Grants

EAGLES Health Lecturer Tour Grants

European Action on Global Life Sciences (EAGLES) Health Programme will award grants of up to 5.000€ to leading biomedical scientists and other health specialists, including commentators and journalists, from the developing countries (DEC) to undertake Lecture Tours around Europe. Such tours may involve scientists from both DEC and Europe. The objective is to influence public and political opinion in Europe about the role of European biomedical research policies in meeting the health challenges faced by the DEC.
The EAGLES Lecturers will be chosen for their experience and knowledge of the health challenges in the DEC and their ability to communicate the needs of the DEC to the European public and European institutions.  Their remit will be to communicate from their own personal experiences how European health research programmes and policies affect their own countries and regions. Each EAGLES Lecturer Tour is planned to have a duration of between 1 to 2 weeks. For more details look at the EAGLES website:  http://www.efb-central.org/eagles/site

Applications should be sent by E-mail to before 9 April, 2008.

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About the Lecture Tours


Each EAGLES Lecturer Tour is planned to have a duration of between 1 to 2 weeks. Lecturers will be expected to be able to:

- speak with committees, parliamentarians, civil servants and political parties of the European and national parliaments;
- give interviews to editors and journalists, for newspapers, and on television and radio;
- speak to learned societies, including those concerned with general issues such as development aid, ethics, globalisation etc;
- speak to student societies and to university departments;
- speak about the European policies and programmes at international meetings.


The objective is to influence public and political opinion in Europe about the role of European biomedical research policies in meeting the health challenges faced by the DEC.


The Lecture Tours will be advertised on the EAGLES website and the EAGLES Secretariat will help with further adverts and special invitations to journalists etc.


Lecture Tour Grant


The Lecture Tour Grant has to be spent in accordance to EU travel rules: first class travel and five star hotel accommodation are not accepted. The grant may be supplemented by funding from other sources.


Application selection


The applications will be evaluated by an independent committee of researchers appointed by the EAGLES Health Steering Committee and the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). The application should contain the following:

  1. a resume CV (1 page)
  2. a motivation letter (1 page)
  3. a short description of the message and content of the lecture (1-2 pages)
  4. a proposal of the itinerary and institutions to visit on the tour (1 page)
  5. name(s) and details of contact persons in Europe, with brief letter(s) of support.
  6. estimated costs


Reporting


A short report (maximum 5 pages) that is suitable for publication on the EAGLES website should be sent to the EAGLES Secretariat no later than one month after the Lecture Tour has finished.