DECISION OF THE VICE-RECTOR FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING CALLING FOR GRANT APPLICATIONS FROM STUDENTS OF THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING (EDCTI) FOR DOCTORAL RESEARCH IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022.

The grant fund of the Doctoral School in Science, Technology and Engineering (EDCTI) aims to contribute to the development of the research abilities of doctoral students by promoting activities that help them disseminate their research results.

These grants are awarded on a competitive basis, and their goal is to provide funding for the presentation of research findings in Spanish and international scientific conferences and meetings. These funds are used by doctoral students to cover part of the costs (travel, accommodation, living expenses) associated with attending a scientific conference or meeting at which they have presented research related to their doctoral studies.

These grants for doctoral research serve as a complement to other sources of funding (coming either from the researchers themselves, or from research projects/groups). This fund is therefore intended to be combined with other similar grants that students registered on the doctoral programme may have obtained.

Doctoral students registered on any of the EDCTI programmes, except for those who have registered for the first time in the academic year 2021-2022.

Each student can submit only one application.

Preference will be given to students who have not previously been awarded a grant.

The conference or scientific meeting for which the grant is being requested must be held between 1/10/2021 and 30/09/2022.

The awarded amount of the grants will be:

1. Up to €200 for conferences or meetings held online and face-to-face in the Spanish Peninsula, Ceuta, Melilla, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.
2. Up to €400 for conferences held in other locations.

1. You must be registered on an EDCTI programme during the justification period of the conference for which the grant is being requested. You must also have successfully defended your doctoral thesis proposal.
2. Conference attendance must be listed as a training activity in your doctoral student's activity document.
3. You must be presenting a paper as first author and its content must be related to your doctoral thesis proposal.
4. You must attend the conference (either face-to-face or online depending on the nature of the conference).
5. You cannot have obtained a grant from this programme in its previous call.
6. Your contribution to the conference must be a conference presentation, an invited conference paper or a poster.

Proof of eligibility must be provided by attaching the required documents to the application.

You can apply for this grant through the UGR e-Administration Platform, using the application Doctorado: Solicitud de ayudas (Doctoral programmes: Grant applications). Your application must be addressed to the International School for Postgraduate Studies (EIP), and you must attach the completed form (Annex I) and the supporting documents.

The application period starts the day after the publication of the call extract in the Official Gazette of the Regional Government of Andalusia (BOJA) and will remain open until 1 October 2022.

1. Application (standard form). ANNEX 1.
2. Photocopy of your current ID card/Foreign National Identification Number (NIE)/passport.
3. Proof of acceptance of the conference presentation, paper or poster to be delivered. Please also indicate your name and the title of your presentation/paper/poster. This proof of attendance will not be necessary if you provide a specific URL of the conference where your name and the title of your presentation/paper/poster appear explicitly.
4. Copy of the research work you have presented stating the title, authors and affiliation of the authors. This document will not be necessary if you provide a conference URL from which the submitted work can be downloaded, including its authors and their affiliations.
5. A letter from your tutor certifying the assignment of the conference. Your curriculum vitae, indicating your “ResearcherID” (Web of Science; Publons) and “Scopus Author ID” codes. Please do not include other codes such as Google Scholar, Research Gate, ORCID, etc.

If the application is not accompanied by all the required information, it will be considered incomplete.

The International School for Postgraduate Studies (EIP) is the examining body and may verify the accuracy of the data provided by the applicants. Where it is deemed appropriate, the EIP may request additional reports, details or clarifications to decide whether or not to approve an application.

Based on the file and the report of the collegiate body, the examining body will propose a provisional decision, which will be duly reasoned. The proposal will be submitted to the Vice-Rector for Teaching and Learning, who will issue the final allocation.

Applications will be assessed by the EDCS Management Committee, whose members are:

• Antonio García Casco (Director of the EDCTI)

• Juan Segundo Soler Vizcaíno (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Physics and Mathematics)

• Francisco de Asís Torres Ruiz (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Mathematical and Applied Statistics)

• Francisco J. Barrionuevo Jiménez (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Fundamental and Systems Biology)

• Pascual Jara Martínez (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics)

• José Benavente Herrera (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Earth Sciences)

• María Jesús Esteban Parra (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Physics and Space Sciences)

• Francisco Carrasco Martín (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Chemistry)

• María del Carmen Rubio Gámez (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Civil Engineering)

• Manuel Díez Minguito (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Biogeochemical Fluid Dynamics and its Applications)

• Héctor Emilio Pomares Cintas (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Information and Communication Technologies)

• José Balderas Cejudo (Head of Service for Doctoral Studies)

The following criteria will apply:

1. Importance of the conference or scientific meeting, according to the following parameters:

1.1. Whether the conference is national or international (up to 2 points)
1.2. Track record of the scientific society that organises the event (number of conferences organised, with regular frequency and variable venue) (up to 1 point)
1.3. Explicit mention in the call for papers of the event that applications are selected by a committee of experts (2 points)

2. Type of contribution. Priority will be given to oral contributions:

2.1. Invited conference presentation (10 points)
2.2. Oral conference presentation (5 points)
2.3. Poster (2 points)

3. Your CV. Scientific research published in JCR and Scopus journals will be highly valued (up to 2 points)

IMPORTANT: To facilitate the assessment process, you must indicate in your application the URLs corresponding to each provided item.

Assessment and provisional decisions are conducted in two phases:

• Phase 1: The EDCTI Committee will evaluate applications for which the justification period is from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022.
  
  Once the assessment has been completed and based on the score obtained, the International School for Postgraduate Studies (EIP) will draw up a provisional list of selected applicants and substitutes, which will be issued no later than one month after the start of the application period.
  
  The list will be published on the EIP website, and a complaint period of 10 working days will begin the day after the list is published.

• Phase 2: The EDCTI Committee will evaluate applications for which the justification period is 1 April 2022 to 30 September 2022.
  
  Once the assessment has been completed and based on the score obtained, the EIP will draw up a provisional list of selected applicants and substitutes, which will be issued no later than one month after the end of the application period.
  
  The list will be published on the EIP website, and a complaint period of 10 working days will begin the day after the list is published.

Once the complaint periods of both assessment phases are over and all complaints have been reviewed, the EDCTI Management Committee will submit a proposal for the allocation of the grants to the Vice-Rector for Teaching and Learning.

The Vice-Rector for Teaching and Learning will issue a final decision which exhausts all available administrative remedies. This decision will be issued no later than one month after the end of the complaint period and it must indicate the amount granted.

Concerned students may lodge an appeal for reconsideration against this call and the final decision with the Rector within a month from the day following their publication, in accordance with Articles 123 and 124 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October. An administrative appeal can also be lodged before the Court for Contentious Administrative Proceedings of Granada within two months from the day following the publication of the final decision, in accordance with Articles 8.3 and 46.1 of Spanish Law 29/98, of 13 July, regulating the Contentious-Administrative Jurisdiction (Official State Gazette [BOE] of 14 July).

If you are awarded the grant, you will receive a notification. In such case, you will have to provide evidence of the conference or scientific meeting by submitting the following documents:

1. Certificate of attendance to the conference (may be replaced by a URL of the conference indicating your name, date and time of your presentation).
2. Copy of the presented research extracted from the book of proceedings or similar (may be replaced by a URL of the conference where the content of the work, its authors and affiliations are indicated).
3. Copies of all invoices for transport, accommodation and registration costs related to the conference.

Supporting documents must be presented within one month of the grant award.

The amount of the grant will be paid by transfer into the bank account you provide.

• APPLICATION FORM

DECISION OF THE VICE-RECTOR FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING CALLING FOR GRANTS FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS OF THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN HEALTH SCIENCES (EDCS) AND THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING (EDCTI) TO COMPLETE THE UGR-SPECIFIC DEGREE “DIPLOMA IN ANIMAL RESEARCH TRAINING: ANIMAL HEALTHCARE, EUTHANASIA AND PROCEDURES”.

These grants are aimed at doctoral students registered on EDCS or EDCTI doctoral programmes whose doctoral thesis proposal requires animal research. The goal is to provide funding to train students in the techniques necessary for the use of research animals.

These grants are awarded on a competitive basis, and their objective is to cover part of the registration fees for the UGR-specific degree “DIPLOMA IN ANIMAL RESEARCH TRAINING: ANIMAL HEALTHCARE, EUTHANASIA AND PROCEDURES”. The degree edition must have taken place between 1 January 2021 and 31 July 2022.

These grants are incompatible with receiving other subsidies, aids or resources for the same purpose from any public or private administration or body, whether Spanish, international or from the European Union.

The maximum expenditure expected for this call is €2,000.00. This amount is envisaged in the economic sub-concept 480.01, Programme 422D, organic classification 30.45.01.01.00 contained in Chapter IV of the expenditure budget of the University of Granada for the financial year 2022.

Doctoral students registered on any of the EDCS or EDCTI doctoral programmes (except students who have registered for the first time in the academic year 2021-2022) and those who have completed the course for which the grant is being requested in the period between 1 January 2021 and 31 July 2022.

The awarded amount of the grants will be:

- 40% of the course registration fee.

1. You have to be registered on an official doctoral programme of the Doctoral School in Health Sciences or the Doctoral School in Science, Technology and Engineering of the University of Granada at the time of completing the course for which the grant is being requested.

2. Your doctoral thesis proposal must have been approved. If it has not yet been approved because you have registered for the first time in the academic year 2021-22, your thesis supervisor must have issued a report on your proposal and this report must have been approved by the Academic Committee. Your proposal must clearly state that animal research is required for the purposes of your thesis.

3. The animal research training course must have been assigned to you in your doctoral student's activity document.

You must prove that you meet these requirements with the information contained in your academic record.

You can apply for this grant through the UGR e-Administration Platform, using the application Doctorado: Solicitud de ayudas (Doctoral programmes: Grant applications). Your application must be addressed to the International School for Postgraduate Studies (EIP), and you must attach the completed form (Annex I) and the supporting documents.

The application period starts the day after the publication of the call extract in the Official Gazette of the Regional Government of Andalusia (BOJA) and will remain open until 31 August 2022.

The International School for Postgraduate Studies (EIP) is the examining body responsible for verifying the accuracy of the data provided by the applicants. Where it is deemed appropriate, the EIP may request additional reports, details or clarifications to decide whether or not to approve an application.

Based on the file and the report of the collegiate body, the examining body will propose a provisional decision, which will be duly reasoned. This proposal will be submitted to the Vice-Rector for Teaching and Learning, who will issue the final allocation.

The only criterion for the assessment will be the order in which the applications were received.

This order will be determined by the date of entry of each application in the UGR Electronic Register.

• Antonio García Casco (Director of the EDCTI)

• Juan Segundo Soler Vizcaíno (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Physics and Mathematics)

• Francisco de Asís Torres Ruiz (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Mathematical and Applied Statistics)

• Francisco J. Barrionuevo Jiménez (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Fundamental and Systems Biology)

• Pascual Jara Martínez (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics)

• José Benavente Herrera (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Earth Sciences)

• María Jesús Esteban Parra (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Physics and Space Sciences)

• Francisco Carrasco Martín (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Chemistry)

• María del Carmen Rubio Gámez (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Civil Engineering)

• Manuel Díez Minguito (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Biogeochemical Fluid Dynamics and its Applications)

• Héctor Emilio Pomares Cintas (Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Information and Communication Technologies)

• José Balderas Cejudo (Head of Service for Doctoral Studies)

The Management Committee of each Doctoral School will evaluate the applications linked to their doctoral programmes.

Once the assessment has been completed, the EIP will draw up a provisional list of selected applicants that will be issued no later than one month after the end of the application period.

A complaint period of 10 working days will begin the day after the list is published on the EIP website.

Once the complaint period is over and all complaints have been reviewed, the Management Committees of the EDCS and the EDCTI will submit a proposal for the allocation of grants to the Vice-Rector for Teaching and Learning.

The Vice-Rector for Teaching and Learning will issue a final decision, which will be published on our website and which exhausts all available administrative remedies. This decision will be issued no later than one month after the end of the complaint period, indicating the amount awarded.

An appeal for reconsideration can be lodged before the Rector against this call and the final decision within a month from the date of its publication, in accordance with Articles 123 and 124 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October. An administrative appeal can also be directly lodged before the Court for Contentious Administrative proceedings of Granada within two months from the publication of the final decision, in accordance with Articles 8.3 and 46.1 of Spanish Law 29/98, of 13 July, regulating the Contentious-Administrative Jurisdiction (Official State Gazette [BOE] of 14 July).

You must submit the following documents:

1. Proof of payment of the registration fees.
2. Certificate of attendance/completion.

The amount of the grant will be paid by transfer into the bank account you provide.

• Application form