Virtual mobility grants

What is a Virtual Mobility (VM) grant?

Virtual Mobility (VM) Grants provide financial support for Researchers or Innovators (with a primary affiliation to an institution located in a COST Full or Cooperating Member country or from a COST Near Neighbour Country) for virtual mobility activities to strengthen the existing networks by allowing individual participants to foster collaboration, to exchange knowledge, to learn new techniques, etc. These activities may include surveys, questionnaires or preparation of protocols, virtual mentoring of activities that can generate capacity, build new skills, etc.

Who can apply?

The Grantee successful applicants will be selected by the MC to perform activities that do not necessarily require in-person presence. The successful applicant can be any Action participant, and receives compensation for organizing, cooperation, collaborations in a virtual setting among researchers within the COST Action, to exchange knowledge, learn new techniques, convey a survey, etc. Virtual mobility activities should contribute to the objectives of EU4MOFs.