Name of the programme and of the thematic/horizontal area:
WUS Austria Call for Brain Gain Programme Applications for Serbia

Information on funding

Programme:
FP7 Cooperation

Specification/themes:
General

Call identifier:
BGPlus

Publication Date:
19/07/2010 00:00

Deadline:
01/02/2011 00:00

Short introduction to the programme / what is it about? How may WBC participate?:

The Brain Gain Program (BGP) is aimed at inviting professors, assistants or experts in relevant fields originating from former Yugoslavia or Austria to teach as guest lecturers – for several days up to 3 weeks – at universities / faculties in Serbia. Faculties from Serbia are welcome to invite guest lecturers from all over the world (originating from former Yugoslavia) to deliver courses for their students at graduate, master and doctoral level.

Within this programme, faculties/universities from Serbia can invite professors, assistants or experts in relevant fields originating from former Yugoslavia to teach as guest lecturers, participate in research and development, and mentor student theses. There are two different possibilities:

BGP+ Classic (the supported period of stay should be between 1 and 3 weeks with at least 15 teaching hours per week), and

BGP+ with extended period of stay (the supported period of stay is the whole semester, and the lecturer is obliged to take over theses mentoring. A guest lecturer can a) take over the full teaching workload– at least 10 teaching hours per week - and mentoring, or b) half teaching workload – at least 5 teaching hours per week – and research and mentoring.)

This type of international scientific exchange and cooperation is not only considered to be important for the development of the universities in SEE, it also has a "brain gain effect", although it is not targeted at the final return of the emigrated academics. Nevertheless, the Brain Gain Program is foreseen as a very effective mean to link these guest researchers/lecturer to already existing networks in SEE and make them a driving force of knowledge transfer and quality assurance.

WUS Austria is providing funding to enable the universities to invite qualified academics originating from the region to lecture courses, which are not available at the SEE university faculties or to conduct or participate in a specific research project. For the enhanced cooperation between Austrian institutions and the universities in SEE, regardless of their citizenship Austrian guest lecturers/researchers who are employed in Austria are eligible for the BGP+.

WUS Austria will cover travel costs (up to EUR 800) and honoraria (EUR 500 per week in BGP+ Classic, or EUR 4000 per semester in BGP + with extended period of stay).

WBC Particpation

This call is now open only for Serbia.

More details on the call: Major information on administrative issues (e.g. type of entities which are eligible, consortium structure, budget for the call, etc. (a. 1000 characters):

The application documentation consists of:

1. Application Form: All applicants are required to complete the application form. Please read the Instructions thoroughly, since it contains advice on completing the application form.

2. CV of the guest lecturer together with the list of publications.

Application deadline is at least one month before the foreseen course.

For more details about application for each country, please read the uploaded documents for Instructions and Application forms for easch country.

Further information on the programme (e.g. links to programme website, Rules for Participation, Financial Guidelines, etc.):

To access the Programme Website, please click here.