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March,
3, 2005
Dear
friends
International
Networking of Young Scientists
I
am writing to introduce a new British Council initiative supporting
face-to-face meetings between young scientists from the UK and the Slovak
Republic.
The
idea of the initiative is to encourage and facilitate mobility and direct
contact between the young scientists to enable them to exchange ideas,
knowledge and information and thus build international connections that
assist the innovation process. It is specifically targeted at
final-year PhD students, post-doctoral researchers or people who have been
tenured for five years or less. The intention is to avoid
established collaborations and concentrate on new faces and encouraging
new links with young researchers in other countries.
Throughout
the year 2005, the British Council in the Slovak Republic in collaboration
with the Slovak Academy of Sciences, will organise a series of networking
workshops in different topic areas.
This
time we invite your interest in the workshop entitled: Extreme
hydrological phenomena – droughts and floods, methods of their
assessment and modelling.
The
2-day workshop is open for application to all young researches working in
the fields listed below and who meet the following criteria:
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Applicants
must be citizens of the U.K and the Slovak Republic
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Applicants
should be currently either studying for their Ph.D. or working as
post-doctoral researchers with 5 or less years of experience
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Applicants
must be fluent in both spoken and written English (the workshop will
be conducted in English)
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Research
areas are: hydrology, soil hydrology, montaneous hydrology, runoff
processes, flood modelling.
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Applicants
will be considered by means of an assessment of written abstracts,
which will be reviewed by two teams of international scientists, one
in the Slovak Republic and one in Britain. Some 8 applicants from each
country will be chosen to take part.
The
workshop will take place from June
18 –21, 2005 in the Slovak Republic, beginning with a dinner on
the evening of the June 18, 2005 and two days of workshops, with
participants returning to the UK on June
21 or 22, 2005. Costs for participants selected to participate in
the workshop including travel, meals and accommodation will be covered by
the British Council. The
Slovak Academy of Sciences will cover the cost of accommodation and meals
for the British participants.
I
would be grateful if you could bring the information about the scheme to
the attention of promising young scientists in your institution and
encourage them to apply. During the workshop, each participant will be
asked to make
a 15 minute presentation of an area of their research.
Applications take the form of an application form (attached) and abstract in the following format:
one-A4 page/single line format, Times New Roman /one-line break, title
size 14 bold, two lines break, authors size 12 bold, one-line break,
affiliation, addresses, and e-mail in italics size 12, one-line break,
text size 10, references numbered 1., 2., etc as a Footnote text. Drawings
embedded in the text.
Attached
please find an application form.
Applications
and abstracts should be sent by
e-mail to local co-ordinators by 31 March 2005..
For
more information please contact local coordinators Dr Viliam Novak, novak@up.upsav.sk or Helena Le Sage, British Council, Panska 17, P O
Box 68, 814 99 Bratislava, helena.le.sage@britishcouncil.sk
tel +421-(0)- 2-59102441, fax: +421-(0)-2-54430369.
Yours
sincerely
Helena
Le Sage
Helena
Le Sage
Science
and society projects
British
Council Slovakia
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