers / institutions. The second call is open for international conferences and brokerage events taking place in Europe in all thematic areas of the FP7:

• Health
• Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology
• Information & Communication Technologies
• Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials & New Production technologies
• Energy
• Environment (including Climate Change)
• Transport (including Aeronautics)
• Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities
• Space
• Security

For further information please visit:

http://www.enlace-project.eu/grant_scheme.aspx