Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM) consist in exchange visits between researchers participating in a COST Action. This kind of activity is allowing scientists to visit an institution or laboratory in another COST Member, Cooperating Member or Near-Neighbour Country joining the Action. The duration of such missions may last up to six months. The aim of a STSM is to foster collaboration in relevant research infrastructures and to share new techniques that may not be available in a participant’s home institution or laboratory.
Dates: July 5, 2022 to July 10, 2022 Duration: 5 days Applicant: Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene Venue: Porto, Portugal Host Institution: Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto Host: Purificação Silvano Involved WGs: WG4 DESCRIPTION The aim of the STSM was extending the available resources and providing the taxonomy for linguistic processing of offensive language…
Dates: April 3, 2022 to April 12, 2022 Duration: 10 days Applicant: Ilan Kernerman Venue: Leiden, The Netherlands Host Institution: Dutch Language Institute Host: Carole Tiberius Involved WGs: WG4 DESCRIPTION The objective of the STSM was to explore linking lexicographic data to difficulty graded vocabularies, aimed to enhance the development of language teaching and…
Dates: 2021-09-06 to 2021-10-15 Duration: 6 weeks Applicant: David Lindemann Venue: Athens, Greece (held as a Virtual Mobility grant) Host Institution: Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) Host: Penny Labropoulou Involved WGs: WG1 DESCRIPTION The objective of this VM grant was to prepare the ground for the integration of metadata for printed and electronic…
Dates: August 15, 2021 to August 30, 2021 Duration: 16 days Applicant: Liudmila Mockiene Venue: Sofia, Bulgaria Host Institution: Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Department of AI and Language Technologies. Host: Petya Osenova Involved WGs: WG4 DESCRIPTION The aim of the STSM was the extension of multilingual resources, i.e.…
Dates: 2021-07-12 to 2021-07-31 Duration: 19 days Applicant: Víctor Rodríguez Doncel Venue: Athens, Greece Host Institution: Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) Host: Penny Labropoulou Involved WGs: WG1 DESCRIPTION Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel is Associate Professor in the Artificial Intelligence departament at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in Spain. During this summer, Víctor spent some weeks doing…
Dates: 1st July 2021- 30th September 2021 Duration: 3 months Applicant: Patricia Martín-Chozas Venue: Saarbrücken, Germany Host Institution: DFKI GmbH Host: Thierry Declerck Involved WGs: WG1 and WG2 DESCRIPTION This STSM was motivated by the prior cooperation of the applicant group (Ontology Engineering Group) with the Speech and Language Technology lab of DFKI GmbH (Berlin) in…
For any information about the submission procedure for applicants or hosts, please contact our Grant Awarding Coordinator Penny Labropoulou or Vice-Coordinator Vojtech Svatek.
Open Call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM) proposals for the 4th Grant Period:
If you want to apply for an STSM, please follow the steps below:
Detailed information on the submission process, requirements and conditions, along with the evaluation criteria and the duration and funding of STSMs, is available at this document.
When to apply
You can apply for an STSM at any time until the 15th of July 2023 (or until the budget is spent) but the applications will be evaluated at set collection dates. Reminders will continue to be issued periodically to invite and encourage STSM applications. The number of granted proposals is determined by the available budget in each Grant Period.
For the 4th Grant Period (ending in October 2023), the collection dates have been set at: 31st January, 31st March, 31st May, 31st July 2023. STSM applications will be evaluated within 2 weeks after the collection dates.
Note: Upon extraordinary conditions, the evaluation of an application may take place between the set collection dates, provided that the applicant adequately justifies this and the Grant Evaluation committee accepts this.
Topics and hosts
For each call, there may be a list of suggested topics by WG (co-)leaders or interested Host institutions – although applicants can also apply for STSMs with other topics relevant to the COST Action. You can apply at any time throughout the project; if positively evaluated, your proposal will be added to the list of topics and announced through the Nexus communication channels. You can find more information on how to apply and the evaluation criteria for proposals in the following document.
