yrCSS wants to encourage young scientists to look for new scientific collaborations. Our main initiative designed for this matter is Bridge Grants. Winners of Bridge Grants are provided financial support for a short external visit. More precisely, each application for a Bridge Grant must be submitted by two young researchers of the CSS. One of them is a receiving and the second a visiting candidate. The visiting candidate obtains the financial support to travel to the receiving candidate’s institution and work together on a project that addresses a problem in the field of complex systems. We try to decrease the bureaucracy to a minimum, so after the visit, we ask only for a report to post on our website and receipts of main expenses. Bridge Grants are nice and simple, so don’t hesitate to apply!
Call for Bridge Grants is open from June 5th until June 30th (2023)!
Funding
The bridge grants provide partial support for short visits. We fund 500 euros for within-continent visits and 1000 euros for visits between different continents.
The awarded bursary should be spent on the visit (transportation, accommodation, food etc). We will require receipts for the main expenses after the visit.
Requirements and how to apply
To be eligible, the recipients of the bursary, here called visiting and receiving candidates, should be young researchers of the CSS in the meaning of our bylaws (see here), and active members of the Complex Systems Society.
The application must consist of:
- CVs of visiting and receiving candidates;
- an invitation letter for the visiting candidate by the host group’s principal investigator;
- a cover letter of maximum one page explaining the personal motivation and importance of the collaboration;
- a document produced by the candidates where they describe their research project outline with a mandatory figure (max 1000 words including figure’s caption);
- a proof of being a member of the Complex Systems Society.
Submit your application by sending an email entitled “BridgeGrant [Deadline] [Visitor’s_family_name] [Host’s_family_name]”, containing the required material, to yr.cssociety@gmail.com.
Selection
The applications will be reviewed by the yrCSS Advisory Board. They will be evaluated based on candidates CVs and the quality of the proposed project. Applicants will be informed about the outcome via email. Results will be announced on the yrCSS website and media outlets. The number of accepted applications depends on their quality and the current yrCSS budget.
After the visit
Within a month after the visit, the candidates will be required to produce a short report on the research performed during the visit, which will be posted on our website. If you already have a preprint submitted e.g. on Arxiv – put a link in the report to gain more visibility! Together with the report, we will require receipts for the main expenses.
PAST BRIDGE GRANTS AWARDEES
2020
| Dries Daems Anshuman Swain |
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium University of Maryland, USA |
| Joseph D. O’Brien Riccardo Muolo |
University of Limerick, Ireland University of Namur, Belgium |
| Diliara Valeeva Sofia Dokuka |
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Higher School of Economics, Russia |
2019
| Piotr Gorski Curtis Atkisson |
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland University of California, Davis, USA |
2018
| Bernardo Monechi Enrico Ubaldi |
Sony CSL Paris, France ISI Foundation, Italy |
| Tomasz Raducha Mateusz Wilinski |
IFISC, Spain Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy |
| Ana Lucia Rodriguez Ana María Jaramillo Mejía |
Florida International University, USA Universidad de los Andes, Colombia |
2017
| Iván G. Torre Oriol Artime |
Technical University of Madrid, Spain IFISC, Spain |
| Fariba Karimi Eun Lee |
GESIS, Germany Sungkyunkwan University, Korea |
2016
| Federico Battiston Jérémy Guillon |
Queen Mary University of London, UK Pierre and Marie Curie University, France |
| Alice Patania Jean-Gabriel Young |
ISI Foundation, Italy Universitee Laval, Canada |
| Massimo Stella Alberto Antonioni |
University of Southampton, UK Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain |