Members of the Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean" are eligible to apply for funding to organise and conduct Conferences, Workshops and Summer Schools as well as to host guest scientists in Kiel.

• Conferences, Workshops and Summer Schools

application-form-conferences.pdf

• Visiting Researcher

Visiting Scientist proposals can be submitted to the Cluster Office by the "Inviter" and should include the following information:

• the purpose of the visit
• how does it relate to the Future Ocean
• duration of visitor's stay and description of activities during the stay (e.g. a seminar talk and possibly an ISOS lecture)
• expected costs (travel costs, accommodation costs etc.)
• CV - publication list
The review process is internal and takes place every 3-4 months.

For further information on visiting researchers please contact Dr. Emanuel Söding at the Future Ocean Administration office.

Travel Support
Members and employees of the cluster (except PhD Students who apply at ISOS, see below) are eligible to apply for travel support to conferences
or workshops. These applications should contain the following:ul>

• Name

• purpose of travel (e.g. conference) and how it relates to the Future Ocean

• abstract

• expected costs (travel, hotel, conference fees etc).

• a short justification why the travel can't be covered by other funds but these.

The review process is internal and takes place about every 3 months.

 

Travel Support for ISOS PhDs For information regarding travel support please have a look at the ISOS website:
www.ozean-der-zukunft.de/ausbildung-isos/phd-programm/phd-reisekostenzuschuesse/

Seed money
One important goal of the Cluster is to bring relevant externally funded research projects into the Cluster.  In order to support the preparation of such proposals the steering committee would like to offer seed money for Cluster relevant projects.

Proposals for projects related to Cluster topics and with a total budget of at least 500,000 € qualify for this seed money, regardless of their duration and funding source.

The Cluster will reserve a total of 50,000€ a year for this purpose, whereby up to 10,000 € per proposal can be applied for.

All members of the Cluster and their postdocs are eligible for this funding.

These funds can be used for all measures supporting the writing of the proposal (e.g. organisation of planingn meetings, student workers, etc.).

Successful proposals which receive overheads should return the funding back to the Cluster.

Proposals for seed money can be submitted to the steering committee at any time (no deadlines!). The steering committee will decide on the basis of internal reviews of a panel chosen by the committee. Decisions on seed money proposls will be made at least once a quarter.