Initiation Grants

Bachelor’s and master’s degree students from UMFST G.E. Palade Tg. Mureș, who have the status of Junior Researcher – Involved level can apply for Initiation Grants of maximum 500 EUR with an implementation period of 12 months.

Submission of Grants

Grant proposal will be submitted exclusively in an electronic format, in November each year, according to the calendar that shall be published on the UMFST website, section JRA – Involved level. Applicants are required to send to jra_granturi_initiere@umfst.ro the following documents:
– grant application, filled out in accordance with Annex 01 (download the document), in English (as unprotected PDF file – a PDF file generated from an editable file, not a scanned document);
– declarations filled out according to Annexes 03 (download the document) and 04 (download the document) (signed and scanned);
– Certificate issued by the Dean’s Office confirming the applicant’s student statute and enrollment in the current academic year as bachelor’s or master’s student, as well as the fact that the applicant has not repeated any year of study due to the accumulation of an insufficient number of ECTS for promotion (signed and scanned).

Eligible Expenses:

1) Eligible expenses within the project are:
– logistics expenses – needed to execute the grant: access to specialised publications in the field of the grant (book, magazines and other subscriptions), publication fees;
– mobility expenses – taking part in national and international scientific events (expenses with transport, accommodation, participation fee);
– overheads expenses – 10% out of the total value of the project.

Indicators:

The indicators assumed by the beneficiary of the grants, that are going to be achieved in a mandatory fashion during the implementation of the project, are (cumulatively):
– at least one participation at a scientific conference as first author, with a poster or presentation resulted from his activity within the grant;
– at least one in extenso article resulted from the documentation carried out under the grant, published in a journal of the UMFST G.E. Palade Tg. Mureș, an external journal indexed in international databases (BDI), in an external journal indexed by Web of Science or in a volume of a scientific event. The documentation and the writing of the article are going to be carried out according to the specific methodology for one of the following article types: systematic review, state-of-the-art review, umbrella review, meta-analysis. The authorship of the published article shall be as follows: first author – beneficiary of the financing, second author – beneficiary’s tutor. The beneficiary of the financing will also play the role of corresponding author. No other persons are accepted in the list of authors.