Scholarships for visiting staff from Latin America - CESAM Platform - call 2023
CESAM Platform
The CESAM Platform welcomes applications for visiting staff for 2023. The CESAM Platform is one of the five regional platforms of Ghent University. Its ambition is to coordinate, facilitate and stimulate cooperation with Latin America and knowledge about this region in the field of education, research and service to society. Awardees will spend minimum one week up to one month for a research/education stay at Ghent University.
Staff mobility
The staff members are affiliated with a Latin American higher education or research institution.
The grants include 2.000 € for a minimum stay of one week to one month, which is meant to cover (part of the) travel costs and living expenditures. The staff members will be given an office space and access to facilities (such as the library) as a Ghent University visitor.
The fellowships can be taken up until 31/12/2023 and are expected to be present at Ghent University, to take part in its academic activities and to contribute to its intellectual community. For this reason, awardees are required to have an excellent command of English.
10 fellowships will be awarded in 2023.
How to apply
The application should be in English and sent by a Ghent University staff member. The application form includes the following sections:
- A research plan, in which the mobility period, the research group and the added value of the stay is indicated
- Signature of Ghent University promotor and visiting staff member
The application should be submitted by email to cesam@ugent.be in one PDF file before 31 January 2023.
Incomplete or late submissions will not be considered.
Application form
Selection criteria and procedures
The following criteria will be taken into account in the selection procedure:
- The candidate’s profile
- The overall quality of the proposal
- The motivation and feasibility of the activity plan
- Added value/sustainability of the proposed activities and cooperation with Ghent University partners
Ghent University conducts an active policy for diversity and equal opportunities and encourages everybody to apply. The selection committee will also strive for a balance in sending institutions.
A selection committee with representatives from different faculties in the board of the CESAM platform will review the applications.
Timeline
Deadline: 31 January 2023
Selection results: by 15 February 2023
Mobility period:
1 March 2023 - 31 December 2023
Reporting
The hosting Ghent University staff member is expected to submit a short activity report to indicate the output of the research stay at the end of the stay.
Practical matters
Ghent University issues a visitor’s pass to foreign visitors who spend a short stay under the supervision of a Ghent University promoter. Each visitors’ pass automatically grants access to the Ghent University Sports Centre and the student restaurants.
Upon arrival, each foreign visitor is required to report to the Foreigners' Registration Office of the city where the visitor will stay.
Visitors with a visitor’s pass are automatically insured:
- for physical accidents during university activities, and on the way to and from university activities
- for civil liability during university activities (for damage to third parties), if the act that caused the damage occurred under supervision or any form of instruction by an Ghent University staff member (so that Ghent University is somehow liable), unless the visitor already has a civil liability insurance of its own (or by way of his/her employer or home institution)
The CESAM Platform will provide an extra all-in insurance which covers luggage, medical costs, repatriation, civil liability private life.