Date added: 2024-04-22
Supporting mobility abroad for the best doctoral students – NAWA internships
The competition offers 9 outgoing mobility grants to support internships abroad. All supported internships must start no earlier than July 1st, 2024 and end no later than December 31st, 2024. The minimum number of points to qualify for the mobility is 14 out of a possible 24 (60%). The results will be announced on June 4th, 2024.
Outgoing mobility grants will be funded by the project "Gdańsk Tech Doctoral School closer to Europe” (project/contract number: BPI/STE/2023/1/00018/DEC/01; task internal number: 037162, acronym: "PG_go_West", hereafter: the Project), co-financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the Programme “STER - Internationalisation of Doctoral Schools”.
Applying for the mobility grant results in joining the Project. The rules for participation in the project have been defined inthe Regulations for Participation in activities funded by the STER Project
Project participants can be the PhD students of Doctoral School at Gdańsk University of Technology from:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
- Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdańsk
- Institute of Hydroengineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdańsk
admitted to the Doctoral School in 2020-2022, who are currently in the second, third or fourth year of their PhD training.
The rules for applying and awarding outgoing mobility grants are set forth inthe STER Regulations supporting mobility abroad.
- The applications for a mobility will be acceptedbetween April 22nd and May 24th, 2024.
- Applications should be submitted in paper form directly to the STER Project Office , PG Building No. 26, Własna Strzecha 18a, 1st floor, room 102, from 8:00-11:00. NOTE: between 02.05.2024 and 17.05.2024 the STER Project Office will be closed. Applications should not be submitted to the Doctoral School Office!
- Applications will be evaluated by a committee. The Office staff is not responsible for the completeness and correctness of applications.
- In addition to the application, the applicant must submit documents related to the participation in the project, which are described in the Regulations for Participation in the STER Project.
Participation in the project activities involves the necessity of filling in, signing and delivering to the STER Project Office the following documents:
- Application for STER mobility
- Sample invitation letter from the host institution abroad
- Declaration of the project participant concering RODO personal data,
- Additional consent of the participant for the processing of personal data,
- The amount of the mobility grant depends on the destination country. It includes travel costs and accommodation and living expenses at flat rates and a fixed amount of mobility allowance (PLN 5,000).
- The scholarship is exempt from income tax.
- The scholarships will be granted on the basis of a signed agreement and will be paid in a lump sum before the internship starts.
A model of the contract
Upon return from the internship, the PhD student is obliged to submit, within 14 calendar days:
- a certificate of completion of the internship, certified by the supervisor from the foreign centre
- a content-related report of the internship, in which the doctoral student presents the scope of the work completed and plans for further cooperation between the centres in relation to the application for mobility
- a financial settlement of the mobility
Information about the competition criteria is given in the regulations in §3
In addition, when evaluating publication achievements, the rule of 1 point for publication in a journal from Q2 and 2 points for publication in a journal from Q1 will be applied. If the PhD student is not the first or second author, half of the points will be awarded for the achievement.
If you have any questions about the 'STER NAWA - internationalisation of doctoral schools' programme, please feel free to contact the STER office:
Monika Grzonkowska
administrative officer
tel.: +48 58 347 24 16
e-mail: ster.phd@pg.edu.pl
Agnieszka Kliem
financial officer
tel.: +48 58 348 62 33
e-mail: ster.phd@pg.edu.pl
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