Admission and Scholarships

The Training School is targeted to postgraduate students. It is expected that the participants present their ongoing research activity in the training school. Admission is conditional on the presentation of every student's doctoral work; therefore PhD students who want to apply normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least some substantive work, but not to have completely finished their thesis. For your application we expect:

  • Curriculum Vitae including the topic of your dissertation/research project and your publications
  • a motivation letter (1 page) including also a brief statement in which particular subject within the scope of the summer school you are interested so that we can adopt the programme to the student´s interests

Applications should be sent by email to the chair of the organizing committee:          

Harald Vacik 
email: harald.vacik(at)boku.ac.at
Phone: 0043-1-47654 4052

Deadline for application is 10th of June 2012

The Organizing Committee will select the candidates based on the application.

Given the highly interactive activities planned at the Training School,
the number of participants is limited to 20.

Costs & Expenses The training school will be held at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (for details about the venu please refer to www.boku.ac.at). There is no participation fee. Additionally the expenses for infrastructure on site and coffee during the workshop are covered for all participants that have been selected as eligible candidate from the Organizing Committee of the Training School. Expenses for accommodation, meals and travel have to be paid individually, but financial support from the COST Office is available on request and all applicants can apply for a scholarship. For further information on application and funding as well as the work program of the COST action please access the Website of the FORSYS webpage: http://fp0804.emu.ee. Detailed information regarding the amount of the scholarship provided will be provided on request. You can download the full call for application here. Organizing Committee:
Luc Boerboom
Ljusk Ola Eriksson
Manfred J. Lexer
Christian Rosset
Harald Vacik