The COST Action CIRCUL-A-BILITY: Rethinking packaging for circular and sustainable food supply chains of the future opened a call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) up to a maximum of 4000 € (160 € per day). The call is open for PhD students, PostDocs, Early Career Researchers, and Advanced Career Researchers.

STSMs are short-term exchange visits aimed at supporting individual mobility, strengthening existing networks, establishing new partnerships, fostering collaboration, learning, and sharing of new techniques, data, instruments, methods, and infrastructure not available at home institutions/organizations. STSMs must be performed between COST countries – researchers cannot apply for an STSM within their own country.

You can apply for an STSM with a minimum duration of 5 calendar days that includes travel. The STSM will be a fixed grant to cover part of the travel expenses and living allowance. STSM Grants do not necessarily cover all expenses related to undertaking a given mission. STSM grantees shall make their arrangements for all provisions related to personal security, health, taxation, social security and pension matters. The grant will be paid only after the STSM has been completed.

The STSM should specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of the COST Action CIRCUL-A-BILITY. This COST Action will address the major technical and non-technical hurdles for implementation of sustainable food packaging solutions within future circular food supply chains. CIRCUL-A-BILITY will organize a pan-European network of actors involved in all aspects of food packaging, including material scientists, food scientists, industry end-users, consumer scientists and policymakers. The network will actively work to harmonise and integrate food packaging related research, share information, support industry in the implementation of sustainable packaging systems, create authoritative working groups able to give science-based recommendation to consumers, user groups, policy makers and industry. The CESAM researcher Paula Quinteiro is member of this COST Action.

The complete call can be read here.