Additional Call for Applications for Travel Grants

23:38, August 25, 2017

Competition for funding trips to staff training courses and research conferences

Additional competition for travel grants funding trips in 2017 from the GSEM Development Fund. The competition goal is strengthening GSEM academic reputation and developing competences of GSEM academic staff by their participation in important research conferences and training programmes.

1. Competition for grants to participate personally in conferences. The following candidates are eligible:

• having three or more papers indexed in Scopus and/or WoS; primarily in research journals;
• young researchers;
• PhD and Doctorate students on conditions of getting co-funding of their trip from the programme «Funding research trips for PhD and Doctorate students» participation with a report in GSEM conferences, Russian high-level conferences, as well as content expertise.

2. Competition for staff training programmes with subsequent submission of a certificate. The following candidates are eligible:

• those who haven’t taken staff training courses in the past 5 years;
• planning to take courses in the territory of the Russian Federation;
• providing after their trip no less than 1 contact of an academic or corporate expert to be included in the QS survey database with the view of improving UrFU ranking in the fields of Economics and Econometrics, Business and Management Studies.

3. Priority funding will be allocated for the participation in research events and staff training programmes organised by Association of the Leading Universities in Economics and Management, NRU HSE, NRU HSE in Saint Petersburg, Moscow State University, RAS Institute of Economics (Moscow), NES, Saint Petersburg State University, and RANEPA.

Applications to be submitted to sv.kovalenko@urfu.ru until September 3rd for participation in conferences, September 15th for participation in staff training programmes.