Call for EELISA Research Retreats in 2025

DAAD Funding: Meet your (EELISA) partners to develop new ideas for joint research projects

Are you a researcher at FAU interested in exchanging research ideas with colleagues from EELISA and other partner institutions, expanding your European network, and initiating new research collaborations? Would you like to organise a research retreat/ workshop / conference of up to three days to discuss your latest research results and ideas for new projects with EELISA and other European partners?

Then, this call is your opportunity to get your EELISA research retreat funded! EELISA at FAU launches the Call for EELISA Research Retreats in 2025 with a total budget of 18.000 € funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The aim of this call is to facilitate new European research collaborations and the preparation of European research proposals under Horizon Europe and other European or international calls for researchers from all faculties at FAU.

Find the call as PDF here

Typically, an EELISA research retreat will be…

for three days

with researchers from other institutions and at least one EELISA partner institution

to meet on-site at FAU

to present your work, exchange ideas, and discuss new research projects.

Eligibility

The call is open to all researchers at FAU – no matter if early career researcher or full professor – who wish to invite researchers from at least one EELISA partner institution to a research retreat at FAU. Additionally, researchers from other institutions may be invited as well.

Funding

With this call, we aim to fund up to six EELISA research retreats with an average budget of 3.000 € per retreat (depending on the size of your EELISA research retreat, you may also apply for up to 6.000 € or less than 3.000 €).

The funding provided is only for catering, room rental, and workshop materials. The “Bewirtungsrichtlinie” applies. Travel and accommodation costs of the researchers invited from other EELISA institutions should be paid by the EELISA partners’ local EELISA offices. Travel and accommodation costs of researchers from non-EELISA institutions cannot be covered by EELISA.

The eligible costs will be reimbursed in the amount of the invoices to be submitted together with the “Abrechnungsformular für Bewirtungskosten” to the EELISA Team after the research retreat until 31 December 2025 at the latest.

How to apply

Applicants should send the completed application form in one PDF file via email to the EELISA Team at FAU. The call is open throughout the whole year, but the EELISA research retreats funded under this call must take place in 2025.

Download the Application Form here

Evaluation Criteria

For the evaluation of the proposals to be funded two evaluation criteria will be applied:

The capacity of the workshop to boost connections among EELISA researchers and
the potential of the workshop to trigger new research collaborations, including new research proposals under Horizon Europe and other European or international calls.

Application Deadline:

The call is open throughout 2025.

Notification about Admission:

Usually, no later than two weeks after the submission of your application.

Retreat between 1 January and 31 December 2025

The EELISA research retreats have to take place between 1 January and 31 December 2025.

Finding researchers at EELISA partner institutions

EELISA is a large European university alliance with about 20,000 researchers in almost all disciplines. In addition to FAU, EELISA includes one of Europe’s leading universities (PSL in Paris), small elite institutions (ENPC in Paris and SNS and SSSA in Pisa), and technical universities (UPM in Madrid, ZHAW in Zurich, BME in Budapest, UNSTPB in Bucharest, and ITU in Istanbul). We recommend to check the websites of these institutions in search for partners for the EELISA research retreats who may be contacted directly. If you like search tools, you may register on the EELISA Community Platform as a researcher and then use the EELISA InnoCORE Networking Platform to find new partners for the EELISA research retreats. You may also use the EELISA Catalogue of Research Facilities to find potential collaborators.