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Funding within ASEA-UNINET Projects

ASEA-UNINET partners with OeAD, Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation, to support and promote research and teaching activities between the member universities in Austria and South-East Asia. The Funding within ASEA-UNINET Projects is offered for doctoral students and researchers from all fields of study/research.

Funding Agencies:

OeAD-GmbH/MPC in cooperation with ASEA-UNINET

Deadline:

21 April 2022

Benefits:

1. OUTGOING FUNDING (from Austria to the ASEAN partner country or Pakistan)

Travel costs

  • Transcontinental travel costs:
    • Travel expenses (maximum)
      • EUR 1,100 for Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan
      • EUR 1,200 for Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia
  • Inner-Asian travel costs:
    • Flights, train tickets, etc. (if required; cheapest fares)
  • Visa costs:
    • The costs will be assumed.
  • Vaccinations:

Total travel costs (A + B + C + D): maximum of EUR 1,500

Scholarship rates

  • Scholarship rate for doctoral students: EUR 1,250/month
    (Up to 12 working days EUR 100.-/working day, thereafter the full scholarship amount)
  • Scholarship rate for researchers: EUR 1,400/month
    (Up to 14 working days EUR 100.-/working day, thereafter the full scholarship amount)

Material costs

Only if absolutely necessary to achieve the project objectives!

  • Initiation of cooperation projects: maximum of EUR 1,500.
  • Implementation of cooperation projects: maximum of EUR 3,000.

Clinical traineeships of students

  • (One-off) scholarship for clinical trainees: EUR 750 for a four-week stay

2. INCOMING FUNDING (from the ASEAN partner country or Pakistan to Austria):

Scholarship rates

  • Scholarship rate for doctoral students: EUR 1,250/month
    (Up to 12 working days EUR 100/working day, thereafter the full scholarship amount)
  • Scholarship rate for researchers: EUR 1,400/month(Up to 14 working days EUR 100/working day, thereafter the full scholarship amount)

Duration:

Project Period

  • According to the academic year in Austria (from October to the end of September of the following year)
    Note: Implementation period of the call 2022-2023:  1st Oct. 2022 – 30th Sept. 2023

Funded duration of stay

  1. Initiation of cooperation projects (only researchers are eligible for funding, no doctoral students): up to 7 working days (per mobility measure)
  2. Implementation of cooperation projects (researchers and doctoral students are eligible for funding; clinical traineeships are exempt from this rule):
    • The minimum duration of stay per mobility measure is 1 week
      Note: Shorter stays must be argued convincingly and approved by the board.
    • The maximum duration of stay is 3 months.

Research Areas:

  • Natural Sciences
  • Technical Sciences
  • Human Medicine,
  • Health Sciences
  • Agricultural Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Humanities
  • Arts

Eligible Countries:

Austria, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam

Eligibility:

  • All universities involved in a project must be ASEA-UNINET members or candidate members.
  • At least one cooperating university has to be an ASEA-UNINET member university in Austria.
  • All project participants in receipt of funding must be employees of the Austrian or ASEAN (incl. Pakistani) partner university/universities at the time the project is carried out.
  • The following university employees of an Austrian member university are eligible to submit a project application:
    • holders of a professorship or a post-doctoral university teaching qualification (“Habilitation”)
    • members of the rectorate
    • heads of organisational units with responsibilities in research, development and fostering of the arts or in teaching.
  • Other university members are eligible to apply under the following condition: They must enclose a short letter of recommendation with their application. This must be issued by a person belonging to one of the three above-mentioned groups of persons from the applicant university.
  • The coordinator of the applying Austrian ASEA-UNINET member university/the Austrian candidate member university is responsible for checking the content of the project proposals. In the compulsory “collective application” to be signed by him/her, he/she will specify which of the submitted projects should be funded by ASEA-UNINET and in what amount. The collective application must be prepared after the expiry of the deadline for the submission of (individual) project applications within the period specified in the call.
  • No age limit.

Application Process

Applications can ONLY be submitted by members of the Austrian ASEA-UNINET (candidate) member universities – online application ONLY via www.scholarships.at.

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