FEC Early Career Researchers Small Grant Program

The FEC Small Grant Program is designed to help individuals and small teams that need to improve further their capability to reach their goals.

Categories

• The individuals or teams that receive the grant must employ the funds for one or more of the following categories:
  • Support for research, including field work expenses, travel, or purchase of equipment or consumables.
  • Activities to enhance your research, including visits to specialist laboratories or to view specific research collections.
  • Support for enhancing your professional capability such as visits to management organizations or mentoring from such specialists.
  • Participation in an academic or practitioner conference with an oral or poster presentation of your research findings or activities.
  • Participation in a training course or workshop.
  • Organization of a workshop for the team members if they are from different institutions and/or countries.

Funding Information

• The FEC Small Grant program will award one or more grants, totaling €1500.

Eligibility Criteria

The AHC will consider the following criteria:

• Individual and group applicants
  • The funds are to help advance research and/or professional activities that are already funded but require some extra input to achieve the expected results.
  • The applicant team must be constituted of 3 to 5 members, and each of them must be considered an early career professional and must aim to have a clear gender balance.
  • The team should aim to be multidisciplinary in such a way that the proposal should nurture from the capacity of both natural and social capacities.
  • All team members must be from less developed countries; although they can be from different institutions and/or countries that are included in that category.
  • Early career researchers are considered to be those within 10 years of completion of/graduation from their PhD. For early career researchers, a supporting statement from their Head of School/division should be provided.
• Proposal
  • The project must be related to one or more coastal or estuarine environments that could be affected by anthropogenic influences, or it should be associated with sustainable coasts, encompassing socio-economic aspects.
  • The proposal is open to the adoption of both positivist and non-positivist methodologies, allowing for a diverse range of research approaches.
  • The proposal should be a maximum of 5 A4 pages spaced 1.5 and 12-point font. It can contain figures, tables and references that provide a further explanation of what is being proposed/sought.
• Outputs
  • The team will undertake to present a summary of the research, event, etc. on the FEC webpage within 3 months of the completion of the activity.
  • If a conference presentation is given, then this should also be uploaded.
  • If the work results in any paper or report, then FEC should be acknowledged as a funding source.

For more information, visit FEC.