Please note: All STSMs and grants need to be completed by September 2025. All grantees must contribute a written entry to the TRACTS Counter(atlas)
Short Term Scientific Mission grant
Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) are exchange visits designed to support individual mobility, strengthen existing networks, and foster collaboration among COST Action participants.
An STSM involves a researcher or innovator visiting a host organization in a different country from their own affiliation to carry out specific work for a defined period. The grantee receives funding to implement a project with an international team, gaining new knowledge or access to equipment and techniques unavailable at their home institution.
Applications must be submitted at least six weeks before the intended start date. STSMs are evaluated on a first-come, first-served basis.
All STSMs need to be completed by September 2025.
To find out more about STSMs, who can apply and how to apply, please click here.
In case of any questions about the STSM, please contact our Short Term Scientific Missions Coordinator:
Tina Palaić [tina.palaic@gmail.com]
Dissemination Conference grant
The Action offers financial support to participants for attending high-level conferences to present the Action, its activities, and results (oral presentations), as well as to develop new contacts and potential future collaborations.
Grantees receive support to attend and present their work (poster or oral presentation) at conferences and to establish new contacts for future collaborations. Grant awardees are expected to produce a short piece of work after the conference to be shared on the Action’s website. The exact format of this piece can be discussed with the Grant Awarding Coordinator.
Grants cover conferences taking place until September 2025 and are evaluated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Up to EUR 1,200 is available for each Dissemination Conference Grant.
In case of any questions about the grants, get in touch with our Grant Awarding Coordinator:
Miguel Errazu [miguel.errazu@gold.ac.uk]
Inclusiveness Target Country (ITC) Conference grant
This grant was created to support PhD students and young researchers and innovators affiliated with institutions in Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs) or Near Neighbour Countries who wish to participate in conferences organized by third parties. Grantees receive support to attend and present their work (poster or oral presentation) at a conference and are encouraged to network. This grant is an excellent opportunity to increase the visibility of researchers and innovators who often lack the resources to attend international conferences.
Up to EUR 1,000 is available for each ITC Grant.
For further information on which countries are considered within the “Inclusiveness Target Country” category and how to apply for grants, please click here.
In case of any questions about the grants, get in touch with our Grant Awarding Coordinator:
Miguel Errazu [miguel.errazu@gold.ac.uk]
We hope that the scheduled activities and the information we share will be of interest to you.
All applications must be submitted directly through the eCOST System:
https://e-services.cost.eu/activity/grants
TRACTS Grantees
STSM (Short Term Scientific Missions) awardees:
- Alberto Berzosa | Traces of antinuclear heritage through Laka Foundation collections | 2025
- Amir Garmroudi | Traces as resistance: Tracing the ways Indigenous communities are utilising multimedia technologies as a method of resistance at Acampamento de Terra Livre | 2025
- Aleksandar Petrovski | Investigation on urban traces and sustainable futures | 2025
- Anoushka Raval | Memory in Motion: (Counter) Archives and Visual Materials of the Windrush Generation | 2024
- Giovanbattista Tusa | Radical Matter. Non-Human Traces | 2024
- Baptist Coelho | Tracing the experience of the Indian Prisoners of War in Germany during the First World War | 2024
- Pietro Pingitore | Traces of post-italian memories, re-writing and performing a Calabrian Counter-Utopia | 2024
- Tatiana Kasperski | Traces of radioactive waste and pollution in protest archives, 1970s-2010s | 2023
- Francisco Mondaca Molina | Urban Palimpsest, Decolonial traces: Remnants of Collective Memory for Reparatory Actions | 2023
- Edeltraud Haselsteiner | Reliefs – traces through time, past and present | 2023
- Lee Douglas | Critical Ecologies, Decolonial Memories: (Counter) Archives and the Materiality of Return | 2023
- Pablo Martinez | TRACES OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN CULTURAL ACTIVISMS | 2023
- Miguel Errazu | Archives of contact cinemas: counter-pedagogies, social intervention and minor technologies in the Ateliers Varan | 2023
- Víctor Barros | Traces and Public Memory of the Pidjiguiti Colonial Massacre in Guinea-Bissau (1959) | 2023
- Sergios Strigklogiannis | Chromatopia: Understanding Belgrade’s urban growth through street-art traces | 2023
- Alberto Berzosa | Traces of Ecological Cinema through the Iberian Film Archives | 2022
- Inês Beleza Barreiros | Tracing Colonial Memory at the House of European History | 2022
- Ana Reberc | The impact of climate change on cotton cultivation in Togo (TRACTS WG3) | 2023
ITC grantees:
- Júlia Zuza | Eustáquio Neves y Tomás Ochoa: de la materialidad fotográfica a problematización de la historia oficial latinoamericana | 2023
- Ange Pottin | Dwelling with nuclear residues. From the Promise of Control to the Chores of Maintenance | 2023
- Ivan Šulc | Visitor perception of landscape values in karst national parks – the case of Krka NP, Croatia | 2022
- Sérgio Barbosa | The rise of Global South WhatsAppers | 2022
- Goda Lukoseviciute | Recreational trail development within different geographical contexts of the European Atlantic area | 2022
- Petr Gibas | Re:making landscape (explorations and conceptualizations) | 2022
DCG awardees:
- Flávia Carlet | International Legal Workshop at Tilburg University | 2025
- Safira Boeder | PERCOL conference, Maastricht University | 2025
- Júlia Zuza | “Artivism in Latin America: Identity, Colonial Archives, and Counter-Narratives in Visual Art from Brazil” conference, Universidad Nacional de Rosario | 2025
- Zahira Aragüete-Toribio | Memory Studies Association Conference | 2025
- Iva Kovac | Museum Cuts: Vedutas from the Sugar Palace | 2025
- Tibor Dome | 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Milan | 2024
- Miguel Errazu | Wild Research Symposium, University of Glasgow | 2024
- Catherine Whittaker | Memory Studies Association Conference | 2024
- Özge Çelikaslan | Archives of Radical Cinema: Radical Film Network Conference 2024 | 2024
- Ondřej Daniel | A Century of Sound: Technology, Culture and Performance, University of the West Indies | 2024
- Eliza Proszczuk | City of Women, Ljubljana | 2023
- Saygun Gökarıksel | Inaugural Conference of Nomos: Centre for International Research on Law, Culture and Power | 2022