This website uses cookies to store information on your computer. Some of these cookies are used for visitor analysis, others are essential to making our site function properly and improve the user experience. By using this site, you consent to the placement of these cookies. Click Accept to consent and dismiss this message or Deny to leave this website. Read our Privacy Statement for more.
Print Page   |   Contact Us   |   Sign In   |   Join EPS
Activities
Blog Home All Blogs

Trans-Atlantic Partnership for Enhancing Scientific Careers in Developing Countries (ATAP): Call for applications open for 2024!

Posted By Administration, Thursday 7 December 2023
Updated: Thursday 7 December 2023

In honour of the International Year of Basic Science for Sustainable Development in 2022 (IYBSSD 2022), the American Physical Society (APS), the European Physical Society (EPS) and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) initiated the joint APS-EPS-ICTP Travel Award Fellowship Programme (ATAP). Since 2023, ATAP has been joined by the APS Forum on Early Career Scientists (FECS).

ATAP is aimed at active early career scientists from developing countries, supporting short-term research visits to laboratories in Europe and North America. The goal of the programme is to enable selected recipients to strengthen opportunities to conduct world-class research, and establish collaborations to enhance their scientific careers. The recipients may return to the laboratories of their alma mater to use laboratory facilities they are familiar with and re-connect with colleagues.

Details on how to apply can be found here.
The deadline for applications is 31st March 2024.

 

Tags:  APS  ATAP  awards  FECS  ICTP  International Training and Research (INTR) Program  INTR  IYBSSD  Joint APS-ICTP-EPS Travel Award Fellowship Program 

Permalink
 

Trans-Atlantic Partnership for Enhancing Scientific Careers in Developing Countries: Call for applications

Posted By Administration, Monday 20 March 2023
Updated: Monday 20 March 2023

The Joint APS-ICTP-EPS Travel Award Fellowship Programme (ATAP) is open to currently active early career physicists (within 10 years of their PhD), with good scientific track records, who are  nationals of developing countries and who are currently studying or working in the same or another developing country.  The fellowship allows holders to return to their PhD awarding institution in Europe or North America. The period of the stay is 2 months. The Travel Award Fellowship is USD 5,000, and will be used to cover travel and a living allowance

If you fulfill the above criteria, do not hesitate: Join the ATAP programme!

Details on how to apply can be found here.
The deadline for applications is 31st March 2023.

The ICTP, based in Trieste, Italy, has established a programme specifically designed for wider collaboration with external partners: The International Training and Research (INTR) Programme. INTR provides the opportunity for active early career scientists from developing countries to reinforce, renew, or in extraordinary cases, create scientific collaborations by providing grants for short-term research visits to participating laboratories in all of Europe and North America.

A unique feature of INTR is that it allows multiple stakeholders to join forces with ICTP to ensure the success of these visits. In cooperation with the APS and the EPS, a dedicated specialised framework has been created to facilitate the return of early career scientists to the universities and research centres where they obtained their Ph.D., known as the Joint APS-ICTP-EPS Travel Award Fellowship Programme. This programme enables selected recipients from developing countries to return to the laboratories of institution where they obtained their PhD and to use laboratory facilities which may not be available in their home country. This strengthens the recipients’ opportunities to conduct world-class research and build their list of publications.  In addition, through ICTP, the recipients are trained in writing grant proposals which enables them to access to research opportunities after returning to their home laboratories.

The American Physical Society (APS) the European Physical Society (EPS) and the  International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) are pleased to announce the second edition of the Joint APS - ICTP - EPS Travel Award Fellowship Programme as part of their activities to support the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development in 2022.

The programme, which began as a three-year pilot in 2022, is currently running its second edition. In 2023 the APS Forum for Early Career Scientists (FECS) joined the programme as a fourth sponsor. The ICTP, the APS, the EPS, and the FECS have pledged to contribute USD 5,000 each, to fund up to 4 travel grants in 2023.

 







Tags:  APS  ATAP  awards  ICTP  International Training and Research (INTR) Program  INTR  IYBSS  Joint APS-ICTP-EPS Travel Award Fellowship Program 

Permalink
 

Trans-Atlantic Partnership for Enhancing Scientific Careers in Developing Countries

Posted By Administration, Monday 29 August 2022

Washington, Mulhouse, Trieste, 29 August 2022 -- The American Physical Society (APS), the European Physical Society (EPS) and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (UNESCO-ICTP), in honour of the International Year of Basic Science for Sustainable Development (IYBSSD 2022), announce the initiation of the joint APS-ICTP-EPS Travel Award Fellowship Programme (ATAP). ATAP is aimed at active early career scientists from developing countries, supporting short-term research visits to laboratories in Europe and North America.

This programme grants the major costs of two-month visits for young scientists, up to $5,000. Applicants just need to send their complete CV including publications, at least one letter of reference, a letter of agreement and endorsement from the host laboratory and a 1-page budget management plan evaluating the travel and local expenses. The materials must be sent to itlabs@ictp.it by 28 February in the year of the intended Fellowship.

The goal of ATAP is to enable selected recipients to strengthen opportunities to conduct world-class research, and establish collaborations to enhance their scientific careers. The recipients may return to the laboratories of their alma mater to use laboratory facilities they are familiar with and re-connect with colleagues.

We are happy to announce the selected recipients of the 2022 ATAP programme:

Dr. Azam KARDAN, Damghan University, Iran, who will spend two months at the MAX IV Laboratory of Lund University, Sweden, to work with Profs. Martin Bech and Pablo Villanueva Perez on tomographic acquisitions using machine learning;

Dr. Llinersy URANGA PINA, University of Havana, Cuba, going to the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France, where she will work with Prof. Dr. Christoph Meier and Dr. Nadine Halberstadt on materials science;

Dr. Ausama Ismael KHUDIAR, Institute of Materials Research/Department of Sciences and Technology of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Republic of Iraq, who will go to the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen, Germany, to work with Dr. Nicolae Barsan on gas sensors.

 

Tags:  APS  APS-ICTP-EPS Travel Award Fellowship Programme  ATAP  EPS  ICTP 

Permalink
 

First grant awardee of the INTR programme

Posted By Administration, Monday 14 December 2020

Author: Petra Rudolf


Dr. Jorge Mario Salazar Rios (picture) is the first grant awardee of the new International Training and Research (INTR) Programme, set up at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste in collaboration with the EPS.

The aim of the programme is to support researchers from developing countries who got their PhD in Europe and are now in the process of building up research facilities in their home country. By awarding them grants allowing them to come back for 1-2 months/year to the lab where they did their PhD project, these young researchers will be able stay scientifically productive while in the startup phase.

The INTR Programme is currently supported by donations from the EPS, the Optical Society (OSA) and SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, the latter two organisations providing  dedicated funding for fellowships in the area of optics and photonics. The hope is that other learned societies and foundations will decide to support the INTR Programme and that EPS member societies will convince the governments of their countries. While the INTR programme is currently focused on organising short research internships by former PhD students of European institutions, it can be extended both geographically, and also to provide longer training research internships for researchers from developing countries who have not done a PhD in Europe, if the corresponding funding can be recruited.

 

Dr. Jorge Mario Salazar Rios

Tags:  EPS  ICTP  OSA  PhD grant  SPIE 

Permalink
 
Community Search
Sign In
Login with LinkedIn
OR





EPS Privacy Notice :: Contact us