Research Visits at InGRID Data Centres

Deadline: rolling
Open to: academic researchers (including PhD students), policy practitioners, living within the EU member states or associated countries
Fellowship: free access to research infrastructures, travel, accommodation, meals

Description

Visit one of InGRID’s 13 research infrastructures with expertise and databases in poverty, work and social policy or one of statistical competence centres. 

A key activity of the InGRID project is providing transnational access to research infrastructures with data and expertise within the fields of poverty and living conditions, working conditions and vulnerability, social policy analysis and statistical quality management for social sciences. Researchers working and living within the EU member states (or associated countries) are invited to apply for free-of-charge access to and support in one of the 13 research infrastructures. Next to access to statistical competence centres with expertise in social science statistical research, access will be granted to major surveys and tools such as LIS, LWS, IECM, SPIN, CSB-MIPI, WISCO, ICTWSS, EWCS, ECS, wage indicator data, EUROMOD, … in research infrastructures with extensive experience in working with these data.

Via short and long-term visiting grants (between 1 week and 1 month), researchers can experiment with and work on data in a context of mutual knowledge exchange and cross-fertilisation. Therefore, 10 calls for visiting grants will be launched quarterly during the project. 

Fellowship

Selected Users will be provided access free of charge to the Infrastructure or the Installation(s) managed by the Access Provider. This includes all the logistical, technological and scientific support as well as (if any) specific training that is normally provided to external researchers using the Infrastructure.

Moreover, for each User the Access Provider will pay travel. Further, a flat rate daily subsistence allowance (to cover accommodation + meals) is offered to each User for each working day (i.e. actual unit day of access). The subsistence allowance is calculated with a country correction.

Eligibility

Academic researcher (including PhD students), policy practitioners and other persons active within the domains of InGRID, can apply for a visiting grant, when meeting the following requirements:

  • Applicants must work and have their residence in an EU Member State or one of the associated countries – Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey
  • Users must apply to a research infrastructure in a country other than their country of residence.
  • Users can apply to work individually on a project and the data, but it is also possible and encouraged to apply as a group (for example from different institutes and countries) to work together on a joint project with the data.
  • Also, users must be associated to an institute other than the institutes of the partners of InGRID.

Priority will be given to users:

  • Who have not previously used an InGRID research infrastructure.
  • Who are employed in countries which are not covered by the InGRID partnership.
  • Who belong to a transnational user group, wanting to work on a joined project during the visit to the infrastructure.

Application

To apply for access free-of-charge to one of the research infrastructures of InGRID, applicants should submit their proposal through the online application form. A call will be open for applications for about 2 to 3 months.

There will be 10 calls for applications for access to the research infrastructures of InGRID over the four years of the project, which will be launched quarterly. The last call is expected in April 2016. Visits to research infrastructures can be organised until December 2016.

If you have queries or problems regarding the calls or application process, contact tnahelpdesk@kuleuven.be .

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