Bridge grant
The Bridge Grants are a way for us to encourage young scientists to look for new scientific collaborations. We provide its awardees with financial support for a short external visit. More precisely, each application for a Bridge Grant must be submitted by two young researchers in complexity science. One of them is a receiving and the second a visiting candidate. The visiting candidate obtains the financial support to travel to the receiving candidate’s institution and work together on a project that addresses a problem in the field of complex systems. We try to limit the bureaucracy to a minimum, so after the visit, we ask only for a report to post on our website and receipts of main expenses. Bridge Grants are nice and simple, so don’t hesitate to apply!
The call for Bridge Grants is currently OPEN until April 29th, at 23:59 CET.
Funding
The bridge grants provide partial support for short visits. We fund 500 euros for within-continent visits and 1000 euros for visits between different continents. The requested amount is paid after the visit (see After the visit).
Requirements
To be eligible, the recipients of the grant, here called visiting and receiving candidates, each need to be a Master’s student, a PhD candidate, or an early-stage researcher (up to 4 years after PhD) working on complex systems. No need to have paid a CSS membership to apply: if you get selected and are not members yet, you will get a membership as part of the grant!
How to apply
The application must consist of:
- CVs of visiting and receiving candidates.
- An invitation letter for the visiting candidate by the host group’s principal investigator.
- A cover letter of maximum one page explaining the personal motivation, the importance of the collaboration, and the availability of other sources of funding.
- A document produced by the candidates where they describe their research project outline with a mandatory figure (max 1000 words including figure’s caption).
Selection criteria
The applications will be reviewed by the yrCSS Advisory Board. They will be evaluated based on the candidates’ CVs and the quality of the proposed project. Priority will be given to applicants who have not been awarded a yrCSS grant in the past.
Applicants will be informed about the outcome via email. Results may also be announced on the yrCSS website and social media.
The number of accepted applications depends on their quality and the current yrCSS budget.
After the visit
Within a month after the visit, the candidates will be required to produce a short report on the research performed during the visit. It is for the authors to decide if this report is published on our website and/or on our social media. If you already have a preprint submitted e.g. on arXiv – put a link in the report to gain more visibility! Together with the report, we will require receipts for the main expenses.
Past awardees
2022
| Simone Daniotti Emanuele Calò | Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria IMT School of Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy |
| Antoine Vendeville Fernando Diaz Diaz | University College London, UK IFISC, Palma, Spain |
2020
| Dries Daems Anshuman Swain | Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium University of Maryland, USA |
| Joseph D. O’Brien Riccardo Muolo | University of Limerick, Ireland University of Namur, Belgium |
| Diliara Valeeva Sofia Dokuka | Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Higher School of Economics, Russia |
2019
| Piotr Gorski Curtis Atkisson | Warsaw University of Technology, Poland University of California, Davis, USA |
2018
| Bernardo Monechi Enrico Ubaldi | Sony CSL Paris, France ISI Foundation, Italy |
| Tomasz Raducha Mateusz Wilinski | IFISC, Spain Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy |
| Ana Lucia Rodriguez Ana María Jaramillo Mejía | Florida International University, USA Universidad de los Andes, Colombia |
2017
| Iván G. Torre Oriol Artime | Technical University of Madrid, Spain IFISC, Spain |
| Fariba Karimi Eun Lee | GESIS, Germany Sungkyunkwan University, Korea |
2016
| Federico Battiston Jérémy Guillon | Queen Mary University of London, UK Pierre and Marie Curie University, France |
| Alice Patania Jean-Gabriel Young | ISI Foundation, Italy Universitee Laval, Canada |
| Massimo Stella Alberto Antonioni | University of Southampton, UK Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain |