VarSITI Grants for 2018
Guidelines for application for campaigns
VarSITI provides support for organizing international scientific campaigns which could be either:
- coordinated observations during a specified period, or
- coordinated investigations of specified past events or periods.
These campaign activities should be strictly related to one or more VarSITI Projects and contribute to VarSITI activities. The campaign activity should be international and interdisciplinary.
VarSITI funding for campaigns is typically up to $5K. It is assumed that the instrumentation and equipment necessary for the campaign is already present. The VarSITI grants can be used to cover, fully or partially, the following expenses:
- in case of campaign observations: organization and logistics of the observations, travel expenses of the observational team.
- in case of coordinated investigations (e.g., campaign data analysis for past events):
communications, software,
travel expenses for a meeting to summarize the results (either stand-alone or a dedicated session in a related meeting)
Conditions associated with a successful grant application are
1) A final scientific report on the activity to be submitted to the appropriate Project co-leaders as well as the co-chairs of VarSITI within 30 days of completion of the activity. The final report will eventually appear on the VarSITI website and newsletters.
2) A financial report including the breakdown of expenses to be submitted to the SCOSTEP Secretariat, Dr. Marianna Shepherd (mshepher[at]yorku.ca) with copies to the respective Project's co-leaders and to the VarSITI co-chairs.
3) Links to materials to be added to the VarSITI website and to be then freely available to all in the VarSITI community (e.g. data, models, virtual observatories, presentations, press releases, publications, etc.).
4) The support by SCOSTEP/VarSITI to be acknowledged in the related presentations, publications, etc.
How to submit a proposal
1. Proposals can only be submitted by members of the VarSITI community (included in the VarSITI mailing list). To join the VarSITI community, please contact VarSITI co-chairs or the co-leaders of the Project(s) you would like to work in.
2. Refer to the Project descriptions for VarSITI, which are found at http://www.varsiti.org/ and send your request to the appropriate Project co-leaders for endorsement.
Project co-leaders will consider all requests received by the P roject and will forward their recommendations to the co-chairs of VarSITI for the final decision.
3. Your request should include the following information:
a. description of the planned activity
b. how the activity is related to the VarSITI and its Projects
c. how it furthers capacity building
d. when and where the campaign observations will be carried, participating observers, coordinator, and point of contact information
e. period when the coordinated investigations will be performed, participating institutions, coordinator, and point of contact information.
f. anticipated participation and demographics of the participants
g. requested funding amount and how the funding will be used.
h. list of other confirmed or addressed sponsors, and their approved or expected contribution.
Your request should be no more than 2 pages.
The deadline for VarSITI grant applications for 2018 is 1 December 2017.