Submit Applications for INQUA Financial Support Grants

Categories

• Multi-year / Single-year International Research Network (IRN):
  • Multi-year project: A multi-year project is a non-permanent collaboration designed to address scientific topics of wide international significance and to answer specific scientific questions.
  • Single-year project: A single-year project can be on a smaller scale than a multi-year project, both in terms of scientific questions being asked or level of international participation. It is designed to allow international networking between researchers on any relevant Quaternary research topic. Applications for multi or single-year project funding must demonstrate that the project:
    • will address a significant Quaternary research question;
    • make significant progress towards answering this question through collaboration and within a reasonable timeframe (within a year for the single-year project category);
    • has an explicit plan for activities throughout the proposed duration of the project, and have a high-level of buy-in from the international INQUA community, as shown by e.g. active participation;
    • has a framework that is responsive to community needs and open to community participation, including involving early-career and developing-country researchers in significant roles;
    • has identified concrete outcomes or products explicitly.
• International Skills Activity Grant (ISA):
  • The goal of this funding category is to widen the skill base within the INQUA community, specifically through assisting scientists who lack well-developed infrastructures or networks (including but not limited to early career and developing country scientists), through encouraging networking, exchanges of information and techniques, training, and bringing people together e.g. to develop new single- or multi-year projects. Applications for Skills Enhancement funding must demonstrate:
    • the need for skills enhancement in a particular region/field;
    • how the proposed activities will foster skills enhancement;
    • who will benefit directly from the funding;
    • how the skills enhancement activity will benefit the INQUA community in the longer term.

Funding Information

• Multi-year / Single-year International Research Network (IRN):
  • Yearly support for multi-year projects is 5000 Euro. In exceptional cases, where a convincing case is made, funding may be extended to a maximum of 8000 Euro per year.
  • Duration: A multi-year project duration is usually the 4 years of the inter-congress period.
• International Skills Activity Grant (ISA):
  • A proposal under the Skills Enhancement scheme would typically be for funding of between 4000 and 8000 Euros.

Eligible Activities 

• Funding through any of the categories of INQUA grants may be used for:
  • Participation (travel, accommodation, and subsistence) of researchers in INQUA meetings organized through the Project or Conference. At least 75% of the participation amount of the grant should support the participation of ECRs and/or DCRs in project events.
  • Rental of rooms for conferences/meetings.
  • Rental of vehicles for meeting-related field trips.
  • Costs associated with video-conferencing (Zoom, etc)
  • The development of webcasts and podcasts.
  • Funding through the Skills Activity grant may additionally be used for:
  • Development of teaching/training resources relating to the skill enhancement activity being planned.

Ineligible Activities

• Funding requests that INQUA will NOT support:
  • Salaries or stipends of any type.
  • Travel and registration costs for meetings such as EGU, AGU, etc. However, INQUA can support project meetings held in association with larger meetings e.g. either before or after but not during the third party meeting.
  • Server costs for websites, databases etc.
  • Journal or book publication costs.
  • Purchase of equipment or analyses.
  • Institutional overheads.

Eligibility Criteria

• INQUA grants may be held in institutional or non-institutional accounts. Because INQUA requires that it’s limited funding is used to assist Developing Country and Early Career Researchers to participate in international projects it does not allow overheads to be taken off its grants.
• In the case of institutional accounts, INQUA anticipates that the institution will be happy to join INQUA in promoting science by waiving any overheads normally charged.
• In case of non-institutional accounts, it is the Project Leader’s responsibility to make sure that his/her institution allows this, and that all formalities and legalities are observed. Grants are normally transferred to the Project Leader. However, at the Project Leader’s request they can be transferred to a co-leader or local organizer.

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